Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1887 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

Three murdenrsjn the jail at Clarksville, believed to be the most desperate criminals in that State, made their escape, after locking the jailer in a cell. One of them was shot down and captured after traveling two miles. f Beulah May Moore, aged 17, shot and killed Henry Allen, aged eO, at Memphis, Tenn., sending five bullets into his body. Miss Moore’s father emptied the contents of a double-barreled shot gun into Allen’s body as he lay writhing in death. The young woman, who will soon become a mother, alleges that Moore outraged her last June. An Indianola (Texas) dispatch says the Southern Pacific Company is about to .remove its track from Indianola to Port Lavaca, a small village ten miles above on the Matagorda Bay. This means a total

abandonment of Indianola on account of the disastrous storms which have swept over the town during the last twelve years. During that period 400 persons have been drowned and enormous damage has been done to property.