Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1888 — THE SOUTHERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

The report of the investigating commissioners to the Kentucky Legislature shows that the shortage of the fugitive State Treasurer Tate is $230,000. The grossest carelessness is said to have prevailed during Tate’s management of twenty years. At Pearsall, Texas, Frank Nolan and William Jordan, cattle dealers, renewed an old quarrel, and both were fatally hurt The dwelling-house of Louis Stromans, near Springfield, 8. C., was burned, and four of Stromans’ children, two boys and two girls, who were sleeping up-stairs, perished in the flames. Stromans’ eldest son was frightfully burned while frantically endeavoring to rescue his brothers and sisters, and will probably die. Three men, Jack Crow, Georga Moss and Owen D. Hill, were hanged at Fort Smith, Ark., for murders committed in the Indian Territory. All the men were negroes with Indian blood. John B. Biscoe, colored, was executed at Leonardtown, Md., for the murder of Capt R. P. Dixon. The murder was committed on the Potomac River in August, 1886. Jack Prater, colored, was hanged at Columbia, S.C., for the murder of Andrew Jackson, also colored, whom he shot through the window of Jackson’s cabin. Jasper Davis, white, convicted of wifemurder, was hanged at Orangeburg, S. C.