Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The Cherokee Indians are said to be excited over the projects looking to the opening of their country to white settlement, and the allotment of lands among the Indians. They say they possess the lands in fee simple, and cannot bo deprived of them, except by legislation in the council of the Nation. A fire at Detroit destroyed $2,000,000 worth of property. The seed-house of D. M. Ferry Co. and Whita's Grand Theater were among the buildings burned Richard Filian, a fire captain, was killed by a falling wall and several firemen were injured Fire swept away Maurer’s flouring mill at Tallmadge, Ohio, the loss being $40,000. A steel steamship, 265 feet in length, is being constructed at Cleveland, and will be used in the Lake Superior trade. She will be launched about June 1 next, and will cost $150,000. An alleged infernal machine turned up the other morning at the general offices of tlie Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company in Chicago, and the theory is advanced of a plot to blow up the costly structure in which the corporation does business. “The Silver King,” one of the most intensely interesting of modern dramas, forms the attraction at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, this week. F. C. Bangs, an actor of excellent parts, enacts the title role, and is supported by a strong company. The recent murder of the Knock family in a Detroit suburb has been followed by ’the murder of the aged mother of the head of the murdered family. Gustav and Herman Knock, eons of the last victim, have been arrested on suspicion of having committed.the awful crime. St. Louis has a hair-dresser who has applied for a patent on an invention by which passengers and freight may be received and discharged from railway trains in full motion. A Chinese laundryman in St. Lonis named Juo Jun was received into the Pilgrim Congregational Church. Five of his countrymen witnessed the ceremony. Maxwell, the alleged murderer of Preller, in St Louis, is next month to be placed on trial, when witnesses are expected from the four quarters of the earth. A woman has been summoned from Heng Kong. The people of Oregon and the contiguous territory have a/ready commenced to protest against the reductions in the mail service proposed by Postmaster General Vilas. Two masked lads robbed a house in Hie outskirts of Cincinnati, after choking an old lady to a condition bordering on insensibility.