Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1898 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

A new whisky trust is reported to have been organized by nineteen Kentucky distilleries. Virgil Gallagher has been condemned to death at Galveston, Tex., for the murder of his mother. There are ten eases of smallpox at Middlesboro, Ivy., aud nearly twenty at Mingo, a suburb. One of the largest warehouses of the Old Hurricane Springs distillery, near Tullahoma, Tenn., was burned. Nearly 1,000 barrels of whisky w’as lost. Two men were killed by the collision of two trains on the Atlantic Coast Line Railway, eighty miles west of Charleston, S. C. Several persons were injured. At Frankfort, Ivy., Judge Thomas H. Hines, judge of the Court of Appeals, the Confederate officer who planned the escape of John Morgan from the Ohio penitentiary, is dead. At Sherman, Tex., the jury in the second trial of W. It. Gaines for the murder of his brother-in-law, Charles 11. Koch, brought in n verdict sentencing him to uiuety-oue years in the penitentiary. At Jones, La., a stoekmnu named Lovett Streotmnn was riding in the woods when his horse became frightened, ran away and dashed Strcetmau violently akainst a large oak tree, crushing his skull. Helena, Ark., was startled by a severe earthquake shock. Houses were shaken to their foundations aud a succession of noises was heard that sounded like immense explosions. There wore three distinct shocks. Telephone messages from country points indicate that the shock was felt at many places.