Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1885 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

The new penal code adopted by the Minnesota Legislature restores the death penalty for murder in the first degree and renders murder in the second degree punishable by life imprisonment. Manslaughter in the first degree is punishable by five to twenty years' imprisonment The penalty for treason is life imprisonment. For bribery a punishment may be inflicted not exceeding ten years’ imprisonment or $5,000 fine, or both. Conspiracy and libel are termed misdemeanors. Among the crimes against the person are suicide, homicide, maiming, assault, highway robbery, dueling and libel. Dueling is punishable by imprisonment for not less than two nor more than ten years. The penalty for seduction is not to exceed five years’ imprisonment or $1,000 fine, or both. The penalties for body-snatching are the same as those for seduction. Lotteries and other methods of gambling are provided against. A limit of fifteen years’ imprisonment is fixed for arson, and black - mail is punishable by five years’ imprisonment.⡀⡀⡀⡀The General Ministerial Association of Portland and East Portland, Oregon, passed resolutions that they would not marry persons divorced for other than Scriptural reasons, nor the guilty party who had oeen divorced for the latter cause. » Neab Chebanse, HL, at midnight, a passenger train on the Illinois Central Bailroad was brought to stand by a broken track. The New Orleans express, closely following the passenger, also stopped, but a freight train, coining after, dashed into the express, wrecking the rear sleeper, telescoping other cars, and driving them forward into collision with the leading train. John A. Mclnnes, of Ingersoll. Ontario, was instantly killed, and about a dozen'other passengers were injured, some quite seriously. At the inquest the preponderance of evidence went to show that the passenger and express train employes had taken no precautions to guard ftgninst the collision..., F. Hemple, a savings banker of Beaver Dam, Wis., who lies in jail on charge of embezzlement, owes nearly $60,000 to German depositors, and has surrendered to his assignee property valued at $3,200. He had been operating on the Chicago Board of Trade....A medical college at Des Moines bonght from his mother the remains of Cicero Jeilerson, who waa recently lynched fer the murder of his father... .The Toledo and Indianapolis Railroad has been purchased for the bondholders, the price paid being $150,000. WHILE Matthew Beedy, a Pecatonica (ill.) farmer, and his son were going home the other night they were stopped by two highwaymen, one of whom struck the elder Beedy with a slung-shot and rifled his pockets. The blow produced concussion of the brain and the man will die... .Lemuel Fuller of Amyle, 111., imagined that burglars were on Us premises a few nights.

ago, and, issuing from ilia house, fired at suspicious objects. They proved to be two valuable horses, and, had to be killed.... Eighteen hundred employes in the machiue shops along the line of the Wabash RoAd struck >against a proposed reduction in wages, last week... .In an abandoned well on their premises at Cinciunatti, the Cincinnati Warehouse and Malting Company has discovered natural gas, the pressure gauge showing twenty-five feet to the inch. .... Charles R. Woods, a retired Major General, was found dead in bed at Newark, Ohio. J '» - An attempt was made at Lincoln, Neb., to kill Patrick Egan, President of the Irish National League, by means of an infernal machine; but the contrivance, though handled carelessly, failed to explode.... Cowboys stopped-the Pacific express at Mingusville, Dak., and made the conductor dance the cancan on the platform, firing their revolvers at him during the performance. A posse from a neighboring town arrested the whole party. A plot to rob the State Treasury of Nebraska became known at Lincoln early in February. One day last week three men stepped to the cashier's window in the State House, presented pistols at the head of Deputy Bartlett, and took S4OO in coin. As they walked away, a detective fired at them, and killed one named James Griffin. Alva McGuire was captured, and the third party escaped. The robbers named had each killed his man, but escaped ’ conviction on the part of self-defense. There are suspicions that the affair was a clever job engineered by local detectives solely to secure reputation. The revolver of one of the alleged burglars was found to ba loaded with blank cartridges only, and there are other suspicious circumstances in connection with the affair.