Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1883 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

A Catholic journal of St Louis, called the Western Watchman, ’announces that Father McCarthy will devote to the liquidation of Arcbhishop Purcell’s debts a fortune of #1,000,000, to which he has fallen heir. The distilling firm of Mohr & Mohr, of Cincinnati, with liabilities amounting to #150,000, made an assignment to Charles Rankin, after filing chattel mortgages for #BB,COG, ; - \ While Sands Hopkins was cleaning a gun at Westport, Mo., its contents were discharged, blowing out the brains of Mrs. Hopkins, who was sitting near her husband. A snow-slide near Irwin, Col., traveled a mile to the bottom of a gulch, sweeping away eight men aud the shaftehouses of six mlnea J. W. Goodspeed, formerly of Chicago, was buried 100 feet by a slide near Gothia N tar Leadvllle an immense mass of snow, ice and earth shot down the side of Red Peak mountain, shaking the whole town like an earthquake. One man was caught aud horribly mangled Two of the band of robbers who made the recent ’ attempt to rob a Union Pacific train at Montello. Utah, were fatally shot by a posse sent out by Wells, Fargo k Co. An insurance adjuster from Cincinnati, after thorough investigation, reports the loss on the Newhall House #140,000, and on its contents #3l,ooft The Cincinnati companies involved will settle on this basis

Dispatches from Denver, Col., give brief particulars of one of the most disastrous enow-slides that ever occurred in the Rocky Mountains. “Late in the night thirty men employed iu the Howard P. Smith an-thracite-coal mine, near Crested Butte, Gunnison is ifnty, were startled from sleep by un ominous rumbling noise, and almost instantly the avalanche was upon them. The building in which they were sleeping was crushed to atoms and the hnman occupants hurled down the mountain-side. A rescuing party started out from Crested Butte as soon as the news was received, and, after several hours, indefatigable labor, the men were all uncovered Thilip Car min. Logun Inman, Louis Richards, William Moore, Charles Betts. J. J. Raymond and one other, name unknown, were found dead Eighteen others we: e wounded, several fatally. All of the company’s extensive machinery was destroyed ”

A Salt Lake dispatch gives an account of the pursuit and capture of a band of robbers, five iu number, whose camp was on tbe linfi between Utah and Nevada, west of Salt Lake City. The robbers had been stealing stock, robbing stores, and killing people for some time back, but they Invoked their doom by attempting to rob the Central Pacitic train. The pursuing party, made up of detectives and Sheriffs of both Utah and Nevada, numbered about eighteen. The two robbers first encountered resisted; both were-wounded, one fatally; tbe other three surrendered on demand All have been taken to Reno, Ntv., for trial Four children of A. D. Stage, living near Dasecl, Minn., were burned to death by the destruction of his house by lire. The Attorney General of California has brought suit against the Central Pacific rood for its refusal to carry lunatics and prisoners free of charge, in accordance with the gurantee of interest by the State. Tlie recent snow-storm in Wyoming exceeded in severity anything in the histo y of the Territory.