Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1887 — THE WESTERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE WESTERN STATES.

Settlers on the land claimed unejer the fraudulent Maxwell grant, which has been sustained by the Supreme Court, are organizing to resist the claims of the company holding the grant Daniel H. Folton, a farm-hand of Middlebury Township, who, three weeks ago, married Emma Schutt, attacked her with a butch-er-knife. says an Owosso (Mich.) telegram. The woman fought for life and the two struggled across the farm-yard, where Folton forced his wife to the ground and beheaded her. He threw the head far from the trunk and went back to the house, where he called out Mr. Holmes, his employer, of whom he was jealous, and with the knife disembowelled him at one thrust, Folton fled, but was pursued by neighbors. Folton turned on them and, kneeling, cut his throat He was then seize 1 and turned over to the authorities at Corunna. Alonzo Allen, living six miles from Allegan, Mich., shot his 16-year-old wife, fatally injuring he* Jealousy was the cause. Jacob Dingman, of Butler, Ma, has been allowed a pension. He served in Company I, 34th lowa, is totally blind, and his application had buen pending for ten years. He will draw #12,491 to date. Gen. Cabnahan, Chairman of the Republican Central Committee of Indianapolis, was arrested on an indictment mixing him up with the late election frauds. He gave bail.