Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1881 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Small-pox is spreading all over Montana Teiritory. Ham White, a Colorado stage-robber, who was being taken to tho Detroit House of Correction by Marshal Wilcox, of Denver, made a desperate attempt to.escape while in a Michigan Central coach. He quietly unlocked his handcuffs with a toothpick, and struck the Marshal on tire head with the irons until h e brought him to his knees. Seventeen men witnessed the struggle without daring to raise a hand. White next seized the Marshal’s revolver, when Mrs. Smithson, of Denver, sprung on the desperado and chokod him into submission. A Cleveland bank has been the victim of a daring robbery. An adroit thief walked into the office of the President, and relieved that official of u box containing $117,000 in railway bonds, which lay upon liis desk, almost at his olbow. The daring robber made his escape. Fire broke out in the milling district of Minneapolis, Minn., and consumed four flouring mills and one cotton mill. An explo sion in the Minneapolis mill, probably caused by flour dust, killed four men and severely wounded several others. The loss is estimated at $558,000, the insurance upon which is about $207,175. By a railway collision at. Thompson, Ct.. a conductor and an engineer were killed and several passengers badly hurt. The stockholders of the Keely Motor Company have brought suit to compel Keely to take out a patent oil bis invention, and to turn over the patent and the secret of the invention to them ; also, such machines as he may have in his possession.