Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1887 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The police of San Francisco captured J. E. Stiles almost in the act of placing a dynamite bomb on the cable railway track. They fired ten shots at him, but none of them took effect H. C. Dean was soon afterward taken into custody. Both are striking car men. In their houses were found dynamite and caps. One hundred and thirty-one persons were killed on railroads in lowa last year. Eight were passengers, sixty-one were employes, and there were sixty-two others—a decrease of twenty-five over the previous year. A band of Apaches recently left their reservation in Southern New Mexico, and at last accounts were heading for their old reservation in Southwestern Colorado. Trouble between the Indians and settlers is anticipated. Warden Andrew J. Howard of the Indiana Southern prison has been found from $50,000 to SBO,OOO short in his accounts with ■ the State. He has sent in his resignation. A very heavy shock of earthquake passed through the Frederickstown (Mo.) section of the country last week. The force was severe enough to overthrow furniture and displace plastering on the walls. A band of Mormons, under command of the notorious Lot Smith, have taken possession of the store and ranch of Edward Stone, near Tula City, Arizona, and driven out the owner and his family. The aid of the Governor has been invoked to dispossess the invaders.

The court at Sioux City, lowa, imposed fines ranging from $353 to st>JO against the saloon-keepers of that place, ordered them committed until the amounts were paid, and also that their places be sealed by the Sheriff. Only one saloon remains. The storm which has just subsided along the Rocky Mountain range, from the British line to New Mexico, says a Denver dispatch, is believed to have caused the death of 25 per cent of the cattle. Passengers traveling from Denver to Lincoln saw beeves buried to their heads in the snow. At Bethany, 111., Moses Hatfield shot his wife in the back and killed himself. For some time they had been estranged. Sister Genevieve, who recently left the convent at Newark, Ohio, is living with a former nun at Chillicothe, and has applied to the Pope for permission to retract her vows. Dairymen of Elgin, 111., find that the oleomargarine law has largely diminished the demand by Chicago manufacturers for creamery butter. It is thought that the genuine article will not bring over 33 cents per pound for years to came.