Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1886 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

' Howard Hires, aged 14, said while picking blackberries near Louisville, Ky,, that he intended to kill someone. Then taming suddenly on Samuel Dean, an 11-year-old .companion, he shot him dead. Hie young murderer went to the city and gave himself up, saying that the shooting was accidental. Recently, near Morgan City, La., Lorenzo Randall (colored) was killed by a white man named Hills. A posse went to arrest the muidercr, but the latter, aided by his father-in-law, opened fire on the Sheriff*s men, killing one and wounding two others. Another posse was also warmly received; one of them being shot through Ike heart. The Mills faction, re-enforced by half-breed Indisms, have taken to the swamps, and a prolonged warfare is exLtkcolk Spbole and Calvin James were executed at Fort Smith, Ark., for murders committed in the Indian Territory. There have been forty-six men hanged at

i that place since 1871. Joseph Jump was I hanged for murder at Gallatin, Mo. The chess trophies of Pan! Morphv were sold st auction iu New Orleans last week. Walter D. Dengeree paid $1,550 for a set •rchess-men. in gold, silver, and jewels, presented to the champion, by admirers in New. York. A silver laurel chaplet went t.t $250. -