The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-01-07
SOUTHERN.

A distressing accident occurred at
Saunders Ferry, on the Kentucky River,
twenty -four miles south Of Lexington James
Saunders, the ferryman, attempted to cross
the river In his boat with his wife and two
children, and, his light being extinguished by
an accident he attempted to make landing in
the dark, but missed the usual landing place
and overturned the boat The woman and
both children were drowned, and Saunders
after vain effort to assist them, swan ashore
Miss Carrie Boyer, local belle OF
Jamestown, Clarke County, Ala, was muir
dered within sight of her home by a negro
named Aleck Reed, who attempted to outrage
her. When the news was made public all the
county fastened in pursuit Of the murderer.
He was discovered in hiding at Tompkinsville
by white man and two negroes, and carried
back TO Jamestown. He confessed the
crime, and declared that he had been
guilty of outrage in Mississippi also. After
his confession was heard he was escorted to
the spot where he had murdered Miss Boyer,
which was a short distance from town and in a
lonely and deserted wood Here the murder
er, screaming and shouting, was tied to a
stake, and fire built around him. He writhed
and twisted in it but few minutes, when
death came TO his rescue A number of
negroes Witnessed his burning.
At Ell Paso party of twelve men
undertook to wreck with dynamite the South
ern Pacific Railroad bridge and rob the passen-
gers on the express train for San Francisco.
The train was delayed until daylight, when the
robbers fled
Mobile (Ala.) dispatch: "By the
explosion of the boilers. of the Gulf City Oil
Works, ten men were killed or injured. Nor
rs Wallace, Willie Black, Daniel Jackson and
Peter Chastein were burned to death. Israel
Brassey wss fatally scalded and has since died.
Archer Hicks, fireman, and j. S. Staunton
were fatally injured, and +. p. Jones was
fatally scalded Richard Hunter and William
Borden were also seriously injured The ex-
plosion is attributed to lack of water in the
boiler. 1t occurred just after midnight The
whistle had just blown for lunch or the
casualties might have been greater"
The Hon. +. A. Jones, well-known
Tennessee politician, died at Hot Springs, Ark.
James L. Bailey, who succeeded
Andrew Johnson as Senator from Tennessee,
died at GAINESVILLE in that State.
Two organ-grinders in New Orleans,
leaned against an electric-light pole in ST.
Charles street One was killed instantly and
the other had his head burned TO a crisp
The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution
banqueted its correspondents, scribes to the
number of 800 being present from different
sections of the Union The travelling and in
cidental expenses were furnished by the
paper.
Near Crawford, Miss, q mob of citi-
zens took Thomas Lyde and Thomas Sharp,
both colored, from the jail and hanged them
They were caught setting fire TO cotton
An Italian of Mount Pleasant, S. c.,
fatally shot cit zen vino interfered to protect
the Italians wife from her husbands brutal
treatment The murderer then locked himself
in his house and committed suicide rather than
surrender to the Marshal and his posse
In the American towns along the Rio
Grande, between Laredo and Brownsville up
risines are said 70 have taken place with the
object of marching upon and capturing Mier,
Mexico. Maj. Kellogg proposes to dispense
the filibusters or drive them across the river TO
Mexico.
Louisiana's sugar crop is larger by
Is per cent than the average of previous
years.
Baltimore received and shipped
decreased quantity of wheat last year, but
there was an increase in the amount of corn
handled