Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The thirteenth session of the Supreme Lodge of the World, Knights of Pythias, in session at New Orleans, elected the following officers: Grand Chancellor, John Van Valkcnburg, Fort Madison, Iowa; Supreme Vice Chancellor, Howard Douglass, Ohio; Supreme Keeper of the Records a*nd Seals, Judge R. E. Cowen, Missouri; Supreme Master-at-Arms, G. B, Shaw, Wisconsin; Past Supreme Chancellor, John R. Linton, Jonestown, Pa. Charles Wright was hanged_ at Centre Point, Ark., for complicity in the murder of Thomas Wyatt last July. The doomed man met his death bravely, denying even a knowledge of the crime. About 6,000 people witnessed the execution. Judge Bond, in the United States Circuit Court at Richmond, has killed one of the Hiddleberger readjustment laws by a decision that any treasurer who levies on property after coupons have been tendered for taxes is a naked trespasser. Henry Curry, colored, was hanged at Monroe, Walton County, Ga., for the brutal murder of a fellow-negro. John Henderson, colored, wag hanged by a mob and the body riddled with bullets, in Bolivar County, Miss., for criminally assaulting Miss Ida Davis, the accomplished daughter of a wealthy planter. Frank James, the bandit, was acquitted by the United States jury at Huntsville, Ala., but was immediately arrested by the Sheriff of Cooper County, Mo., for complicity In the Otterville train robbery. So severe is the drought in Western Texas that large numbers of cattle are dying for want of water and grass. The management of the coming World's Exposition, at New Orleans, has offered the five civilized Indian tribes a bonus of $5,000 to make an exhibit, and they, in return, promise to add SIO,OOO themselves. The bill before Congress for a loan to the enterprise has but little opposition. At Hot Springs, Ark., the jury in the trial of S. A. Doran and five confederates for murder in the first degree in the killing of Frank Hall, an innocent party, In the tragedy of Feb. 9, returned a verdict of not guilty. The same parties will be tried for murder in the first degree in the killing of John Flynn,