Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

An express train on the Cincinnati, Washington and Baltimore Boad was wrecked near Loveland, Ohio, the engineer and fireman being seriously burned and bruised. It was found that the spikes had been drawn from sixteen ties, and that one rail was taken up. A negro named William Scott, who was suspected of the crime, narrowly escaped lynching. Calhoun Benham, the California lawyer w-ho acted, as Judge David Terry's second in the celebrated Broderick-Terry duel, died in San Francisco, recently. Judge Edgerton, of Dakota, has granted the motion made to quash the indictment against Gov. Orway. of that Territory, on the ground that the grand jury had no jurisdiction over the official acts of the Governor. Three Deputy Sheriffs at Salt Lake, armed with Winchester rifles, executed Fred Hoyt, who had been three times tried for murder. He sat upon his coffin, blindfolded, and the officers fired from a point ten paces distant. The body of a man named Bechtel was found in the Jim Blver, near Mitchell, Dakota Territory, and it is believed that he was executed by the vigilantes. Alex. Fiddler, a notorious crook, was found banging to a tree near Sturges, Dakota Territory. The lynchers are unknown. The Grand Jury at Omaha has indicted Mayor Chase and City Marshal Guthrie for blackmailing gamblers and lewd women. James Hazlett, who retired from the stationery business in New York with a competency, killed himself in Minneapolis, on account of a disappointment in love. Nine horse-thieves made a raid on that part of Montana Territory adjoining Idaho, last week and made of with a number of horses and cattle. They were pursued and tracked to a place near Eagle Rock, Idaho, where they were “treed.” They made a feeble resistance, during which one was killed and another seriously wounded. The others were captured.