Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1883 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

A new play, entitled “The Power of Gold,” by a French author, will be produced at McYicker’s Theater, Chicago, on Monday next An excellent company haa been secured for the production, and It will receive all the scenic embellishments and mechanical appliances which this house so well knows how to furnish, A compromise was effected the other day between the Chicago bricklayers and their employers, by which a strike that had lasted for two months was brought to an end The basis of the agreement between the masters and the employes is 40 cents per hour for competent workmen. Those whose services are not worth this sum will be deemed as working under instructions, and paid what their labor is actually entitled to. It was further stipulated that in January of each year committees representing the Bricklayers’ Union and the Master Mason’s Association shall meet and determine the wages to be paid during the ensuing season. Should they fail to any Judge of the United States Court or other disinterested party can be called in to give the casting vote.

Ex-Alderman John Geiger and his wife, of Cincinnati, were accidentally drowned in the outskirts of that city. Touching the recent battle between the militia and striking miners near Collinsville, 111, a dispatch from that place gives these further particulars: As Deputy Sheriff Anthony addressed the strikers from a box on the depot platform, saying they had come to have no trouble but to see the laws complied with, a shot was fired at them from the hill, which came so near that he drew a revolver and fired at the spot whence it came. A general fusilude from the mob followed, and a soldier, getting out of the cars, dropped with a bullet through his knee. Deputy Sheriff Anthony asked CoL Barkly to give the troops an order to fire, which he did, and the militia poured a volley into the strikers The mob retreated and returned the fire, when a second volley greeted them. The miners and women scattered like sheep through the gullies and ravines The exact number wounded could not be learned, but twenty-six of the mob were captured, and are guarded at Edwardsville by Company F. The following list of casualties is authentic: Fred Hoffmester, glassblower, killed—shot through the head. William Starkey, shot through the head and hips; will die. James Blanchard, woundod in the side; dangerously. Martin Carroll, wounded slightly in the left leg. Elmer James, of Edwardsville, one of the militia shot through the fleshy part of the leg; not dangerous. Those that were arrested were removed to the county seat, Belleville, where, having been examined on the charge of riot, they were put under bonds to appear for trial The town was fiMed with sympathisers with the prisoners, and after the latter had been released they were taken upon the shoulders of friends and carried through the Court House yard, where they were treated as heroea

Thirty students in Delaware (Ohio) College have been suspended for drunkenness and billiard playing. Borne of the boys put an ox in President Payne’s room to frighten him, and the animal ruined S3OO worth of property. A considerable delegation of the numerous non-combatant relatives of the Apache Chief Loco have surrendered to the military authorities near Ban Carlos, Arizona, having recently returned from New Mexico. They report that the hostiles are anxious to submit themselves once more to the authority of the Great Father. Ex-Vice President Davis and his bride arrived at their home in Bloomington, HL, last week. The Northern Ohio Fair Association has ceased to exist, and its grounds near Cleveland were sold at auction the ether day. The Cleveland Driving Park Company, which succeeds, the Cleveland Club, bought forty acres, which will be devoted to races. At Fremont, Neb., a Deputy Sheriff was shot in the mouth by one of two desperadoes, whom he and the Sheriff attempted to arrest The Sheriff in turn shot the man dead, and after a long chase his companion was captured.