Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1888 — THE SOUTHERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

A Memphis diepatch says that just before daylight Wednesday morning the jail at Friar’s Point, Miss., was discovered on fire. Desperate efforts were made to release the five prisoners it contained, but without success, and they perished in the flames. They were William Gray (white), Fred Powers (white), Powers, another white man, Andy Drown (colored), and a negro boy, aged 15, who was crazy. Gray set the jail on fire, as he had threatened to do, rather than go to the penitentiary. In a saloon fight at El Paso, Tex., between Bert Penn and William Owens, colored desperadoes, Penn was killed, and Fannie Oliver and Lillie St Clair, white women in the saloon, were shot, the former fatally.