Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

A mob at Olympia, Washington Territory, on the morning of the 9th inst., took possession of the houses of Chinese residents and ordered them to leave within three days. The Sheriff and a posse did what they could to protect the unfortunates. President Cleveland ordered General Gibbon to Seattle to maintain order, and issued the following proclamation: Whereas, It is represented to me by the Governor of the Territory of Washington that‘domestic violence exists within the said Territory, and that by reason of unlawful obstructions and combinations and the assemblage of evil-dis-posed persons it has become impracticable to enforce, by ordinary course of judicial proceedings, the laws of the United State at Seattle and at other points and places within said Territory, whereby life and property are threatened and endangered; and. Whereas, In the judgment of the President an emergency has arisen and a case is now presented which justifies and requires, under the Constitution and laws of the United States, the employment of military force to suppress domestic violence and enforce the faithful execution of the laws of the United States, if the command and warning of this proclamation be disobeyed and disregarded: Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States of America, do hereby command and warn all insurgents, and all persons who have assembled at any point within the said Territory of Washington for the unlawful purposes aforesaid, to desist therefrom, and to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes on or before 0 o’clock in the afternoon of the 10th day of February instant. And I do admonish all good citizens of the United States, and all persons within the limits and jurisdiction thereof, against aiding, abetting, countenancing, or taking any part iu such unlawful acts or assemblages. John G. Thompson died at Seattle, Wash. Ter., last week. He held the position of land-claim agent in Washington Territory by appointment of President Cleveland. He was 53 years of age, a native of Ohio, and spent his early life on a farm. He was a member of the Ohio Democratic State Central Committee from ISGO to 1883, during fourteen years of which he was Chairman of the Executive Committee. He was elected Sergeant-at-Arms of the House in the Forty-fourth Congress, and served three terms. The Sheriff of Casa County, Missouri, having in charge a lunatic prisoner, went to sleep in the Tolono (Hl.) depot, upon which the lunatic robbed the Sheriff of a gold watch and $65, and escaped. Employes in John P. Mullaly’s stables at St Louis, discovering that the building was on fire, undertook to save the horses, and were vigorously clubbed by two policemen, who claim to have mistaken them for thieves, ipie result was the cremation of sixty-two horses. The boiler in a feed mill at Oshkosh exploded, killing the engineer, Walter •nd a laborer named Reinbold, besides seriously injuring several other persons.

Both houses of the lowa Legislature : have passed a bill authorizing Mayors of cities ’ to s flemuize marriages. i The Hon. George C. Bates, one of i the founders of the Whig party, and the bosom I friend of Webster, Clay, and Harrison, died at i his residence in Denver, aged 71. One of the melodramas which saved anything out of the wreck of bad business for i t:! ‘ last two seasons, says the Chicago Aetca, was that of L. R. SiiewelFs, entitled “Shadows of a , Gre ;t City,” originally produced last season at | McVicker’s, in Chicago. One thing that seemed ■ to recommend it was the fact that it dealt with I American life and scenes. Since then it has had two very successful tours through the country, and the management is preparing to produce it in London. It is now undergoing its second season at McVicker’s. John B. Mannix, a lawyer, and until recently assignee of the Archbishop Purcell estate, has been arrested on a charge of embezzling $350,000. An ice-gorge at St. Louis broke last week. Many steamboats were forced up the levee entirely out of the water. A rise of the water of several feet, however, forced the vessels back into the river. A number were either sunk or badly damaged. At Carroll Island, a short distance below the city, the entire fleet of forty Government barges was sunk or carried off. Miscreants hanged the young daughter of Dr. H. 11. Aldridge, at Windsor, 111., to get revenge on her father. She was found and cut down by her brother liefore life was extinct, and resuseicated. The perpetrators of the fiendish outrage are unknown. The young lady is in a very precarious condition. The H. A. Pitts’ Sons Manufacturing Company, of Marseilles, 111., made an assignment to 8. W. Huger. It failed three years ago, but agreed to pay indebtedness, amounting to $250,000, in three equal installments, the last of which was due Jan. 1, and which it was unable to meet