Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

A. S. Gage & Co., wholesale and retail dealers in dry goods at Chicago, made an assignment to H. J. Macfarland, to forestall a levy by the First National Bank on a judgment for $06,843.75. The affair took place so suddenly that crowds of lady customers wore imprisoned for a time, for fear of the entrance of Deputy Sheriffs. Tho liabilities and assets are placed as high as SBOO,OOO.

Texas fever in an ugly form prevails near Docatur, IIL The quarantine established at tho Chicago distilloriee over infected cattle costs the Government about SIOO per day, and a special disbursing agont has been ordered on irrtm Washington. It is probable that the trouble will put an end to the practice of feeding cows at distilleries. A series of nine base-ball games has been arranged betwoen tho Chicago and St Louis Clubs for the championship of the world. P. F. Wallace, suspected of the murder of the Logan family, was taken from jail at Steelville, Missouri, and suspended for a time, but was hands 1 back to the officers on tho appeals of leading citizens. In his store at Bringliurst, Indiana, Mr. Kearns accidentally dropped a lighted cigar into a keg of powder. The explosion wrecked tho structure, killed a customer wounded two other persons, and made the inhab.tants believe that Wiggins’ earthquake had broken loose. Skrere & Wolf, dealers in sporting materials in San Francisco, failed with liabilities at $50,000. On a farm near Oxford, Ind., a stromr flow of natural gas waß encountered at a depth of 130 foot The Chicago company that bored the well has loased 1,500 acros surrounding it.