Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1883 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Miss Lottie Crabtree, familiarly known as Lotto, is said to be the best-payin? star on the American stage. Her fortune is estimated all the way from $500,C00 to $1,000,000, all made within the last few years. Her popularity is so great that she is always greeted by full houses She is now playing a two weeks’ engagement at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, and the large play-house is packed at every performance, showing that the little actress has lost none of her drawing powers Father Smalley, of St. Peter’s Cathedral Church in Oshkosh, Wis, publishes a card denouncing the Tabor-McCourt marriage, and sharply reproaching the relatives of the bride for not informing the priest who performed the ceremony of the previous divorce of Mrs Tabor. John Jessrang was pulled out of his bed and lynched at Glendale, Montana, for the murder of a companion named Davidson. The annual report of the Directors of the Illinois Central Railroad Company shows an increase of $318,914 on the gross traffic receipts over those of 1881 and an increase of $433,587 in the net earnings from traffic. A correspondent who visited the scene of the terrible Diamond mine disaster, near Braidwood, 111., telegraphed as follows on the 16th inst: “Since the sad mishap at the Diamond mine, on the 10th of February, resulting in the death of seventyfive men, the weather has been favorable and the prairie has dried as rapidly as could be expected. Unfortunately, no ditch or provision has been made to carry off the water pumped from the mine, hence the want of success. Only six inches have been made since Sunday night. One conjecture is that there is underground water. This is founded upon the coldness and on the smell of the water taken from the shaft Another idea is, and it appears to be the most reasonable, that as the water taken from the shaft is allowed to spread itself over the prairie it finds its way back into the mine.” The contractors for the 200 miles of the Northern Pacific railroad remaining to be constructed promise that the gap will be closed before the Ist of September next. The Chicago “balk-line” billiard tournament was won by Lon Morris, of Chicago