Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1886 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

A passenger train from Louisville, on .the Air Line Railroad, was thrown from the track between Huntingburgh and Ferdinand. Ind., by a broken tie at the junction of two roads. There were twenty-two passengers in the coach, fourteen of whom were injured badly and the others slightly. The coach took tire, but the flames were soon extinguished. The train hands and passengers who were not badly injured gave prompt assistance to. the sufferers and the badly injured were taken to lliintingburgh for medical aid- r~~ T.A. Canty, City Clerk of East St. Louis, and D. J. Canty, County Recorder, have been indicted for conspiracy, and with being accessory to burglary and larceny." in inducing certain persons, now in the penitentiary, to rob the City Clerk’s office in East St. Lottis over a year ago. . . .Jeff Wilson. a colored man. was executed at Lex* ington, Mo., for the murder of his mistress, in presence of five thousand persons. Sixty cases of -measles are reported by • one physician at Sandoval. Ilk .Eight prominent citizens of California, including three who represent $5,000,000 capital, have beenjndicted by the Federal Grand Jury at Karr Francisco for per jury in connection with entries of 96,000 aeres of timber land in- Humboldt County. The District Attorney will bring suit to set aside the patents. Fike broke out in the Planters’House, the oldest hotel in St. L6uis, at three o’clock in the morning. There were about 15O.guests and fifty employes in the house at the time. All escaped save four servant girls, who perished from heat and suit ovation. The main portion of tlie building was not damaged, and the loss was only about $5,000. The Georgia revivalists, Sam Jones and Sam Small, closed their labors in Chicago, last Sunday evening, when an audience of nearly eight thousand persons endeavored to reach the platform and extend a farewell greeting. When the recent converts were called for ±ls persons stood up as witnesses to the work. The revivalists will resume their labors inj Chicago in September.