Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1887 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The Calumet and Hecla Mining Company of Michigan has made contracts for the delivery this summer of eight million pounds of copper at the low price of 10 cents par pound. The Dakota Board of Agriculture has decided to hold the first fair at Grand Forks, the date being fixed for September 1317. It has also been arranged to hold trotting races at Grand Forks, Hillsboro, and Fargo. A west-bound train on the Northern Pacific jumped the track near Steele, Dakota. One man was killed and several people injured. Judge James Bradley, a pioneer and prominent citizen of La Porte, Ind., is dead at the age of 77. The gambling-houses at Toledo, Ohio, were ordered closed, test Sunday, which is the first move of the reform police board, and the result was the gambling material was all packed and shipped to Detroit Twenty-one buildings, including two churches and a number of business houses, were destroyed by fire at Kankakee, with a total loss of $45,000. The fires are attributed to incendiaries. The condition of the winter wheat in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas has improved during the past week, although in some sections the need of rain is still urgent Spring wheat looks promising in lowa, Minnesota, and Nebraska. George W. Eubanks, who is serving a sentence in the Milwaukee Workhouse for larceny, has made affidavit that three crooks named Murray, Flater, and Curley tried to hire him to help in the Rock Island express robbery, for which crime Schwartz and Watt were recently convicted. The attorneys for Schwartz and Watt will use the affidavit in support of a motion for a new trial. The will of Alexander Mitchell gives the widow the homestead in Milwaukee, $209,COO in such bonds or stocks as she may select, and an annuity of $50,000, to bo paid in monthly installments. To David F. Mitchel, a grandson, is left $100,0(0; to Isabella Mackie, a niece, $25,009, and in various educational and charitable institutions $5),000 tn grois. The remainder of the estate, except some bank stock, was given to his only son, and as soon as the will was promulgate! he was elected to succeed his father as President of the bank, and the capital stick was increased $590,00'. The coal-laden schooner Louie O’Neill was sunk in Lake Erie in a collision th the vessel Thomas W. Parker. The entire crew of eight souls perished.