Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1887 — THE SOUTHERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

Ten Bboeck, the famous running horse, for which his owner had refused SIOJ,OOO, died last Tuesday at the latter’s farm in Kentucky. Long View (Tex.) special: “One of the mo3t destructive storms ever known here occurred last night The main portion did not strike this place, but twenty miles below here it carried death and destruction in its course. At New Prospect, a neighboring town twenty miles south of here, five men were killed outright At Fairplay, a small hamlet, one woman and two children were killed, having taken shelter in an old house on which a very long tree fell, crushing them. In the track of this tornado nothing was left Tho county is thinly settled, which accounts for the few lives lost”

Owing to tho reduction of receipts, due to the prohibitory law, the internal revenue office for Mississippi has been transferred to the Louisiana office. The receipts have fallen below 853,000, and are decreasing annually. Jim McElboy, a negro, was hanged at Henderson, Ky., Friday, for the murder of William Mart As long as he had breath the doomed man declared himself innocent Albert Turner, a colored man, for the murder of Jennie Bowman, died on the scaffold at Louisville, Ky., Friday. He said if he was not given a decent burial he would haunt all tho negroes in the place.