Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Near Medicine Lodge, Kan., a waterspout caused the death of several entire families. A dispatch from Medicine Lodge gives the following meager particulars of the disaster: “The water rolled down over the lowlands east of Medicine Lodge five to twelve feet in height. Sevoral families are known to havo been drowned. Men who went out to give relief found men, women and children clinging to trees with nothing on but their night-clothes, and some without any clothing whatever, but still alive. Their cries could be heard as early as 4 o'clock in the morning. Three attempts were made to roscue persons on the opposite sicie of the river, but each boat in turn was swamped, and the occupants only saved themselves by swimming to trees. Six bodies have so far been recovered. There were eight movers’ wagons camping in tho l bottoms, and one old man has recognized the bodies of throe of his family— his wiio and two children.” The Mormon Bishop, Hiram J. Claw bod, was arrested at Salt Lake City for unlawful cohabitation. The Coroner’s jury at St. Louis returned a verdict that C. Arthur Proller died from the effects of chloroform administered by Walter H. Lenox Maxwell. To settle ~ personal quarrel, William J). Winter, of the llank of Commerce, and Bernard P. Bogy, Secretary of the St. louis Wire Company, met in a stable on the grounds of tno former at St. Louis, and

fought four round* with bare knuckles, according to Queensberry rules. At the beginning of the fifth round the police raided the place, but made no arrests. Pugilistic honors were about evenly divided.

An Omaha dispatch reports that “near Trenton, Hitchcock County, in the western part of Nebraska, a fatal fight occurred between some cowboys and settlers, resulting in the death of four settlers. There baa been considerable ill-feeling be. tween cowboys and settlers for some time, owing to the fact that settlers have dared to take up homesteads on cattlo ranches. On Thursday a difficulty arose between a settler and a cowboy, which resulted in the former discharging his rife at the latter, but without effect. The cowboy then, with some companions, returned and shot to death four farmers.”

The funeral of C. Arthur Preller, the murdered Englishman, was held in St. Louis, the remains being placed in a vault in Bellel'ontaino Cemetery. Fourteen Wabash freight trains were abandoned in Missouri because of a reduction in working time at the Moberly shops. Paul C. Just, the. electrician who was awarded medals for saving life in New York, lias been sentenced to tho Illinois Penitentiary for one year for stealing a watch in Chicago.

At Mount Yernon, Lawrence County, Mo., John A. Dennis and George H. Moore, old and well-known citizens, between whom a bitter feud of several yeurs’ standing existeJ, met on the street and immediately drew revolvers and commenced firing. Dennis was shot through the head and Moore through tho heart. Doth died in fivo minutes.