Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Frank Elliott, a negro who assaulted a white girl in York County, North Carolina, was taken to Rock Hill for examination. The citizens overpowered the Sheriff’s posse aid lynched the offender. Edwin McCullough, a negro murderer, was hanged by a mob at Dallas, N. C. Buffalo gnats are killing mules in Western Mississippi. Deer are Seeing to the the high lands of Arkansas to escape the pests. At the close of the year the Western Kansas Stock-raisers’ Association, recently, in convention at Dodge City, had a membership of ninety-five, who owned 350,000 head of cattle, valued at >10,000,000. A passehger train on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad jumped the track at Belleville, IIL, throwing the caches down a

twelve-foot enbankment. Both coaches were filled with passengers, twenty-five of whom were injured, some quite serioualy. A babe was killed. Cincinnati dispatches of the 3d inst. inform the world that the barricades about the Court House had been removed; that the 17th Regiment was still guarding the jail, while "the gallant sth" was at Music Hall; and that it had been ascertained that the casualties in the three days* fighting numbered 45 killed and 138 wounded. The feeling of ill-will against the militia was wearing off. A good deal of discussion was going on touch, ing the question as to who gave the first orders to fire on the mob, and the general drift was that Sheriff Hawkins would have to shoulder the responsibility. At Columbus, Gov. Hoadly suggested to the Legislature that it offer a reward for the arrest of the murderer of Capt. Desmond, and that an appropriation for the relief of Desmond’s mother be made. A bill was also -introduced that citizens may recover from the State damages for property destroyed during riots. A committee of fifty citizens of Lincoln, 111., appointed at the mass meeting held there last month to express indignation at the acquittal of Orrin Carpenter, tried for the murder of Zora Burns, went in a body to the residence of Carpenter, last week, to present him with a copy of the resolutions, among -wfcich was "that we demand of the said Carpenter that he leave Logan County without necessary delay.” The Chairman advanced to the door and presented the paper inclosed in an envelope, which Carpenter refused to receive, and it was laid on the floor at his feet, and in response to which he said; "I do not recognize your authority to pass or to present to me.any such resolutions, and I refuse to accept them. I have lived a law-abiding citizen in this county for the last thirty years, and don’t know more about the killing of that girl than you do. I shall use my own judgment and discretion as to my futuro course. I thank you all for your friendly visit.” The committee then retired. The farm-house of Carl Schultz, near Tawas, Michigan, was visited by three masked men, who battered down the front door with a fence-rail. They secured nearly $3,000 in German gold coin, and brutally assaulted the family. As the latter fled toward a neighbor’s the villains fired upon them, killing a son of Mr. Schultz. The tug Peter Smith exploded her boiler off Vermillion, on Lake Erie, killing John Perew and John Cado, engineers, and Capt. Smith, of the schooner Sherman, who was on a pleasure trip. Five boys, from 9 to 13 years of age, crossing the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day. ton Railway track, near Cincinnati, in a onehorse wagon, were struck by a train and thred of them killed. The other two were so badly injured that their recovery is deBpairedpf.