Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1887 — THE SOUTHERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

A passenger trairt in South Carolina was stopped by the myriads of caterpillars on the tracks. One white and two colored convicts, in attempting to escape from a Kentucky “camp,” mortally wounded the overseer, and all of them were in turn shot by the guard, two with fatal results. Five men were killed and a dozm badly injured by the explosion of a boiler in a cotton factory at Natchez, Miss. A dispatch from Paris, Texas, says that the body of Sheriff Jacobs, of Lawson County, Choctaw Nation, who had been missing for several days, was found by the aid of buzzards which were devouring his corpse. About 300 yards from where the Sheriff’s body was found lay the bodies of two negroes, which had been partly devoured by the buzzards. The Sheriff’s death is a profou id mystery. Thera is no clue to the tragedy.