Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1886 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

The Governor of Texas has been asked by the relatives of the deceased to approve of papers claiming from the Mexican Government damages of SIOO,OOO for the murder of Erresures by the Marshal of a Mexican town. , 'Bhe relief committee of Charleston, 8. C., in answer to inquiries from all parts of the country, authorize the statement that, while they are able to furnish subsistence and temporary shelter to all who need it, the relief fund at hand and in prospect will fall far short of the money needed to put in habitable condition the homes of persons who are unable to repair thrir buildings without public aid. Government engineers have inspected 600 buildings

out of 7,000 in the city, and estimate the damage to those inspected at $2,000,000. Their inspection, however, covers most of the costliest structures. In assisting needy householders to make residences habitable the committee will deal first with those whose losses are small... .Frank 8. Humphreys was hanged at Milledgeville, Ga., for murdering Carrie Raines and Ella Humphreys, the latter his kinswoman, on March 4." He confessed his guilt to the Sheriff, but made no statement on the scaffold. r . The poisoning of eleven persons it reported from an Arkansas town. They are not expected to recover, A rich farmer, whose wife was among those prostrated, and his son, aged twenty-two, have been arrested on the charge of poisoning the well. The accused were bound over. It is alleged that he wished to rid himself of his wiie, who was suing for divorce.