Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The police of Chicago are confident that at last the man who threw the dynamite bomb into the ranks of the police on the night of May 4 is under arrest. His name is Louis Lingg, he is a German, a carpenter by trade, and has been in this country only eight months. When arrested he made a desperate resistance. The detective who made the arrest went alone to the house, a squad of officers remaining some distance away. The young anarchist was sitting at the table writing. Ho seemed to have instantly recognized his abrupt visitor as an officer and grabbed a- large Remington revolver which lay upon the table. The officer sprang upon him before Lingg could shoot. The men grappled in a struggle for fife, which was so desperate that neither could use his revolver. They rolled on the floor, first one on top and then the other. Lingg got the officer's thumb in his mouth and bit it almost off. The women began to scream. At this instant the policemen on the outside burst open the door and rushed in. Lingg was instantly overpowered and handcuffed. In Lingg's trunk were found two pistols, two long dynamite bombs, a large lot of shells and cartridges, and a quantity of anarchist pamphlets and newspapers. In the trunk were a large number of letters and pieces of writing in German, which showed that Lingg had been one of the most rabid anarchists in the city, and that he was in correspondence with the leading agitators in this and other cities. The police claim to have sufficient evidence to convict him. The country adout Forest, Hardin County, Ohio, was swept by a cyclone at an early hour Saturday morning. It created .iavoc at Dunkirk, wrecking houses, killing four people and injuring fifteen or twenty. The East-bound express on the Fort Wayne Hoad ran into a clump of fallen trees, the branches of which, crashing through the car windows, seriously injured twelve passengers. A fierce storm raged Friday night in Wa.jash County, Ind. The Wabash River is out of its banks and flooding the county. Timber was leveled and wheat fields were destroyed. The Mayor of Attica, Ind., reports that the storm deprived fifty families of their homes. The Indianapolis Board of Trade sent a carmad of provisions and bedding. Later and more complete reports from the storm-swept region of Ohio show the xoss of life and damage to property to have been greater than the first accounts indicated. The tornado plowed its way in a southeasterly direction through one hundred miles of splendid farming country, leaving desolation in its wake. Seneca, Wyandot, Hancock, Hardin, Auglaize, and Mercer Counties mourn the loss of millions of dollars in property, and, above all, scores of ives. In Mercer County thirty dead bodies had been found, with many times that numoer injured. Three persons were killed at Wabash City. In Dunkirk, Hardin County, ive persons were killed and twenty badly injured; and in the vicinity of the town ave more persons were killed and a number injured, two probably fatally. In the Blanchard River valley the storm made a clean sweep cn miles long and one-half mile'wide, demolishing 100 buildings. Wyandot and Hancock Counties adjoining one another, were devasited. Carey, a prosperous town in the first-named county, received a tremendous shaking up. Seventeen buildings were completely destroyed and six persons killed outright Bloomville, South Carey, Wharton, and many other villages suffered in a like manner. Ten miles west of Tiffin, the county seat of Tiffin County, a strip of country half a mile wide and several miles in length was totally stripped of buildings, as, in fact, of all else above the surface of the earth. At Kenton and Lancaster, and in their neighborhood immense damage was done. Five persons were reported killed and thirteen wounded near Celina. At Findlaytwo persons were killed and a number injured, and at Forest the elements created great havoc. At the latter place several persons were killed, two churches were destroyed, and so violent was the storm that beds were carried some distance with people in them. The damage, to say nothing of the loss of life, is placed at $400,000. At Kenton a man was killed by lightning, a church was demolished, and considerable damage was done to buildings and property. Around Lima there was great loss among the live stock, and in the vicinity of Bucyrus over twenty buildings were wiped out by the rushing storm. In Indiana. Michigan, and Hlinois the winds were also disastrous, but very few eases of loss of life were reported except tv>o from being struck by lightning at Carlinville, HL Captain Price, with a company of

the Fifth Cavalry, is expelling several hundred squatters from the Cherokee strip. A bronze monument to Schiller, the German poet, was unveiled in Lincoln Park, Chicago, in presence of a vast concou se. The Atchison Railroad Company announces that it proposes to build an air-line from Kansas City to Chicago, the work to be finished within two years. It is said that the "Wisconsin Central Road will, in due time, share its entrance into Chicago with the Santa Fe Air-Line from Kansas City. Captain Hatfield, with a troop of United States cavalry, surprised and stampeded the camp of Geronimo, near Santa Cruz, but in passing through a canon soon afterward he suffered the loss of two men kilied and three wounded. Major Rinz, with a large Mexican force, has since joined in the pursuit Engineer Glenn, of the Sonora Land and Cattle Company, of Chicago, arrived at El Paso, Tex., and more than confirmed the reported atrocities of Geronimo and his band of Apaches. He says he has sent out surveying parties who have been murdered, and reports over twenty Americans as having been massacred, while over fifty Mexican families were fleeing for their lives.