Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The New Albany Road paid $200,000 for the Medford and Bloomfield narrow-gauge line, forty-two miles in length, and will take possession April L Martin Brockman and Fred Hermann, directors of the City Infirmary of Cincinnati, who fled last week, have been offieially removed for malfeasance. Jolm Glab, Mayor of Dubuque, lowa, announces that he will organize a stock company for the erection of a large distillery in the suburbs of that city. Joseph Alsup, of Black Oak, Missouri, having a wife and several children, killed himself with a shot-gun when ordered to vacate a rented house. Charley Maurice, a cow-boy, amused himself at Logansport, Ind, by riding liis horso into saloons and demanding drinks at the point of a revolver. When lie attempted to ride into the Postoflice policemen barred the way and landed him in the cooler. Martin O. Simons, tried at Baraboo, Wis., for arson, was acquitted on the ground that there is no law prohibiting the burning of one’s own house. The exports of California wine during ‘IBBS reached 4,500,000 gallons—nearly one million gallons in excess of tho shipments of the previous year. In St. Louis, Dr. Edward H. Coates, whose domestic relations have been unpleasant, met A B. Keith on the street and shot him down. Keith died soon afterward Coates claims that his victim was the causo of his hQmo troubles. Quo warranto writs were granted last week by the Minnesota Supreme Court to forfeit the charters of and dissolve the corporations known as the Eastings and Dakota Bailway, Minnesota Central Hoad, Southern Minnesota, Southern Minnesota Railway Extension Company, and the St Paul and Sioux City linos, on tho ground of non-fulfillment of charter promises. The* writs also cull for a reversion of the land grants to the State. On a ranch near Deming, New Mexico, General Crool% and the Apacho Chief Geronimo held a conference, in which the latter asked leave to return to his reservation. Crook demanded an unconditional surrender, but the Indian leader rode away with a white flag flying. Three ranches at Wheatland, Cal., were visited by masked men, who drove out the Chinese, marched them to Wheatland, and then set them at liberty. At ono ranch tho Chinese quarters were fired and destroyed. The Illinois Central Railroad is selling round-trip tickets from Chicago to Now Orleans, good for forty days, at $22.50. Four glandored horses on farms near Rochester, 111.,, woro killed by the Assistant State Veterinarian, and thirteen others were ordered quarantined Two employes of the N. K. Fairbank Company, of Chioago, are missing, and are accused of having robbed tho firm of about #6,000.

For the recent assault on Mr. Dickson, United States Attorney at Salt Lake, Angus and Frank J. Cannon have been held in SI,OOO each. Edison, the electrician, in an interview regarding the telephone decision by the Indiana Supreme Court, expressed the belief that tho law would be pronounced unconstitutional, and declared the decision fatal to patents and progresa At a Lutheran church in Detroit the twelfth male child of a German family named Detlofl was named after President Cleveland, who was represented by Congressman Maybury. The infant was presented with a $lO gold-piece. A schedule of the liabilities and assets of tho defunot Bitzinger Bank of Indianapolis shows assets, $267,827; liabilities, $455,868. The bank had 1,400 depositors. It is claimed that 45 cents on the dollar can be paid them. Wiebren Wartena, who murdered John Dreger on the bank of the Kankakee River, was executed at Rensselaer, Ind. Nearly one thousand persons were allowed to witness the hanging. The Rev. Sam Jones, the evangelist, preached three times in Chicago, last Sunday. Fifteen thousand people heard him during the day, and he seemed to hold the audience spellbound. Edward O. Oliver, an employe of the electric-light works at Evansvillo, Ind., was killed by an accidental connection. Kansas has twenty-seven paper railroads, but every one is operated by the Atchison, the Union Pacific, or the Missouri Pacific. Judge Tuttle, of East Tawas, Mich., refused to pay taxes, and the Town Treasurer seized a span of horses valued at sll7. Considerable excitement has been caused by the arrest at Windsor, 111., of William 8. Price, on a charge of committing the outrago on Miss Georgia Aldridge, which so shocked tho community weeks ago. Price was held in $2,000 bail