Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

A monument erected to the memory of the soldiers and sailors of Defiance County, Ohio, by the G. A R. of the county, was dedicated at Defiance in the presence of 10,000 people. Gen. Rosecrans, ex-Gov. Foster, Congressman Hill, and Gen. Gibson were present and made addresses. The city •was profusely decorated and there was a grand parade of old soldiers and civic societies. A whisky mob at Clinton, lowa, Btonned the jail and attempted to secure the persons of two prisoners who have been “informing” on the saloon-keepers. The Sheriff and hiß posse opened fire, and four men in the crowd wero shot, but not dangerously hurt. Merchants in the town who oppose the saloons have received threatening letters. At Detroit, Minn., William Kciaher, alias “Reddy,” killed City Marshal John Convey. Kelaher was taken from jail at night, hanged to a tree, and riddled with bullets. In Illinois the harvest of winter wheat is nearly.finished. The yield is large. A lire at Peoria, 111., originating in an oil storehouse, destroyed the brick freight depot of the Pekin Road and thirty cars. The losses aggregate $250,000. During the conspiracy trial at St. Louis of Judge Advocate McGarry, of the Knights of Labor, and others, McGarry and Prosecuting Attorney McDonald engaged in an altercation and resorted to blows, the prosecuting attorney getting in a vicious lick on his antagonist’s chin. Tho men were separated, and McGarry was fled $25. Twenty-two passenger conductors on the Lake Shore Road, running between Buffalo and Chicago, were dropped by an order from tho company’s headquarters. Henry Primrose, a Captain in the Salvation Army, operating at New Philadelphia, Ohio, has been arrested and taken to Steubenville, where he has two wives living. Sam Jones denied at the Bed Bock, Minn., camp meeting last Sunday that ho had said the previous day that “down in Georgia the Lord didn’t object to the use of tobacco,” but that lie used a different expression. Jones called for a vote and several persons indorsed his version, but the reporters, who took down his statements, voted in the negative when the nays were called, by mounting a table.