Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Three masked men bound James Crain in hit house, near Ilrookston, Ind., and maltreated him when ho refused to disclose where his money was concealed. They found S4OO, but ?2,100, hidden in a secret place, escaped their dutches. Portland (Ore.) dispatch: Two Indians are reported killed at Long Creek, Grant County, by a party of unknown whites. The band had camped on the stream for tho purpose of hunting and fishing, and the whites crept within rifie-range and fired into their camp, killing two braves, and made their es. ape. It is said these Indians took an active part in tho recent Bannock war, and committed several outrages and murders among the whites. In that county hatred of the Indians is intense. The matter is to be investigated, as trouble is feared, and an Indian outbreak of serious proportions is thought very probable. Denver (Colo.) telegram: “Rumors have reached here of the lynching, by vigilants, of a gang of seventeen cattle-thieves, captured while in camp cn Rock Creek, in tho Goro range of mountains, twenty or thirty miles west of Georgetown. No particulars are at present obtainable. The rope rt is thought to be exaggerated.” A six-story building on the corner of Michigan street and La Salle avenue, Chi. cago, owned by Charles E. Culver and occupied by several manufacturing firms, was destroyed by fire, the loss,' being $90,000. James Carr, foreman of a cigar-box manufactory', conducted thirty of his employes to the fire-eecapo, and lost his life by falling from a wlndow-silL C. D. Cobbitt’s People’s Bank, at Canton, 111., failed for SIOO,OOO. The assets are placed at $50,009. Owing to internal dissensions, the Ohio State Dental Association, which has been in existence since 1866, disbanded at Columbus, after a two-days’ session. Lena Haberland, aged 10, died at St. Louis of trichinia6is, tho muscles and tissues of her body being found infested with pork parasites. Her little brother is ill from the same malady, and her who passed away a month ago, Is believed to have died of the disease. B. Power Palmer, connected with an Insurance a), ency in Chicago, poisoned himself in a hotel with laudanum, evidently on ac:ountof poor health. P. J. Moses, formerly Governor of South Carolina, having been jailed at Detroit for swindlng a clergyman, nearly succeeded in banging himself in his oelL When cut down he was black In the face, and had lost consc.ousness. On recovering he was sentenced to ninety days in the House of Correction. An explosion in the gas-works at Milwaukee, caused by a stoppage in a pipe leading to the purifiers, inflicted damage amounting to (15,000. Two men were killed at Duluth by falling from a scaffold on the side of an elevator 100 feet high. The Federal Grand Jury at Cincinnati has indicted Police Lieutenants Michael Mullen and John Burke and Patrolmen Keating and Cunningham for preventing a party of colored mon-rom voting, at the recent election, by locking them in the station house all day. The Presbyterian Synod of Ohio, In session at Cincinnati, deplored the desecration of ihe Sabbath, and favored prohibition of the manufacture and aale of intoxicating liquors.

In a Republican procession in Taylorville, 111., Leroy Hunter allowed his torch to hit Eugene Darner on the bead. A quarrel and fight ensued, when Darner struck Hunter with a base-ball bat, breaking his neck. The murderer was arrested, and taken out of town for safety.