Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1885 — About the C. &. G. S. Railroad. [ARTICLE]

About the C. &. G. S. Railroad.

We have the authority ’of the Scripture for the fact that a “receiver is as bad as the thief,” and modern experience has demonstrated that he is generally a good deal worse; audit was scarcely to leexpeted that the Receiver of the “Chicago & Great Swindle” would leave anything but the right-of-way, and a few streaks of rust, by the time the road was taken out of Jiis hands, but now that the track is four blizzards deep in the snow, it is possible some of the iron and ties will be left for his successors. Three bad wrecks of passenger trains, and one that was not very serious, occurred on the Monon route last week- At Bloomington a misplaced switch wrecked a train, with great damage to property and several persons severely injured. At 112th street, near Chicago, an L, N. A. & C. train collided with a Chicago and Atlantic train, and both trains were thrown from the track, but, fortunately, no one was hurt. Early Saturday morning, train number 4, which, when on time, passes Rensselaer at 10:28 p. tn., going south, was thrown from the track and badly wrecked, by a broken rail, and several persons injured, about two miles north of Battle Ground; and an hour or two later, from a similar cause occur red the wreck just north of this place. A big, burly bummer, named Bill McGuire Hickey, a resident of La Gro, but also a habitue of the Chicago saloons, got mad at I.ee Lynn, editor of the Wabash Courier, last fall, because the Courier had asserted that Hickey had been hired to do slugging at the polls in Wabash, and entered the Courier office with the avowed purpose of killing Lynn, but was frightened out by a bullet from the editor’s revolver. Since that time Hickey has made many threats against Lynn, and on the morning of Feb. 7, after following and abusing him for about a block, he finally made a rush upon Lynn," saying that he would cut his heart out. Lynn then turned and shot Hickey, several times, with a 44caliber revolver. One of the wounds was mortal, and Hickey died the same evening of the. shooting. Lynn gave himself up to the authorities, but after a thorough examination, he was discharged, last Friday, there being no reasons for regarding the killing as anything but justifiable homicide. ?