Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1887 — THE WESTERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE WESTERN STATES.

By the “lottery” plan, Dr. O. P. Wolcott, an aged and well-known citizen of Milwaukee, was swindled out of $6,575 by confidence sharpers, who made their escape. « Wheat, oats, barley, and potatoes of Michigan are making rapid growth, the late rains having been very beneficial. Mrs. Alrert Brooks, of Tuscola County, Mich., went to Denver last fall to take possession of a legacy valued at SBO,OOO and mysteriously disappeared. Officers have been hunting for her since, but without result Last week her husband received, a letter from her saying that she had been kidnaped and was still held prisoner by a gang of men who bad already secured $20,000 of her money and want the balance. A Tucson (Arizona) dispatch says: “The hostile Apaches are supposed to be in the east end of the Santa Catalina Mountains, as their signal smoke has been distinctly seen. Troops of cavalry are operating in that locality. Over one hundred fighting bucks are out, all well armed. Of San Carlo and Pinal Apaches tribes nearly all are old scouts. Eskimidzines, Chief of the Avarapia Apaches, said Thursday there would be a big Indian war. He said more than four hundred warriors would soon be in the field, all with good guns and plenty of ammunition. Nearly all of Eskiminzine’s young bucks have joined the hostiles. It is said the leader of the Apaches is a graduate of Hampton Indian school, who came back two years ago. People are in a great state of alarm, as they know the fighting qualities of the Indians now. out All of the mountains have been fired. The Indians say this was done to stop troops from using the heliograph signal-flash. Troops are active in the field, and official dispatches are flying thick and fast” An Evansville (Ind.) special says that the village of St Joseph, about nine miles north of that city, was excited Sunday morning by what was at first supposed to be an earthquake. A short, whip-liko sound was heard, accompanied by a slight tremor of the earth. An aerolite of enormous dimensions had fallen in the vicinity. It was soon located in a small piece of woods, where it was found, having imbedded itself in the earth to the depth of fifteen or twenty feet In descending it had crushed an immense tree, and had made a hole in the earth of about thirty feet in circumference. A vast amount of earth had caved in upon it, rendering it impossible to reach without great labor. Several fragments of stone were picked up about the place having a strong smell of sulphur. It is estimated that the stone weighs very nearly two lons.