Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1895 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

An unknown mamras murdered at the mouth of Hart’s Creek, in Lincoln County, Tennessee, the locality infested by the Bromfield and McCoy factions. In a shooting affray at Fort Worth, Texas, Frank Rippy was Shot dead and Frank Thomas, a “trusty” in the Cityprison, probably fatally wounded. The Alabama health officer has called Gov. Oates' attention to the frightful death rate at the Coalburg mines among the convicts, it being ninety in every 1,000. George and John Pierce, who were sentenced by Judge Parker to Fort Smith for murder, have been granted appeals to the Supreme Court of the United States, and their execution will not take place. The non-union men arc being forced to leave the Bluefields, W. Va., coal fields by the strikers, who threaten personal violence to those who don’t quit work. Gov. MaeCorkle has reached there and his hasty return is attributed to the threats. Serious trouble is expected within the next few days. Jolin Enhart, a farmer, of Robinson, Ark., was killed Wednesday night at his home, his head being crushed with an ax. Enhart and his wife quarreled because he whipped two of her first husband’s children, ‘anti as there is nothing to. indicate a motive for the crime outside of the household, an investigation is being made on the supposition that the murder was committed by some member of the family. With an abundant waving of the stars and stripes, with patriotic music and stirring orations, punctuated by cheers from tens of thousands of feminine and masculine throats, the monument erected to the .memory of Kentucky’s Confederate dead was formally unveiled Tuesday afternoon at lyouisvillc. The completion of this task is a tribute to the Women’s Confederate Association of Kentucky, which for eight years has been working for a memorial to the volunteers from the Blue Grass State who died fighting for the lost cause, and which, in spite of many obstacles, raised by degrees a fund of $20,000 to carry out this project. The city authorities declared a half holiday in honor of the occasion, and wageworkers and busi-ness-men alike turned out in thousands, while trains from different parts of the State, ns well as from across the river in Indiana, brought thousands more.