Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1884 — AFTER CARTER HARRISON’S LIFE. [ARTICLE]

AFTER CARTER HARRISON’S LIFE.

An Irate Citizen of Lincoln, 111., Goes Gunning; for the Mayor. Carter Harrison met with a singular experience in this city this evening. At a pressing invitation of the Democrats of this place he came here from Mount Pulaski, and took up his quarters at the Commercial House, where he held an informal reception. Among the callers was Col. J. M. Hough, formerly of Chicago, and a bitter Republican partisan, who wanted to bet Carter he would not be elected. The Colonel pressed his offers to bet, and at last became personal and was removed from the room. He went home, changed his coat, and took his six-shooter with him, intending to interview Carter Harrison again. Before he gained admission he was arrested and placed in the calaboose. The greatest excitement prevailed, as the Colonel is a man of wealth and standing in the community. Friends secured his release, and all is serene again.

Deadly weapons are taken from men who carry them into one of Galveston’s gambling and drinking houses, an employe gives checks for them, and they ore returned on their owner’s departure. Cincinnati is to have an odd monument, in the form of a ruin, built from the broken pillars and fragments of the Court House burned during the riot. Complaint is made of too much gambling on Atlantic steamers. Mr. St. John has a son in the Land Office at Washington.