Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The Louisiana Legislature has passed a bill appropriating SIOO,OOO for the World’s Exposition at Now Orleans. Ike Laddy, a negro 25 years old, wh recently made three attempts to outrage white women at Whitney, Tex., and succeeded in one instance, was taken from jail at that place and lynched. The vigilantes also-cut his ears off. William Cox, at Danville, Ky., shot at two men who were trying to break into his house, and killed his mdther. One of the receivers says the State Bank of West Virginia, at Charleston, will pay depositors but 10 cents on the dollar.

Zeno L Young, the editor of the Madisonvllle (Ky.) Times, fell from the second story window of his office, and was fatally injured. A fire at New Orleans destroyed property amounting to $200,000. “Doc” Walker, colored, was hanged at Texarkana, Tex. He had murdered a negro named Lucius Grant, last January, over a boot trade. An extraordinary accident occurred on the Virginia Midland Railway, near Lynchburg, Va. As the train approached a bridge over the James River the conductor whistled for the airbrakes, but bis order could not be obeyed; neither could the ordinary braces be applied. The train rushed on the bridge, an old structure, with tremendous foroe. The girders gave way and the two Pullman cars were thrown into the river. The passenger coach projected partly over the break. The sleeping coaches broke from the trucks and floated on the water, giving time for the rescue of the occupants. All the passengers escaped without hurt, as if by a miracle. The conductor, who displayed great courage and presence of mind, was considerably hurt. A brakeman also received some Injuries.