Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1883 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Ex-Judge Chester H. Krum, of St. Louis, left his home April 26th and went to Chicago, where he remained for a few days There all traces of him appears to have been lost, nothing having befen heard from him at St Louis, where several important professional engagements have been missed by him. • A sensational development in the “grub-stake* social war at Denver, which sprung out of the refusal of the wife of Bush, one of Gov. Tabor’s partners, to exchange calls with the new Mra Tabor, is the suit of Bush against Tabor to recover damages for malicious prosecution and for alleged services, on* item of #19,000 being for services in securing Tabor’s election to the United States Senate, obtaining a divorce from his wife, and bringing about the marriage with the present Mra Tabor. Several officeholders in Dakota have been indicted for attempting to corruptly influence the action of the Capital Commission in the selection of a new location, as much as #15,000, it is alleged, having been offered for one vote Corn in Northern Illinois has been somewhat damaged and all kinds of vegetation have been seriously injured by the frost

Over 6,000 people witnessed the opening of the great Railroad Exposition at Chicago. Mayor Harrison welcomed the visitors, and Hon. E. B. Washburne and others made speeches. The main building of the Exposition is given up to toe smal’er machinery on exhibition, while the south part of the building is devoid to electric lighting apparatus and such paraphernalia as switches, signals and blocks. An electric railroad train of two coaches encircles the building, carrying forty passengers each trip. The north part of the annex contains the products of mill; and foundries, in the wiy of rails, boiler plates, eta Among the curiosities are the o)d Stephenson engine, the work of the inyen toe, and the Arabian No. 1, the first engine to do any service in the country. A messenger for the United States Express Company at Cleveland, Ohio, was robbed of two money-pouches supposed to contain about #15,0001 .Two Indians, with two pet bears, visited St Ignace, Mich., got drank, rad went to sleep on the brack. One of the red men and both bears were killed and tbe second Indian was badly wounded. At Monmouth, IIL, Rev. Joseph Cook encountered a commercial traveler who ate his beef raw and swore when his taste was called to question, for which latter indecorum Mr. Cook caused bis ejection from the hotel dhiing-ioom. The man of samples thereupon Vowed to drink the gore of the exponent of the unknowable, and to avoid the execution of the threat Mr. Cook called on the city police force to escort him to and from the lecture haiL

The boiler in the Bismarck (Dakota) Brick Works, owned by Bly & Granberry, exploded, instantly killing John Larson, engineer, Joseph Oullette, a carpenter, and perhaps fatally injuring Clement Oullette, son of the latter, and severely Eoalding Daniel Lyons, fireman. I arson’s head was blown from hi 3 body, and he was thrown over the building, a distance of 200 feet, and frightfully mangled. Two other employes were slightly injured. A piece of metal frem the boiler was blown through Joseph Oullette's head, carrying out the trains and shattering the skull