Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1887 — THE WESTERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE WESTERN STATES.

A Fargo (Dak.) special says: “Every train that comes in is crowded with men to file claims on the Northern Pacific Bailway limit The streets are thronged with people and the hotels are crowded. About fifteen hundred strangers are in tho city. Some skepticism is entertained as to the value of these filings, but the chance of winning valuable lands is a sufficient inducement ” The Excelsior Befining Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, has made an assignment Tho assets are estimated at 975,003; liabilities not given. Fire at San Francisco destroyed the Fulton Iron Works (loss, 9300,000), and the California Car Works (loss, about 950,000). The structures were well insured. Large numbers of Swedish colliers are being taken into the mines in the Springfield, 111, district, and the strikers there are liable to rise against them. The situation is serious. It is estimated the yield of wheat in Michigan will reach 22,815,153 bushels. Potatoes are about one-third crop; winter apples onehalf an average crop. A HUB of 200 men surrounded the jail a Delphi, lnd., and made a demand for Amer Green, confined there on the charge of murdering Luella Mabbitt. Greeu went out walking with Miss Mulbitt one evening in August, 1886, and tleycung lady was never seen alive afterward, a body found in the Wabash B.vor, near Lifayette, in the following February being identified as hers, and a Coroner’s jury pronounced Green her murderer. Tho mob, after being refused the keys of the jail by the Sheriff, battered in the door with a sledge, and soon encountered Green. The prisoner, who had preserved his coolness during the assault on the door, now pleaded piteously for mercy. His prayers were disregarded, and though he attempted to defend himself with a piece of piping hastily wrenched from tho wall, he was speedily overpowered, placed in a wagon, and driven away. The mob, in wagons and on foot, and greatly swelled by this time, started over the bridge and headed for Walnut Grove. The report was Boon afterward received that the purpose of the avengers had been carried out. When the Bun rose the following morning it disclosed tho body of Amer Green hanging in tho woods eight miles southeast of Delp hi A Des Moines dispatoh gives particulars of a shocking tragedy at Maxwell, Story County, Iowa: It appears that Perry Ackers, who committed the cowardly mprder, started out last evening about five o’clock, bent on destroying somebody. He borrowed a revolver from a hardware store on pretense that he wanted to shoot a dog, but he went straight to the office of Justice of the Peace Schmetzers, and, asking him if he was ready to take his medicine, administered it without further explanation, shooting him in the left lower jaw, the ball passing down and out by the shoulder blade. He next entered the office of Mayor French, and, stealing up behind him. sent a bullet into his brain. ; The Mayor never uttered a word, but died within an hour. The murderer then passed into the street, his crime as yet being unknown, and meeting several citizens, ho talked in a threat- ; ening manner about evening tip old scores, and brandishing his revolver freely. Passing on to the entrance to Odd Fellowe’ Hall, he said goodby to the Postmaster on the way, remaking that he was going to hell, and then shot himßelf, dying immediately. Ackers was a shiftless fellow, who had been for some time an object of suspicion, but no one suspected any such startling tragedy as came. Elihu B. Washburne, ex-Minister to France, died of congestion of the heart at the residence of his son in Chicago. He had been ill for some month?. His death was sudden and painless.