Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1883 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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At Elgin, Hl., Edward F. Joslyn, son of CoL Ed 8. Joslyn, a well-known lawyer, fatally shot a young woman named Etta Buckingham, in her room at the Notting House, and then, placing the revolver at his own head, himself. It was a case of Insane jealousy. Fire destroyed the houses and machinery of the Spring Lake Ice Company, near, Vineennes, Ind., valued at $45,000. The regular quarterly dividend of 2 per cent on the preferred stock of the Chicago and Northwestern railway has been declared, payable Sept 27. The saw and planing mills of the A. Eldred Manufacturing Company, together with 1,000,000 feet of lumber, burned at Fort Howard, Wis. The loss is $200,000 and the insurance $63,000. Owing to interference by the Kansas and Missouri authorities the prize-fight between Slade and Mitchell has been declared off, and the stakes withdrawn. Maj. Wasson, the embezzling army Paymaster, now serving out his time, has been detailed to superintend the work of building a road between Leavenworth and the Kansas penitentiary. He asks to be allowed to wear overalls instead of convict trousers. ’’ M. E. Cutts, Representative in Congress for the Sixth District of lowa, died at Oskaloosa, his home. At the lowa State Fair, the record showed that there had been 6,132 entries made, which is I,COO more than last year, the greatest fair in the history of the society. Near Frankfort, D. T., the boiler attached to lome farm machinery Exploded, killing four men and seriously wounding five others. The body of one of the victims was blown 130 yards and broken-into fragments. •