Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1886 — THE WENT. [ARTICLE]

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The condition of spring wheat in-the Northwest has very much improved since May 30, rain having fallen in four-fifths of the area and stopped the operations of the cbinchbugs. The oats crop has suffered seriously from drought, rain falling too late in Southern Minnesota and Northern lowa to save many fields... .Mrs. Emma Molloy, the noted temperance lecturer, and consort of George Graham, murderer, recently hanged by a mob at Springfield, Missouri, has been indicted as an accessory after the fact to the murder of George Graham's tflfe.... At a summer resort near Akron, Ohio, where nine hundred Knights of Labor went on an excursion, the eon of a leading merchant named Rice was shot dead by Perry Saunders.... Heavy floods are reported from Southern New Mexico. Many rail-, road bridges have been washed away and other property destroyed.. „ Captain Murdock, of the Sixth Infantry, while crossing Grand River with a part of his command, was drowned... .Geronimo is killing many Mexicans and Americans in Guaymas, Mexico... .The United States courts in Colorado are out of money and must suspend. One of the men who robbed the County Treasurer's safe at Perryville, Mo., of $6,000, has been arrested in Grand Tower, and $1,326 of the stolen money has been recovered. He has confessed, and his accomplices will soon be caught. - The Grand Jury, after a three weeks' investigation of the Anarchist conspiracy, at Chicago, completed its labors last week and submited its report. The general result of the investigation has been the indictment of ten Anarchist leaders, seven indicted for murder,'and the indictment of about twenty others for conspiracy, riot, and unlawful assembly. The report affirms the existence of a band of conspirators numbering not more than 100, and perhaps not more than fifty, whose, object was murder destruction, and arson-,- and-- that the* massacre of the 4th of May “was the result of a deliberate conspiracy.” The report proves further that the conspirators cared nothing about the labor movement. They simply tried to utilize it. They planned the use of dynamite bombs for the time of excitement incident to the eighthour agitation. They calculated on taking advantage of whatever ill-feeling should arise then between employes and employers to aid in carrying out a plan of devastation in Chicago unequaled except in Paris during the reign of the red terror of the Commune; ... .The United States Grand Jury,at Seattle, W. T., has indicted a number of men for participating in the Chinese riots there, and also claims to have unearthed a treasonable organization, which exists throughout the country,- the objectrof whictris arson, robbery, and murder. The name of the organization is “The Red American International Workingmen’s Association."' ....Robert Schilling, who was indicted along with the Milwaukee rioters, returned and surrendered himself to the authorities, and subsequently gave bail in the sum of $3,000... .The jury in the Maxwell case, at St. Louis, after being out fifteen hours, brought in a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree.On the first ballot three of the jurors were in favor of acquittal. The prisoner was taken back to jail more dead than alive, but received assurances from his counsel that the judgment could be reversed on errors. His face was ashen in its pallor, his eyes sunken, and his whole appearance that of a man who had received a severe nervous shock. He anticipated the verdict