Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Mr. Louis Schaefer, of Canton, Ohio, has again callod tho attention of Congress to the case of tho venerable Mrs. Merkleham, the only living grandchild of Thomas Jefferson. He attempted to raise a fund for her in ISB4 by appealing to some hundreds of prominent people and secured S7O. Grading on the Burlington and Northwestern Road has been completed through Prairie du Chien and for several miles north, and La Crosse will be reached within a month. Simpliner, Adler & Co., wholesale jewelers, and William U. Doren & Co., shoo manufacturers, both Cleveland firms, have made assignments. The liabilities of the former concern are about $50,000. At Battle Creek, Mich., the dead bodies of Dr. Martin White, his wife, and two children were discovered by neighbors who forced the doors. It is suspected that White killed the others and committed suicide. Ex-Senator Thurman, who was selected by the coal-miners and operators of Ohio to settle their difficulties, decided that wages should bo advanced to 00 cents per ton, at which price lie thinks the operators oan successfully compete with other districts. D. F. Wadsworth, a former banker at Islipeming, Mich., was convicted of embezzlement in the sum of SOO,OOO. The State Live Stock Commission of Nebraska has raised tho quarantine which has been maintained for several months against Illinois, Missouri, and Ohio. * Several hundred men have for months been at work on tlio snow-sheds of the Central Pacific Koad, which extend in an almost unbroken line for forty-five miles, and are constructed of framed timbers With braces of iron. A fire in the bag factory of Jewell ifc Adams, at Cincinnati, caused a los3 of nearly SIOO,OOO.