Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1897 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Grant Staley was thrown from a horse two miles north of Hamburg, Ark., and was instantly killed. Clark Smith, a crazy man of Atlanta, Ga., was shot and killed by Officer Arthur, whom he attacked with an ax. The steamer W. K. Phillips burned to the water’s edge at Island Bear, Dover, thirty miles below Clarksville, Tenn. West Virginia’s ex-Secretary of State, W. E. Chilton, has arranged to pay $23,000, the amount of his shortage to the State. Joe Reid, a prominent lawyer of Tangipahoa, La., and widely known as a figure in the feuds in the Louisiana parishes, has been assassinated. • “Chris” Merry and James Smith, wanted for the murder of Mrs. Pauline Merry, “Chris” Merry’s wife, in Chicago, have been arrested at Eddyville, Ky. The strike in the Paint Rock Company coal mines at Almy, Tenn., culminated in the shooting from ambush of two miners, William West and James Garby. C. A. Broten of Austin, Minn., has been sentenced by Judge Lochren in the United States court to five months in jail and S2OO fine for fraudulent use of the mails. Advices from Indian Creek, 100 miles west of San Antonio, Texas, say that the recent gold discoveries there are of fabuulous richness. An assay of the ore taken from one prospect ran $4,750 to the ton.