Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1885 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

A HEAVY bank caved in at the Government works on the canal at Louisville, Ky., by which one man was killed and two seriously injured... .Ex-Congressman Mallory, of Kentucky, died at his farm near LaGrange, Ky. - ~ Cheistino Add ana and Caledomo Chevarria, two Mexican murderers, were hanged in the jail yard at Laredo, Texas....A dispatch from Louisville, Ky., says that “Henry Freese was hanged at Catlettsburg, a small town on the Ohio River, in the mountain district. He was calm, and died with the declaration that he was going to glory. He slept well aud ate a hearty breakfast. His ascent to the scaffold was with a firm step. The drop broke his neck, resulting in but little struggle.”.... Buck Anderson, a desperate Cherokee Indian, was instantly killed at Fort Smith, Ark., Deputy Marshal James L. Spencer, while resisting arrest.

A picnic at Palatka, Fla., was enlivened by a mill between two dusky amazons, rivals in the affections of a colored barber, who fought seven rounds with bare knuckles. Two male friends of the belligerents then took up the quarrel, fighting with razors, and one of them receiving fatal wounds. A duel with razors between the women has been arranged.. . .Four children "of Simon Ashley, colored, were murdered at Graham, Ga., and his housO was subsequently burned to cover up the ■crime. He was away from home with his ■wife at the time.