Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1883 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Mrs. Sylvester Bleeker, -wife of the manager of the Tom Thumb Company, died from injuries sustained in the Newhall disaster. A Milwaukee dispatch says that John Gilbert, the actor, improves slowly. He is able to sit up in bed, but his mind has not yet recovered, and he osk3 continually how lie came to be bruised. He is undet the impression that his wife is in Louisville visiting her sister. Experts appointed by the county authorities have finished the examination of the forty-eight charred remains, ascertaining that the remains answer for so many hnitnan bodies This makes the loss of life by the disaster not less than seventy-four. 111* action of Gen. Sharpe, Governor of the Sokiiors’ Home, for not complying w th the request for *aid at the Newhall House disost r, in refusing to send a steamer, is to be made a matter of offlo al Investigation. Congressman Denster has taken the necessary steps and is assisted by Senator Logan. A dispatch from Weeksville, Montana Territoiy, euys that a band of vigilantes proceeded to the settlement on the '1 bompsqu river, and cleared the place of roughsThey then went forward to Sand Point, where they found two men, nicknamed •Hick, the Barber,” and the other “Ohio

Sum.- These they seized and hanged on separate trees. A Carson (Nev.) telegram states that a band of mounted and masked men rode up to a store in Gold Mountain, a mining town near there, and ordered the proprietor to give up all his money. He refused, and was at once shot dead by the leader of the band. Two Creek Indians, who were standing near, were also murdered in cold blood. The -road-agents then robbed the store es everything valuable, rode to Silver Peak, where they went to the principal store and proceeded to plunder it The proprietor and one of his clerks drew their revolvers and opened fire on the highwaymen, killing two of them. The fire was returned, and the proprietor and his assistant fell dead with bullet-holes through their hearts. The road-agents cleaned the store out and made their escape unrecognized. A San Francisco dispatch says it is now ascertained that the number of Chinamen ki led by the giant-powder explosion was thirty. Nearly a block of business buildings at Nashville, DL, valued at SIOO,OCO, were swept away by fire. George C. Foster, of Milwaukee, was Instantly killed by the fall of an icicle, which crushed his skulk A gang of twelve masked men captured a small station on the Central Pacific railroad, 166 miles west of Ogden, and locked all the railroad employes In the tankhouse When the east-bound express-train arrived shortly afterward the thieves sidetracked the engine, robbed the trainmen, and proceeded to go through the train. The messenger in charge of the express-car was not -only armed, but had the courage to use his weapons, and the robbers, finding that they had struck a fighting man, beat a retreat without having attained any remarkable degree of financial success Frank James was taken from Independence Jail to Kansas City last week. Indictments fo* complicity in the murder of Witcher and for the robbery of the Independence Bank were dismissed An indictment for connection with the Blue Cut train-robbery found both sides unprepared, and a continuance to May was taken, James’ ball being fixed at $3,500. The steel and axle works of Houston A Hay, at Coshocton, Ohio, were destroyed by fire, involving a loss of SBO,OOO. The post sutler’s store at Fort Maginnis, Montana, containing supplies valued at $40,000, was burned Another horror is reported from Milwaukee The wife of John Zimbrick, a laborer, killed her three children, the oldest aged 7 years, the youngest 18 months, in the most brutal manner, literally cutting them to pieces and completely disemboweling them. The neighbors’ attention was attracted to the scene by the woman’s attempt to hang herself in an outhouse. They cut her down and took her inside, when the horrible spectacle was discovered Mrs. Zimbrick was at once arrested, and took her arrest very calmly, saying she had read that she had to sacrifice the children in the good book. At the inquest in the Newhall House disaster, Night Clerk Delaney said he had plenty of time to warn the guests, but he considered the saving of papers and valuables in the hotel safe of more importance. A desperado named Cobb was hanged by a mob at Winfield, Kan. His crime was the cold-blooded murder of a Sheriff who had attempted to arrest him. J. W. Wilson, a St. Louis crank, who Had been fasting for seventeen days, was arrested by the police, forced to resume his meals, and sent to the City Hospital Advices from the cattle ranchos in Wyoming are to the effect that the wintercured grass was not covered with snow during the storm, and that the loss of stock lias been insignificant Frank James occupied a box in the theater at Independence, Mo., the other night, with Deputy Marshal Holland, for which adventure the latter was dismissed from his position as jailer. The Criminal Court Grand Jury made a special report at St. Louis, stating that 80 per cent cf the crime and pauperism of the city is attributable to the saloons, and recommend that the minimum license of places where whisky is sold be fixed at $l,lOO, and that wine or beer dealers be taxed SSOO. All the leading business houses of Milwaukee were closed on the occasion of obsequies over the charred remains of forty* six victims of the Newhall House calamity. Impressive services were held at St John’s Cathedral for the Catholic dead, and at the Exposition building for those of the Protestant faith. The .chief civil and military societies of the city took part in the sad procession.