Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

At Huntington, Oregon, last week, connection was made between the Oregon Hailway and Navigation system and the Oregon Short Line, thus completing the fourth line of railroad across the continent. The case of Jane G. White, who recovered $650 damages from the Milwaukee City Railway Company for injuries received, was reversed and remanded by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, on the ground that the plaintiff refused to exhibit her injured leg to physicians appointed by the railway company. At Monmouth, 111., a Texan named H. K. Thompson, who had sustained heavy losses by the failure of the First National Bank, fired five shots at B. T. O. Hubbard, the defaulting cashier, without hitting him. In the County Court, at Angola, Ind., Judge Mcßride instructed the grand jury to indict every person shown to have wagered money on the result of the election. Another invasion of Oklahoma is said to be in preparation. Hunnewell, a town on the border of Kansas and Indian Territory, is to be the rendezvous this time. Rev. John Maxwell, of Sprinfield, Ohio, rendered miserable by poverty, poisoned his four children and himself. The effect was fatal on the little ones, but ho recovered sufficiently to permit of his being lodged In iail. Of six men who undertook to cross the railway track at San Rafael, Calfornia, two were killed, one was fatally injured, and the fourth had an arm broken. Capt. David L. Payne, otherwise and more familiarly known as “Oklahoma” Payne, the famous leader of the Oklahoma boomers, who have several times unsuccessfully attempted to settle In Indian Territory, died very suddenly at Wellington, Kan. In the Circuit Court at Chicago, in the matter of the estate of Wilbur F. Storey, Judge Tuley appointed Horace A. Hurlbut receiver of the Timce, with an order that there be no change of policy or of tho business or editorial management. The amount of bond was fixed at $500,000.