Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

A compromise Las been effected between coal miners and operators in the Belleville (111.1 region, and no further trouble is apprehended. Miami University, at Oxford, Ohio, was reopened last week, after having been closed for twelve years, and the was celebrated with fireworks, a procession, and a public meeting.

Bishop John Sharp, the Utah director of the Union Pacific, and one of the wealthiest and most influential Mormons living, appeared in court at Salt Lake City and pleaded guilty to unlawful cohabitation. He claimed that the plural marriage was entered into before there was any statute against it, and that the marriage was contracted in good faith according to the Mormon religion, but he recognized the supremacy of his adopted country’s laws, and would live within them henceforth. Ho would not advise any one else to break them. He was fined S3OO, and discharged on the payment.

Thorough investigations have been made by the Government Directors of the Union Paciflo Uailroad and by the representatives of the Chinese Legation at Washington into the causes of the recent antiChinese riots in Wyoming. The former telegraphed to Secretary Lamar that the existing condition of aflairs is critical and calls for prompt action. The Chinese Government will demand indemnity for the outrage. The bodies of twenty-five Chinamen Jiave been recovered, and it is believed the number of killed reached forty.

The Illinois State Fair was one of the most successful exhibitions of the kind ever held in Chicago. The gross receipts are estimated at $30,000, which will fully cover the expenses. Over 125,000 people attended the fair.

Rush & Sprague’s flouring mills, Leavenworth, were burned, the loss amounts ing to SSO,OJO. St. Louis has in one of its elevators 40,009 bushels of wcavllly wheat. A whisky war is imminent between Cine nnati and 1 eorin. The latter is sell ng spirits at $1.03 and the former at SI.OO, and an attempt to form a pool to tako Peoria’s product has faded.

St. Paul and Minneapolis have been raised by the Postolflco Department to tho first grade in the free-delivery service. The bones of the Chinamen found in a California cellar were turned over to the Chinese Consul, and by him shipped to China. A most singular death from bloodpoisoning Is reported from Appleton, Wis., the victim being B. T. Rogers, a leading citizen, who smashed one of his fingers in a piece of machinery.

William Bedford, of Evansville, Ind., well-known in leading circles throughout the Union, was terribly Injured by a mad bull, and will probably die. Dr. JL W. Powers, 70 years old, ao-

cused of poisoning his neighbors’ cattle and burning property belonging to one of them, was hanged by a mob at Hollister, Cal. The Marquis de Mores was acquitted at Bismarck, D. T., of the murder of William A. Luffsey at Little Missouri June 26, 1883. Jacob Shipley, a Town Trustee of Morgan County, Indiana, has been Indicted for issuing fraudulent warrants. A. O. English, Trustee of another township in the 6ame county, who is charged with a similar offense, has disappeared, and is supposed to have gone to Canada. Enoch Norton and George W. Boyd, of Fountain County, have been indicted for complicity in the frauds. Thomas Hubbell, of Monclova, Lucas County, Chio, died—as was supposed—in that place thirteen years ago and was buried. Letters recently received by his wife from an inmate of a Michigan insane asylum, signed with his name, led to the opening of his grave, which was found to contain an empty casket. The theory is advanced that his body was stolen for a medical college; that while on the dlssecting-table life returned, but that the shock dethroned his reason, and he was then placed in the asylum of which he is now an inmate.