Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1883 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The residence of Peter Dennan, at Montague, Mich., was burned, and hia three children and a servant perished in the fl—rn Belle Cook, the champion horseback rider, died at San Jose, Cat The St. Joseph Lead Company’s mills at Bonne Terre, Ma, burned, creating a loss estimated at >235,000. There have been thirty-five eases of small-pox at Berlin, Wia Hank Monk, the Nevada stage-driver, has gone to join Horace Greeley, who gave him a national reputation as a dare-devil on the mountain slopes While Fred Schrautt, an employe of Miller's brewery, id Milwaukee, was drawing beer from a quarter-barrel keg, the keg exploded, killing him instantly. • George H. Taylor & Co., paperdealers, of Chicago, were crippled by the failure of Lucius Clark A Co. at South Bend, and the Sheriff closed the. establishment on executions amounting to >117,00(1 The lia bilities are about >350,000, most of which is due to Eastern paper-mills.

Jim Elliott, the prize-fighter, lived a life of violence and met his death in a violent manner. Between him and one Jerry Dunn, a Chicago sport of some notoriety, there had for some time existed a bitter feud. They met the other night in a restaurant on Dearborn street, Chicago, and proceeded to settle the dispute, not in accordance with the rules ot the prize-ring, of which they were both admirers and exponents, but in true frontier style—with revolvers at short range. After each of the men had fired some half a dozen bullets into his antagonist, and they both Iqy prostrate upon the floor, the bystanders proceeded to make a calculation as to results, when it was found that Elliott was in the throes of death, and Dunn was dangerously wounded, with a bare chance of recovery. The boiler of Hatton’s box factory at Westville. Ind., exploded, killing the proprietor and Engineer Hillon, seriously wounding two other men, and demolishing the building.