Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1883 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Postmaster Clingan, of Polk City, lowa, was recently assassinated In cold blood. Two hard characters, named Hardy and Crawford, were suspected of being the authors of the dastardly deed. They fled and were pursued. The assassins took to the woods in the vicinity of Elk Horn Grove, Shelby county. Volunteers speedily turned out from every village and railway station for leagues around, and Joined in the exciting man-hunt The murderers were surrounded in a grove, and in attempting to capture them one of the pursuing party, J. W. Maddy, a respected druggist of Marne, was shot and killed. The assassin was instantly riddled with bullets. Another of the pursuing posse was shot and seriously wounded. The other assassin then ran into an open field and surrendered, and, after having narrowly escaped lynching at the hands of the outraged citizens, was placed in jail. Before dying the murderer make a confession of his crime, and also gave a clew to the detection of the murderers of Mayor Stubbs, of Polk City, a year ago. The Walnut Land and Coal Company of Bates county, Ma, with a capital of ♦1,000,000, has been incorporated at Jefferson City by Charles Foster, J. Warren Keif er, Senators Plumb and Miller, and Thomas M. Nichol Fire broke out in the hotel at Cockatoo, Minn., which spread rapidly, and consumed three-fourths of the town. In the hotel three men were burnt to death, and one was injured by jumping from a window. Another great storm swept through the Northwest on the 16th inst. At Fort Atkins, Wis., 100 buildings were wrecked, six persons injured, and a damage of *50,000 inflicted. At Pekin, HL, the roof of the Peoria depot was unroofed, two stories of the Beemls House swept away, and a brick foundry blown down. The damage in the city is estimated at *50,000, while the surrounding country suffered twice that amount. At Des Moines, lowa, the wind attained a velocity of fortyeight miles an hour, and several dwellings were unroofed. At many other points in Illinois, Wisconsin and lowa the effects of the storm were seriously felt According to agreement every nail mill in the West has closed for a month. The upsetting of a lamp caused the destruction of the buildings and machinery of the Silver Cord mine at Leadville, which cost *70,000. The Hon. William L. Ewing, Mayor of St Louis, was married at Vincennes, Ind., to Miss Mollie Fleming, of that city. While Gen. Terry, Senator Edmunds, Chief Justice Waite, Lieut Arthur and Surgeon J. O. McGuire, U. 8. A., were riding on horseback around Mount Washburne in the Yellowstone Park, the pony ridden by Chief-Justice Waite bucked and threw its rider violently to the ground. He struck on his side, injuring and probably fracturing a rib. The hurt is very painful Walter Brown, of Kansas City, has entered 48,000 acres of land in the counties of Clark and Ccsnanche, Kan., at *1 per acre, for capitalists, who will fence the tract and raise cattle George Brainard, City Marshal of Wilmington, Ohio, was shot and killed by burglars Frost appeared at several points near Davenport, lowa, on the night of July 1A ■ ’X <