Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1887 — THE SOUTHERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

The introduction of rcsolntions of sympathy for the Chicago anarchists, at a meeting of the Turners’ Society of Louisville, has caused a split in the organization. A dispatch from Jacksonville, Fla, says that James E. Hamilton, a mail-carrier between Maine and Lake Worth, on the south Atlantic coast, was devoured by sharks while crossing Hillsboro inlet Hamilton’s route was seventy-five miles long and he usually walked it, most of the distance on the beach. These inlets are dangerous because of the cross-currents and the large and voracious sharks that abound there. While crossing these seawolves attacked him, tore the oars out of his bauds, bit huge pieces out of the boat gunwale, and finally he was thrown into their midst One loud shriek of human agony, and the crimson tide told the story. Horror-stricken eye-witnesses at a distance told the story. A searching party found nothing but the fragments of the boat No other residents there will volunteer to carry the mail as yet, as the tragedy was such a horrible one. A dispatch from Austin, Texas, says that J. E Smith, the express messenger who recently killed two train-robbers near El Paso, has been paid $2,000 by order of Governor Ross as a reward for his act Smith will probably get $2,000 more from the express company and $1,003 from the railroad company, making a total of $5,000.