Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1884 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

Iks Laddt, a negro 25 years old, who recently made three attempts to outrage white women at Whitney, Tex., and succeeded in one instance, was taken from jail at that place and lynched. The vigilantes also cut his ears off. Zeno T. Young, editor of the Madisonville (Ky.) Times, fell from the second story of his office and was fatally hurt.... The National field trials for sporting dogs will be held at Canton, Miss., beginning Dec. 8 next... .William Cox, of Danville, Ky- in shooting at two men who were trying to break into his house, shot and killed his mother. Col. Cash, the South Carolina duelist, revenged himself on the people of Gheraw by removing the remains of his wife and her handsome monument from the village cemetery to his plantation The wholesale furniture stores of McCracken k Brewster, W. J. Tebault, and F. B. Christensen, at New Orleans, with adjacent buildings, were burned, resulting in damage of about $176,000. DOS Walker was hanged at Texarkana for the murder of Lucas Grant. Two thousand citizens were permitted to witness the execution. ON account of the failure of the airbrakes to wo *, » Virginia Midland express train ran at a high rate of speed onto tin bridge over the James Biver, near Lynch

burgh, Va. The corner of the smokingcar struck the upright girders, throwing it from the track. The trucks of the oar dragged the sleepers a distance of 100 feet, and one ? coach fell through the opening into tea feet of water. All the passengers were saved, most of them being taken through hote cut in the ventilators in the top ofthe car.