Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1895 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

South Carolina excursionists to Tallulah Falls, Ga., engaged in a riot, and the town marshal’s throat was cut, the sheriff had his throat gashed and a deputy was seriously injured. At Cornelia a posse ran the rioters into a swamp and captured four of them. They are now in jail at Clarksville. The sheriff of the county remained on the train and was shot at several times. The rioters were drinking. Judge W. R. Norwood, one of the judges of the Superior Court elected last November, has been indicted by the grand jury at Lumberton, N. C., for drunkenness. Last week was court week for the county, and Judge Norwood came Monday morning under the influence of liquor and continued drinking until, at the hour when court should have been opened, he was too drunk to hold court and remained in his room all day at the hotel. He continued in that condition all week. In the terrible flood that visited the Devil’s River country in Texas last Thursday four persons met their death by drowning near Ozoua. Two others belonging to the same family were drowned, but their bodies have not been recovered. The victims were George Velasco’s wife and the latter’s two brothers and three sisters. They lived on the bank of Devil’s river, which rose thirty feet within thirty minutes and swept their house and the whole family into the raging torrent. AH the houses on the Prosser ranch, between Juno and Comstock, were swept away, and several families, numbering in all about twenty persons, are believed to have been drowned.