Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1887 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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W. T. Eornaday, of the National Museum it Washington, who has been collating specimens in Montana, reports the visible supply of buffalo at sixty in the Yellowstone divide and one hundred In Texas. The (steamers B. S. Hayos and City of Natchez, with four barges, were burned to the water’s edge at Cairo, IIL The losses aggregate $1,000,000. Michael Davitt, the Irish patriot, and Miss Mamie Yoro Were married at Oakland, Cal. A special Grand Jury at Columbus, Ohio, found a true bill against five citizens for altering tally-sheets at the election hold fifteen months ago. Milwaukee brewers deny that they have contributed $3,000 for the defense of Aronsdorf, tho alleged murderer of the Rev. Mx\ Haddock, at Sioux City. The new Soldiers’ Home at Grpnd* Rapids, Mich., which cost $10),000 and will accommodate 590 persons, has been dedicated. Fred Wittrock told his mother that he perpetrated the express robbery to Save her home from being sold on a mortgage. A Kansas City dispatch Bays: “Superintendent Damsel, of the Adams Express Company of St. Louis, arrived hero this morning with Mrs. W. W. Haight On the strength of a confession made by Haight he brought information which Robert Pinkerton acted upon by going to Leavenworth. There he recovered $9,500 more, which was found buried in sealed cans. Oscar Cook has made a confession in which ho says that Fotheringham, the express messenger who is now in jail charged with complicity in tho robbery, knew all about tho plan to rob his car and was a willing victim to tho attack of tho robber. It is said that he was promised SIO,OOO of the amount stolen as his share of the boodle, and that sum was a part of the money which Fred Wittrock sent to his mother for safekeeping.” Robert A. Pinkerton placed Fred Wittrock in jail at St. Loute, and Detective Robertson lodged Weaver, the Chicago accomplice, in an adjoining cell Wittrock confessed to the reportersthat himself and Haight planned the robbery, and he insisted that Fotheringham had no knowledge of the scheme until he was disarmed in his car.. Nearly $50,000 has been recovered, most of it under Oscar Cook’s house in Leavenworth. On an order by Judge Gresliam, Mr. Perkins, the contumacious witness in tho Indianapolis election fraud cases, has been released on bail. Omaha erected 1,600 new buildings last year, at a cost of $5,024,000. During the year just closed, the Chicago l’ostoffice received $2,005,847 for stamps and postal cards. The growth of Milwaukee during the year shows gratifying progress, while that of Kansas City has been phenomenal. Tho business of St. L iuis, on the other hand, shows a considerable decrease, and the city can longer lay claim to being a packing center. Tlie buildings erected last year in Chicago would mare a straight line for ten mile- 1 , and their cost was $2),009,000. One-fourtli as much more was expended just outdde the city limits on three sides, and a portion of the lake would have given place to stately structures but for an injunction by the courts. real estate transfers for tho year aggregated $75,000,000.