Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]
WESTERN.
J©h*i L. Bartley, a wealthy fafmer of CleiirteK.t County, Ohio, drew from a Cincinnati bank $3,000. He went to the wharf to take a Btenmcr home, and has not since been seen. Hir empty pocketbook was found in a small Im’, but there was no trace of Bartley. It is thought he has been robbed and murdered, a, his business and social relations are perfectly upright and pleasant. That sterling old play, “Lady Audley’s Secret,” constitutes the attraction at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, this week. Mr. William Redmund and Mrs. Thomas Barry personate the two leading characters. Mrs. Burry created J sensation in this play, years ago, at the Boston Theater. Little Lotta, whom John Brougham called a “dramatic cocktail,” begins an engagement at McVicker’s next Monday. At Manistee, Mich., R. L. Peters struck oil at a depth of 1,*920 feet. Three or four thousand barrels flowed out in a short time. C. V. Holtzschuerr, a druggist of Creston, la., was found guilty in the Supreme Court on thirty separate counts of selling intoxicating liquors in violation of the pharmacy law. and fined $1,500 and costs. Judge Homer, of Nebraska, has been sued for $50,0(90 damages by an ex-convict named Williams. The latter killed a father and son in Kearney County eleven years ago, and Homer was his counsel. A sentence of ten years’ imprisonment was imposed in Buffalo County, where Williams did not wish to be tried, desiring a change of venue
