Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Gen. Sherman, in reply to a request for a contribution for the support of au aged and destitute female school teacher in St Louis, pleaded heavy demands on his purse, and penned the sentiment that his wife would no sooner consent to liavo her children enter a public school than a common tavern. A box addressed to “John Hunt” reached Lafayette, Ind., a few days ago. It was accidentally burst open, disclosing a corpse in an advanced stago of decomposition. John Hunt appears to bo an unknown quantity, and the town officials avo mystified. Wherever Mr. W. J. Florence, the veteran actor, appears, he draws a goodly share of the patronage bestowed upon amusements, hut not more than the merits of his plays aud performance deserve. Mr. Florence and wife appear in “No Thoroughfare” and “Dombey and Son,” at McVickor’s Theater, Chicago, this week. “Make a note on't.” In a wolf hunt in Douglas County, Kansas, over 100 “varmints” were killed. The three Schoolcraft brothers, who last mouth murdered John Mann, near McLeausboro, 111., have boon sentenced to twentyfive years each in the peniten iary. Rev. W. J. Spears, of Detroit, thirty years of age, Well known among horsemen and base-ball players, has married the widow of C. R. Mabley, the mother of thirteen children, who has a million dollars. A very pure lead ore, which has yielded nearly four hundred thousand jiouuds, was recently struck in the Galena district by John lij’ruo A Sons. The extensive mills of Ferdinand Sehumacker, at Akrou, Ohio, and the railway station adjoining were destroyed by fire, and a residence was crushed by a falling wall. Engines were forwarded from Canton and Cleveland. The loss is estimated at $1,000,000. Kansas has 900 manufacturing establishments, representing a capital of $19,000,000, an annual product of $31,000,000, and employing 12,000 men, who earn $4,000,000.