Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1887 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The five “boodlers” indicted by the Grand Jury and arrested at Chicago were released on bail aggregating SBI,OOO. M. C. McDonald, E. J. Lehmann, and others furnished bonds of $31,000 for Warden McGariglo, $20,0 .0 for Warden Varnoll, and a like sum for Edward 8. McDonald, It O. Driscoll, and James T, Connolly. The remains of Captain James B. Eads were interred in Bellefontaino Cemetery at St Louis. The funeral sorvices wore held in Christ Church, and were attended by a large number of prominent citizens. A third gas well has been developed at Marion, Ind, at a depth of 910 feet. The contractor reports the volumo of illuminating material the strongest of the one hundred wells he has drilled Its roar is like that of an express train. Oscar Cook, who was involved in the “Jim Cummings” express robbery on tho St Louis and San Francisco Road, has been sentenced at Independence, Mo., to three years’ imprisonment St. Louis has been designated by the Acting Secretary of tho Treasury as a central reserve city for national banks, under the act passed at the lust session of Congress. The arguments in the anarchists’ case at Ottawa, 111., were concluded on the 18th inst, Attorney General Hunt closing for the State, and Captain Black making the final address for the defense. The matter was taken under advisement. “ One-Ear ” Dodge, a desperado and horse-thief, was hanged by vigilantes near Lordsburg, New Mexico. For a long time past the southern part of the Territory lia ? been infested with a gang of desperadoes, who made life and property unsafe, and the chief of tho gang was William Dodge, who was fond of calling himself “a bad man,” and exacted respect and drinks from tendorfeet at the point of tho pistol About a year ago Dodge tried the same game on a cowboy, who pulled a bowie-knife and lapped off the right ear of Dodge, giving him the name of “OneEar” Dodge. A fire at Mankato, Minn., damaged the barrel and tub factory of Charles March to the amount of $40,003. The Mormons sent from Idaho to the Detroit House of Correction on cumulative sentences were released by Judge Severns, in accordance with a recent decision by the Federal Supreme Court Winter wheat prospects in twentyfive Illinois counties are reported favorable, a-ad the general outlook in Missouri and Wisconsin is promising. The situation in Kansas is improved Wheat in some portions of Michigan is in bad condition.