Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1897 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The City Bank of Sherman, Texas, has closed its doors. Assets are said to be $200,000 and liabilities $60,000. The schooner Donna T. Briggs, suspected of being a filibuster, has ben seized by Government officials at Norfolk, Va. The State officials of Alabama have fled from Montgomery, where yellow fever

prevails, arid are established at Birmingham. The outhouses of the West Tennessee asylum for the insane at Bolivar were destroyed by fire. Damage $25,000, No one was injured. > . At a State convention of Alabama miners it was decided to affiliate with the United Mine Workers of America, thus adding 13,000 men to the organization. At Louisville, Ky., 8,000 people saw John R. Gentry defeat Robert J. in three straight heats in the rather slow time of 2:05, 2:05% and 2:07%. It was a clean victory for the stallion. There is neither hope nor encouragement in the situation at New Orleans. The deaths have not run up to an unusual mark, but t here were enough of new eases and fatalities to disappoint those who believed the fever was on the wane. There were fifty-six new yases and four deaths in one day recently. Two men in Lebanon, Ky., are to be sold at auction as slaves were before the war. They were convicted of vagrancy at the last term of the Circuit Court, and it was ordered' that they be required to work. In accordance with the laws Sheriff Young has posted bills on the court house announcing that he will, on Nov. 1. at the court house door, sell the services of one for nine months and the labor of the other for, three months to the highest bidder.