Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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John Huschka, supposed to be insane, shot and killed his wife at Viroqua. Wig. He was captured and imprisoned, and ; at night hanged himself in his coll with his suspenders. John C. Vaughan, who founded the Cleveland Leader, and was once well known in journalism in thicago, recently returned from Kansas to end his days. Edwin Cow.es and Richard Smith secured h s admission to the Old Men’s Home in Cincinnati. At a point one mile west of Knoxville, Hl., a dastardly attempt was made to wreck the train conveying Gen. Logan and party to Peoria. Upon rounding a curve the engineer noticed an obstruction on the track. He put on the brakes, but did not succeed in bringing the train to a halt until the engine had run over two of lour ties that had been laid across the tracks t The electric lighting apparatus on the dome of the Court House at Wabash, Ind., was wrecked by a flock of wild geese, two of whom were killed by the shock. A dispatch from Atoka, Indian Territory, says the boilers inß. Scratches & Co.’s saw-mill exploded, killing three men, J. B. Oliver, Frank Choate, of Atoka, and John Radcliffe, the engineer, from Clayton, 111. The explosion was the result of carelessness. Flames swept away the great dry goods house of T. A. Chapman & Co., Milwaukee, causing a pecuniary loss of $500,000. It was the largest and finest dry goods emporium in the Cream City. During their fiscal year, ended Sept. 1, the Minneapolis flouring mills shipped 4,814,424 barrels of four, against 4,089,008 the previous year. The receipts of wheat for the same period amounted to 23,514,576 bushels, against 19,203,375 in 1882-43. While driving to market at Cleveland, Ohio, Charles Kimball fell asleep in his wagon. His horses became frightened near a crossing and dashed into a coal train, Kimball and his team being killed, four cars derailed, and a stretch of track torn np. A Hancock (Mich.) dispatch says: “The underground fire at the Calumet and Hecla mine continues to burn. All entrances to the mine are closed. No Hea can be formed of the progress of the fire or when it will be possible to resume work. As the entire population of the place depend wholly on the mine for support, and a large ma jority of them live from hand to mouth, it is feared there will be much sut!ering unless operations are resumed within a short time.” The shops of the Northern Road at Fort Howard, Wig., with n locomotive, five box cars, and 100 cords of wood, were burned, the loos being $25,000. The Chicago Daily News says: McVicker’s Theater will be the home of choice comedy during the present wook. The first three evenings of Mr. Joseph Jefferson’s stay will be devoted to that ever green Christmas story, “The Cricket on the Hearth,'* in which the genius of Dickens

finds a living presence in Mr. JeHerson's Caleb Plummer, and tbe amusing farce of “Lend Me Five Shillings.” The remainder of the week will be given up to “Kip Van Winkle.” The Supreme Court of lowa has decided that Justices of the Peace have jurisdiction in eases under the prohibitory law where tbe fine is fI,OOO or less. A Pole named Jan Wasielewsky was executed at ban Jone, Cal., for the murder Of his wife Daring his confinement he tried to starve himself, and on the scaffold he was completely overcome by fear. Circulars have been sent to the Gov-

ernors of a I the flutes'and Territories of the Uu on, requesting each to appoint one delegate-at-large to the National Cattlemen's Convention, to be held at St. Louis Nov. 17. The team of the Chicago Base Ball Club for 1885 will be as follows; A. C. Anson, captain and first base; Larry Corcoran, Charles Clarkson, and Joe Brown, pitchers; F. H. Flint, E. H. Sutcliffe, and Charles Marr, catchers; F. Pfeffer, second base; Tom Burns and O. P. Beard, short stops; M. Kelly, A. Dalrymple, A. Sunday. G. F. Gore, fielders; E. N. Williamson, third bgse. State Veterinarian Paaren went to Peoria, 111., last week, and after examination found four glandered horses, had them appraised, and killed. The sporting-goods store of A. G. Spalding & Bros., No. 106 Madison street, Chicago, was ruined by flames, which are believed to have originated from oiled rags. The firm lost goods valued at $125,(09, on which there was an insurance of SIIO,OOO.