Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1884 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

Excessive study, preparatory to entering a convent, has made Miss Birdie Igo, of Baltimore, insane. At her residence the “other night she was found, in a nude condition, engaged in wrecking the furniture in her apartment, and next day was removed to an asylum. , .In a family quarrel, Harry Allman killed his father, Lafayette at St. Charles, Ky. Baton Rouge (La.) telegram: “Sheriff Bates, just returned from Clinton, reports a nrmoi; there of the murder of three persons, father, son, and nephew, in St. Tammany Parish a few days ago, aud that a posse pursued, captured, and hanged four negro murderers and were on the track of others. ” W. Cheves, editor of the Dawson Journal, Georgia, shot and killed Capt. T. H. Pickett, a young attorney, against whom he had a personal spite... .A woman named Johnson, residing in Calhoun. County, West Virginia, poisoned two step-children and herself with arsenic.