Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Capt. Couch, of the Oklahoma boomers, was interviewed at St. Louis, and stated that his mission to Washington was simply to make explanations to the President. The colonists believe the Government is owner of the disputed lands, and should open them to the people. The assembling of the colonists was not for the purpose of intimidation or coercion; they do not wish to antagonize the Government, and will withdraw peaceably when the United States courts have decided that entry upon the territory involved would be in violation of the rights of the Indians. On attachments aggregating $35,000, the Sheriff at Oshkosh seized the works of the carriage company, which of late has been operated by a syndicate. The company has a capital of $125,000,“ and its liabilities are about $40,000. Col. J. A. Watrous, of Milwaukee, has been appointed State Pension Agent of Wisconsin, an office created by the present Legislature. Major S. E. Mower, one of the.owners of the Sunday Telegraph, at Milwaukee, killed himself with a revolver while suffering from neuralgia. Charles Shilling, of Lafayette, Ind., received from some unknown person in Chicago, by ex press, a pine box containing the skeleton of a woman packed in sawdust. Miss Carrie E. Brown, of Rockford, 111., drowned herself in the river because of fear that she was about to become insane. She was soon to marry a gentleman in Des Moines. The Cincinnati Police Commissioners issued an order last week for the closing of gambling houses and the driving out of bunko-steerers, confidence men, and known criminals. Street-walkers are to be taken in for vagrancy, and the well-dressed loafers that infest Vino street are to ba arrested for loitering. John H. Shaw, Representative from the Thirty-fourth Illinois Legislative District, Beardstown, Cass County, was found dead in his room at the Palace Hotel, S[ ringfield, on the morning of Sunday, the 12th inst. He had been dead several hours, and heart disease is supposed to have been the cause. This makes the the third death during the session, and another vacancy on the Democratic side. Information has been received at Washington that the Crow, Cheyenne, and Piegan Indians in Northern Wyoming, south of the Crow reservation, are preparing for an outbreak. Hiram Foulks, a hermit, living near Independence, Kansas, was shot dead and thrown into a well. The Coroner found, in a canvas bag sewed inside his drawers, bills amounting to $1,725. The heirs are five nephews and nieces.