Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1883 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The firm of Rhodes, Hubbs & Co., of Kansas City, Mo., have failed. Liabilities, *82,0001 The mob which lynched the Barber bandits at Waverly, lowa, was, considering the mission performed, as mildly riotous ■s any assembly that ever officiated under the auspices of Judge Lynch. Not a shot was fired, and the crowbars used to force the bars and bolts were unaccompanied by profanity. The leaders were men whose relatives had been killed by the outlaws, and their determination was shared by about 1,000 sympathizers. The Mayor of Waverly, it appears, did what he could to prevent mob violence, and the Shteriff in charge of the prisoners refused to give up the keys A locomotive and several freight-cars on the Toledo, Cincinnati and St Louis railroad went down a twenty-foot embankment near Layton, in consequence of the springing of a rail, and two of the train men received fatal injnriea Four young ladies, named Yates, Eddy, Hawkins and Rease, aged respectively 12,14,13 and 23, and a young man named Yates, aged 18, were drowned in Prove lake, near Benjamin, Utah, by the accidental capsizing of a boat while out with a pleasure party. Four others were rescued. < Gen. Crook’s expedition into Mexico ban resulted in the capture of 230 Apaches, of whom seventy-five were old and sick bucks, the remainder being women and children. With these the General has recrossed the border, and, having delivered {hem up, he will return to the Sierra Madre mountaius, in the hope of effecting the capture of at least a portion of the warriors. A notable dramatic attraction in Chicago is offered at McVicker’s Theater, the play being an entirely new one by Busnach the celebrated French play-wright, entitled •The Power of Money. ” The scenes are all laid in this country, and the characters are in the hands of a company of excellent artists. The scenery is of the most gorgeous description, representing r ealistlc views o several of the grandest feathres of American landscape, notably the Alleghany mountains, the French market in New Orleans, the Snow ball-room in the Mammoth cave, Ky., and the famous Horseshoe bend. Beloit, Wis., was struck by a cyclone on the evening of the 11th inst Six persons were more or less injured and considerable damage was done to buildings, orchards, etc. The stofm seems to have started in Fayette county, lowa, near the village of Brush Creek, about one-third of which was wiped out. It then fnoved eastward, and, after crossing ijhe Mississippi, struck a fr eight-train on a branch of the Northwest em road near Elmo, in Grant county,. Wis. Four cars were hurled from the track and two persons were injured. Nothing more was heard of it till it reached Beloit, though one wing of it struck Harvard, 111, about twenty miles south, doing considerable damage among the orchards, farm-houses and harns. The Dakota Capital Commissioners’ Building Committee has issued a call for bids from architects for the plans and specifications for the Capitol at Bismarck. Bids should be sent to Alex Hughes, Bismarck, by July 5. Associate Justice- E. J. Conger, of the United States Court of t Montana, a brother of Senator Conger, of Michigan, is undergoing an investigation by the Department Of Justice. He is accused of drunkenness, unfairness, inattention to bis duties and general immorality. The Judge alleges chat he is the victim of a conspiracy. The lowa Railway Commissioners have decided that a pooling of the business of railroad corporations within the State is contrary to law. Ex-United States Senator Oasserly died at San Francisco, aged 61. The Hon. Zebina Eastman, a pioneer in the cause of emancipation in Illinois, and who was associated with Lincoln, Washburne and Baker in the organization of the •Liberty” party, has just died at his home in Haywood, near Chicago, in t£e 68th year of bis age. He was, in his younger days, a journalist of reputation, having been connected with the newspaper press of Boston, Peoria and Chicago The only office he ever held was that of Consul at Bristol, England, to which he was appointed, in 1861, by President Lincoln.