Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Near Paw Paw, 111., a charivari party •who went to serenade a newly wedded couple in the Nettleton farm-house were fired on by Arthur Nettleton, brother of the bride, Clarence White and William Hackman receiving what are supposed to be fatal wounds. All the members of the Nettleton household have been arrested. At Salt Lake City, nine indictments were returned against as many Mormon elders for polygamy and illegal cohabitation. Brigham Joung, Jr., and Bishop Snow have gone to the City of Mexico to negotiate for the purchase of large tracts of land in the Mexican Republic for the occupation qf Mormon colonies.

The Governor of Kansas has asked that troops be stationed on the southwestern border of that State to prevent, if possible, the threatened outbreak of Cheyenne Indians. General Augur reports sixteen companies of cavalry and infantry at Fort Beno. Latest advices from the Territory are that the Cheyennes evince a disposition to await the action of the commission appointed to Investigate their grievances before going on the war-path.

William Gibson, aged 19, and Cora Eaton, 15 years, eloped from Rockford, 111., and going to Beloit, Wis., were there united in marriage. The father of the bride is a well-known business man in Rockford.

One of the men shot by Arthur Nettleton at Paw Paw, 111., is dead, and the other is in a precarious condition. Fears of mob violence induced the removal of young Net tieton to the jail at Dixon. The body of James Hayes, aged 16, was found hanging to a tree near Neola, lowa, his hands and feet being tied. Four men who escaped frdm the Harrison County Jail are suspected of Ihe crime. Great excitement prevails in the Neola district.

Reports from Durango, Col., show that the Indians who accompanied Agent Stol steimer to Dolores Valley to investigate recent outrages were fired op by dowVoys, and twelve Indians killed. The stampede of settlers' from Dolores and Mancos Valleys still continues. Three hundred Blood in dians left their reservation in Northern Men .tana, and are journeying south to join the Piegans in war upon the Crows and Gros Venires. Near Decatur, 111., a passenger train on the Illinois Central rail Ipto a herd of twenty cattle belonging to Olivet Logan. The train kept th<f track,, but the locomotive was injured’.’ - e * The enumeration just taken in lowa shows, the,total population of the State to be pn increase of 60,000 in five years. The population pf Dos Moines and suburbs is nearly 40,000. 'Sector Ingalls, who has been visitingl Territory, speaks favorably of the habits of the Indians.

The Rev. Sydney H. Russell, of Woodhaven, N. Y-, and William Learn, a well-known resident of Union Mills, Ind., committed suicide.

In a riot at the Polish Catholic Church in Toledo two men were killed and several injured. The trouble grew out of a long-existing feud between two factions in the congregation.