Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The examination of County Treasurer llollinHworth’s books was completed at Vincennes, Ind., showing a shortage in his accounts of $78,278.33. An attempt to run a freight-train from St Louis on the Missouri Pacific Hoad on March 11, the fifth day of the great strike of Gould’s men, was a failure, the engine being seized by the strikers twenty miles out and “killed.” A train was sent out from Little Rock, Ark., under guidance of officers of the law. Traffic is open at Big Springs, Tex., and telegrams have been received from the engineers on the Transcontinental Division of the Texas Pacific that they will stand by the company. At St. Louis the engineers are standing by the strikers and are abandoning their engines by order of the Knights of Labor. Some freight trains are running on the Central Branch Division of the Missouri Pacific Road in Kansas. John C. Brown, Receiver of the Texas and Pacific Road, on being requested by T. V. Powderly to arbitrate difficulties with the Knights of Labor, replied that United States Marshals, under writs from tho Federal Court, are settling troubles for him. The superintendent of the Missouri Pacific Road held a conference with freight engineers, who agreed to resume work whim permitted to do so. Chinese arc being discharged in large numbers by employers at Los Angeles, Cal. The Govenor of Indiana, in warning the Sheriff of Daviess County that threats had been made to lynch another of the murderers of Bunch, offered all the assistance required to maintain the supremacy of the law. An opera company rendered “The Mikado,” with complete costumes and scenery, in the State prison at Jackson, Mich., the audience being composed of convicts employed by certain contractors. The prisoners were lavish of their applause.

At Cincinnati, Nat C. Goodwin, who was indicted for appearing in a theatrical performance on Sunday, entered a plea of nonsuit and was lined $lO and costs. Other actors and actresses charged with a similar offense were assessed the same fine. An express train on the Hock Island Road, which started westward from Joliet about one o’clock one morning last week, fell into the hands of masked robbers. Between Joliet and Morris a veteran express messenger named Kellogg Nichols was shot and pounded to death, and his safe was robbed of about $25,000 in money and jewelry. The crime was discovered by the local express agent at Morris. The railway officials ,at once took active measures to capture the murderers, and offered a reward of SIO,OOO for their arrest. Nichols resided in North avenue, Chicago, where his remains were taken. Detectives at Joliet believe that the robbery was perpetrated by four men who had been playing cards in a coach. Three of them started from Chicago and one from Blue Island. Two of them rode to Joliet on a pass with the date raised from 188-1. Joseph Brooks, the theatrical manager, was assaulted in a music store in Detroit by James A. Randall, formerly a partner in the firm of Brooks <t Dickson, in which he claims to have lost $24,000. The House of Refuge near Toledo, a magn fivent institution, which cost $40,000, was destroyed by an incendiary fire. Eighty lads wore taken safely from the burning building. In the great strike on the Gould Southwest liner both sides seem to be standing Arm. Officers of the Missouri Pacific Road made several unsuccessful attempts to run

freight trains out of St Louis on the sixth day of the strike, and late in the afternoon they applied to the State Circuit Court for injunctions to restrain leading strikers from entering on the property pf the road. An attorney and several deputy sheriffs undertook to run the gauntlet at Parsons, Kansas, but a strong engine, run by strikers, coupled on behind and pulled the official locomotive back into the yards Two thousand persons stood in the yards at Sedalia for three hours to hear the Mayor read the riot act, and see engineers and firemen refuse to take out trains. At night ten prominent Knights of Labor were arrested on State warrants for disabling an engine. Albert Schock, the Chicago bicyclist, beat the world’s record in a six-day (seventytwo hours) race at Minneapolis, covering 1,009 miles and three laps. The worlcfs record "was 1,007 miles and 1,232 yards.