Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1883 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Slade, the Maori, and Charlie Mitchell have been matched for a prize battle on Sept 11 next, within 200 miles of Kansas City. A hurricane blew a South Park railroad train from the track near Como, CoL Three cars were overturned, and many persons were slightly injured. The Northern Pacific is making rapid progress. The road is expected to open in July. There is an unprecedented rush of immigrants to Oregon and Washington Territory. Dakota is getting a large share of this spring's emigration. Two trains a day now leave Chicago, bound through to that Territory, and it is estimated that its southern half will contain before the end of the year a population of over 350,000. Fire destroyed the western nail-mill at Belleville, HL, causing a loss of SBO,OOO, upon which there was an insurance of $65,000. Charles F. Kring, the St. Louis murderer, who has been tried half a dezen times, twice sentenced to death, and once to twenty-five years’ imprisonment, is at last free. For eight years he has lain in jail while lawyers have wrangled over his case and courts have considered it, but he was admitted to bail and the ruling of the United States Supreme Court practically secures his immunity from punishment for the crime to which he once pleaded guilty. Charles W. Foster, father of Ohio’s Governor, died last week at his home in Fostoria, at the age of 83. Five inches of snow on the level fell in the vicinity of Petoskey, Mich.. on the 26th of ApriL A dispatch from the West states that little Charlie McComas, who was captured by Apaches at the time of the murder of his parents in New Mexico, was subsequently kiled by the savages because he was unable to keep un with them in their retreat to the mountains