Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1883 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Five robberies, by the aid of revolvers, were perpetrated in St. Louis one night by one gang, who used a buggy to facilitate their depredations. Near Paoli, Kan., a boy named 'Geo. Orr, employed on the farm of an aged couple named Trimble, killed his employers, robbed the house, and fled. A vigilance committee in the Niobrsra valley within ten days hanged five horse and cattle thieves of the gung formerly led by Doc Middleton. Four others have been jailed and indicted, and have a chance at legal punishment. Upon complaint of Dan Holcomb, Julia Reese, the domestic, and the negro Bolles have been arrested for committing the Crouch butchery, near Jackson, Mich. Thomas Bussell, arrested at Peoria, 111., in connection with the Zora Burns mystery, has been released from prison at Lincoln. Frank James was bailed in $3,000 at Kansas City the other day, but was Immediately rearrested for killing Cashier Sheets at Gallatin in 1868. The feature of the fourth day of the Bond trial at Hillsboro, 111., was the appearance on the stand of the plaintiff. Intense excitement was created as the unfortunate girl related the story of her terrible experience in the lonely little school-house, and the interest was not lessened when she positively identified John C. Montgomery as one of the dastardly gang, dramatically exclaiming, “There is the man!” Miss Bond fainted during the examination, and the court took a recess. In the afternoon she recovered sufficiently to endure a searching cross-exam-ination as to statements she made while in a semi-conscious state of her inability to recognize her assailants. Charles McLaughlin, a pioneer and millionaire of San Francisco, was killed in that city by Jerome B. Cox, formerly Captain of the Tenth Indiana battery. They had

been engaged in litigation for seventeen years over some railroad contracts, and it would appear that Cox had been financially ruined by his victim. A banker of Indianapolis estimates the amount of money shipped from that city to Chicago, within the past few months, to meet losses on options, at >1,000.000, and states that smaller towns are suffering in like proportion. The fifth day of the Emma Bond outrage case was devoted to hearing the testimony of Lawrence Heinlein, uncle of Montgomery, one of the accused. Though his evidence was clearly against the accused trio, public feeling was to the effect that he had not told all he knows, and concealed important facts, fearing violence at the hands of the prisoners or their friends. ! The St. Paul Pioneer Press publishes an extended account of the railroad i construction in the northwest during the ■ present year, obtained from the general officers of the companies Interested. The following table shows the miles of track laid and cost of improvement: Miles. Cost. i Northern Pacific 753 $15,100,000 i Milwaukee and St. Paull7s 2,685,000 1 Manitoba «6 3,686,500 ■ Northwestern 141 2,500,000 Omaha 145 . 1,400,000 St. Paul and Duluth 16 240,000 Minneapolis and St. Louis.... 3 110,000 T0ta11,319 $25,781,500