Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Elvira Sullivan, 105 years of age, died lately at Dallas, Texas. At the outbreak of the war she was a servant in the family of Gen. Sam Houston. She had been sold several times, lived in eight States, and had twentythree children. D. C. White was hanged at Ganton, Texas, for the murder of George Conquest. A dispatch from'Walla Walla, Washington Territory, says: “ A fire broke out in the farm-house of Julius Missick, five mtles from the city. Mrs. Eliza Medler, aged 42; her daughter, Emma Isadore Medler, aged 19, and her son Arthur, were burned to death. The other inmates escaped.” John W. Berry was executed at Prescott, Arizona, for the murder of Michael Shore. Slosson won the international billiard match at Paris, making 3,000 points to Vigneaux’s 2,553. „