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

WESTERN.

After a determined fight, United States Marshal R. S. Foster and a posse of detectives captured nine counterfeiters at Steinville, Pike county, Ind., and took them to Indianapolis. In the conflict one of the criminals was shot in the lung, another through the hand, and a bullet passed through the hat of a third. Four well-known citizens of Erie, Pa. —John W. Eyster, Frederick C. Kelsey, Giles Bussell and Charles Brown were caught in a storm while duck shooting in the bay, and drowned. Eyster had his life inensured for $20,000. It has for some time been charged that certain city officials of St. Louis, Mo , were in collusion with the gamblers, policy dealers-and other disreputable classes, by which the latter were permitted to ply their unlawful vocations unmolested. The matter reached a culmination last week in the indictment by the grand jury of Police Commissioners Caruth and Lutz,r.the State Commissioner of Labor Statistics, a member of the Legislature, two editors, and several other parties. The grand jury censures the Governor of Missouri for granting pardons. ' Col. Frank P. Pond, of Morgan county, Ohio, author of the Pond Liquor law, is dead. Willoughby, Ohio, a little town twenty miles east of Cleveland, was almost totally destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of not less than SIOO,OOO. Senator Tabor’s case at Denver against his ex-confidential adviser, W. H. Bush, was decided, the jury awarding Tabor $20,000. Bush’s counter-claims for $28,800 for aiding Tabor to secure a divorce and other matters were ignored. Secretary Frelinghuysen, in answer to the committee of Irishmen, states that the department in Washington will extend to Avenger O’Donnell all the protection to which he is entitled if it shall be shown that he is an American citizen. If he is mot such a citizen the American Government will make no direct representations whatever. M. J. Bond, a Grand Rapids (Mich.) lumberman, has failed for $175,000. Orrin A. Carpenter charged with killing Zora Burns was arraigned for a hearing at Lincoln, 111., on Saturday, the 3d inst., and demanded a change of venue from Justice Budolph to Justice W. D. Wyatt. The prose--cution demanded that the case be taken to Justice Maltby, and gained their point. Mr. Maltby, however, adjourned the case till Monday. A great crowd witnessed the proceedings, but the accused bore himself calmly, his blanched features being the result of confinement in prison. At Princeton, Wis., the young non of Fayette Whittemore was found in the river, with his throat cut. The disappearance of H. L. Eisen, the Milwaukee clothier, has been followed by the failure of his firm, whose liabilities are $83,000. The city authorities of Sioux Falls, D. T., cut down the telephone poles in that city recently ordered removed by the council, which mandate the company disregarded. The round-house and repair shops of the Toledo, Cincinnati and St. Louis railroad, located near Dayton, Ohic, were totally destroyed by fire; loss, $75,000. T J. Gallagher, a St. Louis journalist, found the missing Mary Churchill at work In the laundry of an insane asylum three miles from Indianapolis, She stated that she left home alone. Faulkner, the leading counterfeiter

of Southern Indiana, who rived In what might be termed a log fort at Frenohtown, was deceived Into entertaining and instructing a detective, who captured both him and his wife by a ruse. Faulkner made double eagles which would deceive the most expert cashiers.