Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1887 — THE WESTERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE WESTERN STATES.

The trustee of the insolvent firm of E. L. Harper & Co., has reported to the Probate Court, at Cincinnati, that the total appraised value of the assets is but $103,302, while the direct and indirect liabilities foot up $3,154,817. Creditors may get about four cents on the dollar. The Creston express, on the Kansas City, St Joe and Council Bluffs Railroad, ran Into a local passenger train which was standing on the main line near Afton, lowa, killing five persons and wounding about twenty more. It is said the accident was due to the carelessness of the conductor on the local. The killed and wounded were taken to Creston. The list of injured was chiefly confined to the sleeper on the rear end of the passenger train, as follows: Infant child of the Rev. A. E. Mosner, Creston. , Mrs. Mosher, bead and arms badly cut; will probably die. Charles Cook, Brooklyn, N. Y., with wife and two sons, en route to Nebraska, were in sleeper. The youngest son, 4 years old, was fearfully scalded, probably fatally. Other members of family not seriously hurt. L. J. Gray, Greenfield, lowa, horribly cut. It. C. Fullerton, Chillicothe, AV is , spine injured. Sarah Grimingor, Cleveland, scalded. Miss Anna Morrell, Red Oak, lowa, face and arms scalded. J. A. Bailey and wife, Michigan, both injured In back and slightly scalded. G. Brockman and wife, Michigan, slightly scalded. The injured are cared for at the Summit House, Creston, and are doing as well as could be expected. A Sioux City (Iowa) special says: “A jury has finally been impaneled in the Haddock murder case, in which Fred Munchrath, Jr., is defendant. Something over fifty men were examined before the panel was filled. The State and defense exhausted all their peremptory challenges. The personnel of the jury is as follows: One druggist, one merchant, two undertakers, one gardener and seven farmers. I'bo jury is considered much better than the one which tried John Arenedorf, and it is believed that a verdict will be rendered in accordance with the evidence, though some think the jury will hang in any event. The defendant looks haggard and careworn, audit is thought that before the trial is over he will tell what he knows and place the crime on the right man. He was made somewhat of a scapegoat at the Arensdorf trial. There is little question but he knows of the incidents leading to the murder and was near the scene of the tragedy when it occurred. ” The Illinois Supreme Court has not yet announced its decision in the case of the condemned Chicago anarchists, says a Chicago special. There are rumors to the effect that the whole matter will go over to the spring term.

Ar New Hampton, lowa, two boys under 10 years of age are under arrest charged with attempting to wreck a train. The examples of youthful depravity say their intention was to rob the dead and injured passengers, and admitted they read with avidity “yellow-back” literature. California celebrated Friday the thirtyseventh anniversary of its admission to the Union. ANew Albany (Ind.) special says: James Wilson has reached the city with a couple of black eyes, defaced nose, and several ghastly cuts on his side, presenting a most pitiable spectacle. The old man is from Crawford County, where he has just undergone a lively tilt with the “regulators,” who forcibly fired him from the community for some misunderstanding he had with an erring son who expressed a determination to join the "White-Caps” against the father’s protestations. The son made the facts known to a small posse. A meeting in a densely thicketed section was held, and the same night the “Caps,” including the son,called out Wilson. He was overpowered and dragged to the way ■ side, lashed to a tree, and switched. After being released he saw in front of him a heavy hickory club, which he seized, and with telling effect felled two of his antagonista to the ground insensible. Here, he says, is where he received the injuries. The Grand Jury of Grundy County, Illinois, found no indictment against Miss Dodge for killing W. S. Babcock, the Chicago lumberman, on tho 20th of August. Miss Dodge has been discharged and her bonds canceled. Report says only five of the twenty-three grand-jurors favored indictment.