Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Orrin A. Carpenter, once charged with the murder of Zora Burns at Lincoln, 111., a year ago, but subsequently tried and acquitted, was shot at tho other day in Lincoln by William H. Burns, tho father of tho murdered girl. Tho bullet missed its mark. The Federal Grand Jury at Omaha has indicted Register Parker, Col. W. H. Ashby, and three others for conspiracy to defraud the Government in connection with the sale of Otoe Indian lands. Uhion Pacific’s earnings for October were $2,261,000, a decrease of $280,000 from the corresponding month of 188& Three Mormons have been convicted at Prescott, Arizona, of bigamy. This Is said to mean that Mormon rule in Arizona has petered out. Miss Lizzie May Ulmer, a charming young actress, who has recently risen to a high position in the dramatic profession, is underlined for a brief engagement at MoVicker’s Theater, Chicago. The Board of Agriculture, of Ohio, reports the condition of wheat at the present time as 93; rye, 89; ana Parley, 87. The area sown is figured at: Wheat, 74; ryo, 98; and barley, 93. The banking-house of Raymer, Seagrave & Co., of Toledo, has been compelled to suspend business, with liabilities of $400.-. 000. Its assets include the Erip 6treet railway, a cotton-mill, and a large number of new buildings. Two Bishops and three laymen of the Mormon Church were sentenced at Prescott, Arizona, for bigamy. Three are fined $5,500 each and must serve three years and' a half in prison, and two others will bo confined six months and fined SSOO. One of the two men has two wives and twelve children in destitute circumstances The J. I. Case Plow Company, of Itacine, Wis., has made an assignment for its creditors. The unsecured liabilities are from $60,000 to $70,000, and the assets nearly $70,000. The heaviest creditor is J. I. Case, President of the corapahy. Other large creditors are iron steel dealers of Pittsburgh, Pa. Nearly 100 deaths from small-pox have recently occurred in the village of Stoco, 100 miles east of Toronto, and other sufferers are dying for lack of attendance. George Snyder, a farmer of Darrtown, near Hamilton, Ontario, is in jail, accused of the murder of his mother, aged 75 years, the object being to secure a certain mortgage which she held on his farm. The death rate in Chicago for November was 16.8 to the I,ooo—the lowest of any of the largo cities of the world. It is rumored that the London Telegraph has purchased a large tract of land in tho Mojave desert, on the Pacific coast, to uso the yucca plant in the manufacture of paper, the pulp to he shipped to New Orleans for Liverpool.