Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1884 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

Spabks from the engine fired campaign torches in the express car of a train between Richmond and Deer Park. Wis., alarming the travelers. Boxes of cartridges X«o explodefl, causing the destmctton of the mail and express cars. The

registered mail was saved, bnt some pouches and the express matter were destroyed. An explosion of gas in the nnphthahouse of the Central Pacific Mill at Lawrence, Kan., destroyed the house, shattered the windows of the mill, and fatally injured Patrick Hart and John Malcom, bearers of the lamps which caused the explosion.... While a Republican procession was being formed nt LaCrosse, Wis., F. A. Bnrton, President of tho Blaine and Logan Club, was shot dead by a man known ns " Scotty, ’’ but no mot) ve for the murder is known. The criminal was at once arrested' and hurried to the jail, where hundreds of men shortly afterward gathered, determined upon lynching “Scotty." , After battering down the doors tho culprit was brought out and strung to a tree, butthe rope broke. Another was at once procured, and the lynching was completed. .Burglars cracked, the sitfe of I. N. Thompson at Perrykville, Ohio. They then stole a horse and drove to Mansfield and escaped. One coiner of the building, which is brick, was blown out by the shock -made in blowing the s.ife. A small' sum of - money was secured.. . .Howard* Kerns,* night operator in the Northwestern depot at Winnebairo, 111.. was assaulted with fatal effect by a disorderly brakeman whose discharge he had caused. The Coroners jury on the Mitchell lynching case at LaCrosse, returned a verdict that he was hanged by persons unknown to the jury. The engine, baggage-car, and first.'coach of a train on the Cincinnati and Eastern Narrow Gauge Railrotd plunged Through a bridge near B.itavia, Ohio, two persons being killed and a number injured, a few of them fatally. ... Two blocks of buildings at Montague,Mich, were burned, the loss reaching $75,000. French's woolen mil' at Foster St i:iion, j\Eeh.. was: -destroyed by fire,, causing aloss of $40,000..... The fail tire of Bam - berger <fc Co., wholesale clothiers at Cincinnati, is announced, with $5(),000 liabilities. —Tiis-ehief theatrical- event of the week in Chicago has been the appearance at Me-J Vicker's Theater of the brilliant young tragedienne, Miss -Margaret Mather, in a round of standard plays. The critics of the daily press note great improvement in her art. This week she essays tho great role of “Lilly Macbeth,” a character in which Charlotte Cushman achieved her greatest laurels. Policeman Gobman, of Cincinnati, who was wounded at the election riot, died the other day, and his sister, on hearing of his death, expired in a few hoursA Louisville, New Albany and Chicago train was wrecked, near Putnamvillo, Ind. Loss, $30,000. Three employes were injured and the cars consumed... .The balance of the miners in the Ohio Central and Buckeye Creek regions have struck for an advance in the rates o£ mining to 80 cents per ton, . At I .eavenivorlh, Ran.. Rie!i:i n 1 J. Waddy, an iron molder, shot his wife and a Mrs. Logue, and then shot himself through the head, dying instantly.