Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Patrick F. Murphy, ex-Mayor of Omaha, died iu that city after a brief illness from some mysterious malady which affected his whole family. Mannix, the assignee of tho Purcell estate of Cincinnati, is charged with a defalcation of $3 JO,OOO. Gov. Hoadly is one of his bondsmen. A criminal prosecution is threatened. A Leavenworth, Kansas, liquor-dealer was enjoined from selling liquor ponding tho hearing of tho case against him under the nuisance provision of the prohibitory law, and his place was closed. The other dealers are packing up and preparing to leave the c.ty. The international billiard tournament m Chicago ended iu the winning of tho championship by Jacob Schaefer. He has boon matched with Vignaux to play six nights in New York, within forty days, for $2,500. In the United States Circuit Court in San Francisco a decision was rendered in the case of Sharon vs. Hill to the effect that the marriage of the parties was invalid on tho ground that the signatures to tho marriage contract had been forged A fresh outbreak occurred in the congregition of St. Albert’s Polish Catholic Church, at Detroit, Mich. Col. Larned, a well-known lawyer, was almost killed by a stone, thrown by one of a mob of 2,000 en - raged Poles, Tho crowd almost completely demolished a grocery, belonging to a man who ■was a member of a faction to which they were hostile. Thomas King, a laborer residing in Cologne street, Chicago, went home to supper on Christmas eve and found his wife intoxicated. The neighbors heard a violent quarrel, and the next day found that King had lied and his wife had been beaten to death. The murderer was arrested and admitted that he struck the woman with a chair. He has served in the British army, and once kept a saloon iu Washington. An infernal machine was found on the doorstep of tho $200,009 mansion of Judgo Lambert Tree, at No. SM Cass street, Chicago. A policeman took the tin can of nitro-glycerine to the Lake Front and exploded it,boring a hole in the earth two feet in diameter. Tho scheme bears evidence that its author was an ignorant crank.