Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

In the Bchool-honse in which Emma Bond was so terribly treated, fifty citizens gathered to pass resolutions of respect toward the young lady, and to declare that justice was outraged by the acquittal of Montgomery, Pettis, and Clementi. The Dakota case, involving an attempt to bribe Gov. Ordway, has been dismissed, the prosecution being unable to produce their witnesses. Two hundred men, recently dis-

charged by the contractors on the Oregon railroad, indulged In a long debauch at Pendleton, and then held a mail train which refused to take them free to Portland. Gen. Miles sent a company of the First Infantry from Fort Walla Walla, and the mail oar was forwarded. Bartley Campbell’s new spectacular drama, “Siberia," with all the romantic scenery, is the attraction at MoVicker’s theater, Chicago, this week. On Monday, Jan. 28, the Mapleson Opera company opens at McVioker’s. It embraces a host of celebrated lyric artists, including tbe peerless Patti, Ger6ter, Nioolini, Galassi, and others of world-wide fame. Tbe orchards in the peach belt of Michigan passed uninjured through the severe weather. Ex-Senator Dorsey has been sued at Denver for $83,200, with Interest since 1873, for bills of exchange he signed as President of the Arkansas Central Hallway company about ten years ago. The Coroner’s jury at Belleville, 111., returned a verdict in which the management of the burned convent is blamed for the terrible loss of life, as the precautions required by the character of the building and tbe number of inmates were wholly neglected. The Jury say that dormitories should never be allowed above the second story la institutions of learning, and urge the necessity of legislative action on the subject.