Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1884 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

While towing a bark from New York in the Mississippi the iron tug W. W. Wood suddenly careened and sank, drowning the pilot and two other persons. About 5,000 men assembled at Greensboro, N. C., to celebrate the completion of ISO miles of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Talley Railroad. Gov. Jams, Senator Vance, and Judge Gulmer delivered speeches. ; For® negroes were killed at Albany. Ga.. In the explosion of a boiler in Fields & do. s brickyard. A Telko tun from Mountainhnrg. Ark., states that Sheriff C- P. Chandler, of Linn County, Kansas, who, with two deputies, had been tracking Louis Wampler (the fiend who murdered the Anderson family of six persons near Pleusantou, Kan., some weeks •go), came upon Wampler in the mountains , near that place. He tired two shots at the Sheriff and then fled. The pursuers then gained upon him, and when within forty yards Wampler placed a pistol at his own bead and fired, and died in a few minutes. The body was sent to Pleasanton. Across the Virginia line, opposite Romney, W. Va., a wood-chopper found SI,OOO in gold concealed in a hole in a tree.