Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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After easily winning the three-minute trot at Cleveland the mare Baby Mine was expelled from all tracks of the National Association. It was shown that she was a “ringer,” and had a record barring her from the class. * James W. Nesmith, who was United States Senator from Oregon from 1861 to 1867, has become insane, and was placed in an asylum at Portland, Oregon. Dr. Paaren, State Veterinarian, visited the farm of M. J. Clarke, near Geneva, 111., and caused two Jersey heifers to be shot. An examination clearly showed the existence of pleuro-pneumonia, and the appraisers fixed the value of the animals at sllO. Ten others of the herd' have died within six months. Gurler Brothers’ butter and cheese factory, at DeKalb, 111., was destroyed by fire. The loss is SIO,OOO. Incited by hatred of their six-year-old brother, Carrie and Bessie Waterman, twelve and fourteen years, respectively, residing at Ottawa, Kan., tied a rope about his neck, and then beat him to death with sticks. They are held-on the charge of murder. The idle miners in the Hocking Valley are charged with killing cattle in the fields for food. The Cambria Iron and Coal Company, in Pennsylvania, has ordered a reduction of 10 per cent, in wages, which would allow some of its employes only 81 cents a day. John McCullough has been playing during the past week atMcVicker’s Theater, Chicago, appearing every evening before large and enthusiastic audiences in his great character of “Virginius, the Roman Father.” His magnificent rendering of the noble part is a direct contradiction of the reported failing of Mr. McCullough’s physical and mental powers. This week he appears in a number of.his favorite roles; such as “The Gladiator,” “Richelieu,” and "Brutus.” A wealthy young lady of New York, Miss C. I. Wilton, made the ascent of Long’s Ppak, Colorado, with a lad engaged as a guide. They encountered a fierce snow storm on the return trip, and the boy was compelled to go several miles for assistance. During his absence the lady froze to death. An assignment has been made by the St. Louis Malleable Iron Company, the banks refusing further aid. The liabilities are about $65,000. Gillie Leigh, the young Englishman who was recently killed in the Big Horn Mountains, was heir to the title and estate of Lord Leigh, of Stanley Abbey, Warwickshire. Leavenworth has been definitely selected as the site for the new Soldiers’ Home. The city offered 640 acres of land and a pur6e of $50,000, The directors of the St. Louis Fair Association, owing to the prevalence of pleuro-pneumonia, exclude all cattle from their show this year. Colored society at New Brighton, 0., is greatly excited over the elopement of a black coachman with two young quadroons, after stealing $25 to pay expenses. At a meeting of the directors of the Chicago and Northwestern railway Gould and Dillon resigned, and W. K. Vanderbilt was added to the board. W. V. Esmond, the detective who

figured in the Zura Burns case, and was indieted for obtaining money by false pretenses, tas defaulted his bond at Lincoln, 111. It will be remembered that while working for the State he “sold out’’ to Carpenter. A large party of lumber-yard laborers at Michigan City, Ind., sprang into the ferryboat, and broke the supporting chain, the result being the drowning of two or more persons. The Ohio river is lower than it has been for some years, the result of a protracted dry season. Fred Schultz, living at Jerseyville, 111., shot his wife, and then shot and killed himself. Benjamin Eggleston, a prosperous merchant of Cincinnati, who served two terms in Congress, has lapsed into a distracted condition, which bids fair to be permanent. Charles H. Barth, who embezzled SIOO,OOO while clerk in the Quartermaster’s office at San Francisco, is to be allowed to settle for $32,000, which is all that his friends can raise. An incendiary fire destroyed $12,000 worth of lumber belonging to the Cleveland Suw-mill Company. The business men have organized a vigilance committee for protection.