Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

T. C. Whiteside and other Chicagoans have secured a license to organize the United states Ballot-Box Company, with a capital stock of $500,000. A verdict for SII,OOO damages against the Chicago and Grand Trunk Itoad was secured by Edward Meyer, of Chicago, who was knocked out of a carriage by a locomotive two years ago, and escaped death by a miracle. The Lumber Manufacturers’ Association of the Northwest held its annual session at Eau Claire, Wis. The Secretary reported a decrease in net resources for the season of 1885 of 3,5 JU,000,500 feet, and the feeling is that an advance of 10 per cent, will be ordered, and that traveling salesmen will be dispensed with. The financial affairs of tho organization are in a healthy condition, Gen. Terry, at St. Paul, received a dispatch from Fort Assinaboine announcing

the capture of Gabriel Dumont, the m ssing Lieutenant of Louis Kiel, and a companion - by the name of Michael Duraals. The capture was made by Sergeant Perkins and a private. In reply to the question what disposition should be made of the prisoners, Gen. Terry telegraphed that they should be held until further orders. “No Indian raid for the last ten years equaled the present outbreak for cruelty,” says a dispatch from New Mexico “All along the Gila River out from Silver City to a distance of seventy miles the bleaching remains of whole families have been foetid, which tell the tale of how outrageously the Apaches have broken Gen. Crook’s poor peace policy. Men, women, and children have been butchered unmercifully.” A gentleman from Silver City tolls a heartrending tale of Apache inhumanity. He was one of a party of thirty-four citizens who went out the other day to protect their families, who were surrounded by Apaches on Bear Creek and along the Gila. Before making twelve miles they had buried ten persons, two of whom were women. All the bodies were hacked into unrecognizable shapes. The women had been outraged and their bodies pinned td^thq,. earth by wedges driven through them into the ground. One of the women had an iron rod completely driven up her body. The men suffered like fates, their bodies being mutilated terribly. This gentleman confirms the reported murder of Col. Phillips and family. The daughter was hung up alive by a meat-hook stuck in the back of her head. Mrs. Phillips’ eyes were gouged out, her ears and breasts cut off, and her body otherwise brutally mangled. The bodies are heartrending and sickening sights.” A Santa Fe dispatch says the total number of murders known to have been committed by the Indians reaches seventy-five. Louis Reaume, a craZy fresco-painter, belonging in Detroit, started from Kansas City for Chicago by a Wabash train. While en route he appeared in the aisle of the chair-car, swinging a revolver, and announced that he was being pursued by men desifing to lynch him. Wben the policeman at Peoria attempted to capture him he retired to the wash-room and began firing toward his fellow-passengers. An attempt was made at El Paso, 111., to cut out the coach he occupied, and he stopped the scheme by shooting from the platform. On reaching Englewood, a suburb of Chicago, he grazed the neck of an intruder with a bullet. When Chicago was reached the madman killed Patrolman Cornelius Barrett and struck Lieut. Laughlin on the forehead with a revolver. A general firing by a squad of police biought the lunatic down, with fatal wounds. Harrigan, Chief of Police ah St. Louis, has been suspended on charges of accepting bribes from gamblers and of playing . poker for stakes. Capt. Huebler has been placed in charge of the department.

Isaac N. Holland has been awarded $25,000 damages against the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Road for injuries received two years ago.

Special crop reports to the Chicago Times show a largely increased acreage of corn throughout the Northwest and a fair condition of the plant, notwithstanding the lateness of the season. In parts of Kansas the fields have been planted three times.