Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1887 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The imported stallion King Ban, valued at #35,000, died of spinal meningitis at Lexington, Ky. The drought committee appointed by the Legislature of Texas distributed #IOO,000 among 27,759 sufferers. At Morehead, Ky., J. T. Witcher playfully remarked to his friend, John Trumbo, that he eould cut his throat' before he

(Trumbo) could draw his revolver. Trumbo drew and leveled his revolver in an instant. It was discharged accidentally, and Witcher fell dead. In the prohibition county of Rock Castle, Ky., a band of knklux took from her house Eliza Fish, aged 70, aud began whipping her. Suddenly shots were fired and three of the kuklux fell dead. The woman persisted in selling liquor, notwithstanding that she had been warned several times to stop the traffic, resulting in the fatal visit of the vigilante*. A San Antonio (Texas) dispatch says that William Stone, employed by Henry Madison, a well-known stockman and contractor of that city, demanded money of Madison at a railroad camp near Boerne. Madison told him to wait until Saturday,, whereupon Stone shot him dead. Two Mexicans in the camp attemped to arrest the murderer, and Stone shot and killed both of them. Stone is at large. If caught he will be lynched. Summerville, S. C., was shaken Friday evening by the heaviest earthquake shock felt there in the last two months It caused some excitement A mob of masked men surrounded the County Jail at Troy, Tenn., and demanded admission of the Sheriff. Being refused, they broke down the outside door, went to the room of the jailer, aud, breaking down his room door, demanded the keys of the cells at the muzzles of pistols and guns. Compelling him to unlock the doors, they took out a negro murderer named William Hardy, aud hanged him to a tree one and one-half miles north of town. An explosion in the United Oil Company’s works aLßattimoro caused the death of four persons. Eastern capitalists have organized a company to work the recently discovered goldfields in Arkansas.