Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]
WESTERN.
The police of Chicago arrested three anarchists named Louis Juki, Henry Batzel, and William Kloth, all res ding on West Seventeenth street They had been holding meetings at night, with their followers, in a coooperskop. Guns and swords wore found in their houses. The Cleveland anarchists held a meeting and denounced the jury that convicted their brethren in Chicago. Should the reds be executed Anarchist Saam promises 200,000 avengers would rise from their blood. A collection was taken up, amounting to >10.96, for the purpose of securing to the anarchists a new trial. A fire at Aurora, Indiana, consumed a lumber-yard and two residences, the loss being >50,000. The woods in the vicinity of Decatur, Indiana, abound in wild turkeys. An engine on the Grand Rapids Road killed thirteen the other morning. The dry-goods firm of Keane Brothers, of San Francisco, has made an assignment, with liabilities amounting to >233,000. Gen. Miles has succeeded in removing the Warm Springs and Chiricahua Apaches from the Apache reservation to Fort Union, N. M., there to await the fipal disposition of them by the authorities at Washington. To accomplish this has been Gen. Miles’ principal labor since he assumed command in Arizona. The magazine of the Laflin & Band Powder Company, located seven miles from the business heart of Chicago, was exploded by an electric bolt during the progress of a thunder-storm. It contained 100,090 pounds of powder and 10,000 pounds of dynamite. One death has resulted, with four others likely to follow, besides which twenty-five persons were painfully injured. The shock was felt all over the city, and windows were shattered in buildings six miles distant from the scene of the explosion.
