Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1883 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Margaret Mather’s engagement at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, has financially exceeded that of last year. Her “Juliet” nights have been the most profitable ones ever known in the theater. The Madison Square Company, with “Esmeralda,” succeeds Miss Mather at McVicker’s. The cast is a strong one, including Joseph Wheelock, Ben. Maginley and Kate Denin. John McCullough begins an engagement at the theater on the 24th inst Burglars blew open the safe in Fitzgerald & Wilson’s faro bank at Detroit and carried off $4,000. At Muncie, Ind., a $5,000 package was taken from the United States Express safe. At Hartford, Dakota, while descending a flight of stairs in his house, Herman Divers and a child were killed by lightning. Charles McConnell, aged 21, second baseman of the North Manchester (Ind.) base-ball club, was killed by colliding with another player in a game at Wabash. The town of Jacksonville, Ala., was destroyed by an incendiary fire. The loss is SSO, COO. Barbara Miller, a colored woman, was hanged at Richmond, Va, for aiding Henry Lee to kill her husband last February. It appears that they placed the corpse on the railway track, as if accident had befallen him, and the company paid the expenses of the funeral S. S. Connett, a pork-packer of St. Joseph, Mo., committed suicide by leaping from a tree with a rope halter around his neck. Fifty-two thousand more hogs have been slaughtered at Chicago since March 1 than were killed in the same time last year. The summer’s figures are 1,452,000. The Agricultural Department of Illinois reports the wheat crop the smallest recorded for the past twenty-five seasons, while the price at harvest time has only been higher twice in ten years. The Assessors report 7,304,596 acres planted to corn, and the crop is from ten to twenty days late in maturing. A Tombstone despatch reports that eight Apaches appeared at Antelope Springs, Arizona, mounted on barebacked horses, and killed George Ward. Twenty armed citizens of Tombstone went in pursuit of the savages. Col. Terrazas, of the Mexican army, was organizing a force to pursue the hostiles to the mountains. Two Mormon elders, engaged iu preaching near Laurel, Ind., abducted the young daughter of a man who had entertained them, and baptized her into their church. She could hardly be persuaded to return to her family. Over ICO citizens took the elders to the woods at midnight and coated them witn tar and feathers, threatening them with lynching if they did not leave at once. Judge Edgarton has decided, at Yankton, that the Dakota Capital Commission is not a legal organization.