Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Two Chicagoans drove a double sleigh through to Milwaukee in two days. D. R. Timothy and a companion drove a 4-year-old team and euttor from Franklin Grove to Dixon, 111., ten miles, in minutes, for a wager of S2OO. Two lieutenants of police were dis' missed at Cincinnati for drunkoness. They had been paid the previous day and riotously celebrated tho event. Joel Anderson and Laurel Baugh were recently tried for murder at Carrollton, Mo., convicted, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Securing a new trial, they were again convicted last week, and sentenced to death. Hon. William Pitt Lynde, an exPongressmau and one of tho most prominent members of the bar in the Northwest, and senior member of the law firm of Finches, Lynde & Miller, died at Milwaukee last week. He was 68 years of age. Ho was a sufferer for almost a year past from a complication of diseases. Jasper E. Sweet, a printer of Chicago, has been sentenced to two years in tho penitentiary for fatally shooting Dr. Thomas Waugh. On the first ballot seven jurors favored acquittal. One who insisted upon imprisonment for life succeeded in obtaining a compromise verdict Sweet expressed himself as desirous of hastening to Joliet, and sta'es that his wifo and son will have a home with his mother-in-law, at La Porte, Ind. The hide and tallow warehouse of Olierno, Hosick & Co., on tho southwest corner of La Salle avenue and Michigan street, Chieago, was destroyed by fire. The building was valued at $35,000, and the stock at $325,000. Che same firm suffered a damage of $70,000 by a fire caused by lightning last August.

A Deming (New Mexico) dispatch says that “near White House, located northwest .of Bilver City, a company of tho Eighth United States Cavaliy, under Lieut Fountain

Were ambushed by hostiles with disaotrous results. The following were killed in the fight which ensued: Surgeon Maddox, Private Collins, Private Gibson, Private Hutton, Private McMillen, Lieut Cahill. Corporal McFarland was slightly wounded. The Indians numbered twenty-one. After the fight they headed west in the direction of Clifton. This is the same band with which Fountain had a fight on the 9th inst No Indians are reported killed.”