Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1886 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The outcome of the great strike on Gould’s Southwestern railroad system is still a matter of grave doubt Each side appears determined to hold out, and the railroad managers, it is said, have declared that it is their intention to settle in this instance the question whether in future they shall be dictated to by the Knights or whether the Knights shall be dictated to by them. As an evidence of their determination to fight it out the railroad managers yesterday “dropped” about 5,000 clerks, telegraph-operators, and other men in their service who do not belong to the Knights. Business among St. Louis shippers and on ’Change there is paralyzed. The free miners at Greenwood, Ky., spend the nights m firing shots at the convict camp, preventing the militia guard from getting any sleep. A shooting affray took place in the office of the District Court in New Orleans, between M. E. Grace and Captain I. M. Bron, resulting in the death of the former, tlie latter receiving fatal injuries. T. J. Henry, clerk in the Kentucky Court of Appeals, is locked up in a Louisville station-house for persistent alcoholism. The Fitzgerald hose company of Lincoln, Neb., won the first prize in the firemen’s contest at New Orleans. Pat Ford and. John Murphy, under sentence of death at New Orleans for the murder of A. H. Murphy', were discovered unconscious in their cell on the morning of the 12th, and physicians being summoned, they declared the condemned men had been poisoned with powdered belladonna. All efforts to arouse them from the fatal stupor proved futile, and at 12:40 o’clock they were borne to the scaffold, seated on the trap, and carefully supported until the nooses were adjusted, when the trap was sprung, and the necks of both were broken by the fall The Sheriff had appealed to the Governor, informing him of the condition of affairs, but the latter ordered the execution of the men. Charles Richard, a member of a prominent Hebrew family of Mobile, Ala., was assassinated in the streets of that city.