Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1887 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Silas Stofer, the Police Justice of Mount Sterling, Ky., who recently released Corneilson on a writ of habeas corpus, has been arrested for aiding in the escape of a prisoner. Mrs. McWha, aged 70, and her daughter, Mrs. Van Baker, were murdered in their home, at Halliday’s Cave, W. Va, the assassins rob’iing the house of $350.

Thd Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Maryland celebrated its centennial anniversary at Baltimore with imposing ceremonies. *The Kentucky Derby at Louisville was won by Montrose, with Jim Gore second and Jacobin thirl The odds against the winner Albert Turner, one of the murderers of Jennie Bowman, at Louisville, Ky., has been indicted, pleaded guilty, and sentenced to be hanged July 1. It is only three weeks since the crime was commit'ed. The “color line” occupied the attention of the Episcopal Diocesan Convention of South Carolina in session at Charleston. The question was the right of the colored clergy to admission to the floor as delegates. The discussion elicited much feeling and resulted in the secession of the lay delegates of fourteen parishes. A passenger train in South Carolina was stopped by the myriads of caterpillars on the tracks.