Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1887 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

Beulah May Moore, aged 17. shot and kiUed Henry Allen, aged 50, at Memphis, Tenn., sending five bullets into his body. Miss Moore's father emptied the contents of a donble-barreled shot gun into Allen's body as be lay writhing in death. The young woman, who” will soon become a mother, alleges that Moore outraged her last June. The steamer W. H. Gardner was burned on the Tombigbee River, near Gainesville) Ala. Twenty persons lost their.lives. ’ In the Ohio River, near Madison,. Ind.', a tow boat ran down a skiff containing seven colored people—Harry Gross, his three sons and twq. daughters! and a voting man named Brown. The skiff and its occupants were swept under the entire fleet of barges and 6ix of them lost their lives .... Paul King, cashier of a National Bank at Cyntbiana, Ky., killed himself with a revolver on account of bad health.