Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1888 — THE WESTERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE WESTERN STATES.

Four masked bandits made a raid on the Citizens’ Bank of Limestone, Indian Territory, in broad daylight, murdered the cashier, robbed the bank of $2,300, remounted their horses, and fled. A running fight with citizens followed, in which two of the latter were wounded, and one of the brigands was slain. The remaining outlaws were finally captured, and one of them hanged to a tree, while the other two were turned over to the United States Marshal. One hundred clerks, operators, train and sect on men between St Louis and Toledo have been discharged, and two passenger trains dropped by the Toledo, St Louis and Kansas City Railroad Company, to reduce operating expenses. A man was found in a lumber yard at Cedar Rapids, lowa, the other day, with his throat cut He was takenlo .the hospital, and was found to be Wencil Cerney, a Bohemian carpenter of Scotland, Dakota. He claimed he had been at Sioux City, where he was accused of complicity in the Haddock murder, and was threatened with lynching. This preyed on his mind and led him to attempt suicide. Before his wounds were dressed, he wished to speak of the Haddock tragedy, but when told he would live he refused to talk further about it When, to quiet him, he was assured that the Haddock murderer had been. caught, ho said: “No, they haven’t got him yet” The physicians say he is sane, and it is thought he knows much of the Sioux City crime. A St. Louis dispatch announces the death of George Clark, one of the best known printers in the United States. He had been thrice President of the International Typographical Union, and President of the local union times without number. Mr. Clark was a prominent candidate for the office of Public Printer previous to the appointment of Benedict, and had the indorsement of all the typographical unions as well as the support of the Missour delegation in Congress. He would have been appointed had not the President preferred an Eastern man. Mr. Clark was proof-reader on the Globe-Democrat at the time of his death. It is alleged that half the citizens of Bainbridge, Ohio, have been involved in coal thefts of a singular character. A minister, the City Marshal, a hotel proprietor, and , twelve prominent citizens nave been arrested, 1 and many other persons will be locked up. Although coal is universally used at Bainbridge, not a car-load has been billed to a resident this winter.