Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1887 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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"Representatives of sixty-eight trotting associations from fourteen States assembled at Detroit and unanimously decided to form a now trotting association, to bo known as the American Trotting Association. Rules were drawn up and approved, and officers and directors chosen, William R. Morriam, of St Paul, being elected President The next meeting will tako placo at Chicago two years lienee. The brief in the Chicago anarchist case filed in the Illinois Supreme Court at Ottawa, by counsel for the condemned, is a printed volume of 42(1 pages. Leonard Swett had previously filed a documont of ninety-six pages. On the farm of Scott Callaway, near Ligonier, Ind., customs officers seized $15,000 worth of horses smuggled from Canada J. A. Seddon, a well-known St. Louis lawyer, has been appointed Circuit Judge, taking the placo of Judgo Thayer, who succeeds Judge Treat on the Federal bench. Mother Angela, the founder of St. Mary’s Academy at Notre Dame, Ind., has just died in her sixty-third year. She was a cousin of James G. Blaine, and was educated at Georgetown with Mrs. Gen. Sherman. During the war she rendered great service by opening hospitals. An injunction was granted at St. Louis preventing the Union Mutual Insurance Company from doing further business, and an agent was appointed to wind up its affairs. Its liabilities and assets are, respectively, about $125;000. The blue-ribbon temperance movement has carried Vincennes, Ind., by storm, says a dispatch from that city. Over two thousand people have signed tho pledge, and signers are pushed forward by tho hundred. Everybody is amazed tat the astounding progress of the meeting. A dark-complexioned, smooth-faced man of about 28 years, entered the waterworks at Chicago, on Sunday last, end stood watching the ponderous machinery. He moved to the south end of tho room and glanced around to see whether any one was watching him. Seeing no one, he approached the walking-beam, threw off his hat, and crawled underneath the guard rail. As the beam descended ho throw himself beneath it The beam at tho lowest point it reaches has a play of about four inches, and the body of the unknown was crushed into a shapeless mass. Death must have boen instantaneous for ho uttered not a groan. The body was hurled by the beam up on top of the cylinderhead, whence it was removed to the morgue. Mrs. Becker, of Cincinnati, Las been sentenced to two years in tho Dayton (Ohio) Penitentiary for fraudulently obtaining a pension. Lucky Baldwin has offered to match Yolanto against Montana Regent for from $5,000 to $20,003 on any course offering the most money. Joseph W. Bingham, a well-known journalist, committed suic.de at Indianapolis by cutting his throat with a razor. His health had been poor for some time. Joseph Donaldson, a farmer, living near Galena, IIL, carved his wife and child some days ago, and was twice prevented from hanging himself. At last he procured a gallon of whisky, retired to a secluded spot, and drank himself into tho next world.