Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Moyne, ex-Congressman from Chicago, was taken in that city last week. He swore that he witnessed the fnarriage in Pittsburgh in March, 1851, of Mr. Blaine and a closely ■veiled lady whose name was given as Miss Harriet Stanwood. Nothing was said about a prior marriage, but Mr. Blaine requested that nothing be said about the union for six months. Jersey cattle from any State are prohibited from entering Kansas, and cattle from Kentucky, lowa, Nebraska, and Missouri must undergo a slxty-day quarantine and be perfectl y healthy before entrance to the State will be allowed. Near Ashland, Wis., a construction train struck a washout, and plunged In. All the men were riding in the tender or cab of the engine, and as it dashed downward, a rail pierced the boiler, letting the steam and water out. Two persons were instantly killed, and a number of others fatally scalded. The scene at the wreck is described as shocking in the extreme. In a hundred-mile riding contest at St. Louis, Charles M. Anderson defeated the three men matched against him, they giving up the race on the eighty-fifth mile. Anderson covered the eighty-five miles in three hours and forty-six minutes. Near Sullivan, Ind., a shot Into the railway car occupied by Gov. John P. St Johtf, the Prohibition candidate, the missile lodging in the woodwork immediately In front of him. The ex-Governor took the matter coolly. As a result of the railroad disaster near Ashland, Wis., seven men are dead, three are dying, and two are missing, and it Is supposed are under the wreck. Four others who had been scalded or maimed will probably recover. The dead bodies of Harry Percival, wife, and child, and Hugh Mair, an employe, were found the other moring on their farm near Fullerton, Neb., the premises having been despoiled of valuables. Who the plunderers are is unknown. Percival’s remains were found outside the house, and had been mutilated by hogs. In the case of James Dacey, the Chicago murderer, a jury at Woodstock, 111., agreed on the death penalty. Dacey, last April, murdered Aiderman Gaynor In a Chicago saloon. The hottest night on record for that section was experienced on the 3d Inst, at St. Paul, Minn., the thermometer registering 80 at midnight. The air was stifling, and the people feared that a disaster of some kind was imminent. The pacer Johnston electrified a small number of spectators at the Chicago Driving Park by making a record of 2:06%. His first quarter was accomplished in 32 seconds, the second and third each in 3114, and the last In 3114. There was a hearty outburst of applause over the wonderful feat John Splan was the driver. Minnie R, the pacer, hitched in a buggy with the runner Firebrand, made a mile in 2:03%. For some time past cattle have been dying rapidly of an unknown malady in Belmont County, Ohio. Last week It was developed that only stock fed on sorghum blades were affected, farmers being compelled to use this article for fodder, a drought having killed all the grass, and corn not being ready for use. « The body of George Furnival, a partner of Percival, who was murdered in Nance County, Nebraska, was discovered at the bottom of a pond, making thus far five bodies discovered in the vicinity. The party guilty of this wholesale murder is supposed to be H. G. Baird, who is missing, and for whose arrest a reward of SI,OOO is offered. He is supposed to have fled to New York, intending to go to England, his former home. A passenger train on the Santa Fe Road escaped being wrecked by a tie placed

on the track near Emporia, Kan., but a freight train which followed was broken up and the fireman was killed. A Northern Pacific freight train was thrown from the track sixteen miles from Duluth, by a washout on the road, and the locomotive, tender, *and six cars of coal hurled into the St. Louis River. Engineer Harter, Fireman Judkins, and Brakeman Olson were thrown under the wrecked train and drowned. A case of pleuro-pneumonia developed among some cattle of the native breed at St. Charles, 111, and the sufferer was shot by the State Veterinarian, as was also a Jersey heifer. Eight horses are reported afflicted with glanders at Vincennes, lowa. A disease resembling hog cholera prevails with fatality in the vicinity of Dubuque.