Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Judge T. Lyle Dickey, of the Illinois Supreme Court, died at Atlantic City, N. J., after an illness of several months. The Judge was surrounded by his family. Death was caused by a complication of kidney and heart trouble. The net earnings of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway for the fiscal year ending May 31, 1885, were $4,557,047, as against $3,700,737 for the preceding fiscal year. At Osceola, Neb., five thousand people witnessed the execution of Milton W. Smith, a wife-murderer, who died protesting his innocence. A preliminary meeting of stockmen ■who hold Arapahoe and Cheyenne leases was held at St. Louis, to discuss the President's proclamation. They claim that it will be impossible to remove 300,000 to 400,000 head of cattle in forty days, as no lands are open upon which they can be placed. A band of returning Apache Indians were intercepted near Bisbee, A. T„ and seven of their number killed. Notwithstanding the fact that July 24, the Mormon fete-day, passed without any disturbanc sin Utah, it is said the military authorities have received advices which cause a close watch to be kept over the Salt Lake Valley. At Mound City, 111., q, mob of masked men visited the jail, overpowered the Sheriff and his deputies, and took a prisoner named Joseph Maupin from his cell and’ hanged him. Maupin shot and killed John Daniels, who had married his daughter a few hours previously, against his wishes. A band of fifteen men attempted to regain possession of a lot of liquor that had been confiscated under warrants taken out by the Temperance League at What Cheer,

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