Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The twenty-third annual meeting of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company’s stockholders was held at Milwaukee last week. In the election of a new directory members of the old board were again chosen, and those at a meeting later in the day re-elected the same officers for the ensuing year. A jury at St. Louis pronounced Maxwell guilty of tlio murder of Preller. The trial lias beon the most costly that has ever occurred in that city. At least $0,003 lias been expended in bringing tlio fugitive to justice. Thq expenses of his extradition from New Zealand amounted to $3,500, and the remainder w'as spent in paying the expenses of witnesses from other States and In preparing the evidence. A formal and final report in the anarchist cases was submitted by the Grand Jury at Chicago last week. A few more indictments were handed in and the court discharged the jury. The report stated that true bills were found only against such persons as had, by abusing the privilege of free speech, been more or less instrumental in causing the riot and bloodshed at Hat-market Square. The jury declined to find bil s against certain “weak and ignorant” persons who were shown by evidence to be tools of designing men. The jury thought the danger greatly magnified and the number of anarchists overestimated. The anarchist conspiracy had nc real connection with the strikes or labor troubles, according to the report, but they ware simply made its opportunity. Bo exaggerated, continued the report, was the strength of the anarchists, that politicians had cringed before it, and processions were tolerated that were a shame to the city and an affront to every law-abiding citizen. Robert Schilling, editor of the Milwaukee Volksblalt and State Organizer of the Knights of Labor in Wisconsin, is under indictment at Milwaukee for conspiracy. The Federal Grand Jury at Seattle, Washington Territory, found ten indictments against leaders in the recent anti-Chinese riots, and report that evidence lias been laid before it proving the existence of an organized society whose aim is to subvert the government and establish in its place a socialistic commonwealth. The name of the society, according to the report, is the Red American International Workingmen’s Association. The main articles of the creed are arson, robbery, and murder. Its policy is to secure control of all labor organizations. Geronimo is killing many Mexicans and Americans in Guaymas, Mexico. The liquor dealers of Ohio will fight all attempts to tax the traffic in that State.