Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1887 — SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

SOUTH.

, The Board of Regents of the Grant Memorial University of Athens, Tenn., have conferred the degree of LL. D. on George W. Childs, A GUARD quelled a mutiny in a Kentucky convict camp by tiring a load of buckshot at the mutineers. One was shot dead, another fatally and a third dangerously wounded. The convicts had previously fatally assaulted their overseer. By the explosion of a boiler in a Natchez, Miss.,: cotton factory live persons were instantly killed and a" large number wounded, several of whom will die.