Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

A petroleum well, gushing twentyfive barrels an hour, has been struck in Dallas, Wyoming. Bray Bros., San Francisco commission merchants, failed, with $500,000 liabilities. Lawrence Spoyde & Co., bankers at Pierceton, Ind., failed for $45,000. The wine house of C. Cavaroc, Son & Co., in Chicago, was seized by a Deputy Sheriff on confessions of judgment. The liabilities aro $93,05 ), and the stock and accounts are valued at $105,000. The Cavarocs have been engaged in the wine business in New Orleans for more than a century. The late S. S. Merrill, of Milwaukee, left an estate valued at $775,000. The will gives the widow the homestead at Grand Haven, SIOO,OOO In cash, and a liberal income besides. Two sisters and a brother of deceased will receive SSOO annually, and his children are to have the income from the bulk of the estate. / Mrs. Mack, who was convicted of murdering her husband at Janesville, Wis., sentenced to life imprisonment, and granted a new trial, has married the principal witness against her and thus rendered him incompetent to testify. On the Palouse River, Washington Territory, a desperado named Calvin Pierce quarreled with a young miner named W. H. Newcomb, and subsequently crept up behind him and split his head epjn with a pickax. The murderer tied, but an alarm was given, and he was speedily captured. A vigilance committee, composed of miners, tried Pieroe, condemned him to death, and he was immediately hanged to the nearest tree. The body was left suspended some time, but was finally buried. A stock train on the Alton Road was wrecked at Sag bridge, near Chicago, by a broken rail, killing one hundred head of cattle. The great spectacle of “ Zanita ” has entered upon Its fourth week at McVicker's Theater, Chicago. The dancing of Senorita Bella, the premier of the troupe, has created a perfect furor among Chicago theatergoers. The Tribune says of her: “A more graceful, soulful, and joyous dancer has seldom before visited this country; and none been with mjjcg urymimous praise. Tl is not that she accbmpi'lsnes particularly difficult oi startling feats, but it is her natural perfection of motion that in the delight of its abandon captivates pttpntion and makes what is extremely artliicfal appear to be the embodiment of ease. With such gifts as hers united to will-power and intelligence there is no reason why she should not become another Taglioni or Elssler.” Las Vegas (N. M.) dispatch: “Later reports from the murder of Don Miguel Mon tano and wife at their ranch at Lasnariss are to the effect that Jose Gallegos, a ranchero and desperate character, killed Montano and his wife in a fit of insanity*. After assuring himself his victims were dead he went to his own home and cut the throats of his entire family—a wife, two daughters, and a young son." Farmers in the Edwardsville (III.) section report the winter wheat plant very badly damaged by the cold weather. A well at Bay City, Mich., has been sunk to a depth of. 2,620 feet, With favorable indications for salt. An infernal machine is reported to have been found in a dwelling at Sturgis, Mich. The fuse had been lighted, but failed to burn. A three Peeks’ Methodist revival at Decatur, 111., resulted In 400 convert?. The Baptists have made ninety conversions. Farmers in the vicinity of Grand Haven, Mich., report finding in the woods great numbers of frozen tobins. George Q. Cannon, one of the Mormon leaders, adds his testimony to that of others from Utah that the Edmunds law has bred such insecurity that business is almost at a standstill, and no one feels safe from prosecution. There are 16,700 skilled laborers unemployed in Cincinnati. One-fourth of the boaworker* are idle, one-third of the build--I

era. and one-half of the carriage and furniture makers. The total number of men out of work is estimated at 30,000. In the District Court in Chicago, after atrial lasting fifteen days, the jury convicted J. C. Mackin, W. J. Gallagher, and Arthur Gleason of perpetrating election frauds, and acquitted Henry Biehl. Motions were promptly entered for a new trial. Mackin and Gallagher were held in $20,000 each, and Gleason in SIO,OOO.