Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1898 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Joscph F. Johnston bns been nominated for Governor by the Democrats of Alabama, The West Virginia Supreme Cor st of Appeals has decided that the reading of the Bible in schools is not unlawful although it cannot be made compulsory. At Huntington, W. Va., a sensation was caused by the announcement of the wedding of Mrs. Maria Mathews, 63 years old, and Woodward W. Church, Jr., 21 years old. \ At Wheeling, W. Va., Thomas Smost and his son Judson got into an altercation. The son fired five shots at the old man. None took effect. »The father then fatally shot his son. James Henry, a negro, aged 104, died at Knoxville, Tenn. He recently married Emily Russell, aged 101, and made a small fortune with Knoxville's first water works, consisting of an ox cart and a barrel. J. M. McKnight, who has been on trial in the United States Court at Louisville on the charge of having wrecked the German National Bank, of which he was president, until it was closed by ,the examiner in January of last year, haa been found guilty.