Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1885 — LIGHT AND SHADE. [ARTICLE]

LIGHT AND SHADE.

A Series of Sensational Occurrences tin Various Quarters of the Country. Embracing the Romantic, Comic, and Tragic Phases of Every-Day Existence. r -.■ - I Lynched by a Mob. [Girard (Kan.) dispatch.] At Baxter {-Springs, Cherokee County, a girl fourteen years old, was waylaid, ravished, and terribly maltreated. John Lawrence, colored, seventeen years old, was arrested for the crime and brought here and lodged in jail. When the train from Baxter Springs reaqhed here about twenty men got off near the station and scattered through the town. Half an hour later a number of armed men made a dash for the jail, broke down the iron door, took the prisoner out, marched him up one of the main streets, armed men surrounding and keeping citizens from interfering. They took him two blocks from the jail, anil hanged him to the rafters of an unfinished house. Then one of them, said to be the father of the girl, emptied his revolver into the body. Members of the mob then walked out of town and returned to their ,homes. _ A Mysterious Disappearance Cleared Up. [Cincinnati telegram.] Fifteen months ago Mr. John Van, aged forty-eight, half-brother of Marie Van, the vocalist, drew eight thousand dollars from the bank, carried it about his person several days, and then was suddenly missing. Detectives were employed, but finding no trace the family mourned him as foully murdered. He was a prominent Mason. Last Saturday an excursion of Mason visited High bridge, over the Kentucky River, and going to the Shaker village saw Mr. John there, a member of the community, which he had joined after leaving Cincinnati, turning his eight thousand dollars into the village funds. There was cordial handshaking all around. Mr. Van has always been peculiar. .He ran away from home when ten years old and went to sea. where he remained ten years, and then suddenly, at the age of twenty, returned to his home. He is a confirmed Shaker now. The Utah Insult. [■Salt Lake telegram.] The indignation over the Mormon act of placing the flag at half-mast continues unabated. Excited groups of Gentiles discusse 1 the affair all day. An old veteran stood in front of the City Hall looking at the trailing flag, while tears streamed from his eyes. Shaking his fist at the Mormon policeman guarding to see the flag was not raised, he exclaimed: “How long, O Lord, how long!” and declared he would leave the nest pf treason within forty-eight hours. Horace Eldredge, President of the Deseret National Bank, the United States depositary here, says half-mast was the proper place for the flag, as “we have not more than half our rights.” The Deseret News, the church organ, fully-justifies-the halfmasting of the flag in a five-co.umn editorial, conclusively showing it was under church authority, and claiming it was right to do it because liberty was dead in Utah. Terrific Explosion. [McConnellsburg (Pa.) dispatch.] ( A dynamite blast at the east end of Siding Hill Tunnel, on the South Pennsylvania Railway, caused the death of John O’Brien, heading boss; Christ McCormick, and John White, colored. Four others were seriously injured, two of whom, an Italian and a negro, will probably die. James McManus escaped miraculously, receiving, apparently, the whole force of the blast. ' He was covered from head to foot with painful woqnds, but, notwithstanding his condition, went into the tunnel and located the position of the men at the time of the accident. Wm. Hunter was also badly wounded,, A gang of twenty-five men had just retired, otherwise the whole party would have probably been killed. O’Brien, it is said, caused the premature discharge by pounding down the explosive before the arrival of the man that usually did the firing. Tragic Death of Miss Bessie Hincks. [Boston dispatch.] While Miss Bessie Hincks, daughter of Gen. E. W. Hincks, was walking with a friend on Brattle street, her dress caught fire, it is supposed, from a smoldering firecracker. Two gentlemen living near by rushed to Miss Hincks’ assistance and managed to extinguish the flames, but not until she was so burned that she died within a few hours. Miss Hincks was 20 years old and had just completed her first year’s studies at Harvard annex. .She was the only daughter of Gen. E. W. Hincks, former commandant of the National Soldiers’ Home at Milwaukee, and was known and highly esteemed by a large circle of friends in that city. She graduated from the Mil- . waukee Female College with high honors iu 1883. Bodies Taken from the Water. - [Parsons (Kan.) dispatch.] Reports from all points make the damage by flood very great The Neosho River is five feet 'higher than was ever known before. Many farmers, who had their wheat cut and in the shock report almost a total loss, while others have lost hogs, sheep, and cattle, and in many instances houses and homes have* been stvept away, the families barely escaping with their lives. The loss of life has been greater than usual. 'Three bodies at Parsons, three at Chanute, and three at Neosho have already been found, and others are missing. No attempt has been made by the railroads to cross the Neosho since the Ist inst The (Cotton Crop. [New Orleans special.] The monthly report of the National Cot-' ton Exchange says, concerning the growing cotton crop: There have been no very wide variations from the normal rainfall and temperature over the cotton belt during the month of June, and the condition of the crop, which was 91 at the close of May, is now advanced to 92; against 81'hnd 85 for ihe ■ corresponding months of last year. The plant has progressed well, and has gained some in point of growth and healths illness. ’ ~ . \ Activity of the Cheyennes. [Wichita (Kansas) telegram.) Dispatches from Fort Reno and Darlington, the seat) of the apprehended Indian trouble, say that sixteen companies of soldiers are now upon the ground. The Indians, in speaking of the probability of their be ing disarmed by the Government, say they will die before submitting to that, as it would be death in either event. There is little doubt but white men have had a hand in working the Indians up to their present warlike attitude. \ President Cleveland wears a white 1 Derby hat.