Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1886 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

The outcome of the great strike on Gould's Southwestern railroad system is still a matter of grave doubt. Each side appears determined to hold out. and the railroad managers, it is said, have declared that it is their intention to settle in this instance the question whether in future they •hall be dictated to by the Knights or. whether the Knights shall be dictated to by them. As an evidence of their determination to fight it out the railroad, managers yesterday “dropped" about 5.000 clerks, telegraph-operators, and other men in their service wlio do not belong to the Knights. Business among St. Louis shippers and on ’Change there is paralyzed Ix the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court in the; Custom House ■ at New Orleans. J. G. Bron, a steamboat captain, -assaulted a lawyer named-M. A, Grace, who drew hrs revolver and shot Bron three times. The hitter drew his weapop. followed Grace into an oute r room, •nd shot htin dead. lin>u s chances of recovery are very slight. Flames originating in the Brunswick saloon at Hot Springs. Arkansas, destroyed property valued at $l(M),0(H). Nf.ably successful attempts at suicideby poison were made in New Orleans by Patrick Fordand T6En“Mutpbytw ; 6 of the assassins of Captain A. H. Murphy, who were to be hanged at niton of the 12th. ■When the fact became kpowsu. the Sheriff asked instructions Jof'(Governor McEnery, who ordered the warrants, carried out. About noon the inanimate bodies of the doomed men were taken to the scaffold, held erect while the nooses were ad justed, ted swung off in accordance with the sentence. '