Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Dispatches from the West and Southwest report that the strike on the Gould roads is assuming an alarming phase. The strike, which seems to be pretty general, extends along the Missouri Pacific Road and its branches in the States of Missouri, Kansas, and Texas, The Governor of Missouri sent by special train to Sedalia seven companies of St. Louis militia, with a Gatling gun, to keep in check the striking employee. There were seventy engines in the yards at Sedalia, and tenmiles of loaded freight-cars on the side-tracks. The strikers adopted a proclamation promising to keep the peace at all hazards. At the annual meeting of the Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain stockholders at St. Louis Gould Board of Directors were elected. The surplus earnings of the Missouri Pacific were stated to be $4,284,750, and of the Iron Mountain route $3,464,59:1, from both of which, however, taxes and fixed charges are to be deducted. Forty-nine Oneida children from the reservation at Green Bay passed through Chicago for th© training school at Martinsburg, Pa. Fourteen merchants and the leading banker in the town were found by the police in gambling rooms at Harvard, 111. All were bound ovqr for trial. Nellie Horan, of Whitewater, Wis., has been acquitted of the charge of poisoning her s ster. Mrs. Mark Hopkins, wife of the St. Clair (Mich.) millionaire, has begun suit for divorce on the ground of cruelty. A Cleveland newspaper, the Herald, will soon disappear. It has been purchased by two of its contemporaries. The circulation and good-will go to the Deader, while the material an machinery will be used by the Plain-Dealer for a morning edition. In the United States District Court at Chicago, after listening to arguments relative to anew trial for J. C. Mackin and W. J. Gallagher, the election conspirators, Judge Blodgett formally sentenced them to two years’ Imprisonment in the penitentiary at Joliet, and imposed upon them a fine of $5,000 each. He ordered them into the custody of the Marshal, and deferred their removal to prison for ten days. About twenty Oklahoma boomers were brought to Wichita, Kas., last week, and were arraigned before Commissioner Sherman. They all gave bail in $3,000 each for their appearance at the September term of the United States Court. They at once returned to Arkansas City, where the boomers are concentrating their forces. The wife of Caspar Hornicele, of t Lewiston, Ohio, disappeared recently, and Hornicele was arrested, charged with her abduction, and in the jail attempted to kill himself. Mrs. Minnie Peck, who was the wife of Elmer Cobb, son of Abira Cobb, the Cleveland millionaire, is accused of kidnapping her little boy from Cleveland, and to have taken him to Brooklyn. Elmer Cobb, who had separated from his wife, believing her to be unfaithful, committed suicide, and when his putative child was born be was placed with foster-parents. Ahira Cobb, father of Elmer, died suddenly without leaving a will, end a suit is now pending to make Elmer's child a joint heir to the grandfather’s estate. Hence the mother’s interest in fetttbg ooalroi of her child.

Lotta, the favorite actress, inimitable in son >-, dance, or as a virtuoso on the banjo, is the attraction at McVicker’s Thoator, Chi- ■ cago, the current week, appearing as Musette in the play of that name. Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Gen. Joseph H. Taylor, U. 8. A. and Adjutant General of the Department of the Platte, died at Omaha. D. L. Moody, in opening a revival at a rink in Des Moines, had the company of thirty clergymen on the platform. The people of Sarahsville, Ohio, enraged at the brutal beating Inflicted by Thos. Dayton on his two little children, erected a post in the public square, lashed Dayton to it, and then thrashed him with whips. The post has been left standing as a warning to bad characters. The President has issued a proclamation that an invasion of the Oklahoma lands will not be tolerated, and that if unauthorized possession be taken ths military power of the United States will be invoked to expel the intruders. Persons already in occunation of the lands will be also removed. The conference held at St. Louis by Governors, Railway Commissioners, and Attorney Generals of Kansas and Missouri recommended that the Missouri Pacific restore wages to the striking employes without prejudice. Notice is, tifeyefore, given by Vice Presidents Hayes and’ Hoxie that old rates will be paid, and will not be changed except on thirty days’notice.