Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1898 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Arthur S. Tope has been appointed temporary receiver for the Hoffman Machine Company, a West Virginia corporation, in a suit brought by stockholders for a dissolution of the corporation. At Louisville, Ivy., throe men were seriously and two fatally burned as the result of a boiler explosion iu the Ferueliffe distillery. The fatally injured are John Kenny and Philip Kerb. Benjamin Butterworth, United States Commissioner of Patents, who lias been ill at Piney Woods Hotel at Thomasville, Ga., several weeks, is dead. His last illness was caused by pneumonia. General Cassius M. Clay’s young wife, Dora, barely escaped death at the hands of her brother, Clell Richardson. Clell, angry because his brother-in-law, Willie Bryant, paid too much attention to D.ora, drove her out of the house and fired two shots after her. Mr. Mount (Dem. of Oldham) has introduced a bill in the Kentucky House designed to remove the negro as.a quantity in Kentucky politics. It makes payment of poll taxes for the year prior to the election a qualification to vote in elections in that State. The body of James E. Berry, known iu life as the tramp millionaire, lay for a time at a Paducah, Ivy., undertaker’s establishment, worn by age, disease and excesses and stared nt by morbid strangers. Berry’s wife todk the remains to Mount Vernon, 111., for interment.