Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

A small hotel in Seventh street, St. Louis, known as the Metropolitan, was destroyed by fire. A chambermaid named Amelia Scharfl leaped from a third-floor window to the pavement, and expired soon afterward. A deep razor cut was found in her throat An investigation showed that she had admitted a discarded lover to her room after midnight. It is believed that he wounded her and then fired the building. The Circuit Court of Cincinnati has ordered certificates of election to issuo to the four Republican candidates for the Ohio State Senate from Hamilton County. A death from yellow fever occurred on board the steamer Venezuela in the harbor of New Orleans. Officials of the Union Pacific Eoad have filed at Lincoln articles of incorporation for the Omaha and Elkliom Valley Railway, with a capital stock of $1,000,000. The survey is being made, and work is to commence early in the spring. Reports were to the effect that new gold fields had boon discovered in Alaska, which were yielding very rich ore. A boiler explosion at McGregor, lowa, killed Edward Chamberlain, and Hiram Barker, another employe, is not expected to survive. The headquarters of the CattleGrowers’ Association has been fixed at St. Louis. The new Secretary, Colonel Cunningham, of Texas, being Hick, Mr. Allen, who has been Assistant Secretary under Mr. Atwater, will serve for three months. The militia, police, and municipal officers of Indianapolis, on Sunday, tlio 29th ult, escorted the remains of Vice-President Hendricks from Iris residence to the Court House. Every building on tho line of march was draped in mourning. Tho body lay in state Sunday and Monday, and was viewed by thousands of oeonle. Mrs.

Hendricks sent a message to President I Cleveland urging him to remain in j Washington, owing to the weighty public | reasons that exist against his coming West to i attend her late husband’s funeraL Many public men, both Republicans and Democrats, j called upon the President and urged him not [ to make the trip, and he received many letters ! and telegrams on the subject, opposing bis going. The Executive finally decided to heed ! the advice and remain at the capital He said: In the first moment of the shock of Mr. Hen- i dricks’ death I yielded to iny inclination, and ; declared my intention to be present at the funeral. Of course, in reaching that conclusion : I did not >iut out of view a peremptory press of public business or what I deemed a sufficient \ consideration of my duty to the people. The j public business I thought I could dis}iose of by j additional application and more hours of j work, and I considered it to be my duty i to the people to answer a tender I sentiment of respect and affection to the dead ! Vico President which does them great honor, j I am satisfied now that I was at fault in considering the question, and that I did not take as \ comprehensive a view of the duty I owe the ! public as I should—that is, I did not look at every phase of it, and I am airaid my strong personal desire somewhat clouded my judgment, j I am now reminded by some of the best and most patriotic and thoughtful of our citizens j that the real and solemn duties of my office are at the National Capital, and that in the jiresent peculiar and delicate situation I ought not to take even the remote chance of accident incident to travel to gratify a sentiment so general and so characteristic as that involved in : this subject. I have been profoundly im- ; pressed by these considerations, but most of i all influenced by their strong and unanimous j presentation by tho devoted frionds of the late i Vice President living in his Htate and city, and their indorsement by tho noble and patriotic woman who, in tho infinite sorrow of her widowhood, reflects the spirit and character of her honored husband in her solicirude for the public good. lam now certain that neither my desire, nor the sentiment referred to, nor the difficulty that attends in this case a chango of design, nor any stubborn idea of heroism, will justify me in subjecting the country to any groator chance of disaster than attends my performance of strict duty here, and that I ought not to inflict upon my countrymen even tho unrest and anxiety attending my departure, absence, and return in attendance uj>on the funeral ceremonies. The contestants in the recent billiard. tournament liavo agreed to play off the ties in Chicago just before Christmas. The winner will take the not receipts of the games to come, with SI,OOO conditionally offered by Mr. Bensinger.