Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1887 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

If that savage which Lord Macaulay prophesied would one day wander among tho ruins of London over comes to America wo are willing to wagor that he will bo regaled by a “Black Crook” show, says the Chicago Daily News. The performance of that perennial spectacle will always be associated by tho presont generation with tho name of luralfy, for those enterprising managers are the only entrepreneurs who devote their whole attention to this style of entertainment, and they have found no play so successful as the old stand-by “The Black Crook.” For the next two weeks at McVicker’s Theater, a new company under their management will give the play another hearing, doubtless with the same result Over two hundred persons engaged in a fox-hunt uear Jacksonville, 111., and kiliel three foxoi as their reward. Nearly nine hundred fruit-cars, awaiting loads of oranges, are lying at the chief shipping points in Southern California. C. E. Bresler, of Detroit, forwarded & Michigan raccoon mat of unique design for presentation to tho Emperor of Germany on his ninetieth birthday. Colonel Worden, an agent of the General Land Office, has forced several lumber companies in Michigan to pay for cutting Government timber. The grand jury at Morris, 111., returned a joint indictment against both Schwartz and Watt l’or the murder of Kellogg Nichols, tho Rock Island express messenger. Henry F. Gillig, manager of the American exchange in Europe, followed Liwrence Barrett to Grand Rapids, Mich., and attached his properties and $1,530 in the box office on a claim for $12,592 advanced in England. Mr. Barrett gave bonds to produce tho property when wanted