Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Bishop Bedell and the city ministers of Cleveland, Ohio, are preparing to boycott the Sunday secular papers. The furniture factory of A. H. Andrews & Co. was destroyed by tire; the loss will reach $ 100,099. Florrts B. Plimpton, who has been on the editorial staff of the Commercial Gazette since 1860, died at Cincinnati of a complication of diseases. The strike in the Lake Shore yards at Chicago was finally ended through a compromise, and all the switchmen resumed work energetically. It is understood that within sixty days the objectionable men will be trans*, ferred by the company to another field.of labor. The Grand Jury at St. Louis indicted nine boycotting bakers, who are charged with conspiracy, blackmail, and robbery; nine Deputy Sheriffs for manslaughter in killing Thompson on tho, Mississippi bridge, and a commission merchant named Charles E. Hoffmann for selling bogus butter. The master plasterers of St. Louis have agreed to pay $3.75 per day for eight hours. The present rate is $4.50 for ten hours. A dispatch from San Francisco announced that the railway war had ended. The rates given were $62.50 to Chicago and $81.50 to New York, limited. While the war was in progress twenty-five car-loads of passengers left Kansas City every day. Governor Marmaduke, of Missouri, represents public sentiment in the Southwest as demanding that railway traffic be no longer disturbed by strikes. He holds that arbitration is better than the bayonet. C. E. McChesney, Indian Agent at Cheyenne River, has served upon all the residents of Fort Pierre, Dakota, notice to close at once their trading establishments on the Sioux reservation and depart within thirty days. The village has 800 inhabitants, and the enforcement of the order will entail a loss of $590,000. The square mile on which the squatters live •was cues sold by the Sioux chiefs to the Ch cago and Northwestern Railroad Company, but Congress failed to ratify the sale.