Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1894 — OKLAHOMA OTTRAGE. [ARTICLE]

OKLAHOMA OTTRAGE.

Keveng© Upon the Hock lilanil llailrjad by LawleHS Citizens, Tlvo adverse decision of the Oklahoma Supreme Court on the application of the towns of South Enid and Pond Crock to compel the Rock Island Railroad to build stations and stop trains, has been quickly followed by an outrage. A mile South of Enid the Rock Island bridge was blown up with dynamite, Friday, and a freight train demolished. The engine and a couple of Cars had passed safely over when the dynamite exploded, hurling the train from the track. Thirteen cars wore piled in the ditch and brakeman Cordry. and Larry Lyon, a tramp, wore badly injured. The dynamite was evidently intended for the regular- worth-bound passenger train from Texas, which reached the scene thirty minutes later,and which but for the accident of the freight blockade, caused by the strike, necessitating the running of extra freights now, would have been tin: lirst, train on the bridge.

At, Friday's session of the Senate tin river and harbor appropriation bill,, which usually gives risetosharp debate and eons umes from three days to a week for its comp'otton, was' passed. Another important bill—the legislative, judicial and executive—was immediately taken up and put well on its way towards uassage before the Senate adjourned. A bill for the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi river at Dubuque, la., was passed. A bill was introduced by Mr, Davis,by request, placing dining and sleeping ear companies under the interstate commerce law. Mr. George introduced a bill to amend the act for the appointment of a board of arbitration between companies engaged in transporting passengers and their employes, approved October, 1838. The House, Friday, agreed to the report of the conferees on the pension bill. Mr. Durborow, of Illinois, rose to a question of personal privilege, and denied that he had ever expressed or entertained 'sentiments attributed to him in an interview which quoted him as taking very strong grounds against the action of the President in ordering Federal troops to Ghicago. At 5 o’clock the House took a recess until 8, the evening session to be devoted to consideration of private pension bills.

The jury in the Barr murder trial at Brazil returned a verdict, Thursday cveing, finding the four hoys, James Booth, Wm. Wilson, ltobt Rankin and Ernest Poor, guilty of involuntary manslaughter and giving them each two years’imprisonment. Poor will be sent to the reform school as ho is only fourteen years of age. The three others for complicity in the stoning to death of the engineer will ne giyen separate trials. The Howard Circuit Court has decided that Tipton eounty must support the family of Blufe Faiconberry, a convict. When Faiconberry was sent to prison the Tipton county authorities dumped the family over the Madison county line, hut the woman and seven children were sent back promptly. Suit was brought with the above result. Northern Indiana towns are jealous of Hammond, One paper says: "Hammond is the city that aupears to get all the fun there is going. Three congressional conventions, a chapter or two of red-edged strikes and similar forms of innocent amusement arc among tho most, popular.” J. Pierrepont Morgan is credited with the intention of erecting a monument over the unmarked grave of brave Molly Pitcher, of Revolutionary celebr't.y, which lies near West Point, adiacent to the Morgan country seat at Highland Falls, on the Hudson.