Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The Michigan and Mississippi Canal Commissioners met in. annual session at the Grand Pacific Hotel and elected officers for the ensuing year. Addresses were made by Judge Murphy, President Utley, Governor Bross, Congressman Plumb, and others, expressing the fullest confidence that Congress at its next session would make the necessary appropriation for the construction of the Hennepin Canal “Around the World in Eighty Days” has attracted large audiences to McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, during the week. As presented by the Kiralfy Brothers’ Company, the performance is highly entertaining. The spectacle will be continued for another week. A series of cyclones are reported in various sections of Illinois. At Versailles several buildings were unroofed. Near Monmouth and Alexis considerable damage was inflicted upon dwellings and barns. The greatest damage was done in Peoria County, where several houses were demolished. A peculiarity of the storm was the fact that household articles were found a mile in every direction from the scene of the wreck, behind the storm and on each side, as well as in the direction it traveled. A wagon on which chickens were roosting was carried a mile, the fowls flying along with it. The major portion were dead when found At a convention of the Northwestern Rat-Trap Manufacturers’ Association in Chicago the reports showed that the rat-trap industry is considerably depressed, and that there is considerable cutting in prices. A long existing feud between two Democratic politicians, W. J. Elliott, editor of the Sunday Capital, and the Hon. Emil Kiesewetter, State Auditor, culminated in the shooting of the editor by the Auditor at the Neil House, Columbus, Ohio, wounding him in the hand A bitter warfare is being waged against the Mongolian on the Pacific coast. At Seattle and Tacoma. in Washington Territory, the word has gone forth that the coolies must go. A fire in the Chinese quarter of Los Angeles, Cal., caused the citizens to meet and order the Celestials away. The latter at once purchased ground outside the city limits, began the erection of buildings, and quickly removed their property. Ton companies of infantry were dispatched from Vancouver to Seattle to protect the Chinese and preserve order. At Washington President Cleveland issued the following proclamation: Whereas, It is represented to me by the Governor of the Territory of Washington that domestic trouble exists within the said Territory, and that by reason of unlawful obstructions and combinations, and the assemblage of evil-dis-posed persons, it has become impracticable to enforce by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings the laws of the United States at Seattle and at other points and places within said Territory whereby life and property are there threatened and endangered; and Whereas, The Legislature of said Territory cannot be convened, and in the judgment of the President an emergency has arisen and a case is now presented which justifies and requires, under the Constitution and laws of the United States, the employment of military force to suppress domestic violence and enforce the faithful execution of the laws of the United States, if the command and warning of this proclamation be disobeyed and disregarded; Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States of America, do hereby command and warn all insurgents and all persons who have assembled at any point within the said Territory of Washington for the unlawful Surposes aforesaid to desist therefrom and to isperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes on or before 12 o’clock meridian the Bth day of November instant. And I do admonish all good citizens of the United States and all persons within the limits and jurisdiction thereof against aiding, abetting, countenancing, or taking any part in any such unlawful acts or assemblages.