Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1883 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

At the convention of the Ohio Brewers’ and Maltsters’ Association at Cleveland resolutions were adopted recommending that brewers and those whose interests are identified with theirs oppose at the polls all persons and parties who favor measures inimical to the brewers, and favoring an early test of the constitutionality of the Scott law passed by the late Legislature of Ohio. A destructive cyclone swept over Fredericktown, Ohio, accompanied by a heavy hail-storm. Hail-stones measuring eleven inches in circumference and weighing eight to ten ounces were picked up on the streets. A dark, funnel-shaped cloud rose in the southwest and traveled northeast, destroying dwellings, unroofing buildings, carrying away fences, plowing up the ground, uprooting trees and demoralizing things generally. Hail-stones nine inches in circumference fell at Mound City, HL • The Jefferson comedy season at McVicker’s Theater is the chief dramatic event in Chicago. The first week was devoted to “The Rivals,” the “Cricket on the Hearth,” and “Lend Me Five Shillings.” The second week was given up to those popular old comedies, “The Poor Gentleman” and “The Heir at-La w. ’’The third and last week of the eminent comedian’s engagement will be devoted exclusively to “Rip Van Winkle.” a part in which Mr. Jefferson has no rival among the world’s playens. His “Rip” is pronounced by critics everywhere as the finest piece of acting ever witnessed upon the English-speaking stage. Orgus Dean, one of the largest peachgrowers in Indiana, says there will be a good yield this season. The Cherokee Nation’s council has voted in favor of leasing the Cherokee strip for five years for SIOO,OOO a year. The returns of railway property by Assessors in lowa shows a total mileage in the State of 6,791, an increase in three years of 1,980 miles. The increase in valuation for the same period is $4,293,614. The Harrison reduction works, in Leadville, Col, were burned. Loss, $70,000; partly insured. The works were owned by the St Louis Smelting and Refining Company. Charles F. Kring, of St. Louis,whose many trials for the murder of Dora Broemser eight years ago have given him extended notoriety, died the other day of internal hemcrrahges, his long imprisonment having produced consumption and kindred diseases.