Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1883 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Three burglars at Springfield, 111., bound and gagged the watchman in the Jewelry store of C. Klobolt, drilled the safe, and secured *20,000 in diamonds and jewelry. The mercantile community contributed *I,OOO to offer as a reward for the capture of the robbers. Jesse Williams, of Orange county N. Y., en route to the West to buy land, was robbed of *7,000 at the Pennsylvania railway station in Philadelphia A little boy and girl of A. Evans; of Lawrence, Ohio, while playing with matches in a stable, caused a fire, which resulted in their deaths. The action of the Chicago authorities in cutting the wires of the Mutual Union Telegraph Company has been upheld by Judge Drummond, who, in deciding upon the company’s motion for an injunction against the city, ruled that the company had transgressed the city ordinance forbidding tiie stringing of wires after March 1, and that the court had no right to interfere in the company’s behalf. The city was vdvised, however, to make a test case before proceeding further against the telegraph company. Several hundred squatters have recently invaded that part of the Sioux reservation 'which lies east of the Missouri rivfer, and the Interior Department is requested to cause their expulsion. The Rev. Isaac L. Nicholson, rector of St Mark’s Church, Philadelphia, has been elected Episcopal Bishop of Indiana At Cleveland, Ohio, William Lyon, 55 years old, shot his divorced wife in the face, and put a bullet through his own brain. The woman’s injuries are serious. Daniel Woods, of Indianapolis, is dead at the age of 106 years. He served in the English army under the Iron Duke, was at Waterloo, and accompanied Napoleon to St Helena Clarence Hite, one of the James outlaws, sentenced to the Missouri Penitentiary ter twenty-five years for train robbery, has been pardoned by the Governor, being in the last stages of consumption.