Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

William Hanna, aged 80, was mur dered near Knoxville, Tenn., and his son is suspected of the crime. Mrs. Frazier, aunt of President Arthur’s deceased jvife, and mother of Agnes Herndon, the actress, died at St. Michaels, Md. Warehouses at Norfolk, Va., containing 2,450 bales of cotton, were destroyed by fire, the losses aggregating sl4 7,000. Keen & Hagarty, wholesalers at Baltimore of tin and japanned ware, have made an assignment, the trustees' bond being placed at $400,000. The liabilities are placed at $350,030. Before quitting Port Townsend, M.T., Thomas Navin, the absconding Mayor of Adrian, Mich., raised a small amount of money by a forged check. He had reached San Francisco before his absence was discovered, and is supposed to have gone to South America. Dr. J. H. G. Rogers, whose death occurred at Madison, Indiana, raised a company of volunteers for the Texan war of independence, and fought with them throughout the struggle. Near Smith’s Mills, Union County, Ky., Mose Caton, aided by his sons, took out his wife and hanged her. A posse came to arrest the Catons, but they resisted, when four of them were shot, a son and daughter probably mortally. An attempt was made to take the five prisoners from the posse, but it failed. In the case of the State against the murderers of A. H. Murphy at New Orleans, the jury returned a verdict of guilty against Pat Ford and Policeman John Murphy, and manslaughter against Judge Thomas J. Ford, W. H. Caulfield, and Thomas. Buckley. Thos. J. Nevin, ex-Mayor of Adrian, Mich., who absconded in 1882, was arrested at New Orleans last week. He did not attempt to conceal his identity, and consented to return to Michigan without a requisition.