Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Ex-United States Senator Sam Bcdl Maxey is reported dying at Eureka Springs, Texas. He is over 70 years of age. A New Orleans linotypist has established a new record by setting nnd correcting 81,041 ems of agate type in eight consecutive hours. At Raymond, Miss., the Grand Jury returned indictments against Monroe and Buck Terrell, two very old men, Thomas Brock, Con Brock and Skipworth for the murder of Mcßae in July last The engine and baggage car of the north-bound passenger train on the Cotton Belt Railway were ditched Thursday night at Stamps Station, Ark., and Engineer Eighme and Fireman Dean were seriously, perhaps fatally, wounded. John Johnson, colored, was hanged at Mount Sterling, Ky., for killing Policeman Charles Evans on June 15. Johnson’s neck was not broken and he did not die for twenty-five minutes after the trap was sprung. Nearly ten thousand people witnessed the hanging. Just before daylight Friday morning a double loghouse near Arlington, Tenn., occupied by Mrs. Callie Harrill, her two grown daughters and a son, was burned to the ground, and Mrs. Harrill and the girls perished in the flames. The son, who occupied a room in the rear of the building, barely escaped with his life. It is thought the women were drugged, ns loghouses burn very slowly, and' they should have awakened in time4<Kescape. The remains were burned to a crisp. Near Morgantown, W. Vn., John Black and sous were thrashing Tuesday when the boiler of the machine exploded, killing three men and injuring four others. The killed are: John Spotsuagc, Curtin Ammons. John Blair. The injured: Ross Blair, John Spotsnnge Jr., Leroy Wade, William Ammons. Curtin Ammons was struck by a piece of the boiler and literally torn to pieces. His legs and feet were found under the barn. All of Blair’s clothing was torn from him except his shoes. Rufus Buck. Sam Samson, Meoa Judy, Lucky Davis and Albert Stake were lodged in the United States jail at Fort Smith, Ark. AU arc young men who have in ten days made a criminal record for themselves which is almost without parallel in the Indian Territory. They murdered John Garrett, a negro deputy marshal, about ten days ago. They are charged with assaulting four women, robbing two stores and holding up three individuals. They robbed a stockman named Calahan and kill'd a negro boy who was with him.