Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Joseph C. Mackin, the Chicago bal-lot-box staffer, was taken to Joliet and entered on the service of his five years’sentence for perjury. He was dressed in convict clothes and ticketed No. 7339. Just a year and a day elapsed between the commission of the crime and the transfer to the penitentiary. Nine men, including two murderers, escaped from jail at Greenville, Ohio, by removing the sheet-iron flooring. The Attorney General of Kansas proposes .to proceed against the owners of one hundred and sixty saloon buildings in Leavenworth, and threatens to close every liquor shop in the State before stopping to rest, ’• Fire destroyed the County Infirmary near Sandusky, Ohio, five women perishing in the flames. The Superintendent was fatally injured. A Special Agent of the Indian Bureau finds that over four hundred cattle were lost at Fort Bennett, last year, by the neglect of Agent William A. Swan, whose dismissal is recommended, with that of his issue clerk. At the entrance to his residence in East St. Louis, ex-Mayor John B. Bowman was Assassinated by an unknown man, who fired a bullet into the back of his victim’s head. Mr. Bowman was prominent in politics, having been accounted Congressman Morrison’s lieutenant, and it is alleged that the murder is the result of political feuds.

The Duff Comic Opera Company, in Gilbert and Sullivan's latest success, “The Mikado,” appears this week at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago. The opera is presented by the same excellent company that produced it for over 100 nights at the Standard Theater, New York.

The Federal Commissioner Deputy Marshal arrested at Salt Lake for lewd conduct assert their innocence of the charges brought by Mormon leaders. Senator Plumb, of Kansas, after consultation with the railroad magnates, reports that the St Paul will build to Kansas City next year, and that the other Western roads were surveying and making arrangements to environ his State with tracks.

At No. 310 Monroe street, Chicago, Samuel It Smith murdered his young wife during the night and made his escape. It appears that at the time of their marrirge the lady was engaged to Dr. J. 8. H. Bickford, of Cleveland, who subsequently tried to persuade her to leave Smith.

Sterling R. Holt, one of the election commissioners, was, arrested at Indianapolis, charged with breaking open a ballot-box with a hatchet The judges .had refused to give him the keys to the box, and he broke it open to carry out the order of court for a recount The State Board of Horticulture of California memorialized Congress ts place a high protective tariff on prunes, raisins, and olive oil, and also indorsed the Mexican reciprocity treaty. The works of the Calumet Iron and Steel Company, to the southward of Chicago, having been closed for six months by a strike, are about to resume operations at lower wages. Vice President Bradley says thirty-two nailers on the pay-rolls formerly averaged from $6 to sll per day each. Congressman J. G. Cannon, a member of the Holman committee which has been making a tour of the Indian agencies, is of the

opinion that the Indians cannot long retain j possession of the Indian Territory, which is ' capable of maintaining more than ten times its present population if brought under that degree of cultivation of which it is susceptible. The great three-cornered billiard tournament at Chicago l>etween the world’s ■ champions, Schaefer, Slosson, and Vignaux, i resulted in a tie, each man winning two and i losing two game a