Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1884 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

Near Cockeysville, Md., Joshua Gill and Charles Brown, brothers-in-law, fought what may be termed a duel, at the third shot Brown falling wounded, his wife at the moment rushing from the house and falling prostrate and unconscious on her husband's body. Earlier in the day Brown attempted to assassinate Gill, and for years a feud has existed among tho families! Gill surrendered himself to the authorities. The Supreme Lodge of the World of the Knights of Pythias, at its thirteenth annual session, held at New Orleans, elected the following officers: Grand Chancellor, John Van Valkcnburg, Fort Madison, Iowa; Supreme Vice Chancellor, Howard Douglas, Ohio; Supreme Keeper of Records and Seals, Judge R. EL Cowen. of Missouri; Supreme Master-at-Arms, G. B. Shaw, Wisconsin; Past Supreme Chancellor. John R. Linton, Johnstown, Pa Near Monroe, Ga., Willis Gunn, a widower, went to the house of his son Jesse to kill him, as Jesse hadjustwon and married the girl whom both father and son had been courting. Jesse was warned, and fired upon and killed his father as the latter was taking aim. Several thousand Kentuckians at* tended the unvejling, at Frankfort, of a monument to tho memory of the late Judge John M. Elliott, who was shot dead by Col. Thomas Buford for muking a decision distasteful to the latter. In Bolivar County, Miss., a negro named John Henderson, who was caught In the act of brutally assaulting Miss Ida Davis, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy planter, was pursued by bloodhounds and brought to bay in the branches of a tree, from which he was mado to descend at the point of a shotgun. He was then securely bound, and, a rope being placed around his neck, was slowly strangled to death. Several times he was hoisted Into the air and kept there until life was almost extinct, and then lowered and revived, i nly to be hoisted again. This was repeated until life was extiuet, after which his body was riddled with bullets and left in the woods. Miss Davis is in a very critical condition, and is not expected to live Five thousand farmers assembled at Centre Point, Ark., to witness the execution of Charles Wright for participation in the Howard County riots, in which Thomas Wyatt was killed... .Henry Curry, colored, was executed at Monroe, Ga., for the murder of a negro who had aroused his jealousy. Frank James, the bandit, was acquitted by the United States jury at Huntsville, Ala., but was immediately arrested by the Sheriff 6f Cooper County, Mo., for complicity in the Otterville train robbery. At Hot Springs, Ark, a verdict of not guilty was returned in the case of S. A. Doran and five allies for murder in the first degree, in the killing of Frank Hall in the bloody butchery enacted there Feb. 9. Hall was an innocent victim, the driver of the hack containing the three Flynn brothers during the shooting. Doran and party will again be tried under indictments of murder in the first degree in the killing of John Flynn. ... .John Hogan, an aged bachelor living on a plantation across the Georgia lino from Columbia. South Carolina, recently died of epilepsy on a pallet of straw. In a leather pouch on his persun was found $7,000 in currency, and in his trunk lay $585 in gold. He could neither read nor write....ln Western Texas cattle are reported dying for want of water and grass, while myriads of caterpillars are destroying vegetation,