Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1883 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The extensive works of the United States Bolling Stock Company, located in the southwestern part of Chicago, were totally destroyed by fire. Eighty cars, with all the buildings and machinery, and over 1,0Q0,0C0 feet of lumber, furnished food for the flames. The loss is estimated at $500,000, upon which there was an insurance of ♦ico,boo. A great Irish picnic was held at Qgdeh's Grove, near Chicago. Congressman Finerty was the President of the day. Dr. P. H. Cronin read the declaration of principles of the Irish-Americans of Chicago. The Hon. Thomas Brennan was introduced -by Mr. Finerty as a gentleman who came to Chicago “through the doors cC an English jail,” and as therefore entitled to the respect of all Irishmen. This sentiment Was echoed by a vast concourse. The speeches of the day breathed intense hostility to English oppression and Papal interference. The Illinois Central Railroad Directors elected James C. Clarke, President; L V. F. Randolph, Treasurer, and L A. Catlin, Secretary. The Vice Presidents are W. K. Ackerman (late President, who declined a re-election) and Stuyvesant Fish. J. T. Williams, a banker of Erie, Col, was robbed by highway ma n of *lO, 000. A vein of petroleum which flows forty barrels per day has been struck near Canon City, CoL The managers of the Wabash, Alton, and Illinois Central roads have agreed to make the passenger rate $8.70 between Chicago and St Louis, and $8.50 between St Louis and Kansas City, to take effect at once. The sportsmen of Illinois and Wisconsin are well represented on the stubble in lowa and Dakota, where the prairie chickens are of fine size and fully as numerous as last year. The lowa Board of Health is to investigate charges made by a scientist of Stockholm that there are several cases of leprosy in Winneshiek county. K. M. Fitch, cashier of the Second National Bank of Warren, Ohio, is reported to be short in his accounts some $70,000. Ths bank has failed. The Keater Lumber Company’s mill and yards at Moline, DL, were burned causing a total loss to the concern of *200,000. Joseph Mclnerny, an Alderman and saloon-keeper of St Joseph, Mo., has been convicted, under the Downing law, of keeping his place open Sunday. He was fined *SO and his license was revoked. In a Justice’s office, in Cedar Falls, lowa, an injured father took the law into his own hands and killed a colored man who had abducted his daughter and ruined her by force. The Justice had ordered the room cleared of the crowd and was about to render his decision under the forms of law, when the outraged parent stepped behind the Deputy Sheriff and ended the case with a revolver.