Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1898 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

A terrific gale swept up the Atlantic const. Much damage was done along th? Virginia aud North Carolina coajtfs. Several vessels were wrecked iu the st Tin. Blind tigers in which former saloonkvei<ers of Dogtown and Board Tree, W. Vi., sold intoxicants after a no license policy had been voted, were blown up v ith dynamite. The dynamite magazine at New Origins, in which explosives £er the city defenses are stored, was broken into and a quantity of dynamite abstracted. The theft was committed, It is supposed, by Spanish sympathizers.