Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Newr^KeTrabdy,"Lamar County, Ala., James Runyon and Robert Young climbed a hightree for an opossum. On the 'same limb, forty feet from the ground, they quarreled. Runyon pushed Young off the limb, but was pulled off with him. Both lived just long enough to tell how it happened. Information comes from Carriso, Tex., that a party of Americans—James H. McHane ; nd son, A. J. Blevins and Walter Strickland —starting 'from Eagle Pass on a hunting trip, were fired upon by Mexican soldiers forty miles below that place on Sunday. The party is oil its way to Laredo to complain to the Government authorities. - - Within the last ten days twenty-five recruits for the Cuban army have left Fort Worth, Tex., for Galveston, from which point they will embark for the Cuban coast. The agent contracted to pay SSO per month to date from enlistment, advance payment to be made when she party arrived at Galveston. Kailroad trausportation from Fort Worth to Galveston was furnished each man.. The fact that recruiting -for the Cuban army has been going on is well known. The men are good material for soldiers. A horrible double murder was committed near Flynn’s Lock, Tenn. Five masked men entered the hotise of Joseph Day, an old farmer, who was reputed to have money hidden away, and demanded the secret of his treasure. Day refused to give it up, and after numerous threats was taken out of doors and h&nged to a tree. The brutes then attempted to make Mrs. Day tell where the money was hidden, and when she refused beat her brdins out with a club. They then ransacked the house, but failed to find the money. No arrests ha ve been inn de.