Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Police Officer Hansen, the eighth victim of the anarchist riots in Chicago on the 4th of May, died at the County Hospital in that city, after a vain effort had been made to save his life by the transfusion of healthy blood into his system. Estimated improvements to the Duluth (Minn.) dock system, aggregating an outlay of over $2,000,000, are under way. A scientific expedition from Princeton College will explore the Uintah Mountains in Western Utah and Wyoming. The semi-centennial anniversary of the admission of Michigan to the Union attracted fifteen thousand citizens of the State to Lansing, where representative men delivered addresses from three stands. A grand barbecue was held at the fair-grounds. A shower of fish several inches in length fell at Wyoming, Ohio, where the children gathered them by the pocketfuL Benjamin Zehner, one of the wealthest farmers in Delaware County, Ind., was stung twice while working with bees, and in half an hour died in great agony from the effects of the poison. Eli Owens, arrested for assaulting Ida Grine, his 16-year-old sister-in-law, was taken from jail in Hebron, Neb., and hanged to a tree by masked men. The Ohio Supreme Court has decided that the acts of the State Senate after the desertion by the Democrats of their seats are perfectly legal. Fire at Minneapolis swept away Goodenough’s North Star Saw-mill. The loss is $155,000, with $42,500 insurance. The Missouri Car and Foundry Works, at St Louis, were burned, causing a loss estimated at from $150,000 to $200,000. Sixteen hundred reports received by a Toledo firm from the six principal winterwheat States give the prospects as favorable, except in Kansas and Michigan. The indications are that farmers will sell freely immediately after threshing. Dr. S. A. Richmond, who is said to be insane, drove in his carriage to the Herald office at St Joseph, Mo., entered the countingroom, and shot and killed Colonel J. W. Strong, manager of the paper. The murderer then retraced his steps to the sidewalk and shot himself in the head, inflicting probably a fatal wound. S. P. Hollingsworth made 281| miles on a bicycle at Greenfield, Ind., in twenty-four hours. He rested two hours and forty-nine minutes. Gaul, the Sioux chief who was in command at the massacre of Gen. Custer and his soldiers, has agreed to go to the battle-field on the tenth anniversary and describe to a party of army officers the chief features of the affair.