Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1887 — THE WESTERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE WESTERN STATES.

A site for the graves of the executed anarchists, says a Chicago telegram, “has been selected in Waldheim Cemetery. The friends of the anarchists visited the vault and opened the casket containing Lingg’s remains. The mutilated face of the bomb-maker had undergone no change. Mr. Schmiedinger clipped off a lock of the suicide’s hair. None of the other caskets were opened. Members of the defense committee say that they will have no trouble in raising a monument to ‘the martyrs,’ and in transforming the site of their tombs into an attractive Mecca for their sympathizers. No money has as yet been laid aside for the'purpose, all that has thus far been received having been devoted to ihe care of the families of the dead mon and their imprisoned fellows, ” A special telegram from Omaha, Neb., reports that— Engineer Markham and his flreman had a thrilling experience with a panther on the Burlington and Missouri River Road, between Minden and Artell. The train was a long one, and heavily laden, and between the two places named the engine Blippad an eccentrie and came to a standstill. Markham and the fireman got out to set matters right. They had about completed the job when both heard a yell that made their blood run cold, and before either could turn a large panther sprang upon the engineer and buried his claws in his shoulder. The fireman had a heavy wrench in his hand, and with this struck the brute on ths head. This partially stunned him, and he loosened his hold on the engineer, but before the men could take advantage of the situation the panther made a leap for the fireman. and lacerated with one of his claws his left hip. Engineer Maraham by this time had drawn his revolver and shot the brute between the eyes, killing him instantly. Both men were badly hurt and will be laid up for some time. The panther measured nearly six feet from hia no e to the end of his tail, and weighed nearly 200 pounds.

The loss by the burning of the packinghouse of the Des Moines (Iowa) Packing Company is estimated at $250,000; insurance, $190,000. Fire destroyed two blocks of dwelling-houses in the suburbs of San FranciflCOj causing a 1033 of $75,000. Salt, a German woman Of Lawrence, Kan., who abstained from food tor four weeks, died. When spoken to she invariably answered in quotations from the Bible. Intelligence of a ghastly quadruple tragedy reaches us by wire from Glendive, in Montana, the particulars of which are at follows: Sioux Indians named Finger-Nail, Sitting-in-Front, and Pete Mattthews, confined in the county jail for horse-stealing, made an attack on two white prisoners. Their weapons were table-knives, a pair of scissors, and common chairs with which the jail was supplied. After inflicting mortal wounds on the white prisoners, Finger-Nail and Sitting-in-Front hanged themeelves in their cell with their bunk-straps. They were assisted by the other Indian, Pete Matthews, who, after they committed the deed, tried to butt his brains out against the wall of the cell, but was secured and ironed by the Sheriff and several other persons. The two Indians who hanged themselves stabbed themselves all over their bodies before resorting to hanging. Francisco Salamo, an Italian, who was confined on a charge of burglary, was stabbed in several places and lived only a few hours. The other prisoner, L. H. Turck, was stabbed and pounded over the head with chairs in the hands of the Indians. The Indians who did the work tried to starve themselves to death several months ago, and after that remarked that they would not live to be tried for horse-stealing. A horrible holocaust is reported by telegraph from Wausau, Wie.: A building occupied as a residence by Carl Honikel, his wife, and five children, was consumed by fire, and before assistance could reach them three of the children perished and the other two and the father have since died of their injuries. Mrs. Honikel is still alive, but her injuries ore of a serious nature. She raved like a maniac, and it is feared that even if she lives she will be hopelessly insane. The building was a wooden structure, double boarded, filled in with sawdust, and very inflammable. The front was used for sleeping rooms and the back as a kitchen. The fire started in the kitchen, and the family were doubtless asphyxiated before they were reached by the flames. Honikel was a hard-working, industrious German. When dragged through the window he had clasped in each arm the inanimate bodies o f two babies.

A tebbible tragedy is reportad from the Indian Territory, which grew out of the attempt of a deputy marshal named Dalton to arrest a horse-thief named Smith. The latter was found in a tent, in which there were also another man named Dixon and his wife. When the officer inquired for Smith the desperado rushed out and fired upon him, and a general fight ensued, which resulted in the killing of Dalton and Smith and Mrs. Dixon. Dalton and Cole were brave men, have killed several desperadoes in the Nation, and were looked upon by the United States Marshal as the best men on his force. This makes fifteen United States Marshals killed in Indian Territory during the last two years.