Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1887 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

Judge Lafayette Kirk, who recently testified at the national capital touching political outrages, and other citizens of w ' : %■

Washington County, Texas, have been indicted by the United States grand jury, at Austin, for intimidating voters. *, \ invent, the defaulting State Treasurer of Alabama, was captured at Big Sandy, Texas. He embezzled $200,00(1. and there are thirtvuine indictments against him. A committee -of the School Board of Memphis has recommended the expulsion from the Pealtody school of a girl alleged to have negro blood in her veins,.. B. G. Thomas' famous stalliau. King Ban, died last week at Lexington, Kv. He was valued at $95,000. r-s- • Ehr* Fish, aged t", the keeper of a > n Rock Castle County, Ky. (a prohibition county), who had persisted in selling liquor aftersbehad been warned anonymously to quit, was taken from her house and beaten by the vigilantes of the Law and Order Club. As the vigilantes were whipping the croue shots were fired from over the fence and three of the ktiklux ft 11 dead. Their napies are John Long, Walter'Turpin, anti .John Hasty. Rock Castle County lias been infested by n hand of ktiklux for ten years past, anti all efforts to break up the lawlessness lias failed. The old woman, Eliza Fish, has been whipped before by the yigilantes. and her son Was run out of the county for selling liquor. There is much excitement over the affair. A cyclone swept through Tampa, Fla., destroying several houses. Two children were killed, one womnn was fatally injured, and several persons wero severely hurt. The pecuniary loSs is about SIO,OOO. At Abilene and other droughty portions of Texas meetings to pray sot rain are daily held in various churches Captain John V. Carlin, Department Commander of the G. A, It. of West Virginia, and a veteran of the rebellion and Mexican wars, died at his home in Wheeling. The Governor of Louisiana has offered a reward for the conviction of persons implicated in outrages recently committed in the parish of West Carroll against Polish Jews, with the view of driving them out of the community.