Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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A Chicago telegram says the Pinkerton police agency in tL» at city is investigating a statement that a lad was employed by two men on a street corner to deliver at the residence of P. D. Armour, the millionaire meat packer, a ten-pound package of wheat flour containing a liboral mixture of strychnine and barytes. At the meeting of the Consolidated Cattle-Growers’ Association in Chicago, reso lutions were adopted urging that the General Government take the most vigorous steps to stamp out pleuro-pneumonia. The Union Pacific has leased the lines of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company. Joseph Hoffman, a tailor in St. Louis, in imitating a sword-swallower, let a caseknife slip down his throat His stomach was opened and the knife removed. A number of business buildings at Joliet, 111., were destroyed by fire. The losses aggregate 10(5,000, with insurance of $26,000. John Arensdorf, Albert Bismark, Henry Sherman, Paul Leader, F. Munchrath, Jr., Sylvester Granda, George Treiber, Henry Peters, and L. Plath have been indicted for conspiracy in the Haddock murder caso at Sioux City, lowa. The dwelling of James Johnson, a farmer living near Landsville, Incl, was burned, Johnson’s two daughters, aged eighteen and twenty, perishing in the flames. A hired man was fatiliy burned, but the rest of the family escaped in their night-clothes. Twenty-one head of cattle among the herds on the Blue River in Nebraska have lately died from what is believed to be rabies, as a mad dog was known to bo in tho pasturage last summer. The famous Duff Opera Company, which created such a furor last season by their capital renditions of “The Mikado” and other light operas, began an engagement at

McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, on Monday, which is to continue for several weeks. The troupe embraces a number of popular artists, including Lillian Russell, Vernona Jarbeau, Zelda Begum, J. H. Ryley, and Harry Hilliard. In the matters of musical ensemble and spectacular effect, the productions are all that could be asked. John S. Phelps, ex-Governor of Missouri, died at St Louis, aged 70. John 8. Pillsbury, Chairman of the Republican committee in Minnesota, has brought suit for SIOO,OOO damages against a Minneapolis paper on account of publications touching the late election. A fire in Cincinnati burned nearly $600,000 worth of clothing in the stores of Mack, Stadler & Co. and Marcus Fechlieimer A Co.