Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

In a curve near Pine Bluff, WisconHin, a wild train and a passenger train dashed togeth r, the engines being wrecked, and the baggage and mail cars, with their contents, burned. One man was killed and two others fatally hurt. Throe persons were severely wounded, and the engineer of the passenger train, who was caught in his cab, with his head and one of his legs crushed, was only rescued just in timo to prevent his being scalded to deatli. On the Grand Jury which, it is expected, will investigate the Haddock assassination at Sioux City, lowa, aro nine Democrats and throe other persons who are believed to bo opposed to the Prohibition law. It is believed that Henry Peters, a missing witness, was killed by tho assassins to prevent his revealing their names. A decomposed body found on tho 4th inst. at Crescent, lowa, and interred in tho Potters’ field at Council Bluffs, was exhumed, and an examination of the clothing lod to the almost complete identification of Peters. Tho jury in the Begley inquest at Chicago recommended that tho four prisoners who admit that they fired from the Pinkerton train, bo held to the Grand Jury without bail. Mr. Potheringliam, the express messenger who was robbed on tho San Francisco road, says tho perpetrator gave his name as Jim Cummings, tho last of the Jesse James gang, a participant in the Blue Cut train-rob-bery, which yielded him only $1,500. A. A. Mellier & Co., wholesale druggists at St. Louis, made an assignment. The firm place their assets at $30,000, with liabilities estimated at SIOO,OOJ. A poisoned well at Battle Creek, Mich., caused tho death of Mrs. G.' Winters, and tho serious illness of her three children and of a neighboring family. The dry-goods house of Shiply, Dorsey & Co., of Cincinnati, have asked an extension of time of their creditors. Tho firm's liabilities arc SBIO,OOO, with assets of $503,500. The building occupied by the Case School of Applied Science, in Cleveland, named after the late Leonard Case, by whom it was founded, was destroyed by fire. The laboratory, containing many chemicals, exploded. Total lo>s, $300,000. A disastrous accident occurred on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul Railroad at East* Rio, Wis., a passenger-train having been derailed by an -open switch. There aro conflicting storiqp as to tho loss of life, one dispatch stating that twenty-six persons were killed. A Wabash train which left St. Louis collided with a freight tram when ten miles out. Both engines were wrecked and an engineer and braktman were killed The banking-house of William M. Dustin, at Lincoln, 111., has suspended business, and an, assignment will bo made. Its liabilities are $230,001. Mr, Dustin wjs engaged in packing beof at Miles City, Montana, in company with Roselle M. Hough, who built the Chicago Stock Yards. Their buildings were burned last July, causing a loss of $40,000. The remains of thirteen victims of the railway wreck at Rio, Wis., were identified, bunt is believed that from seven to ten others perished in the blazing car. Two women, five childven, and three pinery laborers, who are known’to have been in the coach at tho time of tho disaster, are unaccounted .for. Later reports from Lincoln, 111., show that the Dustin hank failuro is greater than at first supposed, and that creditors will • not receive over 25 cents on the dollar. The propellers Eoauoke, Dean Richmond, and Wisconsin will run during tho winter on tho Milwaukee and Grand Haven routo. It is now claimed that the loss by the express robbery on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad amounts to at least $Bl,000. The de.eotives aro still watching Fotheringham, the messenger. Mrs. Henrietta Ohanfrau will present the latest New York success, “Tue Scapegoat,” by Sir Charles Young, author of “Jim the Penman,” at Me Vicker’s Theater, Chicago, the current week. The p:ay deals with the adventures of a woman who sets out to free her

husband from a charge of murder, and to put the crime upon the man who is really guilty. It is now claimed that the amount stolen from the Adams Express Company in the robbery on the St Louis & San Francisco Railroad will reach $121,000. Under the new tax law Armour propesos to manufacture even more oleomargarine than ever at his Kansas City house. An inquest held at Evansville, Vis., on the body of a stockman named Hamilton showed that his spinal cord was broken by a fall from a car at Barbaroo, and that he survived his injuries for a week. The official repor- of the recent disaster on the St Faui Road says that there were fourteen v.ctlms. The stock of apples in Chicago at the present time is estimated not to exceed 20,000 barrels, against the 401,000 barrels on hand a year ago, and there is little prospect of the Quantity becoming any larger. The last windstorm is reported to have boon very destructive to the winter apple crop of Michigan, and the supply from other sources can hardly make amends for the falling off in that region. It now looks as if there will be a decided scarcity of apples of good keeping quality, and that stocks of the evaporated fruit will be very light.