Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1898 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

J. H. Polk, postmaster at Goodwin Station, Ga., was murdered and robbed in his stoife Saturday night. Chief of Police J. C. Arnold of Dallas, Texas, accidentally shot by Rev. G. W. Truitt, while hunting, is dead. John Shea, a watchman, was assassinated by an unknown negro near the negro settlement of Claysville, Ky. The Planters’ compreA in Jackson, Tenn., and a large quantity of cotton burned. Loss about $25,000. By the explosion of a machine which they ha'd invented Joe and Gus Wylie wore seriously injured at Dallas, Texas. John Schofield shot and instantly killed Peter Pfeffer at Louisville, Ivy., because the latter objected to Schofield's attentions to his daughter. Savannah, Ga., has had a dozen fires within the last two weeks, and it is believed an organized gang of firebugs is operating in the city. George P. Tucker,'a coal miner of Cres-. cent, W. Va., shot and killed his wife and William McAllister, whom he surprised together at his home. An earthquake of five seconds’ duration shook Christiansburg, Va. It caused much alarm, but no material damage. The shock followed a snowstorm. A shortage of $13,000 has been discovered in the accounts of former Treasurer Ford Trepp of the Elmwood Cemetery Company of Memphis, Tenn. At 3 o’clock one morning recently the eight-story Hurley office building, the Dreyfus company’s mammoth dry goods house, the Farmers and Mechanics’ Bank, the general offices of the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway Company, the Worth Cycle Company, and one or two small merchandising companies at Fort Worth, Texas, burned to the ground. The firemen were unable to get the fire under control before 9 o’clock the next morning. The total loss is estimated at over $250,000.