Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Two negro children on the Searles ranch, nine miles from Bryan, Texas, were attempting to start a fire with kerosene when the can exploded and both were_ burned to death. At Pine Bluff, Ark., Jesse Isborg, colored, who became crazed by religion at a revival meeting and kept up his prayers all night, shot his landlady, Mandy Walker, four times at the breakfast table, fatally wounding her. He then blew his own brains out. The steamer John D. Scully; one of the oldest crafts plying southern waters, was destroyecLby fire while tied to the bank at Carrollton, La. She was owned by Captain M. N. Wood, an old-timer, well known in river circles, and was usually run as an independent packet during the busy season in the tributaries and bayous of the Mississippi River. The Shoaily Bend vendetta of Montgomery County, Ark., is charged with having added atfother murder to its list. The body of a prominent doctor, J. H. Brooks, was found partially eaten by hogs and riddled with buckshot. About one month ago a prominent farmer named Redwine was foully assassinated while at work in his field. Dr. Brooks, it is said, denounced the murder l as a blot upon the. community, and asserted tfcat its perpetrator must be run down. He declared that he would see that the next grand jury thoroughly investigated it. It is supposed that he Was assassinated to prevent him doing this. John Wester Hardin, the terror of the Mexican border, .was shot and killed in the Acme saloon in El Paso, Texas, by Constable John Sellman. Sellman’s son, who is on the police force, arrested a female friend of Hardin a few days ago, and Hardin threatened to run Sellman out of the town. Monday night Sellman walked into the saloon with a friend. Hardin was inside, and when lie saw Sellman he threw his hand to his hip pocket. In an instant Sellnmn’s gun was out and a ball went crashing through Hardin’s brain. Hardin had in his lifetime killed nine men and served eighteen years in prison for one of his murders. While in prison at Hunterville, Texas, he studied law and was admitted to the bar on his release nearly two years ago. Several months ago lie held up a faro game in El Paso. Sellman is the officer who killed the notorious Bass, outlaw, a year ago.