Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1886 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

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Mobile (Ala.) dispatch: “By the explosion of tho boilers of the Gulf City Oil "Works, ten men were killed or injured. -Morris Wallace, Willio Black, Daniel Jackson and Peter Chastein were burned to death. Israel Brassey whs fatally scald jd and has since died Archer Hicks, fireman, and J. S. Staunton ■were fatally injured, and F. P. Jones was fatally scalded Richard Hunter and William Borden were also seriously injured. Tho explosion is attributed to lack of water in the boiler. It occurred just after midnight. The whistle had just blown for lunch or the casualties might have I een greater. ” The Hon. E. A. Jones, a well-known Tennessee politician, died at Hot Springs, Ark. James E. Bailey, who succeeded Andrew Johnson as Senator from Tennessee, died at Clarksville in that State. Two organ-grinders in New Orleans,

teamed against an electric-light pole in St Charles street One was killed instantly and the other had his head burned to a crisp. Near Crawford, Miss., a mob of citizens .took Thomas Lyde and Thomas Sharp, both colored, from the jail and hanged them. They were caught setting fire to cotton. An Italian of Mount Pleasant, S. C., fatally shot a citizen who interfered to protect the Italian's wife from her husband’s brutal treatment The murderer then locked himself in his bomsfc and committed suicide rather than surrender to the Marshal and his posse. In the American towns along the Bio Grande, between Laredo and Brownsville, uprisings are said to have taken place with the object of marching upon and capturing Mier, Mexico. Maj. Kellogg proposes to disperse the filibusters or drive them across the river to Mexico. Louisiana’s sugar crop is larger by 15 per cent than the average of previous years. Baltimore received and shipped a decreased quantity of wheat last year, but there was an increase in the amount of corn handled Willi-m M. Price, who was charged with the authorship of the Morey letter, was admitted to the bar in Maryland, it having been conclusively shown that he was innocent of the charge. R. T. Cooney, of the man-of-war Manhattan, lying off City Point, Va., gave away his watch and diamond ring and then committed suicide by opening an artery in his wrist