Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Wallace Waterman, convicted of I grave-robbing at Geneva, 111., was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. Dynamiters destroyed the house of Neal Shanks at Nashville, Ohio. The outrage is the upshot of a local feud. The Chicago Relief and Aid Society, in appealing to wealthy citizens for funds to continue Its work, reports that in point of destitution this winter is the worsts in the history of Chicago. Two Chinese laundrymen at Bloomington, 111., committed suicide with opium, becoming despondent because they bad cut off their queues. A new and rich discovery of lead ore has been made by Stephen Klais, a German miner, on land three miles east of Galena. Hl. A decision has been rendered by the Attorney General of the State of lowa that State Oil Inspectors must brand all oil inspected with its actual quality. Inspectors have been recently in the habit of rejecting all oil not up to the test of 100 degrees, and branding the rest with that figure, whatever its quality might be. It is thought that the decision will cost the Standard Oil Company $500,000 annually. Thomas Nevins, ex-Mayor of Adrian, and a fugitive from justice, has disappeared from Port Townsend, W. T., where he was known as John B. Voorhees. The petition of a Chinese artist of Chicago to be allowed to adopt a white babe was denied by Judge Prendergast, for the reason that the child would not receive suitable education and nurture. •Two passenger trains on the Illinois Central Road were telescoped by a freight train near ‘Chebanse, IIL, where they had stopped on account of a broken track. John A. Mclnnes, of Ingersoll, Ontario, was instantly killed. Among the eight persons injured were Capta n James Dalton, Rev. J. M. A. Brown, and Dr. Isabella Mitchell, of Chicago. While at work at Lafayette, Ind., Edward Burkhalter, a teamster, became suddenly and incurably blind from the glare of the snow. At Toledo, Ohio, the Toledo and Indianapolis Railroad was sold to Francello G. Jillson, of Woonsocket, R. 1., acting in behalf of the bondholders, for $150,000. Gen. C. R. Woods was found dead in bed at his home in Newark, Ohio. Wdrkmen at various shops scattered along the Wabash Road have struck because of an increase in the hours of labor or a reduction in wages. Gas with a pressure of twenty-five feet to the inch has been discovered in a well bored for water on a lot adjoining* the Dayton Railway depot in Cincinnati. Lloyd Breeze lost $17,000 in Detroit since Christmas by publishing the Evening Times, which suspended last week. In Madison County, Illinois, winter wheat has suffered seriously from the intense cold. One farmer reports that 200 acres of his crop has been killed. Forty thousand brook trout, destined for streams in Grant County, Wisconsin, were frozen to death while in transit from the State hatchery. A financial cyclone struck St. Louis last week, resulting in two heavy suspensions on the Merchants’ Exchange. B. W. Lewis and E. M. Samuel & Sons were crowded to the wall by a break in May wheat. A plot to rob the State Treasury of Nebraska became known at Lincoln early in February. One day last .week three men stepped to toe cashier's window in the State

House, presented pistols at the bead of Deputy Bart’ett, and took S4OO in coin. As they walked away, a detective fired at them, and killed one named James Griffin. Alva McGuire was captured, and the third party escaped. The robbers named had each previously killed his man, but escaped conviction on the plea of self-defense. There are suspicions that the affair was a clever job engineered by local detectives solely to secure reputation. The revolver of one of the alleged burglars was found to be loaded with blank cartridges only, and there are other suspicious circumstances in connection with the affair.