Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1886 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

In the Superior Court at Chicago John B. Jeffery, President of the John B. Jeffery Printing Company, confessed judgment on obligations amounting to over $108,003. The cottage of Mrs. Thomas Mooney, near Akron, Ohio, was destroyed by fire, her four children perishing in the Hanies. Thomas Mooney, aged (50, in attempting to rescue the little ones, was fatally burned, and five other persons received slight injur.es. It is feared that the mother has lost her reason. In a quarrel over a step-ladder at Apple Grove, W. Va., James Guerin, aged nineteen, crushed in the head of Mrs. Thomas, his aunt, with a stone, and the young murderer was then riddled with shot by his cousin, Eliza Thomas, the fifteen-year-old daughter of Guerin’s victim. A boat containing Sam Johnson, his ■wife, daughter, W. Hall, and two negroes, struck a rock near Knokville, Tenn., and Bunk. Johnson escaped, but the others were drowned.

A jury in the Circuit Court.at Louisville has given a verdict for $lO,000 insurance on the life o’ John B. F. Davis, of Harrodsburg, who shot himself dead in his stable. Mr. P. L. Cable, formerly President of the Rock Island Railroad, and also of the Canada Southern Railway, died at his ranch near San Antonio, Texas, aged 68 years. He was worth over $2,000,000.