Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1886 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

Neably successful attempts at suicide by poison were made in New Orleans by Patrick Ford and John Murphy, two of the assassins of Captain A. H. Murphy, who were to be hanged at noon of the 12th. -When the fact became known, the Sheriff asked instructions of 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 adjusted, and swung off in accordance with the sentence. .. A SPECIAL from Salem. Roanoke County. Virginia, says: “A horrible double murder was committed on Baek Creek, this county. Wednesday night. A man named Griffey, who has a wife Eving on, Back Creek, h.is just returned from Texas, where, it is alleged, he served a term in the Penitentiarv. wife refused to recognize him. and, learning that John and Pike Metz, sons of Mr. "William Metz, had been visiting'his wife in his absence, Griffey went to their home, called one of the young then out and shot him through the heart. He then entered the house and shot the other young man through the tight breast. The murdered young men were aged respectively 17 and 18 years. Griffey is still at large.” Thbee negroes who bad attempted to assault a young woman at Auburn. Ky., were taken by a mob and hanged to one tree.. A lumber train near Kildare, Tex., broke through a trestle bridge, causing, the death

of Engiheer Skidmore and three negro laborer*.... Mra. James P. Weaver, of Indianapolis. claims to have secured naw evidence showing that the wealthy Texas stockman, killed in a railway accident near Atlanta a few months ago, was her husband. Rhe was defeated in the Atlanta courts over a contest for the remains with a Texas woman, but will now begin a new suit. It is said that no due touching the identity of the persons who murdered the colored men in the Court House at Carrollton, Miss., recently, can be found. The Grand Jury attempted an investigation, and summoned 150 witnesses, hut no information was obtained. It ia alleged thehnrry and excitement attending the killing were such as to preclude identification. Jackhonviu.e (Fla.) special: “News just from Hnanncr < ’minty, Ft orirfrr. reports a quadruple tragedy near Old Coliim!) 1 ’ 8 Three negroes, w hose names are not know n, quarreled with a-nrgro boy. and shot him three times, killing him. Four negroes, named Wright,. Brooks, Pratt, and .Simmons, pursued the negroes nnd overtook them on the Madison County line. A fight ensued, and one of the murderers was shot dead. The other two capitulated, but were subsequently shot to death by their captors. Of the latter the three first-named were tonight lodged in jail by the-' Sheriff of Madison County, and charged with murder. Simmons is still at large, and" friends of the prisoner swear they will' rescue them before morning.”