Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1888 — THE WESTERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE WESTERN STATES.

Two men were killed and four injured by the burst ng of a boiler at Barnesville, Ohio. The Metropolitan National Bank of Cincinnati is a dead concern, and President Means has been arrested. A Cincinnati special says: The developments show that the bank has been in a very bad condition for some time. It was expected that tUere would be a run on the other banks of the city, but it was unusually quiet in business circles, the failure of the Metropolitan having been looked for a week ago. A sensxtion was caused by tne arrest of William Means, President of the bank. It was known Inst night that his arrest was contemplated. Mr. Means, understanding there was a warrant out lcr him, appeared at District Attorney Burnet’s office shortly after nodh and voluntarily gave himself up. It is understood that be is chargod with signing the statement of Dec. 10, 1881, sent to the Controller, purporting to be a true statement of the condition of the affairs of the bank. Means is also charged with the misappropriation of *234,288 of the funds of the bank by loans to himself between Jan, 1, 1887, and Feb. 5, 1888. Dakota is getting very sensitive about her blizzard reputation. The Yankton Board of Trade is out in a circular reciting the history of the fearful storm of Jan. 12, and claiming that not over two hundred lives wore lost in an area of 150,000 square miles, while not more than fifty head of live stock perished. Fire in Cle veland damaged J. L. Hudson’s clothing store $75,000; insurance, $150,000. As A cable-car train at Kansas City was rounding the top of a steep grade the bar connecting the grip-lever with the cable broke and the cars dashod down the incline and collided with another train at the bottom. The cars were wreckod, three persons being fatally hurt and seven others badly injured. A family of five persons in Tolodo are seriously and perhaps fatally ill of trichinosis from eating diseased pork. A Dubuque (Iowa) special says: “Judges Couch, Ney, and Linehan filed decisions in the Circuit Court, Thursday, granting permanent injunction against the proprietors of the five principal saloons in Dubuque. These are the first permanent injunctions granted in Dubuque County, notwithstanding there have been over two hundred cases pending for nearly four years. All of the Judges took the ground that the defendants, having in tbeir answers admitted the sale of wine and beer, and the evidence having shown that they sold whisky, it was clearly the duty of tho court, under the decisions of tho Supreme Court of lowa and of the United States, to grant the injunctions. Three of the defendants filed a supersedeas bond and notice of appeal to the Supreme Court It is not likely that the saloons of the defendants will be closed until their cases are passed upon by the Supreme Court” Hart was hanged for murder at Helena, Mont, on Friday. He was born In St John, N. 8., In 1863. Petitions bad been presented to the Governor for clemency, but no active effort was made to save the murderer. Hart said that he had made a discovery for prolonging human life, and wanted to live 1o demonstrate its value. One of the ingredients, he said, was ashes, wh.ch he had been eating for four months. Mb. Pinckney, of Toledo, a well-sh6o‘er, and Harry Johnson, a Workman, were literally blown to pieces by an explosion of nitroglycerine at Bellevue, Ohio.

A boiler exploded on the farm of John Spencer, near linoolnviUe, Ind., killing two men Several others were hurt by the flying pieces of the boiler, but the thickness of tbe undergrowth saved their lives. Nothing was left of the sawing outfit but a wheel and a few scraps of iron. Pumping cold water into the haated boi'er caused the accident