Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1883 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Christopher Mann, of Independence, Mo., had the aid of eighty-five descendants in celebrating his 109th birthday. Of seventeen living children, one is 12 and another 17. Charles McComas, the boy whose parents were slaughtered, and who was taken into captivity by the Apaches, has been rescued -according to a report from Mexlca Two belligerent cowboys were slain by a plucky Mexican at Ute Creek, CoL He was promptly filled with lead by the victims’ companions J. B. Pruden, a mailcarrier of Deadwood and Miles City, his stocktender Jack Harris and two cowboys, while playing cards at Little Missouri, Dak., became involved in a quarrel, when all agreed to settle it by fighting. A man named O'Neil, Pruden, and Harris started out in advance, when the cowboys began firing, whereupon Pruden and Harris turned and fired, killing one cowboy instantly and mortally wounding the other. Thomas Hayes, a Texas cattle-king, was killed at Coleman, in that State, by a saloon-keeper named Pendleton. Jesus Mason, a rich cattle-raiser, was killed at his ranch in the Zuni mountains, without provocation, by a Navajo Indian. Friends of the dead man promptly dispatched his murderer. The Piegan Indians, after a conference with Senator Vest and Delegate Maginnis, agreed to cede to the Government a large tract frqm their reservation, and requested to be furnished with cattle and farming implements. The brewing firm of Anthony & Kuhn, of St. Louis, has suspended, with liabilities of nearly $400,000, the chief creditors being two banks. The Northern Pacific road reports gross earnings of $7,855,459 for the year and expenses of $5,336,929. Two men at Camp Point, 111., procured at a drug-store a quart bottle of bitters, and, after drinking freely, both dropped dead. A third man was seized with spasms. In a dispute over cards in a Lockland Ohio) saloon Philip Kuhn struck Ezekeil Lee (cdlored) with his fist, killing him instantly Lord Coleridge, Chief Justice of England, was banqueted by the Hon. E. B. Washburna, in Chicago. A correspondent who recently visited Kelley’s Island, reports that the grape crop this year will be nearly as bad a failure as that of 1875. The administrators of seven of the girls who were rested alive in the rag warehouse at Cincinnati have filed suits for SIO,OOO each against the owners of the building, alleging that they knew the danger and neglected to provide exits.