Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1896 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Ex-Congressman Walter Gresham has declined the Democratic nomination for Congress from the Tenth Texas district. Gov. Bradley of Kentucky lias respit-, ed Anthony Alcoru Lincoln for thirty days. He was to have been hanged for murdering his-father. John Cushman, of Brooklyii, was arrested at Atlanta, Ga., by K. A. Smith, claiming to he a,Brooklyn detective, who sairl Cushman murdered Mrs. O'Donuell and two daughters at Brooklyn July 2, and that there was a reward offered of $1,500 for Cushman. Smith said he had followed Cushman since July 2. 'Wednesday afternoon two farmers near Greensville, Ivy., Tom Hall and Terry James, became involved in a discussion about .a protracted meeting held in the neighborhood. They came to blows and both pulled their knives. Terry Janies was stabbed five times and died. Hall is cut in seven djfferent places ami cannot live. The men fought in the broiling hot s.un, and were jtlone when the fight occurred, no witnesses being present. _ News of a bloody tight among a crowd of school boys at Buckvillo. in Montgomery County, Ark., reached Little Rock. Robert Chew and Beauregard Poole became involved in a rough and tumble fight, and the friends of both the belligerents joined iu the fray. Pocket-knives were used and several of the hoys were dangerously wounded. Poole was stabbed in the breast several times, and died of liis wounds. Chew escaped and is as yet at targe; A h;.ater .famine exists iu a large portion of Arkansas, aud Jn some, sections human beings are actually suffering from the pangs of thirst. There have been isolated'thunder showers.in various portions of. the JStnfe recently, hut in some counties no rain has fallen since April 13 and the suffering is almost beyond belief. A gentleman arrived at Little Rock Wednesday morning from an overland trip through portions of Jefferson,-Cleveland and Bradley Counties and says that people in some localities nr£ hauling water for drinking purposes in barrels a dis-Lwiee.ofttoybn't'.v-tive miles and that for an entfrtl dnxybft.wns unable to buy a glass of wu3r*J- «to ! <j.aench his thirst. White river is running dry and the 1 Mayor of r avetfe.ville lias issued a proclamation prohibiting’ the sprinkling of streets, the water being needed for drinking purposes,