Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1887 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

A SEBlors accident occurred on the Jacksonville and Southwestern Railroad, t between Yirden and Girard, 111., by which 1 two passenger coaches were derailed and tumbled down an embankment about eight feet high, and several persons were ladly hurt. The list of injured is as follows: Senator Elizur Southworth, of Litchfield, severely injured internally, perhaps fatally: Senator L. B. Stephenson, of Shelbyville, bruised; Senator J. J. Higgins, of Duquoiu, bruised; Senator T. L. McGrath, of Mattoon, bruised; Senator R. L. Organ, of Caxini, braised; Representative G. V. E. Fletcher, of St. Elmo, bruised; Representative J. R. Campbell, of McLeansboro, head cut and badly bruised; Miss E. B. Russell, of Carlinrille, hip severely hurt; George Roch, of Girard, face badly cut; L. M. Smith, of Litchfield, severely hurt. Senator Southworth, who was in the smoker, was thrown across the car. He fainted away and had to be handed from the car. After stimulants had been administered he was taken in the baggage-car to his home at Litchfield. It is said that the ■wreck was caused by running at a too high rate of speed. The train on the JacksonviUe Road and one on the Chica:o and Alton Road, which runs parallel with the Jacksonville Road for a distance of four miles, were racing, it is charged. The first act in the investigation of Cook County frauds at Chicago was the seizure of the books and papers of the Commissioners, the Hospital, the Insane Asylum, and the Infirmary. The documents were taken to the Grand Jury r00m... .The customs authorities at Detroit have recovered a loss to the Government of SBO,OOO by the smuggling of opium through British Columbia and Ontario. The drug was usually shipped to California as glassware. B. A. West was arrested and held in $lO,000 bail as a smuggler... .For the year ending with February the only gold and silver mine worked in Michigan yielded $43,153. The funerral of Mrs. Xeebe, wife of one of the condemned anarchists, was made the occasion at Chicago of a formidable demonstration by the followers of the red flag. /Addresses were made by George Schilling and Paul Grottkau. the latter denouncing the aufEbrities for indirectly causing Mrs. Neebe’s death. The Paris commune was eulogized at length, and its leaders treated as the pioneers of a great and good cause. Seward Mott, a Second Lieutenant is the Tenth Cavalry, was killed with a knife by a young Apache chief on the San Carles Reservation.... A grand hunt in Morgan County, Illinois, where 230” men and boys covered an area of fifty miles in circumference, resulted in the death of three foxes.. True bills were returned by the Grand Jury at Morris, IH., against Henry Schwartz anil Newton Watt for th«~niuf3er of" Kellogg Nieholls, the Rock Island express messenger....A jury at tharloUe, Mich., has given judgment against that city for $250 to James Caihcart, a captain in the Salvation Army, who was recently locked up fourteen hours for leading a parade in violation of 'orders by the authorities.... At Des Moines, lowa. Constable Fierce undertook to seize $25,000 worth of liquor in the drug store of Hurlbut. Hess A Co., but was ordered by the eourt to furnish a bond of indemnity, whereupon he decided only to guard the goods until the case is heard by Justice Gaston- Meantime the firm has advertised that if will remove its business from lowa.