Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1886 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

Two WOMEN haie made a confession to a New Orleans grand jury of complicity in a scheme to secure by perjury the acquittal of the murderers of Captain Murphy. Dr. Emanuel E. Dreyfus was arrested on a -bench..order and sent to..thm-Tm islEprisom . in default of $20,000 bail, charged with planning the conspiracy. A Montgomery (Ala.) sjiecial says: Reports continue to show great loss to life and property. Mayor Rees has sent this telegram to Senators Pugh and Morgan: “Loss of life and property from Hoods in this vicinity is appalling. Resulting destitution will be widespread. It seems every river in Alabama will have the same record. Can not Government aid be invoked for the sufferers, who are mostly poor people.” Two or three United States Ix»uts are on the Alabama River, and could be used in distributing supplies and preventing starvation. The situation ail over the Hooded region is deplorable. Farmers along the Alabama, Tombigbee, Coosa, Warrior, Tallapoosa, .Cahaba, and Chattahoochee Rivers have lost all their live stock, com, and cotton seed. It is safe to estimate the loss by the flood at $2,(8)0,000 and possibly several hundred lives.

The great railway strike has cnhhiuated in bloodshed at Fort Worth, Texas. A posse of deputies from the Sheriff’s offiqe were detailed to protect a trainwhich was pulled out of the Missouri Pacific yards. They were- fired tipoil from tunbush by the strikers find one of the officers was killed, two were mortally wounded, and,one of the strikers was hurt. It was rumored that the strikers threatened to bum the. town. The Governor ordered out the State troops;