Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Oscar A. Simons, President of the First National Bank of Fort Wayne, Inch, suddenly stopped, while conversing with his brother-in-law, and going to his dressingcase, opened a drawer, took out a revolver, and shot himself dead. He was a prominent politician, the wealthiest man iu the city, and 53 years of age. The Duff Company continue their delightful representations o.' light opera at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago. The present week will be devoted to a production of “Gasparone,” which is said to be Millockcr’s sweetest opera The English book is by Sydney Rosenfeld, and is said to offer great scope for comedy. The cast will bo as follows: Nasoni, Sig. Campobollo; Sindulfo, G. W. Dungan; Count Erminio H. 8. Hilliard; Luigi, John E. Nash; Beuazzo, J. 11. Ryley; Massaccio, F’. Boudinot; Carlotta, Miss Lillian Russell; Sora, Miss Vernona Jarbeau; Zonobia, Zelda Soguin ; Marietta, Miss Bess e Clovelami Denman Thompson (Joshua Whitcomb) will be seen at McVicker’s Christmas week. W. W. Durand, one of the bestknown ci/eus ag ants ii tho United Stat-p, dropped dead in tlie Ui.i m l.epit a Indianapolis. Mgr. Cape! proposes to bring suits for dama;«•> aq.i iss t.n Fr.iac.sco Argonaut and cm tail Easter t papers for the slander c'reu a’td with rog ird (o him. Mrs. McClure and her son and daughter— Robert, aged 19, and Margaret, aged 22—who lived in the suburbs of Chicago, were suffocatod by coal-ga3 escaping from a parlor stove. Mrs. M. B. Smith, who is being prosecuted by the State authorities for doing an illegal insurance business, placed in tho hands of her attorneys tho names of two hundred persons on tho (liicago Board of Trade who. she charged, had b on engaged in a similar business. The woolen mills at Clinton, Mich., valued at $18'9,000, and employing ninety persons, wero destroyed by flames originating in an explosion of gas. Congressman-elect Jehu Baker, who caned a Belleville (liL) reporter, has pleaded guilty of assault and has been fined $5 and costs.