Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1896 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Judge Hershall T. Smith. of Forth Worth, Texas, has been arrested on indictment charging him with forging names to pension papers. Charles F. Lisepnard. the missing El-; wood, 1 nd.. ma it, whose rela lives have, claimed $2,000- insurance, under the be-j lief that he - is dead; is, reported to have been located in Alabama. Over twenty thousand veterans who followed the fortunes of Lev. Ldngstrdet and Jackson, gathered at Richmond, Va., many of them accompanied by their ■wives and families, to participate in the sixth Annual reunion and the exercises attending the laying of the corner-stone for tjie Jefferson Davis monument. The Board of Directors of the Jefferson Davis Monument Association and the Davis Monument Committee from the United Confederate Veterans met at Richmond, Va., and awarded prizes for the designs »for the Davis monument. Percy Griffin, of New- York, secured first and Edgerton Rogers and W. C. Noland, of Richmond, second and third. At a later meeting the design offered by Griffin will be adopted. His design, provides for a monument to cost ssoo,ooo. 'When Gen. Gordon introduced Mrs. Davis to the Confederate veterans at,the Richmond, Va., reunion Wednesday he planted a reverential kiss upon her brow amid the deafening cheers of the 15.000 persons in the auditotium. A resolution warmly thanking the people pf Chicago for their brogd liberality in erecting a monument to Confederate dead in Oak''‘woodstCemetcry was unanimously adopted. Corporal Tanner, a veteran of the loudly cheered. Officers were elected, and it was decided to hold the next reunion in Nashville, Tenn. J By the explosion of a boiler in thb office of the HoustonyTex:, Evening Age Monday, three people were killed and a fourth badly injured. The latter is W. G. Van Vleck, general manager of 1-Le Atlantic system of the Southe'-ii Pacific Railway. The body of the boiler was blown nearly a block, tearing out the front of Genera! Manager Van -Fleck's office. Miss Loeb, his stenographer. vtiS writing beside him and was struck by a portion of the boiler, under which she was crushed to* death. Operator Emery had his tinged on the key in Mr. Van Week's.office when a portion of the boiler struck hint over the heart, killing him instantly. General Manager Van Vleck was struck ,by a brick and for a. time it was feared he was fatally injured, but he will recover, though badly hurt. The explosion was caused by letting cold water into an empty boiler. The third person killed was the engineer.