Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1886 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

By the destruction* of the Alabama Wirehouse, at Montgomery, 3,500 bales of cotton were destroyed, involving a loss of $150,000, covered by insurance. An exliorter named Murgall, who attempted to outrage a young girl iu au Indian family at Viuita, Indian Territory, was taken out next day for trial, but the men returned without him, saying he had “escaped.” The inference is that ho was lynched. At Kingston, Tex., an editor named W. B. Howard fatally wounded A. R. Russell, City Marshal, and two unoffending persons standing on tlie sidewalk. The principals hqve been hostile for some time The citizens of Brooklyn, Miss., have petitioned Judge Geiger to summon a special grand jury and dispose of the charge of wife-murder brought against George E. Graham, giving a hint that lynching is to bo feared. Street-car employes in Baltimore have refused an offer from the company to pay $2.50 per day of sixteen hours, with two days a week off. The men want $2 and twelve hours.