Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1883 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Passenger tickets from Omaha or Kansas City to San Francisco have been reduced to $95. Rates from St Paul to San Francisco by the Northern Pacific will be the same as to Portland. A horrible double tragedy was enacted at Monmouth, HI., where a Mr a Bailey cut her demented daughter’s throat from ear to ear and then cut her own. A note found on her person explained that the mother had determined to sacrifice herself for her child, believing they were both better dead than alive. After fighting each other for a couple of weeks the railroads leading from Chicago to Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Louisville have restored passenger rates to the old figures Advices from Mexico confirm the report that Ju, the Apqche Chief, wag drowned last month by falling off his horse while intoxicated, and that Geronomo was chosen his successor. Charlie McComas is said to be in the custody of Ju’s widow. J. G. Thompson, of the Washington Surtday Chronicle , was assaulted on the streets of Indianapolis, by Henry C. New, of the Indianapolis Journal, both men drew their revolvers, hut before they could use them friends interfered, and they were arrested and released on baiL Near Menomonee, Wis., Christ Beguhn shot and killed his brother, William, mistaking him for a bear which he had been hunting. Sheriff Paul, of Tucson, Arizona, obtained a clew to the whereabouts of two noted stage-robbers, and went after them with a posse on a Southern Pacific locomotive. One was riddled with bullets, the other mortally wounded, but escaped, only to crawl into a gulch and die. Burglars entered the residence of Mr. William Dutton, ex-President of the Lenawee County Savings Bank, at Adrian, Mich., and extracted from an open safe SBO,000 in mortgages and securities, beside some cash, a watch and articles of jewelry. The Mormon Conference at Suit Lake, was attended by 10,000 persons. Eighty elders were appointed to missions in Europe and the Southern States, and one was 6ent to Indian Territory. At Pittsford, Mich., one freight train crashed into another standing on the track. Threo persons in the caboose were instantly killed, and the fire which followed burned their bodies beyond recognition. Two other persons were seriously Injured. Col. James Tullis, Special Land Agent of the Government, who has been investigating frauds in the Rocky mountain region, says large tracts have been patented In violation of law. One man residing near a city in Montana fenced 3,000 acres of public lands and pastured die cows of citizens at $1 per month.