The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-05-12

The particulars Of the escape Of Billy
Bonney alias Billy tho Kid" from tho Lin
coin county (New Mexico) Jail read like .
chapter from ono Of Ned Buntlines blood
curdling narratives. Robert Olinger and J. W.
Bell were the two guards. Olingsr had gone
to supper, and Bell was sitting on tho door
when the kid approached him, talking ~
him In . pleasant way. Being near enough,
the KID" who was heavily shacklcd and
handcuaed, managed to jump at Bell, hitting
him with the handouts on the head, frscturing
Bells skull, and laying him senseless on the
ground. Then, snatching Bells revolver from
his belt, he shot him In the breast Olinger,
hearing the shot, thought something WAS up,
ana ran from tho house, whore no had been
eating supper, about sevsnty-nve yards from
the jail, toward that structure. Just - be
entered . small gate leading through the
Jail fence, tho "Kid" shot him from mp
stairs with ouble-barreled shotgun, heavily
charged, filling his breast full Of shot, killing
him instantly. The Kid then got hatchet,
knocked on his shackles and handouts, made
. man in the jail.yard saddle horse for MIN,
took Winchester ride and four resolvsrs from
the arms in the Jail, and rode ont Eubse-
quently he encountered : man named Mat
thews. who had testified against him in re-
cent trial, and killed him. He also murdered
another man he met On the road against whom
he bore agrudgc. The young dsspseado Is be-
Iisved to have 6sd TO Mexico.
The first vessel to pass through the
straits Of Mackinaw this season was tho pro-
peller Garden City, which arrived at Apena
from Chicago on the lth Of May.
The indications Of an outbreak among
the Utes were sufficiently serious to cause the
dispatch Of six cavalry companies from the
contiguous forts TO White river.
Eighty-four thousand immigrants ar
rived in Chicago last month, and were distrib-
uted in different directions.
Hon. Ansel Briggs, the first Governor
Of Iowa, died tho other day at Omaha.
There were 9S4 deaths in Chicago last
month.
Lieut.. Bulles followed band Of In
dian murderers across the Rio Grande ard
killed four braves and ! squaw, capturing
twenty horses.
Gilbert Hubbard, senior member Of
the Chicago firm Of Gilbert Hubbard b Co., is
dead. Charles Hitchcock, an old and prom.
inent member Of the Chicago bar, has also
passed away.
Leavitt's Rentz-Santley Novelty Com
pany are at Haverly's Chicago Theatcr this
week. "Billie Tailor new burlesque, is
their chief attraction, supplemented by the fe-
male minstrcls.
A coal-shaft in Usage county, Kan.
caught fire from 4 furnace in the air sh'ft
twenty-five men were 1T work at the time,
Int fifteen Of them were rescued. The remain
ns seven. with three othcrs who had gone to
their assistance, were taken out dead.
Troops have been sent to the Ute Res
eryation to protect the Indians from invasion
by whites.
George C. Harding, editor Of the In
dianapolis Saturday Rcrie'n. is dead.
South.
Louis Rcdmnn, colorcd, was hanged
at Hazlehurst, Miss., for the murder Of his
faths r-in-law.
Gen. John s. Preston, q prominent
citizen Of South Carolina, and Chief Of the
Rebel Conscription Bureau during the War OF
the Rebellion. is dead.
A shocking murder il reported from
the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory. A man
named Arneta and . neighbor killed. John Dry,
a haif-brced, to get possession Of two gallons
OF whisky he had. They shot him three times
in the head, stabbed him ten times, and severed
the head from the body. They then concealed
the remains.
A frei. hit train on the Texas Pacific
railway went through bridge near Dallas
The engineer was killed, and the fireman, con-
ductor and brakeman we're injured Another
wreck on the Same road caused tho death Of
two men and the wounding OF third.
While some school children were play
ing under small tree in the yard OF N. +.
Harner, eight miles east Of Winona, Mass,
lightning struck tho tree aud immediately
killed Mamie and Willie Harner, aged . and I
Years, and Mary Hightman.