Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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President Adams, of the Union Pacific Railroad, gays the Coating debt of the company lias been provided for, but declines to publish the terms of the agreement. It is rumored at New York that the company has sold a certain amount of bonds for cash, and placed another block of its securities as collateral for a loan. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Bailroad will be completed Oct. 1 through from Kansas City to San Diego and San Francisco. Mrs. Dr. Marshall, Mrs. Paul, and a lady friend were drowned at Brown’s Valley, Minnesota, by a boat capsizing in Lake Traverse during a storm. One body was recovered. The individual losses from the recent cyclone at Washington Court House, Ohio, will exceed (250,003. About one hundred families are reported by the local relief committee to be in need of assistance. Samuel B. French, a private banker of Milwaukee, failed for 870,000; and J. C. Wessonbern, dry goods dealer of Appleton, Wis., was closed by the Sherltf, with liabilities of $20,000. The cases of treason against Capt. Couch and other Oklahoma boomers on trial before tho United States Court at Wichita, Kas., have been dismissed by Government counsel. Manager McVicker, of Chicago, has seoured some excellent attractions lor his fine theater during the Exposition season. Following Mr. Denman Thompson, who now hoi Js the boards with his delightful characterization of Uncle Joshua Whitcomb, the honest old New England iarmer, wiR appear in succession Lotta, Joseph Jellerson, C. W. Couldock, and a number of other brilliant stars. Muskegon, Mich., special: “Clarence and Herbert Morrison, of this city,went to South Haven in a small sa.lboat, and left that place forborne just before tho recent big storm set in. They were accompanied by two other young men. Nothing has been heard from them since. They were undoubtedly caught in the storm on Lake Michigan and lost.” Sedgwick, the banner corn county of Kansas, is expected to produce 9,030,CL0 bushels of that cereal this year. John L. Sullivan, who pitched in a game of base-ball at Clevelan J, last Sabbath, was subsequently arrested for violating the Sunday law. John D. Rockefeller, of the Stand rd Gil Company, procured the warrant. Near Seattle, Wash. Ter., a large building occupied by fifty Chinese laborers was at asked by a mob of masked men. The Chinese fled into the woods. C. H. Chamberlain has commenced a suit in St. Louis for $103,000 damages against the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Hailroad on account of injuries received in an accident at Woodlawn, lowa, ten years ayo. The stage running from Fort Custer to Fort Maginnie was held up by three masked men near Forty-Mile Ranch and S6OO taken. Twelve thousand dollars in army tend* was tent through tyvo days before.

The amount or fraudulent orders issued by township trustees in various parts of Indiana is estimated at $250,000. g, C. Fenton, Trustee of Adams Township, Warren County, is reported missing. Trustee Clawson, of Warren Township, who issued $19,000 of the fraudulent orders, is reported to be in Hamilton, Ontar o. Emery A. Storrs, the eminent Chicago lawyer, died at Ottawa. 111., after a short illness. He had been complaining of a difficulty in breatning. was taken to his bed, and telegraphed for his wife. She arrived and found him resting easier. He ordered cigars and smoked one of them in bed, and appeared so much improved that she retired, and awoke at 7 o’clock the next morning and found him dead, the supposition being that he died several hours before of heart trouble. His remains were taken to Chicago for burial. The deceased was born nt Hinsdale, N. Y., August 12, 1835.