Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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The balance sheet of the Cincinnat dramatic festival shows a deficiency of $42, 700, and an assessment of 60 per cent, has been made on the guarantors. In licensing a saloon at Watseka, 111., after a drought of seven years, the authorities provided that there should be no tables or chairs in the room, and no screens or curtains to obstruct the view front the street. Cheyenne (Wyo.) dispatch: “Two men arrive# here from Sabille County, eighty-five miles north of here, with the body of George Metcalf in their possession. Metcalf, while at dinner, had got into a dispute with William Maloney, when the latter shot him dead. Maloney was arrested, and on the way was captured by a mob, who lynched him.” At a hospital in Kansas City an insane negro attacked two patients with a knife and made an attempt to burn the building. He then assaulted Steward -Winfrey, who killed him in self defense. Floyd L. Majors, convicted of complicity in the murder of W. P. Renowden and Archibald Mclntyre, In Santa Clara County, Cal., over a year ago, was hanged at San Francisco last week. President Endicott, of the Oregon and Transcontinental Company, has resigned. Elijah Smith has been elected his successor. Crop reports from various points in Dakota indicate a very encouraging condition of things for the farmers. The seedingtime was most favorable and was largely availed of. A large acreago has been seeded, and all the to ab untlful harvests' Kaufmann, Cohn & Co., wholesale milliners at St. Louis, are financially embarrassed. Liabilities about $76,000. In a farm house eight miles from Portsmouth, Ohio, Samuel Ockerman, his wife, and eldest daughter were burned to death after six 6mall children had been rescued.

The vault of the City Clerk of East St. Louis was entered by amateur burglars, who broke a hole through a brick wall twenty inches thick. About $20,000 worth of city scrip and SI,OOO or more in cash were taken. The Yandalia Road, having bnilt an extension to Plymouth, Ind., has arranged to run into Michigan City ovor the Wabash track. The Rev. Dr. Worthington, of Detroit, was elected Episcopal Bishop of Nebraska by the council of that diocese. About 100 fine specimens of Southern birds were captured In two night 3 at Winona, Minn., after being dozed by the electric light. Nicholas Pauley’s frame house in Clyde, near Port Huron, Mich., was destroyed by fire. Two children, aged 11 and 8, perished in the flames. A freight train on the Burlington Road, each car of which Is supplied with air brakes, passed through Nebraska at the rati of twenty-seven miles an hour, and tho officials pronounce the experiment a successful one. The body of Lulla Dyke, a 6-year-old girl residing near Hillsdale, Mich., was found on the roadway, the head having been crushed to a jelly with 6tones. David Stone, her uncle, has been arrested for rape and murder. The Dakota Supreme Court has decided that the Capital Commission was validly organized, reversing Judm Edsrorton’s decision in the District Court. An appeal was taken to the Cnitod States Supreme Court, and until the latter's decree is entered the capital will remain at Yankton. Major Dewees telegraphs from Fort Reno that he has arrested thirty-five Intruder! in Indian Territory, and many more arc on tbeir way. He has asked for two troops of cavalry from Fort Sill, as the invaders made serious resistance to Lieut. Day. Jack Hanley was convicted in Saunders County, Nebraska, of prize-fighting, and giren a term in the penitentiary. Aldemun Gaynor, of Chicago, died

last week in great gony, from a bullet wound In the head Inflicted by Jame 3 Dacey on May 12. The murderer was tiken to the Joliet Penitentiary for safe keeping. The Union Pacific Boad, having suffered a stinging defeat in its attempt to reduce wages, is credited with an intention to discharge 40 per cent of its employes and endeavor to reengage them at lower rates. Mrs. Alexander Edmunds, living at No 1410 South Compton avenue, while laboring under a temporary fit of Insanity, cut the throats of her three little children, with a razor, and then deliberately drew the weapon across her own throat George Anderson, an aged farmer residing at Bowling Green, Oh o, was killed by his Wife. She beat his bead to a pulp with a hickory cane. The murderess Is believed to be insane. 6be was twice an in. mate of an asylum. Her brother, who is now in the asylum at Columbus, killed a man several years ago. Three boilers in the sash factory of Carr, Byder & Wheeler, at Dubuque, exploded the other day, killing five persons and seriously wounding several others. The engineer is said to have been running with but little water.