Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1887 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

A swindler sailing under a variety of aliases has lately been operating in the West Young lady stenographers seem to have been singled out by him as his special victims. He appeared in Chicago a few days ago, and began operations in Gill’s School of Eclectic Shorthand, promising the young lady stenographers lucrative positions in railroad offices in Mexico, provided they would hand him over the money for tbeir fare. Dr. Gill, the principal of the school, who makes it a point to provide situations for all his scholars, and see that they are not imposed upon by sharpers, got <yjdo the swindler’s little game, and he left Chicago in hot haste. Look out for him. There are seventy cases of measles in Huntington County, Indiana H. Y. Bemis, of Chicago, sued the St Paul Globe for 325,000 damages for libel, and the jury awarded him one cent The sangerfest of the Northwestern Sangerbund will be held at Freeport, 111., June 29, 30, and July 1 next During a fire in a laundry on Post street, San Francisco, a fireman and several Chinamen were killed by falling walla The fire by which Jesse Arnot’s livery stable in St Louis was destroyed also caused the destruction of the hearse on which the remains of President Lincoln were conveyed to the tomb. Four livos were lost, and 200 vehicles and 100 horses consumed. At Hannibal, Mo., Mrs. Thomas R. Bennett took her 4-year-old daughter to Mount Olivet Cemetery, swallowed a dose of poison, and lay down on the grave of a child to die. She lacked the nerve to poison her daughter. They lay all night in the rain, and were rescued at breakfast-time. The mother’s feet were badly frozen, but the child stood the ordeal well. The engagement of Mrs. Laugtry, at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, has thus far proved the most successful one, financially, played at that popular house in many a day. This week Tom Taylor’s famous play, “Lady Claucarty,” will bo produced. The leading incidents and personages of tho drama are historical. The history of the assassination plot of 1696 has been told by Macaulay from materials furnished by state trials of that time. The story of the marriage of Lord and Lady Clancarty while in their youth, of their long separation and their encounter as strangers, the rapid growth of their love, Clancarty’s arrest by his brother-in-law, and his pardon obtained from the king by the brave wife are all matters of history, and make up the incidents of a highly interesting play. Thirty buildings were burned by an incendiary at Anaconda, M. T. Loss $75,000. Sidney Walsh, a fashionable young Englishman, was found to have committed twenty-one burglaries in Cleveland, O. John Jacobson strangled his 4-months-old'child at Omaha and then hanged himself. He was in ill-health. S. S. Hollingsworth, ex-County Treasurer at Vincennes, IntL, was found guilty of embezzling SBO,OJO, and given three years in the penitentiary. Great damage was done by the flood at Lyons,“Michigan. Twenty buildiuga were carried away. There were many narrow escapes from drowning. Managers of large ranches in Indian Territory report that the winter lias been tho mildest for five years, and that the loss of stock will only be from 2to 4 per cent Advices from the Yellowstone ranges are to the effect that two hundred thousand head of cattle are suffering terribly for grass and water, and carcasses can be counted by hundreds along the river. A Mina. Stickney, a convert to the faith cure at Minneapolis, Minn., resurrected the body of her daughter after it had been dead two months, in the belief that it could be restored to life by prayer. She bad it brought to her house and claims that at one time since she has seen signs of life, and that it would have been entirely restored if her faith had been just a little stronger. On a warrant sworn out by the State’s Attorney .at Morris, 111, Newtou Watts was arrested for complicity in the Rock Island train robbery and the murder of Messenger Nichols in March of last year. He had charge of the baggage-car in which the safe was carried. It appears that the wife of Lrakemau Schwartz induced him to confess that he fourid A package of $7,000 under a seat in the smoking car on the night following the robbery, and that lie gave $3,000 of it to Newton Watts. The lat er admits receiving the money, but claims that it has gone beyond his reach.