Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Mormon missionaries continue to make their appearance in Central Illinois. They travel in pairs, and appeal to the charitable for subsistence. Treasurer Abbott, of the Wisconsin Central Hoad, announces that the Great Western terminal scheme at Chicago will be carried out, at an expense of about $(5,000,000. A dispatch from Wellington, Kan., says: The “boomers” have begun operations with even more determination and vigor than were manifested a year ago. Yesterday morning, the day announced for the beginning of the campaign, which promises so much in the near future, covered wagons and covered buggies, carriages, and “schooners,” tilled with the families of the eager yet itinerant boomers, could be seen in droves and numbered by the score. To-day the crowd has been supplemented by hundreds more, all with sails set for the happy, cherished spot called Oklahoma. From the earnestness of the boomers and their equipments one would imagine they are determined to “fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.” This, in short, is the spirit displayed by several men who were interviewed while passing through the city. A Chicago “drummer” named Max" well, while eating oysters at Lafayette, Ind., discovered a pearl of the alleged value of $(»00. A sand-scow operating at Milwaukee found the anchor chains of the steamer Sebastopol, which was sunk in a hurricane thirty years ago. A snake of prodigious size was seen in Round Lake, near Laketon, Ind., by two gentlemen, whose trustworthiness is undoubted. The presence of the monster reptile in the lake has for a long time been asserted, but received as little credit as do sea-serpent stories. George Miller, the first murderer legally executed in Dakota, was hanged at Grand Forks, life not being pronounced extinct until after the expiration of 23% minutes. William Harper was hanged at Paragould, Ark., for the murder of John Sellers a year ago. While hunting near New Philaadelphia, Ohio, Theodore Thompson mistook his brother for a squirrel, and gave him a full charge of shot, inflicting a dangerous wound. The White Earth Indians, of Minnesota, have taken preliminary steps toward concentrating on one reservation all the scattering tribes in that State, numbering 2,800 persons. Cholera has, within a few weeks, swept away a thousand hogs in one township in Champaign County, 111. It is said to be rapidly spreading. A gold-headed cane was the tribute paid by the citizens of Paw Paw, 111., to their retiring Postmaster, who served them continuously for thirty-five years. A telegram from Detroit states that ■“when the tug Frank Moffat was making fast to the wharf at Sarnia, on the Canada side of the St Clair River, her boiler exploded with terrific force, blowing away her upper works apd part of her deck and shattering her hull. John Ward, first engineer, of Detroit; William Miller, second engineer, of Port Huron; John Wiley, fireman, residence unknown; andWal-

ter Fisher, fireman, of Petrolia, were instantly killed. Their bodies were blown into the river, and have not yet been recovered; Capt. Thomas Curry had his leg broken. Andrew Reed and Frank Furtap were badly scalded, and Robert Goodman, the mate, who was ashore with the line, was blown over a wood-pile and badly injured.”