Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The Knights of Pythias (uniformed rank) prize drill at Indianapolis, open te the world, was won by the Lafayette (Ind.) Division. Capt. Mitchell,: of the same division, got the special prize for best commander. “Excelsior.’’ Kiralfy Brothers’ latest •spectacular production, continues t« draw crowded bouses to McVicker’s Theater., Chicago, nightly. The pir.ee consists entirely of ballet and pantomime, and is mounted in a lavish manner. Hundreds of people are em* ployed upon the stage, an I their -clever manipulation, the bright costumes, said the quick transformation of scenes, serve to make a brilliant and dazzling performance. It will hold, the stage at this theater far several weeks to-come. In Detroit, Mrs. Laura Schulz was found in her night-dress on the sidewalk with ■her throat cut, but still living. Her husband was detained for two hours, and released for lack of evidence against him. She ronevered consciousness and held a long private interview with ‘her husband, showing that the -case was on© of attempted suicideon account of family, troubles. Lieutenant Rice, an army Quartermaster, walked off a car platform near Mexico, Missouri, while in a somnambulistic •condition, and was instantly killed. Mrs. Long, of Princeton, Fn, who murdered a lad :named Whittemore because be knew of her guilty intimacy with his father, bos entered a iplea qf guilty, and been sentenced, to State Prison^for life. Gen. H. B. Bearce, a well-known mining man, was fatally shot by Samuel Derry, near Leadvllle, Gol. The Cincinnati N&ws-JournaTM staff have been discharged and the paper discontinued. The Sun, started by the Enquirer, takes its place. Twenty-four members of the Salvation Army were arrested at Cleveland, Ohio, for disturbing the peace, kept in the cooler -all night, .and fined in the morning, Judge Hutchins, in passing sentence, saying the Salvation Army had.become a nuisance, and, like all. nuisances, must.be abated.