Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1898 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

At Kerkelry Springs, W. Va.. the big summer hotel 'of Jack & Uuger was'burned. Loss, SIB,OOO. Lieutenant and Acting Governor Worthington of Kentucky has vetoed the recently passed anti-cigarette hill. Gov. Culberson may have no Democratic opponent for the Texas senatorship, J. W. Blake, chairman of the State executive committee, having, declined to run. Thomas E. Watson, who was nominated for Governor of Georgia by the Popuiisats, is out in an open letter declining to have the honor. He announces that he is out of politics for good. The Norfolk and Ocean View Railroad, an ciglit-mile electric line in Norfolk, Va., which lias been in the hands of a receiver for a year, lias been sold by order of the United States Circuit Court to the Norfolk Street Railway Company for $329,•000.