Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1887 — THE WESTERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE WESTERN STATES.

In the death at Whatcom, W. T., of the Rev. laaac S. Kalloch, one who had led a career full of startling sensations has passed away. The bloody drama In which he was one of the principals In the stormy days of sand-lot domination in San Francisco brought him into sp> cial prominence but from bcvliood he bas furnished sensation after sensation, and it was only witliiu the last half-dozen years that he was in a measure lost to public view. He is best reni.mbar.d in connectiou with the terriblo scandal wbac h. was pastor of the Tremont Temple, Boston, o»er a quarto of a century ago. Kalloch was elected Mayor of San Francisco on the workingman s ticket in 1879. During the campaign ha was shot by Charles De Yalta?, at time time editor of the Chronicle, the dispute growing out of a number of personal attacks made by both parties. The Chronicle printed the details of Kalloch’s Hie in Boston and Kansas, and Kalloch was equally bitter in his attacks on the De Youngs, assailing their mother in the vilest lnnguage. in April, 1880, Kalloch’s son went to tho Chronicle office and shot De Young dead, and was afterward acquitted of the charge of murder. At the closo of his term as Mayor Kalloch removed to Washington Territory, where he had since resided. A Chicago dispatch says: “The building at the northwest corner of Adams street and Fifth avenue, which was owned by Edwin H. Sheldon and occupied by Phelps, Dodge A Palmer, wholesale boot and shoe dealers, was completely ruined by fire Monday night The loss on the building is placed at #115,000; insurance, #85,000. Phelps, Dodge A Palmer estimate their loss at #600,000, and say that it is about covered by the insurance. Adjacent property was damaged to the extent of #5,000.” The farm residence of Michael Harris, fourteen miles from Wossington, Dak., was destroyed by fire, and Mrs. Harris and six children were burned to death. Mr. Harris aud one daughter escaped. A Concobdia (Kas.) telegram reports that “an armed mob surrounded the jail at Leoti, in Wichita County, Kansas, and made a desperato attempt to lynch Thomas Allen, imprisoned on the charge of having been implicated in the killing of Coulter and Ransom Feb. 27 last John H. Edwards, Sheriff of the county, with Dick Wade, his Under Sheriff, was in the jail at the time. The mob broke in the jail door and demanded the prisoner. Their demands being refused by the officers, the mob opened a heavy fire with Winchesters and revolvers on the occupants of the jaiL Tho officers returned the fire, fighting bravely for their man, and after a fierce fight succeeded in repulsing the mob, severely wounding several of them and saving the life of their prisoner. The news that Allen was attempting to obtain hiß release on bail enraged the Lootians.” Fubtheb particulars of tho horrible burning of the Harris family, near Wessington, Dak., are telegraphed from Huron, Dak.: They lived on a farm in a two-story house. About midnight Mr. Harris awoke and found the lower part of the house in flames. Himself, wife, eight children, and hired man all slept in the second story. The fire had gotten such headway that he was obliged to jump from the window, and called to his wife and Parr, the hired man, to throw the children to him. Parr and Harm' oldest boy jumped from the window, leaving Mrs. Harris to get out the children. She threw the baby to her husband, and returned for another child, when the floor gave way and the roof and side of the building fell in, engulfing her and the remaining six children in the fire. The heat was so great and the wind so strong that itwas impossible to render any assistance. AU were in their night-clothes. Parr went to a neighbor's, a mile and a half distant, for help, returning with his feet and hands badly frozen. Tho baby was put in the barn and covered with hay till assistance came, but it was also badly frozen. The seven bodies were removed from the debris in a blackened and almost unrecognizable condition. The feet, hands, and legs of some fell off as they were taken up. The family were from Mount Ayr, Ind.

Kansas Cm special: “Sands Hopkins has committed suicide by taking laudanum. Deceased was the son of Dr. J. Hopkins, who died twenty years ago, leaving the boy a large amount of real estate, which has since increased immensely in value, and a year ago the victim of last night’s tragedy was held to be worth almost #1,000,003. For the la3t two years he had led a dissolute life, plunging wildly into dissipation, and spending large sums of money in a reckless manner. He was the dupe of gamblers, who bled him for thousands of dollars, and the influence of Mb relatives and friends to tear him away from these associates proved futile. Sands was still a very young man, having just passed his twenty-ninth birthday.” Wong Ah Lung, a Chinaman of San Francisco, has been sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment and fined #2,000 for importing women into the country for immoral purposes.

A Broken Bow (Neb.) dispatch says: A young farmer namod James Rankin, living about eighteen miles northeast of here, started out on the morning of Dec. 10 for a hunt in a sleigh. When he had reached a point in the woods about half a mile from his father’s! house his double-barreled shotgun slipped off the seat, and in attempting to draw it toward him the hammers caught and both loads discharged into Ms heart His clothing caught fire from the flash and was burned off, with the exception of the overshoes. The remains were discovered Thursday morning, lying in the seat of the sleigh, about a quarter of a mile from the main road, in the woods. His right hand still

held the reins firmly, and the horses were stand ng on the edge of a deep ravine. They had been without food Sinco the accident occurred, and had gnawed the sle gh-tongue nearly in two.