Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1887 — THE SOUTHERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

Heney Fawcett’s dwelling, five miles south of Point Pleasant, W. Va., was burned, Fawcett’s three children perishing in the flames. Thomas Powell and his sister, Mrs. Sarah O’Toole, aged 76, keep a general store at Eastern Kentucky Junction, Ky. The other night it was entered by robbers, who strangled Mrs. O’Toole to dsath to stop her outcry. They then bound and gigged her brother and robbed the store of sex errl hundred dollars in money, besides gojds, and made their escape. Mr. Powell is 80 years of age. Stockmen from the northern part of the Panhandle, Texas, are calling upon the Slate and Federal authorities for protection against cattle-thieves. They declare that the public land strip is virtually in the possession of these desperadoes, who have established a reign of terror there. Murders are of daily occurrence, and there is no way of bringing the criminals to justice.