Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The excitement growing out of the gold discoveries in the Coeur d’Alene region in Montana continues. Thousands are flocking toward the district, and marvelous stories of the riches hidden there are being circulated. Matt Lewis, a colored wife-murderer, was hanged at St. Louis. The crime was committed in October, 1870. The murderer had the benefit of four trials.

A patient at the insane hospital in Indianapolis, which has over one thousand inmates, was found to be suffering from small-pox, and was transferred to the pest house. A snow-slide on Aspen Mountain, in Colorado, caused the death of three employee of the VaUejo Mine. Sitting Bull is on a tour of the Northwestern cities, under the direction of Agent McLaughlin. Frederick J. Deitrich, teller of the Laclede Bank, at St. Louis, is a defaulter for *30,C00. In commemoration of the one-hun-dredth birthday of Sir Moses Monteflore, of London, the Supreme Lodge of Kesher Shel Barzel has endowed with *75,000 the home for aged and infirm Israelites at Cleveland. Kit Joy, Mich Lee, Frank Taggart, Carlos Chavez, Charles Spencer, and a negro, George Cummings, six of the most desperate criminals in tbe Southwest fell upon their guards in the jail-yard at Silver City, New Mexico, secured the prison keys and made their escape. Proceeding to a livery stable, they mounted and rode away. A posse of citizens were soon in hot pursuit. Five miles out they came upon the body of Cleveland riddled with bullets. Further on the band was overtaken, and a pitched battle ensued. Lee and Jaggart were captured, but the others escaped. During the fight Joseph Laffers was killed. Lee and Taggart were dragged to a tree on the roadside and strung up. The party then returned to City, carrying the three bodies. Henry Richardson, a leading member of the Vigilance Committee of Brown County, Nebraska, was hung by unknown persons near his home. z Ho had participated in the lynching of fourteen horse-thieves. Prentiss Tiller, the clerk who stole *BO,OOO from the Pacific Express office at St. Louis, was arrested in Milwaukee last week, with the entire amount in his possession. It is stated that two Scotchmen, recently arrived in Kansas, carried the germs of the foot and mouth disease in their clothing, as they had been herding infected cattle in Scotland. The Cattle Quarantine Committee in the Neosho Falls district of Kansas have determined on the destruction of the herds in which the 'foot-and-mouth disease has appeared, the burning of the infected carcasses, and a thorough system of quarantine and disinfection. The disease among cattle in Effingham County, Illinois, is said by experienced breeders to bo only foot-rot. There is not an animal in that section with a sore mouth. Physicians pronounce the disorder at. Wapello, lowa, the foot and-mouth disease. The Lieutenant Governor of Kansas telegraphs that only five herds of stock cattle in that State are afflicted, and that the closest quarantine is maintained.