Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1886 — THE WENT. [ARTICLE]

THE WENT.

THE river suddenly overflowed its bnnks At Trinidad, Col., destroying many dwellings and driving the occupants iu their night-clothes to seek places of safety. One man was drowned, and property worth $lB,000 was ruined. Lieut. Gov. Morius, who is Acting Governor of Missouri during Gov. Mannaduke’s absence in New York, has refused to issue a warrant on Gov. Oglesby’s requisition for the Deputy Sheriffs who firnd on the mob in East St. Louis, 111., two weeks ago, and who are now confined at St. Louis. They will be held until the charges against .them for killing the man Thompson on the bridge the same day they tired on the mob are disposed 0f... .The furniture workß of A. H. Andrews «fc Go., in Chicago, were destroved by fire. The loss is about SIOO,000. The Grand Jury at St. Louis has indicted Martin Irons and A. C. Coughlin, prominent Knights of Labor; Committeeman George M. Jackson, and S. M. Nichols, for tampering with the telegraph wire; Messrs. McGarry. Burdett, and Chase, and three other strikers for obstructing the Missouri Pacific Railroad; five or sis men for using dynamite on the street railroad tracks during the strike last October of the; street-car drivers: and all the deputy-sheriffs who fired on the mob in East St Louis about three weeks ago. The specific offense for which the deputies are indicted is manslaughter in the third degree for killing C. H. Thompson on the bridge while they were crossing the river. The strike in the Lake Shore yards at Chicago was finally ended through a compromise, and all the switchmen resumed work energetically. It is understood that within -sixty days the objectionable men will be transferred by the company to another field of labor. A farmer living near Elkhart, lud., dug into a large mound on his place and unearthed twenty-two skulls, all of which had been crushed in at the back. The corpses had been buried face down. A stone wall six inches high surrounded the bones. ~. It is announced from Sau Ffaucisco that the transcontinental railroad war is over, limited tickets to Chicago, and SBI.SO to New York. During the cut ip rates from twenty to twenty-five car-loads of passengers left Kansas City daily for the Pacific coast... .More than half of the acreage of Dakota and. Minnesota has already been sown to Spring .wheat, and the favorable weather enables many farmers in Wisconsin, lowa, and Nebraska to seed their lauds. There are indications that winter wheat in Kansas will not be much more than a half crop. .. ,Gov. Marmaduke, of Missouri, represents public sentiment in the Southwest as demanding that railway traffic be no longer disturbed by strikes. He holds that the bayonet should be used only when absolutely necessary.