Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

At St. Louis, Brooks, alias Maxwell, convicted of the murder of C. A. Preller, was sentenced to be hanged August 27. An appeal was granted and a stay of execution ordered until October 2. The report of the Illinois Board of Agriculture shows the corn crop to be nearly an average in area and condition. “The anarchists’ trial is now fairly under wav, the jury having been completed,” says a Chicago special “During the forenoon session tho defense exhausted its remaining eighteen peremptory challenges, and eighteen men were challenged for cause. Tho 982 d man examined was accepted by the State as the twelfth juror. His name is Howard Taylor Sanford. Mr. Sanford was challenged by Mr. Foster for cause, but the Court overruled the challenge, and tho defendants noted an exception. Captain Black said the defendants’ attorneys wanted tho record to show that they did not accept tho juror. Just before Capt Black Baid this ho whispered in Mr. Foster’s ear: ‘Challenge for cause any good man the State accepts. We want that for a point when we take the case to the Supremo Court, for we can’t Bhow error in the record unless we show also that we were run out of peremptories.’ Tho opening argument by State’s Attorney Grinuell was received with sneers by Spies, Parsons, andLingg, especially when he stigmatized all the defendants save Fielden as rank cowards.” Five business blocks at Bloomer, Chippewa County, Wis., were burned, causing a - loss of between $60,000 and $75,000. A proclamation has been issued by Governor West of Utah, warning immigrants or others from coming to the Territory to maintain any marriage relation other than that sanctioned by law, and setting forth that violators of the statute will be subjected to condign punishment The Grand Jury at St. Louis indicted six members of the City Council for drunkenness and bribery. Two of the number were arrested and held in $1,5 0 each. A boiler explosion at Wellsville, 0., scalded one child very badly and killed another. They were playing in an adjoining yard. The large lumber yard of Knapp, Stout k Co., at Bt. Louis, was totally destroyed by fire, and 25,000,(L0 feet of lumber consumed. The loss on lumber alone reaches $400,000. The total insurance is estimated at $375,000. Advices from the Southwest are to the effect that “the drought still continues over nearly the whole of Indian Territory. The range is rapidly being ruined, and prairie fires are already burning in every direction. Murrain has broken out among the cattle in several localities and many are dying. A regular epidemic among the stock is feared A dispatch from Topeka says the present drought in Kansas is the severest the State has known since 1873. Unless rain falls very soon the ■com prospect will be rained, as the corn is

just beginning to tassel and is in a condition where rain is most needed. The last general rain was in the latter part of June; since then the weather has been intensely hot. There have been local showers, but not enough to be of any service.” Sheriff Parr, of Paulding, Ohio, says a Toleuo d spatch, was aroused at 2 o’clock in the morning by over one hundred masked and armed men, who surrounded the jail and demanded the keys. They said they had sworn to hang Bill Haley, who was inside on a charge of murder, and the jailer would save trouble by giving them peaceable possession. The sheriff tried to parley with them while a deputy was trying to conduct the prisoner out by a side door, but the crowd saw the movement and seized Haley. They took the wretch a mile out of town and hanged him to a tree.