Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

By the explosion of a gas-main at Wheeling, W. Va., Superintendent Dillon of the gas-works and Samuel Darrah were badly burned. Four others received slight in Juries. Miss Helen Owens, a simp ’ -minded lady of good family, eloped from AnneArundel Co., Md., with a coal black negro •mp'oyed about the residence of her brother-in-law, Dr. Henry Richardson. The explosion of an oil can, nsed in starting a fire, resulted in an explosion at Plano, Texas, by which two children of John Ransdale wore burnod to a crisp. The act of the Virginia Legislature prohibiting Bebool Superintendents from taking part in politics bos been declared unconstitutional by the Court of Appeals. John Heil, a clerk in the German Rank at Wheeling, W. Va., struck a match in the vault. It appears that the gas had been escaping all night, and the explosion which followed swept Heil across the room with a singed face, and blew out the glass front of the building. An illicit distillery conducted hy a moonshiner named Polk West, in Overton County, Tennessee, has been seized by the revenue offleors, who have destroyed 1,000 gallons of beer and a still of 100 gallons capacity. The tannery of Charles F. Saner & Co., at Louisville, valued at $60,000, was destroyed by fire. Capt. Hexman, of the Fire Department, received what may prove to be fatal injuries. The wall of a mill at Lexington, Ky., collapsed, being forced out by the weight of 6,000 bushels of wheat. Two men were buried under the grain and debris, one being killed and the other mortally hurt. Victor Eloy, a wife murderer, and Kendrick Holland (colored), who killed his mistress, were hanged at New Orleans. Near Pocomoke City, Md., Irving Mills went riding with a young widow, the daughter of Capt. L. L. C. Davis, who objected to his attentions. The father rode out to meet the couple, when Mills deliberately murdered him with a revolver, firing after a fatal wound had been inflicted.