Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1883 — EATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

EATER NEWS ITEMS.

A dispatch from Comanche, Texas, reports that late at night, while the Sheriff was absent, fifty armed and masked men battered in the jail door with a heavy pole, overpowered the guards after a hard struggle, and, taking out the two Bailey brothers, hanged them both to a tree in the graveyard, a mile from town. It is not stated what the Baileys were charged with. Wilbur’s clothing manufactory and Robertson, Taylor & Co.’s, wholesale grocery house, at Charleston, S. C., were destroyed by fire. Eight women and a boy were imprisoned by the fire in Wilbur’s building, and two girls perished in the flames. The others jumped, one being killed and another mortally injured, while the boy escaped unhurt. Gen. Sherman reached St. Louis last week, and drove at once to his residence on Garrison avenue, where he received many friends. At Trempealeau, Wis., the Utter house and other buildings and stores were burned during a hurricane. The loss is SIO,OOO. The Booth & Osgood Manufacturing company, of Chicago, engaged in the schoolfurniture line, has been closed by the Sheriff. Its liabilities are about $75,090. The editor of the Daily Evening Capital, of Des Moines, states the lower house of the lowa Legislature will pass a prohibitory law by about 7 majority. By the premature explosion of a blast at West End, Pa., two men were Instantly killed and a third fatally injured. A decision has been rendered by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania holding the Pullman Palace Car company liable for money stolen from a passenger while asleep. The regular annual autumnal gale swept over the country oh the 11th and 12th of November. It was of unusual violence* mounting in some sections to the proportions of a genuine tropical hurricane, and proved very destructive to life and property on the great lakes. Upward of twenty vessels of all descriptions were wrecked, and twentyfive or thirty lives are known to have been lost. The tug Protection and schooner Arab, both of Chicago, went down in Lake Michigan, and every soul on board the twp 111-fated craft, fifteen in number, perished. A num. her of vessels were blown ashore on Lake Erie, but no loss of life is reported. A peculiarly sad disaster occurred near Petos. key, Mich. During the blow, O. M. Chase, Superintendent of the Michigan fish hatcheries, C. H. Brownell, his assistant, and George W. Armstrong, foreman of the Petoskey hatcheries,' left Harbor Springs for Petoskey, In a Mackinaw sail-boat, the boat being manned by Moses Detwiler, a former Fish Inspector in Canada, his two sous, Charles and George, and a nephew, George Detwiler, making seven in all. The boat capsized a mile and a half from Petoskey, and all on board found a watery grave. The new docks at Petoskey were swept away by the wind and waters. Near Harbor Springs, Mich,, a sail boat capsized and three men were drowned. A number of vessels went ashore on Lake Ontario, and some of them will prove total wrecks. On Lake Huron the storm was more severe, if possible, than on the other inland seas, and many vessels were beached and wrecked. Leaving inland waters, the tempest created havoc on shore as well, raging throughout Canada, New York and Pennsylvania, and pushing its conquests far along the shores of the upper Atlantic. At Toronto it is described as the fiercest storm on record, the wind attaining a velocity of two and a half miles a minute. The wharves were seriously damaged, and a schooner sunk in the harbor. At Hastings and Bellville, In Canada, structures were unroofed and trees blown down. Thunder and hall prevailed at the latter place, where, in Metropolitan hall, the salvation army held forth; a panic was caused by the rattling of the scenery by the wind, and in the rush down stairs many persons were hurt.