Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Senator Faulkner of West Virginia denies the report that-he is to resign. Father J. J. Harty, of St. Louis, is being urged for Roman Catholic Bishop of Mobile. entire plant of the Withingtbft & Russell Company at Nashville, Tenn., was burned. Loss, $125,000. DeWitt E. West, wanted in Chicago on a charge of embezzlement, has been arrested at San Antonio, Tex. At Frankfort, Ky., the court of appeals dei-ided that the State law pf Kentucky exempting whisky in federal bond from taxation during the bonded period is unconstitutional. This will material-, ly increase the tax list in Kentucky and will also bring into the State treasury considerable arrears of taxes.