Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Albert G. Boynton, who shot and killed his wife and J. B. Kipp on Sept. 17, was hanged at Los Angoles, Cal. Boynton pursued liis wife to Kipp’s house, where she had fled to escape a beating, and shot her, and then shot Kipp for attempting to defend her. A mob of 10,000 stormed the jail at San Francisco, CaL, with the determination of lynching young Goldenson, who murdered little Mamie Kelley. The prison was strongly guarded, however, and each assault was repulsed by the police. It is reported as definitely settled that the Baltimore and Ohio Railway will establish a line of steamers between Fairport, Ohio, and Duluth, obviating the necessity of a route so the Northwest via Chicago. The finest vessels WiiiJ*? built The theory of the prosecution in the St Louis express-robbery case that Messenger Fotberingham wrote the Jim Cummings letters seems to be overthrown by the fact that since the incarceration of Fotberingham the St Louis Republican has received a letter from Topeka, Kan., signed “Jim Cummings,” and written in the same hand as the others. The letter asserts tho messenger’s innocence, and says that the bank notes sent to Frank James were sent as a joke, and with no intention of doing him an injury. Frank E. Lockwood, proprietor of a hotel at Medicine Lodge, was fatally shot in tho Brettun House, at "Winfield, Kas., by Lillian Quinn, his mistress, who thon shot herself dead. Tho woman believed that Lockwood, who is a married man, was about to desert her.

The residence of Benjamin S. Wheller, in Eagle street, Cleveland, was entered by robbers, who ticked the old man into insensibility and choked his aged wife to death. Patrick Graves has boon arrested for the crime, and Mr. Whellor identities him. The Sullivan-Rvan slugging match at San Francisco ended in Paddy ltvan being completely knocked out in the third round. The mill was witnessed by 9,0J0 persons, and the receipts are estimated at $12,000. Ityan ! fought gamely and got in several blows on Sullivan’s face, but he was fairly outmatched and owned it. In a prize-light of seven rounds on a sandbar near St. Joseph Missouri, a Joplin miner defeated a Chicago blacksmith named Cassaday. A Chicago dispatch says: Conferences were held on Saturday between the packers and the ageuts of tho strikers, brought about by Congressman Lawler, but nothing was accomplished during tho day looking to ending the Stock Yards trouble. In the evening, however, at a strikers’ mooting on Halsted street, T. P. Barry appeared and read a dispatch from Grand Master Workman Powderly declaring tho striko at an end, and the domand of the strikers as unreasonab e. Tho dispatch was a surprise,, and created considerable ill-feeling. Powderly’s telegram ordering the men back to work was received Wednesday, but its announcement was for some unknown reason hold back. As there are now uear,y 19,000 at work in the packinghouses it is imposbiblo that all tho old hands can rind employment I.ocal Assembly No. 8357, Knights of Labor, lias placed a boycott on Armour’s products. An entertainment at San Francisco netted ss,t 00 for the boneiit of tlio Char»estou sufferers. Under a foreclosure the Indianapolis, Peru and Chicago division of the old Wabash system was sold to the bondholders for $1,806,000. h) The new Union Depot at Toledo,

located over a m le from the business quarter of the city, was on Sunday thrown open to the public. Ten thousand pop e gathered to witness the arrival of tho first train.