Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

A serious railway accident happened on the lowa division of the Illinois Central, near Fort Dodge. Three passenger-cars went down a fifteen-foot embankment. Mrs. J. H. Smith, of Bureau county, 111., was instantly killed, her infant escaping all injury. Seven passengers were woundel, some of them very seriously. In the United States court at Kansas City, Judge Krekel ordered that Frank James be given to his bondsmen in the Blue-cut robbery case, the State tribunal having first gained possession of the prisoner. The trial of Montgomery, Pettis, and Clementi, for criminal assault upon Miss Emma Bond, was brought to a conclusion at Hillsboro, 111., on the 2d inst., the jury rendering a verdict of not guilty, after several hours’ deliberation. There was a good deal of dissatisfaction over the verdict in Christian county, particularly in the neighborhood where the Bond family live, and some talk of organizing a mob to lynch the acquitted parties was indulged in. Mr. A. D'. Bond, an uncle of the unfortunate girl, having lost his reason by the outrage and the prolonged excitement, hanged himself the conclusion of the trial. He was a highly respected citizen, and the event added greatly to the feeling against the prisoners. The dam at the Huron mine, near Han cock, Mich., burst the other evening, demolishing two houses and a portion of a foundry, and killing six persons. Clementi, one of the men acquitted of the Emma Bond outrage, went from the jail at Hillsboro to Irving, 111., where tbe citizens gave him ten minutes to leave. Charles Deitzler, a barber, shot and killed a saloon-keeper at Weiser City, Idaho,, for which he was hanged to a tree by a mob. In a free fight in a saloon at Denver, Slade, the pugilist, struck an officer, and was placed in the station-house. John L. Sullivan undertook to take a revolver from- a hotel proprietor, but was chased out of the building. In the Ottumwa (Iowa) City jail, a person named Williams shot and killed a turnkey and escaped. He also fired at the Sheriff’s wife, who endeavored to stop him, but missed her. Four prisoners were suffocated in a burning jail at Jerseyville, 111., their names being Wall Dunsdan, James Gregg, Emile Kahler and August Schultz. The courthouse was burned at the same time. A train was 'wrecked at Charlestown, Southern Indiana, on a spur of the Ohio and Mississippi, running from Vernon to Louisville. A score of people were hurt, including members of the Yale College Glee club. The polygamous Bishop Sharp informed -his priests at Salt Lake City that, from what he had heard at Washington recently, if the Almighty did not pilot the Mormon ship she would surely sink. Twenty-seven women, five of them religeuse and twenty-two young lady pupils under their instruction, were burned to death In tbe Convent of the Immaculate Conception, a Roman Catholic educational institution at BellevUle, 111.