Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Miss May Simons, of Buffalo, who was visiting friends in Chicago, was arrested at the demand of a State street shopkeeper for attempting to steal a jersey, and was locked up in a police station with two disreputable females. The mistake was speedily made apparent in the court-room. J. H. McVicker secured a permit to place two additional stories on his theater, at a cost of SIOO,OOO. John Neil, a burglar lying in Cleveland jail awaiting sentence to the penitentiary, was married to a servant who desired something to worry about. At Muncie, Ind., lata at night, Olney Scott and William Haines went to the henhouse of Bishop Scott to play a joke by making the chickens cackle. The owner of the poultry toad been forewarned, and endeavored to reciprocate good-naturedly by firing an old horse-pistol at the invaders. He blazed away into the air, and is now bowed down by grief at having killed his friend Haines. A Green Bay dispatch records the death of Mrs. Frink, widow of the first Baptist missionary in the Fox River valley. Orville Cronkhite, a veteran in the insurance business in Chicago, and General Anson Stager, formerly one of the General Superintendents of the Western Union Telegraph Company are chronicled among the recent deaths. Lake men do not expect the resumption of navigation between the upper and the lower lakes much before the Ist of June. The ice in the straits of Mackinac is over thirty feet in thickness. A fire in the cooper-shop of the Ohio Penitentiary at Columbus caused a loss of about $40,000. An inquest was held at Chicago over the remains of the Langham Hotel victims. The testimony was such that the deaths could not be attributed to criminal carelessness, and a verdict was rendered accordingly. Five oil wells have this week been •completed at Macksburg, Ohio, two of which yield 150 barrels per day. The fourth iron tank will be finished this week. Eight deaths from small-pox are said to have occurred this week among the colored people at Mound City, 111. I. S. Hyatt, one of the inventors of celluloid, formerly Sheriff of Heniy County, Illinois, recently died in Florida. The wheat acreage in the southern half of Illinois is -said not to be half what it was in 1880, and the plant has suffered seriously from frost,. Fourteen business buildings at Oakland, Ind., valued at $60,000, and the Miller block at Valparaiso, worth about the same sum, were destroyed by fire. Mrs. Sanford, Chicago, was burned to death by the fall of a hanging lamp under which she was reading. She ran out to a pool of water in the yard, leaving a trail of fire behind, and soon succumbed to her injuries. Judge Dickey "has lately sold his homestead on the bluff at Ottawa, 111., where he settled forty-six years ago, retaining the family burial-ground, containing the remains of Gen. W. K. L. Wallace. Indianapolis reports a case of blood poisoning said to have resulted from vaccination with bovine virus.

Ex-Gov. Thomas G. Fletcher, of Missouri, a prominent lawyer of St. Louie, has been missing from that city, and has friends are unable to account for his mysterious and unaccountable absence from home. Perry H. Smith, formerly Vice President of the Northwestern Road, died at his residence in Chicago, of congestion of the liver. For some years his health has been extremely poor, and a conservator was appointed for his estate. The Court House at St. Joseph, Mo., was burned, with the court records and law library. W. B. McMett, Chief of the Fire Department, received fatal injuries. The buildings cost $250,000.