Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

A dastardly deed was committed near Waco, Neb., by a man named lirandt, who *i‘ running a threshing machine. It appears that a boy aged thirteen year.*, while «ittirig bands, accidentally cut Brandt’s hand. Brandt became enraged, and told the boy that if be cut his hand again he would run him through the machine. The boy became excited, and in a few minutes did again siigbtiy cut Brandt’s band. Brandt thereupon seized the boy and shoved him into the cylinder head first. He wus instantly killed, bis bead being almost completely torn from his body. Brandt tied, but was captured and taken to Waco, where ho narrowly escaped lynching. The rate of taxation in Illinois for 1885 has been fixed at 42 cents on the SIOO of tuxablo property—2B cents lor general revenue and 14 cents for school purposes. One man was killed and seven seriously Injured by the giving way of an arch in tho Illinois Capitol at Springfield, burying the victims under a mass of brick. Jacob Kauffman, a well-known musician, committed suicide at Denver, Colo., by divesting himself of his clothing and crawling several times back and forward through a barbed-wire fence. When discovered tho body was shockingly lacerated, the wires being covered with blood and shreds of skin and llesh. While B. J. Shay, a prominent realestate dealer of San Francisco, was at dinner In the Novada restaurant with Mrs. James C. Brown, of Healdsburg, Cal., the husband of the latter walked In, drew a revolver, and fired two bullets into him. Shay’s wounds arc believed to bo fatal. Jealousy caused the trouble. Near Platte Lake, Mich., two hunters mistook a woman who was picking cranberries for a bear, and shot her in the neck, Inflicting a mortal wound. August Bienlow, who was arrested in Cleveland for passing counterfeit money, hanged himself in the cell. The city of Evansville has failed to pay the Interest coupons on $3,000,000 of water bonds. The holder of tho security is an Eastern life insurance company, which is privileged to take possession of the waterworks at its pleasure. An interview lasting an hour was held In St. Louis, between Samuel N. Brooks, of Hyde, England, and his son, Hugh M. Brooks, who is charged with the murdor of C. Arthur Preller. Only a deputy sheriff witnessed the scene. The elder Brooks expresses his belief that the trial will result in an acquital. The order of the Chief of Police of Cleveland, Ohio, closing all saloons on Sunday, was generally observed.