Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1895 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The battleship Texas has been given a djrief trial trip since receiving its new machinery. The Texas Legislature, in just three hours Wednesday, passed a law to prohibit the Corbett-Fitzsintmons prize fight at Dallas, Oct. 31. The State Board of Liquidation at Baton Rouge, La., ordered the treasurer to purchase $200,000 of State bonds. It caused the bonds to reach par for the first time since the war. The famous still run by Tom Blair, who -was lynched -New Year's morning—at Mount Sterling, Ivy., was taken in the mountains by revenue officers after a search of five years. At Vernon, Ivy., the jury after forty hours’ deliberation gave Rev. W. G, Ciipps two years in the penitentiary for shooting his wife five times three months ago. She had applied for divorce on account of cruel treatment. James Cornell, a well-known prospector and rancher of San Mateo, N. M., was shot from ambush and killed by one of a small band of renagade Apache -u----“dians wEcTha.ve keen prowling about in -the mountains ht-that vicinitrr ......... b