Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

It is proposed that bloodhounds be used in hunting down the hostile Apaches in Arizona and New Mexico, tbe plan being approved by old army officers. Grank Forks (Dakota) special: "A report reaches here that a man named Ole Beckvolt was lynched in Minnesota, about fifty miles north of here, on Red River. Beckvolt was working for a farmer, and had beeome too fond of tlie farmer’s wife. His affection was reciprocated, and the wife refused to allow Beckvolt to go away. The farmer gathered a number of neighbors, filled them up with alcohol, and the lynching is the result. It is claimed that the intention was only to scare Beckvolt, but they kept him suspended too long.” The summer season at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, was inaugurated last week by the Madison Square Theater Company, of New York, which gave a most delightful representation of Verplanck’s sterling eomedy, “Our Society. ” The Chicago papers are profuse in their praise of the work of this peerless dramatic organization, which is so perfect as to defy criticism. The Xew* says: “It is a pleasant and entertaining thing to watch the workings of an intricate yet perfect piece of mechanism—conceived by an ingenious brain, and put together and guided by a skillful hand. One knows that each wheel fits perfectly into its neighbor, and that there is not iu the entire machine a cog or screw or bolt that does not have its due effect upon the wolking of the whole. Some such feeling of confidence must take possession of those who listen to the performances of the company from the Madison Square Theater now playing at McVicker’s.” The season of this company will continue six weeks longer. At Oconto, Wis., the Oconto Company’s flouring mill, shingle mill, and a large number of cedar posts were burned; loss $70,000. Captain Francis Jeffry Dickens, a son of the celebrated English novelist, died suddenly, at Moline, IIL, of paralysis of the heart His age was 41 years. Three hotels and ft church were wrecked by a cyclone at Crookston, Minn. Eight persons were seriously injured in tbe Germania Hotel, and tho proprietor will probably die of his wounds. At Muscatine, lowa, tire destroyed the yards and mills of the Muscatine Lumber Company, a saw-mill on Shad Creek, four dwellings on East Hill Bluff, two wagon bridges, and two bridges of the Rock Island Railway, also one on the main line and one on the Wilton line. Tbe loss will be not less than $250,000.