Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]
WESTERN.
Judge Gresham has appointed Judge Thomas M. Cooley, of Michigan, Receiver of the Chicago Division of the Wabash Railway. The old Receivers report $271,431 on hand at the close of November. Jay Gould refuses so express an opinion in regard to the now appointee. The Federal Grand Jury at St. Louis has returned indictments against fifty citizens for frauds perpoirated at the late election. Mrs. Juliet Cunningham was awarded $25,000 damages by a St Louis jury for injuries received in jumping from a street car which was in danger of colliding with a railway train. A railway collision in Dayton, Ohio, sent a locomotive running wild through the city at the rate of a mile a minute. It passed through ths Union Depot at the highest known rate of speed, aud exhausted itself at a point on the track ten miles in the country. The whaling bark Atlantic was wrecked near San Francisco, the ship going to pieces in a few minutes. Of the forty-two persons on board, only the captain and ten others are known to have been saved. Vessel and outfit were valued at $25,009, and the insurance but SS,(LO. It is stated that the timbers of the bark were so rotten they could be knocked to pieces by the blow of a hammer. Sylvester Granda, alias Gainders, was arrested at Kansas City for complicity in the Haddock murder, and wis taken to Sioux City, lowa. Granda admits he was. with several persons whom he mentions and drank with them. They had agreed to attack Haddock and another prominent Prohibitionist Arensdorf, he says, fired the shot which killed Haddock. Granda, with his wife and Koshnitzki, who is now under arrest at Sioux City, floated down the river cn a flat-boat, and Koshnitzki went on to California.
The Cherokee Council has passed an order extending the time for driving cattle in Indian Territory from April 1 to May 1, and also allowing the shipping of timber out of the Te-ritory upon payment ot a royalty. A letter from Sassakawa, Indian Territory, gives an account of the death there of Mrs. Susanna Warren, probably the oldest woman in the wofrld. She was born in Florida in 1750, and was in her one hundred and thirty-seventh year at the time of her death. She leaves a daughter ninety-seven years of age and many grandchildren.
Factor Jones and Dick Bullock, two of the four negroes who a few diyj ago murdered George Taafe, iu the Choctaw Nation, because he discovered them killing his cattle, â– were released on S4)O ball, but were caught by a mob, taken to the scene of the murder, and riddled with bullets, each rece ving not less than forty shots. Sandy Smith and George Moss, the other murderers, are in jail awaiting trial