Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Snow has fallen heavily in the pineries of Wisconsin, and lumbering operations are beginning. E. E. Israel & Co., of Waterloo, la., clothiers, have failed, with $60,000 liabilities and $65,000 assets. The Interest and Deposit Bank, conducted by Douglass Gibson and Thomas Western, at Jackson, Mich., has suspended business. In consequence of a misunderstanding between the directors and the cashier of the Laporte (Ind.) Savings Bank, the institution has gone into the hands of a receiver. The liabilities are estimated at about $75,0C0 and the assets at $90,000. Depositors are assured that they will be paid 100 cents on the dollar. Station Agent Harvey, of the Wabash Railroad at Panora, Guthrie County, lowa, was attacked in his office by two masked men and robbed of $2,000 m railroad funds. Fire partially destroyed the Masonic Temple at Cincinnati, causing a loss of $175,000. The temple suffered $60,00J damage, $75,000 was lost by the Scottish Rite fraternity, and $30,000 by J. R. Mills & Co., printers, in whose establishment in the northwest corner of the building the Are started. Peach buds and fruit trees have been killed by the intense cold in the Holland (Mich.) district. Cornelius Aultman, the millionaire manufacturer, died last week at Canton, Ohio. James Collins, Ticket Agent of the Pan-Handle Road at Cadiz Junction, Ohio, has disappeared with SIO,OOO. Part of the amount belonged to the railway company; the rest was borrowed from friends. John Swim, a miser, was found half frozen near Delaware, Ohio, with more than $2,000 on his person. He owns land in Franklin and adjoining counties in Ohio, valued at $250,000, but has always existed by begging, his clothing being of the shabbiest and filthiest description. A dispatch from Pierre, Dakota, says: Potter County is undergoing a state of excitement over the county seat location. A year ago the county seat was located at Forest City, on the Missouri River. At the last election Gettisburg claimed to have secured the county seat. Threats have been made to take the records by force, and 200 Indians are now concentrated at Forest City , ready to meet all invaders from Gettisburg. t Judge Smith is now hearing the case at | Pierre while the Indians are guarding the L records. I Miss Margaret Mather appeared at / McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, during the r week, in a round of her favorite characters, p Her engagement continues another week, ■ when she will produce “Leah, the Forsaken,” {•‘Romeo and Juliet,” “Macbeth,” “As You : Like It,” and “The Hunchback.”