Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1883 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

An express train on the Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis railroad was wrecked two miles south of Seymour, Ind, by the washing out of a culvert The engine, baggage-car, sleeping and first passenger car went down. David Hutchinson, engineer, Millard Humes, fireman, George Ammon, baggage-master, and an unknown man, a porter in charge of a new Pullman car were killed At the time of the aocident the train was running at the rate of forty-five miles an hour, and when the engine went down in the culvert, the cars were piled up on top of It Several passengers in the parlor-oar were hurt, but none seriously. Lightning struck the Hazard Powder Company's magazine at Hutchinson, Kan., exploding it, the concussion doing considerable damage to the town. At the session of the annual convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Indiana the Rev. David Knickerbocker, D. D., of Minneapolis, was elected to the Bishopric to fill the vacancy created by the death of Bishop Talbot, which occurred a few months.ago.

At the annual meeting of the Chicago, Bock Island and Paoiflo Railroad Company, in Chicago, R. R. Cable, formerly Vice President and General Manager, was elected President of the company, to succeed Hugh Biddle, who declined a re-eleotion.

Sixteen striking coal miners, who interfered with the working of new men near Pinckneyville, 111, were arrested on a warrant sworn out by the owner of the mine, and fourteen of them lodged in jail in default of bail. The families of the imprisoned miners demanded that the County Commissioners furnish them with means of subsistence while the heads of the families are imprisoned. Being refused old, the women attaoked the non-union-miners as they were going to work and drove them back. Kalamazoo, Mich., has been granted a city ohariier by the Legislature, and hereafter the Council will make her laws Heretofore she has been the largest village and polled more votes than any one precinct in the United States.

The greatest trotting event of this year is set down for July 19, when St Julien and Clingstone, the fastest geldings in the world, will compete at Chicago for ♦7,000. Should 2:lo}£ be beaten, the Driving Park will add SI,OOO to the profits of the winner. Seven persons were drowned in one day in different parts of Missouri, under similar circumstances: Henry and Wil iam Temple and August Koike, while riding in a skiff in the Missouri liver opposite Glasgow were npset, and all were drowned. Mr. and Mrs. George Redhalr were-drowned while crossing a swollen creek near Breckenridge. Ira Purdue, of Pettis country, and Miss Townsend were drowned in an attempt to cross Muddy Qceek, near Warrensburg.