Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1887 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Frank James, the reformed train robber, baa gone to St Louis to obtain a clerkship in a large retail store, and in the event of failure he intends to keep a cigar stand. He dined with the judges and officers of the courts, to whom he was introduced by exGovernor Johnson. Some of the victims of the Haymarket massacre are still suffering severely from injuries sustained on that occasion, says a Chicago dispatch. Officer Ntc Shannon, who was cut and torn in a terrible manner by the bomb, is again confined to his bed. Erysipelas has set in, though no serious consequences are anticipated. Officer McNulty is able to go about on crutches, and may eventualy recover the use of one of his legs. Officer O’Brien, another victim of the bomb explosion, is again down. A vein of natural gas was reached at Marion, Ind., at a depth of 518 feet Miss Fannie V. Baldwin, a second cousin of the San Francisco millionaire, whom ehe once attempted to kill for a criminal assault, has been temporarily committed to the Home for the Friendless in Chicago, proceedings in insanity being suspended. The screw steamship Celtic Monarch was on January 2 abandoned at sea, after the passengers and crow had been transferred. Chicago was selected by the Farmers’ National Convention as the next place of meeting, on the Tuesday before the meeting of the Fat Stock Show, November, 1887. The Live-stock Cmmissioners of Illinois have made a scorching reply to the recent attack of N. J. Colman, the Commissioner of Agriculture. The Germans of Chicago are having “The Mikado” in the tongue of the fatherland. McVicker’s fine theater is to be occupied this week by Isenstein & Seiwig’s Company, when a German version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s opera will be sung by a cast of considerable strength. The translation is by a young German of Chicago, who is said to have accomplished his work with much felicity. The Terre Haute distillery, Terre Haute, Ind., was destroyed by fire, involving a los, of SIOO,OOO. Major G. W. Cole, the revivalist, has within a week made three hundred converts at Sedalia, Mo. Prof. Foster, of lowa, predicts very warm weather the coming summer, and advises icc-lealers to lay in large supplies.