Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan trotting circuit was formed at a meeting held in Kalamazoo last week, the premium list aggregating $35,000. W. T. Beauchamp, of Terre Haute, was elected President, and Charles Reed, of Toledo, Secretary. In a dispute at St. Louis over his second wife's effects, Nicholas Emil shot and killed his mother-in-law. He then hurried home and cut his throat Fearful that she will lose her trade, • St. Louis is fighting the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi at Alton, 111. Three working girls at St. Joseph, Mich., became insane over religion, and eight others are slightly affected. 'Elie Pentecost Band brought about their dementia. The Illinois Supreme Court has refused a rehearing ii> the case of Joseph C. Mackin, who is serving a term for perjury in connection with the election frauds in the Eighteenth Ward of Chicago. Four or five persons are mysteriously missing at Milwaukee. The strike in the Studebaker Carnage and Wagon Works at South Bend, Ind., is end d. The failure is announced of Lenham & Co., wiio own eight elevators along the Northern Pae tic track in Dakota. At Oshkosh, Wis., the other afternoon a sudden and thick darkness settled upon the city, causing consternation and stopping business. Horses ran away, and numbers of persons sought refuge in cellars, though not a breath of wind was stirring. After a lapse of ten minutes tiie phenomenon passed away, apparently traveling in an easterly direction. Ohio has an offer to refund her State debt a! 3 per cent. Silver has been discovered, it is ■ stated, in paying quantities near Sioux Ealls, Dak. There is great local cxeit.ment. Four notorious Mexican horsethieves, with seven stolen horses in their possession, were overtaken by a party of Americans near Lordsburg, N. M. In a fight three of the Mexicans were killed and six horses recaptured. A public meeting was held at Davenport, la., lust Sunday, at which 2,000 people assembled to pay tribute to the memory of Kellogg Nichols, the express messenger killed on the Rock Island Road by train-robbers, March 13.