Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Near the corner of Halsted and Adams streets, Chicago, a cranky shoemaker named Max Ritterberg shot and killed a policeman who entered his shop to quell a disturbance. Ritterberg then ran to his residence, and in the presence of his family put a bullet .through his brain. Judge Gresham has approved the decree of foreclosure against the Toledo, Cincinati and St. Louis Narrow-Gauge Road, which is mortgaged for $5,400,000, and weighed down by receivers’ certificates for $1,000,000 or more. The divisions will bo sold separately, at Indianapolis, about the end of December. At liockfield, Wis, the 4-year-old child of a miner threw a dynamite cartridge into the kitchen stove. The explosion killed the child and fatally injured its mother, A convention of racing representatives at St. Louis organized the American Turf Congress, Mr. J. F. Robinson being elected President, and B. G. Bruco Secretary-Treas-urer. Important changes were made in the rules, but the dates for next year’s meetings were not fixed, as satisfactory arrangements could not be reached. Promptly at noon of the 14th, in the jail at Chicago, the three murderers of Filippo Caruso were simultaneously executed. They spent the previous night iu tlio library with Italian priests. The bodies were intorred in Calvary Cemetery, each of_the condemned men having bequeathed his remains to a benevolent •organization. William Sharon, ex-Senator from California, died in San Francisco, after an illness of a week, during which time ho was unable to take nourishment. Ho was iu his sixty-fifth year. The census of lowa shows twenty centenarians. Jacob Heike, of Grundy County, the oldest person in the State, is 121 years of age. The mysterious robbery of the Nebraska State Treasury, last winter, has been followed by a verdict of manslaughter against Detective A. L. Pound, who is believed to have incited the crime and then shot his victim. A prominent citizen of Montana asserts that the Marquis de Mores has sunk* all his capital remaining outside the.battle business, putting $250,000 into refrigerators along the Northern Pacific, $45,000 into new paper ventures, and expending $25,000 on his trial for murder. The Supreme Court of Illinois has affirmed the sentence of five years in the peni r tentiary imposed upon Joseph C. Mackiu for perjury in connection with tho Eighteenth Ward election fraud in Chicago. At an explosion in the boiler-robm of the Bull Domingo Mine at Silver Cliff, Co)o;,. ten men Were killed.' Twelve members of . the bar.of. Tuscarawas County, Ohio, united in a. letter to Judge John S. Pearce requesting his resignation on account of personal insultt abU Yxtrehte

nervousness. The Judge proposes to hold the fort William A. Vincent, lately removed from the Chief Justiceship of the Supreme Court of New Mexico, has made a full statement of his reasons for appointing S. W. Dorsey as one of the commissioners of jurors, and he appeals to President Cleveland for a thorough investigation of his case. Hugh N. Brooks, alias Maxwell, alias D’Anquier, was arraigned in the Criminal Court at St Louis, and formally charged with the murder of Charles Arthur Preller. Jo£n V. Suvdam, who died at Green Bay, was the publisher cf the first newspaper in the Territory of Wisconsin, having resided there since 1829.