Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1885 — A TEXAS DANCE. [ARTICLE]

A TEXAS DANCE.

It Winds Up wltli the Killing of Three People. [Rockdale (Texas) dispatch.] Intelligence has reached here of a desperate shooting affair last night at a point fifteen miles below this city, involving the fatal shooting of three persons. A danee was in progress at the house of W. S. Davis. Fred Stephens, formerly a Deputy Sheriff of this county, started to go outside with Buck Scales to talk over an old difficulty. As they passed out the doorway, Stevens shot Scales through the stomach and breast. As Scales fell, Stephens fired a third shot, which passed through the chin of the 10-year-old daughter of Mr. Sibley. The bystanders at once seized and disarmed Stephens. The brother of Buck Scales then entered the room and started for Stephens, who ran into the yard and shielded himself behind a wagon, meanwhile begging piteously for his life. Scales fired several shots, but missed Stephens, when the latter ran into the house, followed by the crowd. Stephens picked up a shot-gun, and emptied its contents into the breast of Mr. Hodge, an innocent bystander, kiMing him. Two other guests were also wounded. Stephens escaped to the woods, notwithstanding that twenty men followed and fired at him. The Sibley child will die. It is stated on what appears to be good authority that the leading booksellers lost heavily on the Revised New Testament. It is said that the King James edition has by no means been superseded, and that the demand for it has not perceptibly decreased. Heavy stocks of the new version were disposed of by auction, and certain dealers are now holding them in hopes of a future demand, which thev believe will be sure to come when the people become accustomed to the change and appreciate the work of the revisers. A sewer in the heart of the business district of Chicago, at the comer of Clark and Madison streets, eleven feet below the surface, was found to be frozen solid, and the ice waa removed with axes and picks.