Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The Southern Pacific Company, which recently leased the ‘-Sunset route" from San Francisco to New Orleans, has secured a lease of the entire Central Pacific Hoad and its branches north of Goshen for a term of ninety-nine years, the consideration being taxes, repairs, interest on Its debt, an 1 a rental ranging from $1,200,000 to $3,600,000 per annum. A section of the Emery Candle Factory at Cincinnati was burned, creating a loss m excess of SBO,OOO. Some of the employes became panic-stricken, but all were removed in safety. The United States Marshal at Springfield, 111., has in custody, for lack of $50,000 bail, Jami s E. Chandler and John B. Cummings, who were respectively President and Cashier of the wrecked First National Bank of Bushnell. The Examiner charges them with the embezzlement of SCO,OOO. The court-house at Minneapolis, valued at $40,000, was burned, but the records were saved. The estate of C. H. McCormick has made another gift of SIOO,OOO to the Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Chicago. Lightning exploded the Hazard Powder Company’s magazine, containing eight and a half vons of powder, at St. Joseph, Mo. The detonation partially wrecked all the bouses in the vicinity. Three masked men entered the farmhouse of Jacob Miller, near Lancaster, Ohio, and demarded money. Be felled one robber with a chair, when another of the thieves killed him with a navy revolver. The family were threatened with death while the house was being robbed of S6OO. Mrs. Ezekiel T. Cox, mother of the Hon. 8. S. k Cox, Minister to Turkey, died at Janesville, Ohio, last we-ak.

At a farm house near Monmouth, HI., 1 a . .an named Ek.ward F. Nash, whohad spent a year in the Insane asylum, killed his ' mother and sister, and laid their bodies side ide on th j porch. The maniac fired aix- • i pullets from two revolvers into the ; bodies of the victims. Insanity is hereditary ■ in tho family, Thirty-eight indictments have been found by the Grand Jury of Morgan County, Ohio, against liquor dealers and gamblers In the to wn of McConnelsville. Sixteen of the accused, upon being arrested, either pleaded guilty or were convicted of selling liquor to minors, und were punished by a fine of $25 to SSO and twenty to thirty days in jail.