Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1886 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

John W. Stevenson, who had been Senator and Representative in Congress and Governor of Kentucky, has passed, away at the age of 74 years. Gov. Ireland, of Texas, has issued, a proclamation asking for relief for the drought sufferers. The City Council of Galveston has appropriated $15,000 for the relief of ;the sufferers by the storm, and citizens have subscribed $5,000. It is said that only three houses in Indianola escaped destruction, and nearly all the cattle and sheep on the island were drowned. Sister Eulalie, Superioress of the Immaculate Academy, at Newport, Ky., was burned to death She had been confined to her bed through sickness for some time. When taking medicine in the early morning, the hangings of her couch caught fire from a lamp. She was widely known iu the Catholic Church. While a number of workmen were engaged in erecting a saw-mill on French Creek, near Buckhannon, W. Va., the structure collapsed, fatally injuring David Burr, Thos. Debar, Floyd Brown, and John Allman. Lawrence M. Donovan, a New York pressman, jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge into the river and escaped injury. He was fined $lO and given a lecture by Judge Duffy. The jump was made on a wager of SSOO.