Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1897 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Lutie A. Lyttle, a colored girl, has been :admitted to the bar at Memphis, Tenn. .Scott and Reuben Gray, brothers, and noted Kentucky desperadoes, have been captured at Bardwell, and are held for the murder of J. H. Borden in March, 1894. Customs inspectors at Laredo, Texas, found an unclaimed valise on a train with $200,000 worth of diamonds, jewelry and other valuables in it. It is believed it was stolen by an American from a Spanish officer. Mrs. Richard Milliken, widow of the wealthy New Orleans sugar planter, has presented the Charity Hospital with $75,000 to found a children’s building, which will include a kindergarten and other improvements. The $200,000 valise seized by customs officers at Laredo, Texas, belongs to Senor Pedro Trueba of Vanegas, Mexico. Oh returning from a journey Aug. 9 he handed it to a Mexican whom he mistook in the dark for one of his servants.