Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1883 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

McVicker’s Theater began its twentyseventh season at Chicago, on Monday, with the Boston Theater Company, the opening attraction being Charles Beade and Henry Pettit’s melodrama of “Love and Money.” The chief element of the story is the for-, tunes of a loving father and daughter, who have been long parted by the evil chances of life and the schemes of the wicked; and the contest of sentiment is in the young girl who has to choose between her real father and poverty and her adopted father and riches. The climax of unhappy life with these two loving hearts in their burial in a coal mine by. an •explosion effected by the villain of the piece, from which they are rescued by a sensasional miracle. The play was very successful in London and Boston. Near Cincinnati, Ohio, on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railway, the “Thunderbolt Express” train of the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Company ran into a wagon in which were a family of six persons and a driver. Only one of the party escaped alive For unknown reasons the four Commissioners and Clerk of Grand county, Col, were shot by masked men, two being killed Instantly and two others being mortally wounded. It appears that Commissioner Mills, of Grand county, Col., was one of the three men who assassinated the other Commissioners and the County Clerk. The whole affair grows out of the removal of the county seat Astoria, Ore., was visited by a disastrous conflagration. The loss is placed at $225,000, upon which there was an insurance of $50,000? A number of convicts in the Oregon penitentiary, at Salem, made a desperate dash for liberty. Three of the fleeing felons were shot and instantly* killed by a guard, three were mortally wounded, and eight escaped. Hon. S. P. Hosmer, a member of the Ohio Board of Public Works, died at Zanesville from the effect of a sunstroke. The large bonded warehouse of the Atlantic (Iowa) Alcohol Company was struck by lightning and burned, causifig a loss of $28,000. Eleven convict soldiers, destined for the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, escaped from the guard-house at Fort Omaha, tunneling the structure.