Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1888 — THE SOUTHERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

Major John S. Rudd, member of Longstreet's staff during tho rebellion, committed suicide with chloroform at Coal Valley, West Virginia. A strange story of murder and swift retribution comes from Calhoun County, West Virginia. Jacob Holies returned home late at night, accompanied by George Freeds, a peddler, and on arriving at the house they saw through lhe window that Mrs. Hollos and hor three children lay dead on the floor, and that four mon who killed them wore still in tho house. At Freeds’ suggestion Holies made a noiao at the back door, while the peddlor stood near tho front door, aud as tho murderers camo out of tho house he shot three of [them dead, and severely wounded tho fourth. J. 8. Hamilton, on trial at Brandon, Miss., on a charge of having murdered Roderick 'Dhu Gambrell, at Jackson, Miss., lust fall, has been acquitted. Isaac Kirkpatrick and his wife Puss, both colored, living near Gallatin, Tenn., were taken from thoir house by a mob. Tho woman was first hanged in her night dress, and tho man was then shot to death. Tho woman was suspected of arson.