Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The will of the late Vice President Hendricks lias been probated at Indianapolis. It is in Mr. Hendricks’ handwriting, and the paper is yellow with age. It reads as follows; I, Thomas A. Hendricks, of Marion County, Indiana, do make this my last will and testament, hereby revoking any and all wills by me at any time heretofore made. I give, bequeath, and devise to my beloved wife, Eliza M. Hendricks, all my personal and real property of every description whatsoever and wherever located ; also all my rights, claims, choses in action, in fee simple to have, tho same to her and her heirs forever. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and, if agreeable to her, I desire that she shall ho tbe executrix thereof. Thomas A. Hendricks. Signed and delivered in our presence, and attested by us in the presence of the testator and in tho presence of each other, at his request, August 8,1806. Winslow S. Peirce. J. H. McKernan. Ex-Congressman William Aldrich, of Chicago, died of paralysis at Fond du Lac, Wise, where lie was visiting. William Bohlfing and his son, of Kenosha, Wis., were both killed by a runaway team. Their bodies were discovered by a tramp. A prairie fire broke out seven miles north of Burton, Kan., and swept over an area of about thirty miles. Enormous quantities of hay and grain were burned, and sheep, hog, and cattle sheds destroyed. Three persons arc shown to have been fatally burned. The fire is supposed to have originated on tho Pottawattomie Indian Reservation. The section northeast of Cowley County, Kan., was swept by prairie fires. Several ranches and six hundred head of cattle were destroyed. Incendiary fires at Livingston Montana, led to the serving of notice on several vagrants by a vigilance committee. At Lynn Creek, Mo., an idiot named Williams killed Dr. Lyon and his daughter with an ax. Tho murderer was shot dead by the Doctor’s son. Material for a dime-novel writer is found in a dispatch from Marshfield, Wis. A 15-year-old boy, the story goes, while hunting, Shot a deer. Two Indians tried to capture his prize, and tho boy promptly killed both of them.