Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1900 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Burglars broke into two banks in Burbourville, Ky., the other night, obtaining S3OO from one of them and nothing from the other. Johu D. Rockefeller has made a gift of a new dormitory and diuiug room to the Atlanta, Ga„ University, a negro educational institution, and the contracts, aggregating $56,500, have been let. IJt Nabors, colored, shot aud killed J. L. Holcomb, white, near Coahoma, Miss. Nabors was arrested by bystanders and his corpse was found swinging to the limb of a tree in the neighborhood. At Milford, Va., a railway water tank fell over ou the pump house, killing W. N. Gregory and John B. Clinely, plumbers. The accident was caused by the giving way of the foundation of the tank. Spanish cigarmakers in Tampa, Fla., have started n strike against American workmen, and official reports indicate that the trouble is assuming serious proportions. Nearly 1,000 American worktneu have-been made idle in consequence of the position of the Spaniards. Upward of seventy-five houses have been destroyed by fire nt Biloxi. Miss., a well-known summer resort. The small fire department was powerless to stay the flumes. The Catholic Church, convent and schools, newspaper offices, muny business houses and residences have been consumed. Hundreds have been made homeless. It is said the losses will ext coed ISOO.^OO,