Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1895 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Lampton, Crane & Ramey, dealers in paints, oils >and varnishes at Louisville, were burned out. Loss, 4 51U0,000. The breeding establishment at Castleton, Ya., of James It. & F. P. Keene was burned to the ground. A number of valuable horses, including the imported Kallicrates and Hyderabad, perished iu the flames. Loss about $70,000. Near Texarkana; Ark., Jim Thomas and Bishop Lane quarreled over a guitar on a train. The train was iu motion and Thomas drew a pistol and shot Lane as lie running to escape to the next coach. Lane fell between the cars and was horribly mangled. An attempt was made to wreck the west-bound Southern Pacific train fifty miles west of Houston, Texas. The engineer discovered ties piled across the track soon enough to bring his train to a standstill without damage either to train or anybody on board. It is thought the design was to wreck and rob the tr«in. The Secretary of the Treasury extended the time for tiling sugar bounty claims from Sept. Ito Oct. 1, 181)5. According to the regulations issued to govern tlie payment of the sugar bounty appropriation, all claims were to be tiled b.y Sept. 1, but the time was found inadequate and Secretary Carlisle therefore granted the extension of one month. Albert Dean, 29 years old, Las been lauded in jail ut Hudson, Ky. lie was arrested at Canaan, Conn., charged with being instrumental in attempting to abduct little girls. He was identified by one of the little girls, and her father, Herman Preusuer, attempted to kill him, but was restrained by the officers. There wits utmost a lynching in Newport, Ivy., Wednesday night. Billy Timberlake, a white man, aged 50 years, was charged with attempting to assnuß. A crowd of millmen chased Timberlabe for

twelve blocks, but be fell into thq hands of the police and Was quickly jailed, out. Of the reach of immediate vengeance. A bloody war between two factions resulting from a long-standing feud has been fought in the Cumberland Mountains, seventy-fife miles north'of Bristol, Tenn., on the Virginia and Kentucky lines. Members of the Boyd and Thomas faiililies, with Winchesters, met at an illicit distilitry, where the battle began. Four men—John Boyd, William Cox, Jack Thomas and Floyd Thomas—are dead, and several others wounded.