Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1883 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The Commercial Flouring Mills, in in Detroit, were swept away by fire, causing a loss of #75,000. Leading Irishmen of Kan&as City believe that the man who killed Informer Carey is Capt Thomas Phelan of that place He left for Dublin about two months ago, and the description given by the cable is exact Capt. Bessel, of the wrecking schooner Experiment, found near Picture rock, Lake Superior, an iron door from the steamer Superior, which was sunk in 1854 with #26,000 in specie. Clinging to the door were a dozen silver pieces. Ninety-six performances of “The World” have been given at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago. It has been withdrawn and “Youth” substituted, the members of the Boston Theater Company interpreting the characters. Mi&s Margaret Mather will commence her season in Chicago, at McVicker’s, Aug. 27 in “Borneo and Juliet” This highlysucceseful star played Juliet 122 times during her .last season, with unanimous praise from press and public wherever she appeared. Fire at San Francisco destroyed a block of thirty buildings, among them the Winter Garden Theater and Druid’s Hall Loss, #300)000. Flowing oil wells have been developed in Washington county, in Southwestern Ohio. y On, the arrival ®f the Presidential train at Cheyenne, a large number of people were at the station, and during the short time a stop was made the President, Secretary Lincoln and Senator Vest made a few remarks, and were introduced to the officials of the Territory. Eighteen miles west of Cheyenne, the summit of the Black Hills of Wyoming, the highest point on the Union Pacific was passed. There the recently-erected monument to Oakes Ames, one of the original pro jectors of the road, was seen in the moonlight The run from Omaha to Green River, 845 miles, was made in thirty hours. Very few stops were made on the route, and every hamlet feels that it was slighted by the Chief Magistrate. At Green River the distinguished party took the spring wagons for Fort Washakie, a.distance of 150 miles.