Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The Knights of Labor at Elkhart, Ind., have ordered a boycott against the Chinese laundrymen in that town. Fire in the business section of Augusta, Wis., destroyed an hotel, the Postoffice, and thirteen other structures, entailing a loss of $40,000. The insurance aggregates $28,000. Anton Pfiffner sued the St. Paul Road at Dubuque for $45,000 damages, alleging that his two children were drowned in a pond which remained undrained through the negligence of the railway company. Eight sheep herders on the ranch of Solomon Luna, Valencia County, New Mexico, near the Arizona line, had a fight with Apaches. All the herders were killed. A body of masked men at Nicolaus, Cal., shipped forty-four Chinamen by steamer to Sacramento. The Celestials at Snohomish City, Wash. T., have been fired upon and their buildings damaged by dynamite, but they refuse to leave. At the session of the Northwestern Dairymen’s Convention at Beloit, Wis., W. D. Hoard, of Fort Atkinson, was re-elected President, and R. P. McGlincy, of Elgin, Secretary. A communication from Mississippi dairymen, proposing the holding of a national convention in Chicago in March was indorsed. At Anoka, Minn., United States Marshal H. R. Denny and other officers captured Frank Cole, George Goodson, Burt Leshnoss, and Edwin Teller while in the act of manufacturing bogus money. The quartet were taken to»St. Paul and held in heavy bonds. David Sholty, who attempted the lives of his brother’s family near Bloomington, HL, was burned to death in the barn which he set on fire. Mrs. Levi Sholty received thirteen wounds in the back from a gun charged with shot and bullets, and cannot survive her injuries. Suits for damages aggregating $95,000 have been brought at Dubuque against the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Road, the claim being that sparks from one of its engines caused the disastrous lumber fire in September, 1884. Mrs. Roche, a handsome young widow of St Louis, caused the arrest of a female fortune-teller named Schadt, whom she charges with defrauding her of $1,450 for lovepowders to blow through the keyhole of a room occupied by a blonde gentleman she desired to marry. There are no new developments in the Windsor (Hl.) outrage. Miss Aldridge’s condition is improving, and she will recover. The Supreme Court of Indiana upholds the law fixing the rent for telephones at $3 per month. It was decided in the Utah courts that a wife could testify against her husband in unlawful cohabitation cases.