Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1888 — THE WESTERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE WESTERN STATES.

Fire broke out in the Indiana State Normal School, at Terre Haute, on Monday morning, and in a few hours the extensive buildings were a mass of ruins. There were 625 students in the building and the fire was discovered in the middle of the morning exercises. They had plenty of time and were marched out in regular order. The loss on the building will be nearly $225,009. Besides the structure, one of the finest libraries in the State, valued at $10,003, and a fine chemical laboratory were lost. There was no insurance. Temporary arrangements have already been made for the continuance of the school. Fairfield, Neb., had a number of business buildings burned. Loss, $40,000. Work is in hetive progress on the Standard oil-pipe line from Lima to Chicago. Advices from Indian Territory say that forty farmers of Ashland and other Southern Kansas points organized a vigilance committee last week and made a raid on a band of horse-thieves in No Man’s Land. Four of the band were caught and strung up to the nearest trees. Nine more were chased into the sand hills of the Cherokee strip and are now surrounded in a dugout. They refuse to surrender, and the farmers propose to starve them out and hang them. A new trial was refused “Blinky” Morgan at Ravenna, Ohio, and he was sentenced to be hanged In the penitentiary on the Ist of June.

The heirs of Philip Francis Renault have organized an association to prosecute their claims to a large tract of land in Illinois and Missouri, said to have been granted to Renault by Louis XV. of France. The champion bigamist of the age turns up in Detroit. A dispatch from that city says: In December last a license was issued by the Clerk of Wayne County for the marriage of William M. Brown, of Cleveland, aged 40, and Mrs. Robertson, aged 38. About two weeks later the bride called upon the minister who performed the ceremony, -with a request for a duplicate of her marriage certificate, saying that her husband had stolen the original and fled. About this time the County Clerk received a circular from the authorities in Pontiac warning him to iook out for W. J. Brown, who was roaming around seeking whom he might marry. He did not appear, however, until March 21, by which time the warning had been forgotten, and a license was issued.permitting Wilber J. Brown to wed Anna Winter. The couple were duly married and left the city. The Monroe detectives have been at work on the case for several days, and as a result of their investigations, it is said, not less than twenty victims of Brown's matrimonial ventures have been disclosed.

Mrs. John Green, of Ridgeville, Ind., died of what was then an unknown disease, but further investigation into the cases of her husband, two sons, and three daughters, who were all sick from the same disease, developed the fact that it was trichinosis, caught from ham eaten on Easter Sunday. Tho three daughters are not expected to live. Akron, Ohio, is suffering from an epidemic of measles.

Murder in the first degree in the case of Dave Walker and short terms in the penitentiary for other members of the organization was the verdict returned by the jury in the trial of the Bald-Kuobbers at Ozark, Missouri.