Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

In the Criminal court, at Gallatin, Mo., the indictment against Frank James for the murder of Conductor Westfall was dismissed, and he was sent bock to Jackson county to Le tried for the Blue-out trainrobbery. A passenger train on’the Wabash, Pacific and St. Louis railroad was boarded at Danville Junction, In Illinois, by four men, who went through one of the passenger cars with drawn revolvers, and obtained SBOO from the affrighted passengers. They left the train suddenly, Just as it pulled out, and no trace has been found of them. The same crowd, Or a similar one, worked a train on the Indiana, Bloomington and .Western road, which connects at Danville with the Wabash, by the pickpocket process, getting $1,200 and a check for $1,700 on the First National bank of Clinton, 111. One old man was awakened by a severe shaking, and while arising In his seat the oontent* in his pookets were changing bands. Several others were treated in the same manner in a great deal less time than it takes to write it, and before the train got under way the robbers had held up several men for various amounts. It is rumored that the Princess Amelie, eldest daughter of the Comte de Paris, will marry the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia. The Marquis of Lome and the Princess Louise have arrived in Liverpool, where the corporation presented an address. The MarquiS made a reply, warmly eulogizing the Canadians, and referring to their friendly relations with the people of the United States. A section of Southwest Missouri was visited by a terrific cyclone, spreading ruin in Its course. It was the old-fashioned fun-nel-shaped cloud nowjso familiar in the West and South. It strode across the Ozark mountains like a roaring giant, and, coming upon the city of Springfield In its course, seized upon it with a relentless grip, and crushed it* outlying suburbs like an egg-shell. When the storm had passed it was found that four were killed and thirty wounded, and that damage to property had been caused amounting to not less than $260,000. The names of the killed at Springfield are Mrs. Andrew Arnquest, Mrs. Dunlap, Mrs. Tinney and Miss Sallie Edmundson. About thirty persons were injured, some of them quite seriously. The track of the tornado was an average of 100 yards wide. Occasionally it would bound over a building directly in its path, but geuerally it made a clean sweep, leaving utter destruction In Its narrow trail. North ol Springfield Mrs. Dunlap was killed and some half a dozen people were wounded. Near Brookline Mrs. Halbertos was killed. A school-house, In which were fifty children, was blown to pieces, but singularly enough ho one was killed. The fifty-two children were pushed out in the storm by their teacher, and a moment after the house was de mollshed to its foundation. The Iron seats were blown 200 yards. About twenty-five children were slightly Injured. Ten oi twelve persons were in a farm-house that was torn in pieces, and one or two ol them were badly hurt. It is estimated that not less than $200,000 worth of property was destroyed by the blow.

Porter, Byrne & Co., lumbermen al Grand Rapids, Mich., have made an assignment. Hintnan, Moody & Co., wholesale paper merchants, Beloit, Wis., have made no assignment. William Swinburne, the pioneer locomotive builder, died at Paterson, N. J„ las week. Cullen Haynes, his wife, and three children were poisoned at Topton, Pa., bj eating bologna sausage. By the fall of a coal-pile at St. John’s, Newfoundland, two men were killed and four others were seriously injured. J. C. Bancroft Davis, late of the United States Court of Claims, has been ap pointed Official Reporter of the United States Supreme Court at Washington, vice Judge Otto, resigned.