Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1883 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Henry Babst, of Belleville, 111., fatally shot Miss Mary Hammer, and took refuge in the railway round-house. At that place he undertook to kill a son of the Sheriff, who threw up the pistol, by which Babst was instantly killed. Nathan Massengale, of White River, ’ Stone county. Mo., proposed to Hiram Loomis that they exchange wives, Massengale offering his 8-months baby as boot. The trade was accomplished, but Mrs. Loomis, in quitting her home, demanded a horse, which she claimed to be hers. The difficulty was bridged after a few shots were exchanged between the men, and the new arrangement pleases all parties concerned. The only notable dramatic attraction bi Chicago is afforded by the Florences, who are filling a two weeks’ engagement at McVicker’s theater. These fine artists appear this week in their favorite play of “The Mighty Dollar,” Mr. Florence personating the amusing character of Hon. Bardwell Slote, the member from the Cohosh district, and Mrs. Florence appearing in her no less amusing role of Mrs. lien, Gilflory. The sixth, seventh and eighth days of the Emma Bond case, at Hillsboro, 111., were unproductive pf any new or startling develbpments, the time being largely occupied by arguments of counsel touching the admissibility of certain evidence. Judge Thornton, leading counselforthe defense,madeamotion for the discharge of Clementi and Pettis, on the ground, as he claimed, that no testimony had been elicited Implicating them in the -crime, and pressed his motion upon the court with a powerful argument. Judge Phillips, however, refused to view the matter in the same light that the defendants’ able counsel looked at it, and decided to let the case be passed upon by the jury. The ninth and tenth days were devoted principally to the efforts of the defense to establish an alibi. Clementi, o«ie of the defendants, first told his story, which was a very straightforward and - apparently truthful one. He accounted clearly for his whereabouts and movements on the day Of the commission of the crime. Pettis corroborated Clementi’s narrative—the two, according to their testimony,, having passed the day together at the Pettis house—and the Pettis family reinforced the defense by -corroborating the story of the two deThe Supreme court of Michigan affirmed the judgment from the Superior court of Detroit in the casft of McLean vs. Scripps. This was the libel suit of Prof. McLean, of the Michigan university, against the Evening News, of Detroit, in which plaintiff was awarded 820,000. Live-stock dealers scattered along the line'from New York to Cheyenne have incorporated the Ogalalla Cattle company, with a capital of $5,000,000, the main office being • at Omaha.