Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1885 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

A FARMER near Wabash, Ind., took into a corn-field a worthless dog and a half pound of dynamite, tied them together, and fired the fuse. The remains of the cur were scattered all over the man, who nearly fainted from fright... .The stockholders of the Chicago and Evanston Road and the Chicago and Lake Superior Road have been called to vote on a contract for consolidating the property and franchisesand issuing mortgage bonds to the amount of $7,000,000.... An attempt will be made to sell toe St Louis, Hannibal and Keokuk Railroad under foreclosure, December 8, for at least $370,000.... The Illinois Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, held its annual session at Springfield, with a large attendance. The reports of officers showed the order to be in a healthy and flourishing condition.... An Indianapolis telegram says: “A tremendous sensation was caused in the Court House this morning by the shooting of Harrison Tasker, colored, charged with a criminal assault upon the person of a young woman named Helen Huendling, by the victim’s brother, Meindert Huendling. On Saturday Tasker enticed the girl into his room, and, pointing a revolver at her. compelled her to yield. When released, she jumped from the window and received serious injuries. Tasker was arraigned for this crime in the Criminal Court this morning, A young German boy, greatly excited, entered the room as Tasker was being led out handcuffed, and, rushing up within a yard, fired a heavy ball into the colored man, causing a fatal wound. ’My mother’s dead, and this nigger ruined my sister,’ was the boy’s comment as he was seized by a bailiff. Wild confusion ensued. Many negro women in (he courtroom screamed, and there was a surging of men into the room. Tasker was taken to the hospital in a dying condition, and Huendling was arrested. Tasker claims that the girl voluntarily visited his room, but few believe him. ” A dispatch from Winchester, 111., says that “Fred Homer, who was shot by a mob, has died of his, wounds. When he was dressed for burial four shot wounds were found in his back. These wounds were not discovered by the physicians who attended him. He died protesting his innocence of the crime for which the mob killed him. “ • A ghastly and mysterious double murder was committed in one of the populous portions of Kansas City, Mo.', the victims being Mrs. Catharine Conway and her ten-year-old daughter Kitty. The horrible discovery was made by a neighbor, who called at the house and was startled on &efng the bleeding and lifeless bodies of the mother and daughter in the back room, Mrs. Conway being found lying on her back on the bed bound and gagged and her skull crushed in, while the little girl was on her knees with her head ly on the bed and her bra ; ns oozing out of ah ugly gash in her head.... A policeman in St Louis found on the car-track at the corner of Compton avenue and Morgan street an infernal machine composed of gas-pipe and gunpowder, with a cap at each end. ...ln a game of three-bail billiards at Yankton, D. T., Mr. Lannie McAfee made a run of 6,004 points—a most remarkable performance. Chicago journalists have purchased the Davenport Gazette, which will be managed by George B. Armstrong and Thomas O. Thompson. ...Officials of the Union Pacific Road have learned that a mob of white man attacked a section-house at Rock Springs, occupied by thirty Chinamen. Revolvers were fired and stones thrown until the Celestials fled ,to the hills for the night, returning to their work in the morning. The Southern Pacific Company, keeping K view the necessity of warding off low--s»te competition, gave the Atlantic and Pacific Road an entrance into Los Angeles and surrendered the San Diego business,

in return for the use of track from Colton to Riverside and a pledge to ipaintain rates.., .Jacob Kauffman, a well-known musicinn of Denver, having evidently lost his reason, undressed himself on the prairie near the Orphans’ Home, and crawled back and forth through a barbed-wire fence until death came to his release. His flesh was found hanging in shreds.... While B. J. Shay, a prominent individual, was dining with Mrs. James C. Brown, of Healdsburg, in San Francisco, the woman’s husband entered the restaurant and tired two shots at Shay, inflicting fatal wounds. ... .A man named Brandt, at Waco, Neb., becoming irritated beyond endurance, flung a lad of 13 years into a thrashing-machine, where his head was ins antly torn from the trunk .. The Attorney General of Kansas has gone to Emporia to take proceedings to get aside the sale by the regents of thirteen thousand acres of normal school lands to a banker named Cross.... Blackfoot (Idaho) special: “The United States trial jury, after being out all night arguing Bishop Porter's case, ‘ agreed on a verdict, of guilty. YVilliam C. Garrison was tried and convicted of unlawful cohabitation. His was a peculiar case. Garrison, a member of the Mormon Church, asked the consent of his Bishop to take a second wife, which was refused. Garrison took the second wife, and was disfellowsiiipped. He was hated by the Mormons, and regarded as a Gentile. ” The Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company has sued the city of Evansville, Ind., for the payment of $60,000 interest on defaulted water-works bonds amounting to $3,000,000. The bonds were reissued in 1870, when the works were completed, and not a cent upon them has ever been paid.... .Don Ewer, a sporting man widely known throughout Michigan, was shot dead in an alley near the Michigan Central depot in Detroit. A few minutes previously he told his affianced wife that he had $2,200 in a pouch tied about his waist, but nothing valuable was found on his person... ” . D. F. Wadsworth, the senior partner in a banking-house at Ishpeming, Mich., which closed its doors last year, has been indicted for embezzling $60,000 of city funds..,. The body of Mrs. James Quayle, which had been missing at Cleveland for ten days, was found in the lake. She is thought to have killed herself, the result of melancholy... .A Swede named Charles Sundstrom. living at Stillwater, Minn., is afflicted with leprosy.