Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1887 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Judge Conrad decided at Des Moines that the manufacture of intoxicating liquors, to be sold in other States, is a violation of the lowa prohibitory law. The case will be carried to the highest court Benjamin F. Taylor, the poet and lecturer, died at Cleveland, in his 65th year. Newton Watts, charged with the murder of Express Messenger Nichols, was examined at Morris, 111., and held to the Grand Jury, the defense offering no testimony. Voice and O’Neil, the East St. Louis policemen, have been indicted at Belleville, 111, for the murder of ex-Mayor Bowman, of East St Louis. Mrs. Logan has made known to the Chicago Monument Committee her desire that the remains of the Senator be placed in the center of the circular plat in Jackson Park, comprising forty acres, and that her body be ultimately laid to rest there. The fair features and inanimate bust of flaxen-haired Nina Van Zandt, says a Chicago telegram, again regale the crowd of curiosity seekers who throng Epstean’s dime museum, for Judge Garnett has dissolved the injunction which had laid it away in the shade for several days. Ira D. Sankey said at Pittsburg, the other day, that the Rev. Mr. Moody is to erect a building to cost $250,000 in Chicago, to be used as a training school for Christian workers, and that the greater portion of the money has been already subscribed by wealthy Chicagoans. Many farmers in the vicinity of Muncie, Ind., find themselves compelled to purchase freedom from leases made to swindlers proposing to bore for gas and oil. A severe storm prevailed through the West and Northwest, last week, blockaded many of the roads, and did considerable dam-agc-to railroad and other property An engine of the Chicago and Easttern Illinois Road exploded at the Polk Street Depot, in Chicago. Engineer Meinger and Fireman Lowe were instantly killed. The locomotive was scattered a hundred yards in every direction, and everyb >dy in the vicinity was terribly shocked. Several persons were badly hurt. An east-bound Atlantic and Pacific Railway passenger tra.n crashed through a burned bridge four miles west of Needles, Cal., and was wrecked. The wreck caught fire and three men were burned to death, E. L. Glibert, a brakeman, and two Indians. These persons were hurt: Dr. M. J. Chase, of Galesburg, 111, bruised about the head; W. Marsh, of Quincy, 111, leg hurt; Engineer E. J. Hodgdotf, not expected to live; E. L. Peppin, mail agent; J. K. Dickinson, seriously hurt. The engine, baggage, mail, and express cars were consumed by the fire. Very little express matter, baggage, or mail was saved. A coroner’s jury exonerated the railroad officials. A Pittsburg, Fort Wayno and Chicago train killed two farmers at North Robinson, Ohio.