Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1883 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

A recent telegram from Denver says of the county-seat war in Grand county: ' “Information has been received here that F. J. Dean, the County Clerk, who was wounded in the late fight between masked men and the officers of Grand county, is dead This makes a total of five lives that have gone out of the dreadful feud Commissioners Webber, Mills, and Day were killed in the struggle, and Deputy Sheriff Redmond Sheriff Reyer committed suicide, presumably because of his inability to apprehend the assassins and the adverse critipisms of the press, and Deputy Sheriff Redmond, one of the masked murderers, is supposed to have been mortally wounded It is still feared that the list of the dead is not complete. There remains a bitter feeling between the factions contending for political supremacy in the county, and despite the accepted appointment of Commissioners by Gov. Grant, the result of their introduction to official duties is uncertain. ” L'"’* 3 1 The exciting hunt for the Polk county (Iowa) murderers ended in a lynching after all. A recent dispatch from Shelby county, Bays that “between 1 and 2 "o'clock a. m., a body of men estimated all the way from thirty to ICO in number, went to Harlan from the southeast and quietly tied their teams on the bank of the river. The men were led by some one of military experience, as could really be seen by their formation and the precision with which everything was done. Marching directly to the jail, and in the meantime posting outguards, they called upon Deputy Watkins for the keys He made some objections, when they seized him, secured the keys and proceeded to tfiei cell where Hardy was secured, without trouble. He met his executioners calmly at the door, not a muscle or tremor showing that be had the least fear. A rope was Quickly placed around his neck, and his hands tied behind. The cell doors were then unlocked and the men quickly formed in line, without disturbance, the prisoner being placed under a strong guard. The fire-alarm soon woke the whole town, and at the same time rang out William Hardy’s death warrant Volley after volley of shots were heard ih-the direction Of Chatwin’s mill, and the ctowd which followed the lynchers, after scime search, found the dead body of t&e victim in the river, just below the bridge, riddled with bullets, and the marks of a rope ppon his neck. The supposition is that he was thrown from the bridge and at the same time shot” Officers of the St. Paul road report the grain crop along its lines west of the Mississippi in excellent condition, with the exception of some narrow belts in Dakota, where hail beat down the stalks. Seven passengers in a mixed train on the the Wabash railway were killed near Lawson, Mo. The passenger car ran off the rails and turned completely over. It then broke into pieced,’' crushing the persona When the ruins weie removed no less than seven dead bodies 1 were found. Several other passengers were seriously injured. One Rigney.a “hard-man-from-Bitter-creek” sort of a fellow, was treated to a fatal dose of hemp at Miles City, Montana The bank of Leadville, Col., has , made an assignment The failure has been anticipated for some time, and will not, it is said, affect other Colorado banka Elisha Ward, doing business as the Ward Iron Company with large works at Niles and New Philadelphia, Ohio, has made an assignment The liabilities are about #250,000.

The saloon-keepers of St. Louis, at a meeting the other day, adopted a resolution to disregard the Sunday law and keep their saloonMpen on Sunday. Rev. Dr.*Thomas, of St. Paul, wasknocked down on Ninth street, in that city, the other night, by footpads, who nearly strangled him before rifling his pockets, and then kicked him until he was thought to be disabled from pursuit Two men have been arrested on suspicion.