Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

A Chicago company has closed a contract Ut supply tho French army with 2,200,000 pounds of canned beef. It involves the slaughter of 25,000 cattle. Seven men were buried by the cav■ug of a sewer at Akron, Ohio. Four of them were dead when taken out, and two others can hardly survive. Intelligence of the death of Mrs. Jplia Butler Newberry, at Paris, France, was received at Chicago last week. By the death of Mrs. Newberry, as provided in the will of her late husband, the city of Chicago falls heir to about #2,500,000, to be used in founding a public library. H. A. Coppernall, of the firm of Coppernall & Hoimbach, lumbar dealers, of Duluth, Minn., committed suicide. Bal health had aff.cted his mind. The Hendricks Monument Associati n of Indianapolis has issued to iho nation an appeal for lunds. Francis M. Churchman is Treasurer.

The gas war at St. Louis has led to a reduction of $1.50 per 1,000, and one of the dissatisfied stockholders lias applied to the courti to enjoin the cut. ' Hon. B. Gratz Brown, of Missouri, died at his home near St. Louis, of heart disease. He was born in 1820 at Frankfort, Kentucky, and m 1850 b came editor of the Missouri Democrat. He was wounded in a duol with Thomas C. Remolds before tho war. He was Senator in 1803, Governor in 1870, and a candidate for Vice President with Horace Greeley. He leaves nine unmarried children. A fire at Cedar Rapids, lowa, destroyed property to tho value of $15,000. Daniel Foley, an old resident of Sibley County, Minn., was murdered near Belle Plain. Fire in Cincinnati destroyed property valued at $85,000, tho principal sufferers being Ross, Robbins 4 George, paper manufacturers, and Jones Brothers, dealers in electrical supplies. The insurance is placed at SOO,(XX).