Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1895 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Three children of Archdelus Cook, of Rockhouse, Ky., were poisoued by eating mulberries that contained spider eggs. All died. During a barbecue and dance at Edgeville, Tenn., a free fight was indulged In. Ten persons . were shot, some of them seriously. - Joseph Journey, a revenue storekeeper and gauger in Iredell County, North Carolina, was murdered and robbed by unknown persons. The trial at New Orleans of Cullen, Burk and Collieo, three prominent screwmen, -for the murder of a negro screwmen on the levee on the morning of March 12, ended in a disagreement. The Sterling, Ivy., high school has a jonah graduating class. It has thirteen members; it is the thirteenth commencement, and the, graduates, have each attended school thirteen years. Gov. O’Ferrall, of Virginia, fearing serious trouble among the coal miners at Pocahontas, has ordered the Roanoke Light Infantry, the Roanoke Machine Works Guards, and the Lynchburg Home Guard to proceed at once to the scene. Private advices received at Tampa, Fla., say that Campos is preparing an expedition, or convoy, which will he supplied with large quantities of poisoned food and defective cartridges loaded with bullets, hut with no powder. It is hoped the insurgents will capture the convoys and the food taken by the Cubans. A special from Harrisburg, Ark., says: J. H. Vandever, treasurer of Poinsette County, claims to have been robbed of several thousand dollars. Monday was the last day for county treasurers-to settle, and the discovery of the alleged robbery just before the hour of settlement caused a sensation. The dispatch adds that developments in connection with the robbery are anticipated.