Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Two masked men, armed with Winchester rifles, halted the Fort Benton coach twenty-rive miles from Helena, robbed the passengers, and rifled the mall bag’s. Prentice Tiller, the St. Louis express robber, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years’ Imprisonment. David Stone, of Hillsdale, Mich., pleaded guilty to the charge of murdering his young niece, Lulu Dyke, and was sentenced to solitary confinement in the Penitentiary for life. The premiums for races at the lowa .State Fair, beginning at Des Moines Aug 29, amount to §30,000. A vast crowd assembled in the Criminal Court-room at Chicago to learn tho result of the McKeague trial. Judge Anthony expressed the hope that the audience would make no demonstration over the verdict, but when the acquittal was announced the floor shook with applause. The accused was permitted to hold a reception, when he was returned to his cell to await trial on an indictment for the murder of Mrs. Willson. In Fountain County, Indiana, in a deposit of black sand, gold has been discovered yielding a large percentage to thq ton. The “find” has caused no little excitement in the district. Wesley Johnson was hanged at Napoleon, Ohio, for the murder of George W. W illlams and his wife near that place the 23d of October, 1883. At Tower Hill, HI., a mob attempted to lynch three highway robbers, on their way to the Shelbyville jail. The officers threatened the vigilantes with death, and safely lodged the men inside the prison walls. A mob wrecked the office of A. K. Webb, a lawyer of Madrid, lowa. Webb had brought suit against a half-witted boy and garnished his wages for a fee in a case which was never brought to trial. Ikador Jones, a Detroit dentist, was pardoned from the Michigan Penitentiary. It appears that he had a taste for detective work, and voluntarily aided the police, who soon grew tired of him and convicted him of receiving stolen property in order to rid themselves of his presence. It is not believed that be committed any crime. After the ceremonies at Vevay, Ind ,

Decoration Day, Peter Joyce, while drunk, for no reason, shot Squire Sanders (colored) dead. A heavy frost in Southern Wisconsin, Northern Illinois, Northern Ohio, and portions of Pennsylvania and Michigan seriously injured fruit buds in those sections on the night of the 29th ult. A sculling-race for SI,OOO a side took place on Lake Calumet, near Chicago, on Decoration Day, between John Teemer of Pittsburgh, and Peter H. Conley of Halifax, the former winning by a quarter length. Bight of way is being purchased for a railroad from Belvidere to Peru, 111., eightyfive miles. Bixteen thousand acres of coal land has been secured on the Illinois River, six miles west of Peru. Neal McKeague, who was acquitted of the murder of James L. Willson at Winnetka, was released from the jail in Chicago, State’s Attorney Mills having entered a nolle prosequi on tbe remaining indictment, for the murder of Mrs. Willson. McKeague at once started in search of bis father, with whom he will probably go to Canada for a visit. Unknown men entered the residence of the widow of Senator True*, at Osborne, Mo., and after ransacking the house committed a criminal assault upon her. A large party of citizens is scouring the country in search of the villains.