Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1887 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

W. C. De Pauw, the wealthy glass manufacturer of New Albany, Ind., died last week at the Palmer House, in Chicago. He was stricken with apoplexy while waiting for a train in the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Depot. Mr. De Pauw was born in Salem, Washington County, Indiana, in 1821. When quite young he entered into the banking business under the free-banking law of Indiana in 1854. In 1861 he removed to New Albany, and during the war he was one of the largest army contractors in the country. He was the owner of the immense plate-glass manufactory at New Albany in which $2,000,000 is invested. He was a man of unbounded charity, and his donations to the Methodist Church during the last thirty years will aggregate $1,000,000. His will provides for a donation to the De Pauw University, at Greencastle, of $1,500,000, he having endowed that institution with $300,000 several years ago. Three mills, a chair factory, an elevator, and a hotel at Elk River, Minnesota, were destroyed by fire. Loss, $85,000. Three sheep-herders of the Albuquerque (N. M.) district died from fright during the recent earthquake shocks. A Marquette (Mich.) telegram says: “Reports of the recent windstorm are coming in freely. The thirteen counties of the upper peninsula were all swept In some rich pine fields the trees were mowed down like grass. Millions of feet of pine are destroyed, houses unroofed or demolished, unfinished buildings scattered, and chimneys and outhouses destroyed. Scarcely a town or settlement escaped. Only three fatalities are reported, but many persons wore seriously injured” Judge Blodgett has sentenced Colonel W. H. Bolton, the defaulting luperintendent of second-class matter in the Chicago Postoffice, to two years in the penitentiary. An assignment has been made by the St Louis Supplies Company, which has done business at St Louis for twenty years. The total liabilities are placed at $147,000.