Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1887 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Six business buildings at Alliance, Ohio, w-ere destroyed by fire, aud two other structures were badly damaged. The loss is SIIO,OOO, with about $75,000 insurance. A man named Hawes shot and killed J. M. Berry, a saloon-keeper at Flagstaff, Arizona, for interfering in a quarrel between Hawes, his brother, and another man. Half an hour after the murder, twenty citizens captured the two brothers and shot them dead. Berry was known as a peaceable man. The Hawes brothers were disreputable. A frightful tragedy is reported by telegraph from Cleveland, Ohio: James Cabalek io a well-to-do carpenter, living on Independence street, near th 6 city limits. Thursday morning he and his son went to work shortly before 7 o’clock. The mother, Antoinette, had been out of temper at the breakfast table, and had refused to talk to her husband. Directly after breakfast she sent Henry, her 15-year-old son, to a grocery near by, and still another son to a milk depot. When they returned, they could not get into the house. Going into the back yard, they saw James, 13 years old, in a closet, bleeding irom sixteen wounds in his left side. They Hastened away and called their older brother, who had gone off with the father, and, returning, the three boys forced an entrance to the house. They discovered Tony, an 8-year-old girl, bleeding from a dozen cuts in her left side. On the floor near by were Mamie, 5 years old; Antoinette, 3 years old, and Willie, -3 months old, all dead from dreadful stabs near the heart. A bloody pair of shears told the story, A hunt was made for the mother. She was found in the cellar, hanging from a rafter, dead. She had killed her three children, mortally injured two others, and had then suicided. The two children who were still alive w-ere removed to a neighbor's house, but they will die. No cause for the terrible deed is given. The husband does not think that his wife was insane.

The Detroit Driving Club, having withdrawn from the National Trotting Association, has issued a call for a meeting in February, to form a new association. Representatives of several packinghouses in Kansas City have made arrangements to ship their goods to Europe by way of Memphis and New Orleans. Warehouses for this trade are to bo constructed in the latter city by a steamship company. It is stated that Miss Nina VanZandt will go with her mother to Paris, and reside there until the fate of Anarchist Spies is finally settled. The Chicago Times of Monday contained the following: “What's this?" skill Turnkey Frank Blair when he swung open the main door of the County J ail Sunday morning in response to a knock for admittance, and beheld a very small colored woman holding a very large basket in her arms. “Well, sah, I’ll tell you,” she replied confidentially. “It's a breakfast dat Miss Ninny Van Zandt sent ovah fo’ Mistah Spees, and dat ahe done cook wid her own hans, and she said dat she doan wan’ none of -you all sassy jail people to fool wid de roas’ chicken or omlett souflay, but to sen’ it right up to Mis±ah Spees quick, so's it woan’ git cold. She wuz orful pertickler dat everyting should be cooked jus’ right, and -I reckon it wuz, for she wudn’t let nobody else do de cookin’. Good Lawd, but how she do love dat man.” The basket and its contents were duly handed inside, and Miss Van Zandt’s Ethiopian hand-maiden took her departure. "Examine the contents of the basket carefully, and if there is no dynainite or one of the young woman’s lap-dogs concealed somewhere send the stuff up to Spies' cell,” said the jailer, A minute search revealed a card card bearing the written words, “From Baby to her Tootsy-wootsy, ”• hidden away betw-een two Alices of bread. Nothing of a contraband nature was found, however, and the basket and contents were sent to Spies by one of the guards. From the above circumstance it can be seen that Miss Van Zandt’s love for the anarchist is not dead but sleeping, notwithstanding Sheriff Matson’s edict and the notoriety which she has recently received. A Kansas City special says: “A. K. Cutting, the Texas editor, is in the city, and Intends to deliver a lecture on his peculiar experience. He believes that Manning and Sedgwick were knocked out by an insidious Mex :can drink known as telequa, which has such effect upon a pilgrim that he would rob a . church. Cutting has a divorced wife living in this city. He says that his filibustering expedition is growing in importance. ” On the ground that the contract was on a gambling operation, the County I Court of Milwaukee dismissed the suit of

Daniel Wells against Peter McGeoch for 8200,000 alleged to be due on the famous lard deal of 1880.