Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The town of Bannersville, Ga., was entirely destroyed by fire the loss being estimated at $400,000. Details are limited, as the telegraph offices are in ruins. Busenbaum’s stable at Meridian, Miss., was destroyed by fire, and forty horses were burned to death. In the Court House at Louisville, Judge Hargis and Col. Bennett H. Young had an interchange of epithets, which led to a rough-and-tumble light. Friends of both parties Interfered in time to prevent bloodshed. G. B. Gerold, County Judge of Waco, Tex., adjourned his court for five minutes for a fight with an attorney named T. A. Blair. After friends had stopped the contest the court calmly resumed its session. The boiler of Isaac Wehrmas’ sawmill, in Tyler County, Wis.,. exploded the other morning, instantly killing John and William Warden, and five other men, two of them fatally. The name of the wounded are George Katzbeau, Henry Johnson, Michael Anderson, Jacob Stewart, and a Polander, name unknown. AH of"these were horribly scalded, in addition to being wounded by flying missiles.