Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The contract for building the Colorado Capitol building has been let to Wm. D. Iticliardson, of Chicago, for S'.CO, 4 So. George Scoville, of Chicago, was placed in jail because of his inability to pay a Deputy Sheriff sls alimony claimed to be due his divorced wife, a sister of Guiteau. Five thousand persons witnessed the execution at Lexington, Mo., of Jeff Wilson, •whoso feet touched the ground when the drop fell, necessitating a hurried shortening of the rape. He ascended the gallows with a smile on his countenance, and spoke for seventeen minutes. The dry goods firm of Herman & Leopld Herzog, of St. Louis, owing SOO,OOO to Eastern houses, has suspended business. The Georgia revivalists, Sam Jones and Sam Small, closed their labors in Chicago last Sunday evening, when an audience of nearly eight thousand persons endeavored to reach the platform and extend a farewell greeting. When the recent converts were called for 2B. r > persons stoo l up as witnesses to the work. The revivalists will resume their labors in Chicago in September. Five broke out in the Planters’ House, the oldest hotel in St. Louis, at three o’clock iu the morning. There were about. 150 guests and fifty employes in the house at the time. All escaped save lour servant girls, who perished from heat and suffocation. The main portion of the building was not damaged, and the loss was only about $5,000. At Cincinnati the Ohio River reached a height of fifty-three feet one and one-half inches, the highest point since the great deluge of 188:.’.