Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1887 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Dr. Cl\). Bradley, of Chicago, who two years ago had a practice worth $1 ,000 per year, has been sent to the insane asylum as a wreck from cocaine. At Burr Oak, Mich., Mrs. Asa Milliman drowned two children and herself in a cistern on account of domes ic trouble. Judge Harmon, of the Superior Court at Cincinnati, has resigned to enter the law firm which ex-Governor Hoadly leaves. Tho latter will enter upon tlio practice of law at New York City. The Hon. Albert J. Seligman, who was kept hostage by tho miners at Wckes, M. T., for unpaid wages, was released upon the New York firm of J. and W. Seligman & Co. telegraphing the necessary amount ($75,005) to Helena to pay off the meu. The miners not only protected the property but treated their prisoner with the_utmost courtesy. Fourteen indictments against persons who violated the election laws last November were returned at St Louis by the Unitod States Grand Jury. Warrants were issued for the arrest of the accused. When Mrs. Cabalek of Cleveland murdered her three children and suicided, a Bohemian sheet in that city printed a very graphic description of the crime. Frank Roth, a Bohemian and a well-to-do merchant who lived happily, read tho story to his wife, who had him reread to her twice. She next took the paper to a neighbor, and had it read twice mora Then she sent her mother to a grocery for yeast, and in her absence forced a dose of rat poison down the throat of her babe, taking another dose herself. Tho woman died in great agony, and tho babe expired soon after. Frank Girard, for the past eleven years night policeman at the Kankakee, 111., was found dead in an alley with a bullet-hole in his head. The cowboy son of Senator Fair shot at ox-Congressmau Page because the latter gentleman refused to “have a drink.” In the Missouri penitentiary Fred Wittrock testified that Mosseuger Fotheringbam is innocent of the charges brought against him in connection with the San Francisco train robbery. John Dahlman, an old citizen of Milwaukee, hanged liimsolf in his barn after suffering from a paralytic stroke. He left an estite valued at $5 >O,OOO or more. Miss Van Zandt is, says a Chicago paper, engaged in getting ready for publication a history of Spies and the other condemned anarchists. An interesting feature of the bcok is an autobiographical sketch by Spies, iu which he blasphemously compares himself to Christ, and finds an analogy in the crucifixion to his own condemnation for inciting the Haymarket massacre.