Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1887 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

'Three masked men entered the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad depot, at Richmond. Tex., and, at the point of a pistol, cmnjit lied the watchman to open the doors lending into the inner offices. They then attempted to drill through tlie safe in the station agent s office. Failing, two of them went to the station agent’s house and forced him to go to the station ; and.open the safe. Tt;ev .secured SI. !• o in money, and escaped. ' The Senate of Texas passed a hill appropriating Sit (>.i 0 i for\the relief of the drought sufferers.... .Fire at Fallas, Tex.. —entirely Consumed three of the finest bnildingsin the city. The total loss on buildings 6tpck~~wdl - A trunk directed to “J. A. Wilson” was opened at Baltimore and found to contain the headless body of a man". The feet, legs, . and one arm were also lopped off’, and were 'packed with the body, hilt the head was —missing,The trunk had been shipped front Xew bork, imd t!.e calico --hirt covering the remains had on k the name "C. Kankiioldt. In the trunk were cards bearing the name of a Brooklyn butcher. Five of the^nten .engaged iu the tobhery of the railroad train at Gordon, Tex., have been arrested, and the prospect is that the 3 other three will be captured. A SITE has been selected at New Orleans .ijy eiperienced parties from Mcmph's for a mill to be run in opposition to the monopoly known as the Cotton-Seed Oil Trust Company. Stock has been given to the leading planters ,on the lower Mississippi, who pledge themselves to famish ample raw material.„ .W. L, Cornish, of Sharpsbnrg. Washington Countv, Ky. t shot Miss Lula Green through the heart and brain because she would not marry him. He also tried to kill the girl’s mother and sister, but failed on account of his pistol being out of order. The mother raceiveil a severe wound in the hand, and

Was knocked down with the s pistol. Cornish was captured and taken' to Springfield. A mob composed of ‘ seventy-five men entered the jail and secured the prisoner. He was taken .to a farm about two miles north of the town and hanged.