Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Mrs. Grindal, residing on a farm near Eau Claire, Wisconsin, gave birth to four healthy male babes. At Chariton, lowa, an old man named Charles Archibald was beaten to death with a soldering-iron. Thomas Kelley and wife were arrested for the crime, on overwhelming evidence. In a tin can in Kelley’s coal-shed was found $1,230, which is believed to have been the object of the murder. After listening to a number of speeches at a meeting in front of the City Hall, a large body of East St Louis strikers marched to the railway yards with the avowed determination of making every man on duty quit work. Most of the engineers, firemen, and freight handlers obeyed without opposition. Sheriff’s deputies, with drawn revolvers, were hooted at, pushed aside, and in some cases disarmed. Finally a few determined men with leveled Winchesters overawed the strikers, and they withdrew. The steam-yacht Welcome arrived in Chicago the other day with clearance papers direct from Mobile, the trip having been made via the Gulf of Mexico arid the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. The Gem City Flouring Mills at Qnincy, 111., were burned, the loss reaching $200,000. Fire also swept away the iron works at Florence, Wis., entailing a loss of $50,001). Robert J. Phillips, colored, who a year ago killed his wife, to whom he had been married three months, was hanged at Indianapolis, Ind., on the Sth inst. The murder was the result of jealousy. A postal car on the Lake Shore Road was burned at Oak Harbor, Ohio. It contained Western mail matter for all points east of Toledo. The body of a young married woman, which was being taken to New York State for interment, was cremated in the blazing car. The Court House at Carroll, lowa, was destroyed by fire, but the records were saved. Charles Pennor, foreman of the hook and ladder company at Battle Creek, Mich., was arrested for incendiarism, and confessed to an attempt to fire the shops of, Nichols, The Federal officials at San Francisco unite in a telegram to the Secretary of the Treasury, stating that unusual indulgence was extended to tho Chinese Embassy, which landed at that port; that no discourtesy was shown, and that no complaints were made by the envoy.