Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1886 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

At Logansport, Ind., the tank of a gasoline stove exploded, its flaming fluid saturalingfhe clothing of Sarah_Hassell aiid Joseph Heffner, l>oth of whom started oTt-ft-run with their clothing ablaze. , Both were captured after au exciting chase, but cannot survive their fearful burns. In the great-strike on;the Gould Southwest lines both sides sepm to be standing flnn. Officers of the Missouri Pacific Hoad made several unsuccessful attempts to run freight trains out of St. Louis on the sixth day of the strike. and late-Tnthe afternoon they applied to the State Circuit Court for injunctions to restrain leading strikers from entering on the properts bT the road. An attorney and several deputy sheriffs undertook to run the gauntlet at Parsons. Kansas, but a strong engine, run by strikers, coupled on behind and pulled the official locomotive back into the yards. Two thousand persons stood in the yards at Sedalia for three hours to hear the Mayor read the riot act. •nd -see engineers and firemen ref use t o take out trains. At night teii prominent Knights of Labor were arrested on State warrants for disabling an engine. Abgvmknts in a Chicago court ryom for a new trial of the Wiehe-Moran breach-of promise case were" suspended by reason oF an offer bv Mrs. Wiebe to pav the judgment of $ 750 on condition that the case end there. ....TheTvlvsicr.<>hio.Houst>rTfßefttgv was destroyed by fire. The loss was about $40,000 ... A committee from Mohthna is down the North Reservation, occupied by some 2,(HU) Blackfeet and kindred tribes, and consisting of 2.(H)O,(HM) acres of land.... Between Joliet and’ Morris, 111., masked robbers entered the United States Express car on a Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific train early the other morning, and after - killing the messenger robbed the safe of between $25,000 and $35,000. The Victim Of the assassins was au old and - faithful employe named Nichols, He resided in Chicago. The railway company has offered a large reward for the arrest of the villains responsible for the foul deed, b