Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1883 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Gold ore worth from S2O to $250 per ton is said to have been discovered near Lisbon, Dakota. The Bank of Farmington, Minn., with liabilities of $40,000, has made an assignment. The Hon. Charles J. Albright, oldest e.\>Congressman from the old Sixteenth Ohio district, died at Cambridge, Ohio. During the year ending June 30, 1883, the Chicago postoffice handled 137,000,000 pieces of mail matter, an amount of stuff only exceeded by the “output” of the offices at New York and Philadelphia. M. M. Kittleman, of Michigan, defeated William Martin in a foot race of 100 yards at Portland, Oregon, for 84,000, making the distance in nine and three-quarters seconds. Stephen M. Edgell died in St. Louis last week. He was one of the original incorporators of the Union Pacific road, and for thirty-one years was President of the Missouri Mutual lire Insurance company. His daughter is the wife of Austin Corbin, of New York. The people of San Francisco suggest the employment of revenue cutters now lying idle in that port to prevent the smuggling of Chinese across the bordor of Washington Territory. A fire at Grand Haven, Michigan, burned Steam’s windmill and pump-works and other buildings, the total loss being $35,000. G. F. West’s flour-mill at Guttenberg, lowa, worth $30,000, was also destroyed. The excitement over the mysterious murder of the girl Zora Burns reached fever heat at Lincoln, 111., last week, when the officers placed under arrest Mr. Orrln A. Carpenter, suflicient evidence having been seoured to warrant this step. Carpenter is a leading merchant of Lincoln, has a wife and two interesting daughters, lives in a fine house, is quite wealthy, and, during a residence of thirty years in and about Lincoln, has enjoyed a high reputation for probity of character and business integrity. The arrest of such a man for the heinous crime of murder naturally created a sensation In the oommunity where he was known and respected. Various circumstances pointed unerringly to him as the author of the deed, but his neighbor and friends were slow to believe him guilty, regarding him rather as the victim of an unfortunate chain of circumstances. The murdered girl had formerly worked as a domestic in the family of Carpenter. Letters and other circumstance* go to show that he was criminally intimate with her and that rUo was cncientc. On her last and fatal visit iif Lincoln he was the only person she was known to have visited, having been closetei with him for an hour. The same evening she was murdered in a secluded spot near the town. Buggy tracks were seen near the corpse, and were traced thence back toward Lincoln. An examination of Carpenter’s buggy linos and whip revealed discolorations resembling blood. Tho articles were sent to Chicago, where a chemist examined them and pronounced tho spots human blood. The murdered girl was buried on Friday, Oct. 21, at St. Elmo, 111. Thomas Dukes, the unfortunate girl’s fiancee, upon whom suspicion for a time rested, was present at the burial.