Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The Chicago Ledger, in its announcement for 1887, promises a series of articles from the pen of Dr. a W. Thomas, pastor of the People’s Church, of Chicago. Dr. Thomas is one of the most vigorous and original writers of the day, and the Ledger is to be congratulated upon securing his services. Theodore S. Mize, the confidential man of Miner T. Ames, a millionaire coaldealer of Chicago, has made way with a sum said to be in the neighborhood of |100,( 00. Large parties of Chinese continue to cross from British Columbia into Washington Territory, carrying packages believed to contain opium and other dutiable articles. L. B. Frankel & Co., mining-stock brokers at Virginia, Nev., failed for $915,000. Prominent shareholders in the Comstock mines are the principal creditora The active members of the firm have fled, and the greatest excitement prevails. John C. Mann, of Minneapolis, has commenced, in a Chicago restaurant, the task of eating thirty quail iu thirty consecutive days, the wager being SI,OOO. Only three sucoesses in this line adorn the recortfs. Fire at Detroit swept away the Pipe Foundry Company’s works. The loss is SIOO,OOO, with insurance of $30,000. In the Federal Court at Indianapolis Judge Woods rebuked the Grand .Tury for failing to indict parties charged with mutilating and forg ug returns at the recent election. The plan of consolidating all the mills at Minneapolis is being seriously considered by the various owners, in order to control the price of wheat and the production of flour. Arnold’s flour-mill St. Cloud, Mil n , was wrecked by au explosion, fire completing the disaster. Gus Krause, the nightmiller, was fatally burned. Twenty thousand bnsliels of wheat were destroyed. “Jim Cummings” writes to a St. Louis paper that he is getting tired of being chased about the country by detectives, and offers to return the express company $35,000 of the amount stolen if they will let him live in peace. John D. Miles has bought for a syn-

dicate, for #500,000, a tract of land in Mexioo 160 miles long and six miles wide, extending from Paso del Norte down the Rio Grande. A monster cattle-ranch will be established on the tract An apparently inexhaustible vein of mineral has been developed on the Ortscheid farm at East Galena, Illinois, giving a fortune to four poor prospectors. Charles Broas, a wholesale boot and shoe dealer at Detroit and Lansing, whose debts are #IOO,OOO, has made an assignment