Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1888 — THE WESTERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE WESTERN STATES.

Gen. Martin Beem, the Chicago politician and lawyer, who had been on the ranch of his father-ln-1 iw, D. Case, near Stanton, Neb., shot himself through the head. He died within five minutes after he fired the shot. It is believed that he killed himself on account of family’difficulties The day he reached Stanton to join his wife she left for Chicago, and she did not reiurn until the day of the aeed. When she arrived his eyes were swollen and inflamed, as if he had not slept for a long lime, and he was very pale aud weak. He grew despondent when he reached the ranch, ind nothing his father-in-law could say or do could cheer him any. It is believed that his reason was entirely dethroned when he blew out his brains. Billy Carson, a son of Kit Carson, the famous scout, shot aud killed Thomas J. Tobins iu a fight at Fort Garland, Colo. Tobins was a companion of Kit Carson, and almost rquaily famous. His most noted exploit was the capture of the Mbxican bandits, the Eapeuosas brothers, single-handed, for whose capture, either dead or alive, the Territorial and the United States Governments had offered large rewards. Tobins started after he men on horseback, and was gone three days. When he returned he brought with bin! the heads of both brothers in a gunnyjack, and dumped them on the floor of a Government office. He never received the reward.

William Garland, of Lafayette, Ind., one of the oldest hardware merchants iu that State, has made an assignment His assets are $7,000; liabilities unknown. • A storm of wind struck tbe little village of Lacona, in Warren County, lowa, demolishing a two-slory building used as a store ahd burying in the ruins a farmer —Leonard Wilson. He was dead when taken from the ruins. Two other men were slightly injured. Several buildings were unroofed. A charter hus been filed at Topeka, Kan., for “The Farmers’ Federation of the Mississippi Valley,” the farmers’ trust. The capital stock is $20,000,000, with shares at $lO each. The charter is signed by citizens of fourteen States and five Territories. Hoover & Allison, merchants of Xenia, Ohio, have failed, with liabilities of $200,000 and assets of $300,000. The Second National Bank of the same place, which held considerable of the paper, was forced to suspend. Allan O. Myers has been convicted at Columbus, Ohio, of contempt of court in publishing objectionable articles during the tallysheet forger)’ cases. He was fined S2OO and sentenced to three mouths’ imprisonment. An appeal was taken. On the farm of the Widow Freeze, near Arlington, Neb., occurred a horrible catastrophe. Fire broke out in the barn, and when cit zens reached the spot two hours later they found in the rums the charred remains of seven human beings, distributed among tbe burned carcasses of the live stock. The entire family, consisting of four adults and three children, had b.ieu burned to death, probably in the attempt to rescue tho cattle from tire burning stable. Fire destroyed the Los Augeles Cab) Cracker Company’s block and one dwelling, causing a loss of $65,000, with but SIO,OOO insurance. John Schuler, a watchman, is supposed to have perished in the flames. At Laporte, Ind., in tho trial of Henry Augustine for the murder of Samuel Brown, one of the jury became insano, fancying that his fellow-jurymen were going to murder him, and uot improving, tho Judge dismissed the jury., Fire afrSau Diego, Cal., destroyed the stores of S. G. Ingles, hardware; Charles Hamilton, groceries, agricultural implements, eta, and Frederick Hamilton, hardware, and slightly damaged other stores. Tho total loss was $150,001); total insurance, $85,000.