Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1887 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

Beulah May Moore, aged 17, shot and killed Henry Allen, aged 50, at Memphis, Tenn., sending five bullets into his body. Miss Moore’s father emptied the contents of a double-barreled 6hot gun into Allen's body as he lay wri thing in death. The young woman, who will scon become a mother, alleges that Moore outraged her last June. The boom in real estate at Fort Smith, Ark., has carried farming lands near town from SIOO to SSOO per acre.... In Lawrence County, Ky., Samuel Smith, aged 10, 6hot and killed Stephen Hammond and his wife and.wounded their two children. Smith fled to the mountains, and has not been captured. ' : Col. P. B. Means, an ex-member of the North Carolina Legislature and a prominent politicians entered the Charlotte Times printing office at Concord and cowhided John B. Sherrill, the editor. The Supreme Court of Tennessee hasconfirmed a report by a referee giving Mrs. L. Bonn judgment against a bucket-shop for the full amount lost by her husband iu margin deals.... About thirty thousand acres of land near La Grange, Ky., have been leased by a patty of Cincinnatians, who expect to develop natural gas in large volume. The United States Grand Jury at Austin, Texas, has indicted a dozen or more of the Washington County election intimidaton, all white. Among them is the County Attorney, one Constable, and a County Com-

missioncr. They gave bond in the ram of SI,OOO each.. . .The hanging of Henry Artis, at Goldsboro, N. C., was witnessed by a very large assemblage, the j<»il walls being too low to bide the gallowrt Charles Phelps and Jack Howell, who have beeh at enmity for many years, met near : Sothereet, Ky. l’helpa placed his knife against Howell's breast and remarked. “I’ve a notion to cut yonr heart out." Rowell placed his knife against Phelps’ throat and coolly replied: “Cut away.” i Phelps did cut away, but, unfortunately for him, bis knife-blade broke off at the 1 second thrust. Howell cut Phelps’ throat, inflicting a fatal wound. Howell was not badly injured.