Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1887 — CHIMES AND CRIMINALS. [ARTICLE]

CHIMES AND CRIMINALS.

It is rumored that the negroes of Laurens county. S. C., have organized secret oath bound clubs with the intention of burning out and massncreing the white planters, taking the white girls as wives, and enslaving the white children. The whites have organized a cavalry company and applied to the governor for arms and ammunition. The governor is prepared to put ono or two regiments of militia in the county at very short notice, and says that if it is necessary all thetroops Of the State will be ordered out and he will himself go to Laurens. The Chicago boodlers were found guilty -of obtaining-money under -false pretenses' and Sentenced to three years in the ..Deniten tiary. A stage running between Ballwin and Barretts, Mo., was robbed by masked men. Henry Y. Lesley, the defaulting Secretary of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal with J. A. L. Wilson, the embezzled over $65,000, has been arrested. ; Bud Matthews, charged with assassinating Robert Meadows, an aged man, has been held for trial at Forsythe, Mo. Maxwell, the rootderer of-Preller. will hang, as the Supreme court at S^- Louis has affirmed the finding of the lower court. The mystery surrounding the disappearance of Willie Dickenson, from Commonwealth, Wis.,.six years ago, is being . cleared up, and in a way to show The unfortunate boy was murdered. Letters ; have been found at Milwaukee purporting > to have been written by the man who abT ducted the child and afterward killed him. Patrolman F. A. Register, of Kansas City, Mo., was shot in the left shoulder by a footpad whom he was trying to arrest for shooting a citizen. An organized gang

of highwaymen i* supposed to be infesting that dity. Sidney A. Dwight, aged 65, cashier of tho only national bank in Coxsackie, N. Y., is short in hia" account* between $50,000 and S6O/100. The deficiency 1 will be made good by the. stockholders. The shortage in the accounts of Walter S. Condon, Grand Secretary-Treasurer of the Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association of Kansas City, amounts to $7,00Q. The police nre after him. The evidence in the McGarigle- McDonald conspiracy case was concluded at Chicago Tuesday. It is thought the case will be given to the jury by the 18th inst. On the ore docks of the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad at Cleveland, a serious riot occurred, in which negro workmen and the strikers engaged. Many were injured on both sides. Hamilton and Eubank, charged with murdering Gambrell, the prohibition editor, were held without bail at Jackson, Miss.