Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

At La Crosse, Wis., Frank A. Burton was shot dead on Fourth street by a river man named Nathaniel MitchelL The assassin fired seven times, the first shot proving fatal. He was soon placed in jail, about which thousands of citizens gathered and demanded him. The doors were forced and the murderer lynched before midnight. Burton was a leading business man, and President of the Blaine and Logan Club. He leaves a wife and three children.

John W. Harrison, of St. Louis, has been appointed receiver of the Carbondale ■Coal and Coke Company, which owns extensive coal mines in Jackson County, Illinois, and operates ninety miles of railroad. Including capital stock, the liabilities of the concern are $851,000. The woolen-mills of Cornwell Broth■ers, near Ann Arbor, Mich., valued at $45,000, were burned last week. A fire at Montague, Mich- burned the opera-house and Ripley's block, the losses aggregating SBO,OOO.

At Aberdeen, D. T., Judge Spence, who had just announced himself as an independent candidate for the Probate Bench, met John L. Drake, of the Dakota Pioneer, ■and demanded an apology for a personal attack, at the same time drawing a revolver. The editor wrenched the weapon from the Judge’s hands, and beat him into insensibility with the butt of it. The farmers in the vicinity of Fargo, Dakota, are holding their grain, as only 55 cents is offered for No. 1 hard wheat. The Coroner’s jury on the Mitchell lynching ease at LaCrosse, returned a verdict that he was hanged by persons unknown to the jury. Willie Webster, a 15-year-old bootblack, confessed at St. louis that he was one •of the six that caused the lumber-yard fires at Cleveland. Richard J. Waddy, a stovemolder at Leavenworth, fatally shot his wife and a woman found in her company, and then killed himself. Mrs. Waddy was thoroughly depraved. . On the New Albany Road, near Putnamvillc, Ind., some miscreant caused a wrecta, which seriously injured all the train employes. The cars took fire and were totally consumed, the loss being $30,000.