Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

In tho wreck of a construction train of the Chicago, Burlington and Kansas City Qailway, by falling through Grand River bridge, near Sumner, Mo., from twenty to twenty-five men were precipitated into the stream, the fall being from forty to fifty feet, and from ten to fifteen men were more or less injured. Several of these may die. Fred Young, of Milan, Mo., and John Long, ot Sumner, were killed. Allan Pinkerton, the celebrated detective, died in Chicago last week, in his 65th year. Ho was a native of Olasgow, Scotland. The Citizens’ League has decided to begin a struggle at Milwaukee for the closing of all saloons on Sunday, according to law. A number of brewing companies and 1,000 saloon-keepers will make a determined resistance. While laborers were digging a well near Silox, Lincoln County, Mo., they struck oil, the gushing fluid compelling them to quit work. Eobert E. Cherrie, of Chicago, a dealer in pig-iron and railway supplies, has made an assignment. His assets are placed at $650,000, including three iron furnaces, . and his liabilities are about $350,000. By an explosion of gas and oil at South Olive, Ohio, three men lost their lives. At the works of the Calumet Iron and Steel Company, near Chicago, four men were suffocated by the escaping gas while cleaning a chimney. Thomas Stevens, a young Englishman, who left San Francisco on April £2 on a bicycle, arrived in Chicago. He found the journey through the Nevada desert a hard one, and sometimes had to travel a day without food. He will roll onward to New York by way of Cleveland, Buffalo and Albany, and intends to start afresh from Liverpool for the eastern boundary of Europe. On the ground of ineradicable prejudice, James Dacey, the murderer of Aldei> man Gaynor, of Chicago, secured a change of venue to McHenry i County, and will lie tried in September. Southwest of Decatur, 111., the other night, a cyclone ravaged the district, thirty houses and barns being leveled, horses and orchards and crops ruined. Near fioody the Cumberland Presbyterian Chureh and parsonage were wrecked, entailing a loss of $25,000. Two children were fatally hurt, and some families were rendered homeless. The Sheriff at Dodge City, Kan., was compelled to place a special guard at the jail, to prevent the lynohing of a gambler named David St. Clair, who killed a cattledealer named K. B. Schoat. The grand-stand on the raoe track at Butte, M. T., collapsed under a crowd of 500 persons. A boy was killed, the Mayor was Seriously hurt, and two persons fatally wounded. Others had legs and arms fractured. Caleb Perry, a fanner living eight miles from Pierre, Dakota, was shot and killed by a German named Albert Lanker. William E. Buggies, Treasurer of Carroll County, lowa, is missing, and the Supervisors have found a shortage in his accounts of nearly $25,000. “Buck” McKinney, of Shelbyville, Ind., an ex-convict pardoned out by Gov. Hendricks, fatally stabbed John Miller a few days ago. McKinney has been a noted desperado. He has murdered several men besides Miller.