Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Garland Mann, awaiting his fourth trial for the murder of Dr. Chenoweth, a prominent citizen of McDonald County, Missouri, was taken from the jail at Neosha by a mob who intended to lynch him, but Mann fought so desperately with his pocket-knife that his captors shot him to death. W’illiam Kearney, an insane man, who lives near Humboldt, Neb., was arrested at Kansas City while on his way to Washington to kill President Cleveland. He had a revolver, and was well supplied with money. A new railroad bridge across the Ohio River at Henderson, Ky., costing sl,000,000, was formally opened to traffic last week. Carpie Bearhead, a young member of the Creek Nation, who had committed several murders, was executed at Eufaula, Indian Territory, by being shot to death while seated on his coffin. About four hundred men attempted to shut down by force the mill of Rust Brothers & Co., at East Saginaw, Mich., but were put to flight by the police. Reports from correspondents of a St. Louis milling flrm at over three hundred points indicate the present condition of the wheat crop in the States named as compared with 1884 to be: Missouri 42’4 per cent., Illinois 8214 per cent., Indiana 55 per cent., Kansas 31 per cent. The prospects for bountiful harvests in Western Ontario were never more promising. The experiment ot Manager McVicker, of Chicago, with a stock company and a revival of a round of the sterling English comedies is meeting with encouraging support. Last week the “School for Scandal ” was given with a brilliant cast, and was enthusiastically received. The Times says: “It would be the highest praise to say that it was performed in a manner fully worthy of its merits, and such praise is really due the McVicker company. Itwasa brilliantcast; the parts were admirably distributed, and each found an intelligent, spirited, and accurate interpretation. It is a long time indeed since ‘The School for Scandal’ has been presented in this city in a matter so thoroughly satisfactory. The strong parts for which the piece is famous were handled in a way that made vivid individualizations of each, nothing of the brilliant dialogue was lost, and the humor, spirit, and vivacity of the piece were most effectually set forth.” “The School for Scandal” will be followed by that splendid old comedy, “She Stoops to Conquer.”

The Montezuma Hotel at Las Vegas, New Mexico, was burned, causing a loss of $3C0,000. » By a wreck on the Cincinnati and Eastern Railroad near Cincinnati three persons were killed and two fatally injured. Jarvis Snyder, wife and daughter, William HeQ'ron and George Hansen attempted to cross the Columbia River at Cascade Locks, Oregon, when the boat was carried over the rapids and all the occupants were drowned. -