Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Four little children were burned to death in bed by the explosion of a kerosene lamp, at Trackett, Texas. At Baltimore Mr. Flatati and his wife, both more than 60 years old, committed suicide by taking laudanum. They had neatly prepared their apartments for the dire event, and when found lay side by side in bed, dressed cleanly. A pet dog was found watching the bodies, and was only removed with difficulty. A letter found in the room declared that poverty prompted the act r The steamer MorroUastle was burned at Charleston, the officers and crew escaping. The loss is $270,000. 1 A story is atioat in -San Antonio that

three locomotives were lost in a game or poker at New York between jrafiroad Mngs Four sick persons were fatally poisoned at Corsicana, Texas, by having morphine administered to them through mistake for quinine.