Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1886 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

Thb police of Chicago arc confident that at last the man who threw the dynamite bomb into the ranks of the polioe on the night of May 4is under arrest. His name isLouis Lingg. he is a German, a carpenter by trade, and has been in this country only eight months. When arrested he made a desperate resistance. The detective who made the arrest went alone to the house, a squad of officers remaining some distance away. The young anarchist was sitting at the table writing. He seemed to have instantly recognized his abrupt visitor as an officer and grabbed a large Remington revolver which lay upon the table. The officer sprang upon him before Lingg could shoot. The men grappled in a struggle for life, which was so desperate that neither could use his revolver. They rolled upon the floor, first one on top and then the other. Lingg got the officer's thumb in his month and bit it almost off. The women began to scream. At this instant the policemen on the outside burst open the door and rushed in. Lingg ■ was instantly overpowered and handcuffed. In Lingg’s trunk were found two pistols, two long dynamite bombs, a large lot of shells and cartridges, and a quantity of anarchist pamphlets and newspapers. In the trunk were a large number of letters and pieces of writing in German, which showed that Lingg had been , one of the most rabid anarchists in the city, and that he was in correspondence with the leading agitators in this and other cities. The police claim to have sufficient evidence to convict him. .... The coroner’s inquest at Chicago on the bodies of Policemen Sheehan and Flavin resulted in holding Adolph Fischer and Anton Hirchberger as accessories to the murder of the latter-named officer by means of a bomb. The towii of Dunkirk, Hardin County, Ohio, was struck by a cyclone early on the morning .of Saturday, the 15th lust., and font persons killed and between fifteen and twentv injured. The same storm struck the back of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad two miles west of Forest, Ohio. It blew down a tree which scraped the «ide of the fast east-bound express from Chicago, injuring ten or twelve passengers, one of them seriously, his leg being broken and one eye put out The storm did great damage along the Blanchard River. A cyclone swept through Albion, Mich., unroofing a number of structures, resulting in heavy losses. Jonas Drury, of Springfield, Ohio', who predicted most accurately the recent storms in that State, * based upon records for twenty years, has issued a similar warning for June 13 and 14.

Peesident Strong has announced the intention jof the Atchison Koad to build an air-line track from Kansas City to Chicago, forty miles shorter than any other route, without special regard to local traffic, the work to be accomplished within two years. A surveying party ; located at Keokuk has - finished its labors as far eastward as Galesburg, and lias a force at ujprk on the route westward to the Missouri Kiver. The inciting cause of the enterprise is the invasion of the State of Kansas by the Bock Island and Burlington roads. .': .A farmer of Inkster, Dakota, named Cowdright recently went to Pennsylvania and married into a good family by m»wn« of an introduction from a citizen. At a hotel in Fargo, the otter night, the fellow fled with $6,000 and all their baggage, leaving his victim destitute. Most of the money belonged to her... .Crop reports from the* Northwest, with few exceptions, are of the most favorable character. Frequent rains have fallen, but they have been followed by cool and pleasant weather, and vegetation now has a vigorous start Frost was- visible on the morning of the 16th throughout tte region froin Lake Michigan to Colorado, but no great damage was repeated at any point. .."While endeavoring to stretch a cable across the river at Tuscumbia, Mo., Richard Higgins and Thomas Barrett were drowned in the presence of their families before aid could be rendered. Later and more complete reports from the storm-swept region of Ohio show the loss of life and damage to property to have been greater than tte first accounts indicated. The toronado plowed its way in a southeasterly direction through one hundred miles of pplendid farming country, leaving desolation in its wake. Seneca, W T yandot, Hancock, Hardin. Auglaize, and Mercer Counties mourn tte loss of millions of dollars in property , and, above all, scores of lives. In Mercer County thirty dead bodies had been found, with many times number injured. Three persons were killed at Wabash City. In Dunkirk, Hardin County, five persons were killed and twenty badly injured; and in tte vicinity of the town five more persons were killed and a number injured, two probably fatallv. In the Blanchard Biver valley tte storm made a cleah sweep ten miles long and half a mile wide, demolishing 100 buildings. Wyandot and Hancock Counties, adjoining one

another, were devastated. Carey, a prosperous town in tfie first-named county, received a tremendous Shaking up. Seventeen building* were completely destroyed apd six persons killed butrigbt. Hloouiville, South Carey, Wharton, and many other villages suffered in a like manner. Ten miles west of Tiffin, the county seat of Seneca County, a strip of country half a mile wide and, several miles in width was totally stripped of buildings, as, in fact, of‘All else above thr surface of tho earth. At Kenton and Lancaster and in their neighborhood immense damage was done. Five persons were reported killed and thirteen wounded near Celina. At Findlay two persons were killed and a number injured, and at Forest the elements created great havoc. At the latter place several persons were killed, two churches were destroyed, and so violent was the storm that beds were carried some distance with people in them. The damage, to say nothing of the loss of life, is placed at $400,000, At Kentou a man was killed bv lightning, a church was demolished, and considerable damage was done to buildings and property. Around Lima there was great loss among the live stock, and in the vicinity, of Bucyrus over twenty buildings were wiped out by the rushing storm. In Indiana, Michigan, and Illinois the winds were also disastrous, but very few cases of loss of life were reported except two from being struck by lightning at Carliuville, 111.