Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Charles Stevens, alias "Omaha Charley,” a desperado, was taken from jail at Maryville, Mo., by a mob, and hanged to tho railway bridge. In the skirmish between the Sheriff and his deputies and tho lynchers, one of the latter was dangerously wounded.’ In front of the new City Hall at San Francisco, Daniel Kennedy was killed by his wife with a revolver. Henry Bells, residing at South Bend, Ind., undertook to break malarial fever by starving himself. He lived on water alone for thirty-four days, and became so faint that he was induced to take a spoonful of beef tea. Reuben R. Springer, the Cincinnati philanthropist, died suddenly at his house in that city. Such is the excitement at Redfield, Dakota, in regard to the location of the county seat, that Gov. Pierce has sent thither a militia company from Fargo, and arranged to forward regulars from Fort Sully. Fred Baignee, having been jilted by his inamorata, hanged himself in the Court House tower at Peru, Ind., using tho bellrope to help him into eternity. The Federal Grand Jury at Chicago found indictments against Joseph C. Mackin, Arthur Gleason, and Henry Diehl for complicity in tho election frauds attempted in the Eighteenth Ward of that city, and each gave bail. Indictments had been previously returned against the judges and clerks of the election precinct In which the frauds were perpetrated. Gen. Brisbin prints a letter in a Montana newspaper declaring free cattlp ranges no longer practicable, and advocating a Texas cattle-trail. He states that one-sixth of the herds west cf the Missouri river are controlled by Englishmen, who get free grass and drive citizens out of the business. Neil McKeague, who gained notoriety in connection with the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Willson, near Chicago, last spring, has just been sentenced at St. Catherine’s, Ontario, to six months’ Imprisonment at hard labor for assaulting a clairvoyant, who "revealed” some unpleasant things in his past life. Orrin A. Carpenter, who was acquitted of the murder of Zura Burns, at Lincoln, 111., has fled from that place toavoid assassination by the girl’s father. His once ample fortune has shrunk to a quarter section of farming land. The sudden breaking out of fire in Gray, Toynton & Fox’s candy factory at Detroit caused tho girls employed in the second story to rush for the fire escape, in descending which one young woman fell and was sli, htly hurt. Three girls were seen at a window, but a sudden burst of the flames drove them back, and they were burned to death. Elisha Hyatt,.President of the late banking bouse of Hyatt, Levings & Co., of Washington, Ind., has assigned. Assets, 1220,000; liabilities, SIOO,OOO, A Detroit dispatch says that 10,000 men are out of employment in that city, and the wages of a large number of those em-

ployed in the various industries have been reduced. An oil-refining firm of Cleveland has obtained judgment against the Lake Shore Road for SI,OOO for discrimination in freights and SI,OOO for damages. The American Socialists of Chicago, after listening to the statement of a miner fresh from the Hocking Valley, passed resolutions to arm themselves to resist the capitalistic class, and declaring the employment of all means of warfare not only justifiable but necessary.