Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1883 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

John T. Samuels, a half-brother of and Frank James, shot and mortally wounded a hackman at Kansas City, Mo. Upon being arrested and searched a letter from Frank James was found in one of his pockets, in which it was stated that “things are going all right,” that the writer would “ soon be out of this trouble,” and, when he is, he will “ be heard of again in the saddle.” Snow to the depth from three to five inches fell on the 11th inst in the region between North Platte, Neb., and Evanston, Wyoming, the greatest mantle being at Denver. The National Bankers’ association, in session at Louisville, Ky., elected Lyman J. Gage, of Chicago, President. Resolutions were adopted favoring an equitable bankrupt law and recommending a discontinuance of the compulsory coinage of silver dollars. The wine crop of California will be 40 per cent, less than was supposed, the yield not exceeding 10,000,090 gallons, on account of a disease on the vines. Mission grapes bring $22 to S2B per ton; Muscat sell at from $33 to $40. Col. E. M. Norton, a pioneer iron manufacturer of Wheeling, W. Va., is dead, aged 71. A horrible double tragedy was enacted at Teegarden, Ind. A drunken fellow named Webb, whose wife had filed an application for a divorce, took his 2-year-old child to the granary and deliberately shot it and then shot himself through the head, killing himself instantly. The child cannot recover. The Rev. J. Lawrence Smith, the distinguished scientist, died at Louisville, Ky. The last spike has been driven in the Kansas City and Memphis road. Snow fell the other day at Appleton, Wis., to the depth of two inches. The pacer, Peter Y. Johnson, with a record of 2:10, made on the Chicago track, has been sold to Commodore Kittson, of St. Paul, Minn., for $25,000. The horse will probably betaken to Californ'a by John Splan, who will hereafter have charge of the “fastest to harness.”