Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1887 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

A FKiOHTrrL tragedy is reported by telegraph from Cleveland, Ohio: James Cabaltk is a well-to-do living on lndoi>euuence street, near tue city liinili. Thursday morning bo and nis son went to work shortly belorc 7 o clock, l lie mother, Antoinette, had been out ot temper at tLe br, us'ttst table, and had refused to talk to her husband, Directly after breakfast she sent Henry, her la-year-old ion, to a grocery near by, and stilt another son to a milk depot. \V ten they xeturital, they could not get into the house, titling m.o the back yard, tuoysaw J allies, id year- olu.iu a cl, set, bleeding from sixteen wounus m ms leftside, they Hastened aw ay'aiid calle > their Older brother, who i ad gone oil with tuo lamer, and, returning, the three buys lorctdau outriuiee to the house. They discovered Tony, an toy earold girl, bleeding from u dozen cuts in her lett side On tile floor near by were Mamie, o tears Old; Antoinette, S tears old, and Willie, 3 months Old, all dead turn dleadtut stubs near the heart. A broody pair of shears told" the •tort , A hunt was made for tiie mother, She was found in the cellar, nuuging lroiu a rafter, dead. She had killed her three children, mortally injured two others, and liud then suiciued. The two children who were still aiive wore removed to a neighbor s house, but they w ill die. No cause for the terrible deed is given. The husband does not think that his wife was insane. A panther weighing eighty-five pounds was killed on the outskirts of Peoria, H 1... .The Detroit Driving Club bus withdrawn from the National Trottiug Association. and its Secretary, D. J. Campau, has tendered his resignation as member of the District Hoard. A call for a meeting to form a new organization lias been sent out.. ..Simpson Harms died in Putnam County, Indiana, last week, aged 109. He was bom in Orange County, North Carolina, Jan. 1,1778- He cast bis first vote for Jefferson, for President, in 1801, and had voted at every Presidential election since. He was a veteran of the war of 1812. His memory remained good. He talked intelligently about men ntid events connected with the formation period of the ~ Republic. i—- • -

Nearly two thousand farmers of Clermont County. Ohio, participated in a hunt last week, the result being the killing of two red foxes... .The Live-Stock Coinmissionrat Springfield, lit;, kas'Svut out checks amounting to S2O,(HXI, to reimburse the owners of cattle killed in Chicago on account of pleuro-pnennionia... .Those Seminoles of Indian Territory who suffered by , the failure of their crops are receiving from the funds of the tribe a sufficient stun to tide them over to the next harvest... .In the case of Sadie Hayes, charged with kill- i ing Policeman Jcnks. in St, Louis, it was agreed that a plea of guilty would be accepted, and that she should be sentenced to ninety-nine years in the penitentiary.. She has been in jail since October, J. 883. .....On the ground that the contract was based on a gambling operation, the County Court of Milwaukee dismissed the siltTof Daniel Wells against Peter McQeoeh for S2OO,O(Ki alleged to be due on the famous lard deal of 1880.. A Chicago dispatch Bays that Nina Van Zandt cooked a breakfast for August Spies, placed a loving card ' between two slices, of bread, and sent a colored woman to the jail with a basket. As the jailer found no contraband articles in the package he sent a guard to the anarchist's cell with it. Miss Van Zandt will go with her mother to Paris, and reside there till a decision is reached in the Spies cast-. ... A passenger train on the Louisville and Nashville road was wrecked near Hawthorne, Illinois, by the explosion of the boiler of the locomotive. The engineer and fireman were killed, and the express and baggage cars were demolished.