Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1888 — THE SOUTHERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

A colored family of five persons, living at Colfax, La., were poisoned, and all died within twenty-four hours. Instead of soda, Rough on Rats had, by mistake, been put in a pot of greens. A skiff containing eight persons was submerged by the swells of a steamer a short distance below New Orleans, and seven of those board were drowned. A telegram from Cisco, Texas, gives the following particulars of a daring bank robbery: At 3 o’clock p. m. (1 C. Leveaux, cashier, and T. R. Blake and M. B. Owens were in the bank, when a man appeared at the cashier’s window and demanded the cash. Three pther men appeared at the same time and took the three bankers in charge, while the first collected the funds of the bank,

about 96,000 in cash. Mr. Levaux’s movemente were too alow to suit the robbers, when ordered around, and he was severely beaten on the head. The robbers looked the bankers in a yard back of the building, and, jumping into a wagon, fled down the street, saluting the astonished people with volleys from their revolvers and displaying the bags of illgotten gains.