Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1887 — A DAY’S DOINGS. [ARTICLE]

A DAY’S DOINGS.

Eventful Happenings in Every Hemisphere, as Transmitted by Telegraph. Political. Social, Financial, Commercial, Industrial, Criminal and Other News. THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. SHOT DOWN LIKE DOGS. A Dakota Man Kills Three Persons, Fatally Wounds a Fourth, anti Commits Suicide. Near Huron, Dak., Simon Nelson shot and killed Mrs. Shaw, her 15-year old son, and her sister, aged 22, then fatally wounded a man named Ke'sey, and blew out his own brains. The tragedy was the result of a contest over tree claim which had been decided .n favor of Mrs. Shaw. A Huron dispatch gives the following particulars of the ghastly tragedy: 8. 8. Neilson, a former Commissioner of thia county, lived on what was known as the Cameron claim, nine miles northwest of Huron. Ho did nut live upon it for a year or two after ho filed upon it, in April, Mrs. Flora E. Shaw, a widow, with <ne son, filed upon the same claim, and at once took up her residence upon it with her sister, Miss Addie E. Lyman. After Neilson ha t proved up on another quarter-sec-tion he moved to this one. When the case came before the Huron land-office it was decided in Mrs. Shaw’s favor. Neilson appealed to the Commissioner, who decided against him. On another appeal by Neilson the Secretary decided against! him, refusing to give possession. The district court issued an order restraining him from interfering with the owners of ths land. The two ladies, the son Guorge, Mr. Kelsey, a neighbour, and E. C. Lynam, brother to the ladies, all went to the field to work Monday morning. While young Shaw and his uncle were plowing their first round Neilson came out of his house with a rifle and shot at Lyman, who got behind his horses and fled. He then fatally shot Kelsey. Next he shot young Shaw through the heart. Turning his attention to the young lady, he shot her in the left temple at five paces, ana then stabbed her in the right breast. He then shot the mother in five places. Returning to the house he chuckingly said to his ■wife : “There are three less of them. ” He then went outside of the back door ana sent a bullet through hia right temple, falling dead at the doorway.

FATAL ACCIDENT. Five Boys Drowned While Bathing Near Maquoketa, lowa. A Maquoketa (Iowa) dispatch states that five boys—three of whom were sons of John Beck and two of them sons of Paul Hindel—whose ages ranged from 9 to 16, were drowned in the Maquoketa River Monday afternoon. Three of them while in bathing plunged off a sand bar into the water beyond their depth. When another boy saw they were drowning he plunged in to rescue them. Another boy who had his clothes on, noticing the failure of the first boy, also plunged in, and all were drowned together. Another boy, however, being by this time undressed, plunged in after them, but failed to rescue them. The Interstate Commission. An answer has been received by the Interstate Commerce Commission from the Chicago and Grand Trunk Railroad Company to the complaint of the Michigan Central . Railroad, Company against it for selling tickets to commercial travelers at a lower rate than that given to the public generally. The Chicago and Grand Trunk admits the sale of tickets and the other facts stated by the complainant It holds that the form of ticket sold commercial travelers is in the form of a special contract by which the company is relieved from some part of the liability subject to which it transports other passengers, and it is claimed that this limitation constitutes a sufficient reason for the discrimination in favor of commercial travelers. It is also stated that the travelers constitute a distinct class of the railroad-traveling public,, generally riding short distances at a time and visiting a number of places of business on the line of the road, often going from one station to another by freight) trains, and altogether traveling very much more than any other class of people. They l also create a large freight traffic over the roads by the sales they make at places along, the line In view of these considerations it is contended that the provisions of the inter-' etate commerce law do not apply to mileage tickets sold commercial agents. Substantially the same answer is made to" a similar complaint against the Chicago and Grand Trunk by Louis Harrison.

The War Among the Knights. The General Executive Committee of the Knights of Labor has declared a boycott upon the carpets made in the establishment where the members of District Assembly 126, who ■were recently suspended from the order, are. employed. The word “boycott” is not employed by the committee, but the phrase “we cannot recommend these carpets” answers the purpose just as well The local assemblies at New York and Philadelphia repudiate the action of the committee. Those Bad Mexicans. An El Paso dispatch says it is believed there that two es the three Mexicans sentenced to' death for their connection with the Nogales affair will probably be executed, notwithstanding Secretary Bayard’s appeal for clemency. One of them, CoL Aroizu, is said to be in bad odor in the Mexican army, serious charges having been heretofore preferred against him. Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Hoad. A Vansantvoobd and George C. Magoun have been chosen directors of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul Railroad, to succeed Alexander Mitchell and Julius Wadsworth. An increase of $10,000,000 in the capital stock •was recommended for the purpose of making extensions and purchasing the Chicago and Evanston Railroad. The election of a President was A Kentucky Horror. John H. Fields, a farmer living near Helena, Ky., shot his wife and two sons, and then cut his own throat Jealousy and financial embarrassment are named as causes for the •crime. , ,