Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Mrs. Theresa Turpin, who lived near Princeton, Ind., cut the throat of her 7-year-old daughter, hanged her baby daughter, and then went to the barn and hanged herself. The youngest child is still living. The woman left a note stating that the devil had been after her, and she couldn’t got away from him. The Republican Estate Convention of Kansas assembled at Topeka and nominated the following ticket: For Governor, John A. Martin; Lieutenant-Governor, A. P. Reddle; Secretary of State, E. 13. Allen; Judge of the Eleventh District, D. M. Valentine; Treasurer, J. H. Hamilton; Auditor, Timothy McCarthy; Attorney-General, F. B. Bradford; Superintendent of Schools, J. H. Lowhead. The platform charges the Democratic party with displacing veteran Union soldiers and rewarding ex-Confederates with office; withholding just pensions from disabled soldiers; rewarding Fitz-John Porter for insubordination and treachery; and annoying settlers in the West by vexatious rulings and ill-consid-ered orders. It demands a continuance of the protective tariff, the enforcement of the State prohibitory law, and expresses sympathy with Gladstone in his efforts to secure justico for the Irish people. Seventy-five Republican editors of Ohio met at Columbus and passed resolutions earnestly requesting the United States Senate to investigate the charges of bribery in connection with the election of Senator Payne. The Chief of the Fire Department at Evansville, Ind, cut all the telephone wires in that city because the company failed to comply with a recent ordinance. One hundred and four saloon-keepers of St Joseph, Mo., have been indicted for violating the Sunday law. Robbers invaded the postoffice at Minneapolis, Minn., the other night, and carried off ®20,000 iu money and stamps. Miss Eva Johnston, aged 17, living near Patricksburg, Ind, hanged herself in the woods near her father’s dwelling. Milton Evans, a farm laborer from Southern Missouri, died in great agony from hydrophobia at the police station in Kansas City. A madstone was applied without effect Wind and hail storms at Benson and Sleepy Eye, Minn., wrecked buildings and destroyed crops. Freight cars were blown from the tracks, and thousands of acres of grain ruined. Over thirty thousand people attended the three base-ball contests in Chicago last week, between the present champions and the famous Detroit team. All three games were won by the Chicago club by the respective scores of 9 to 4, Bto 2, and 3to 1. In the three games the Chicagos made 26 base-hits, with a total of 47; the Detroits, 19 hits, with a total of 22; the Chicagos made 11 errors; the Detroits 15; the Chicago pitchers struck out 19 men; the Detroit pitchers 11. 0. R. McClintock shot himself and •Wife, both fatally, at Wichita, Kansas. M. J. Haley, a special agent of the General Land Office, seized a lumber-yard at Fort Keogh for the unlawful cutting of timber on Government land. He was promptly arrested under the territorial statutes, and will be prosecuted by the ablest lawyers in that region. The St. Paul directory just out contains 49,358 names, an increase of 5,398 over last year. The Minneapolis directory issued a week ago shows a total of 49,270 names, an increase of 5,020. The estimated population of each city being about 133,000. While the Brooklyn Base-Ball Club was playing the Cincinnati Club at the latter place on Sunday last, the crowd of betwoen six and seven thousand took exception to a decision of Umpire Bradley, and manifested

their displeasure by hooting, and finally beerglasses were hurled at the umpire, who escaped by flight The police protected the Brooklyn players, aoui quelled the disturbance.