Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1887 — THE WESTERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE WESTERN STATES.

A Portsmouth (Ohio) special says that an excavation for a pile for the South Shore Railroad bridge, three miles from that city, caved in, crushing six men to death. A premature explosion on the Minnesota and Northwestern Railroad at Elizabeth, HI, killed one Swede, who had just arrived, and seriously injured three other employes. A dispatch from Marshfield, Wis., says: “The total los3 by fire is not less than $4,000,000, according to the latest figures. The Upbam Manufacturing Company loses not less than SBOO,OOO. The rapidity of the fire was terrific. It would catch at twenty rods. Twelve solid blocks of stores and business houses are destroyed A strong wind blew from the southeast, but the flames backed clear around the heart of the town. The people worked like tigers. Twelve buildings were blown up with dynamite, but it did no good The only manufacturing establishments left are the stave factory, hub and spoke factory, and alcohol factory. Words cannot picturo the scene. ” Mrs. Langtry, the actress, has taken up a legal residence at San Francisco, with the intention, it is reported, of bringing suit for divorce after a lapse of six months.

A strike of oilmen in the refineries of the Standard Oil Company at Cleveland Buffalo, New York, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, Bayonne, and Oil City, is threatened Over twenty thousand men would be affected.

A Chicago special of Thursday says: “The defense in the omnious boodle case were arraigned for trial yesterday. All pleaded not guilty except ex-Commis-sioner Lynn,’who put in a plea of guilty. Lynn, with Bippe'r, the butcher, and Frey, the ex-warden of the infirmary, will testify for the State. The work of getting a jury has begun, and promises to prov-j an all summer’s job. County Commissioner Dan Wren, one of the accused was surrendered yesterday by his bondsman, Col. Ab Taylor, and unless he gives a new bond will have to go <0 jail. The gang is thoroughly demoralized. ”

A. A Talmage, Vice President and General Manager of the Wabasli Railway, died in hie private car at Feru, lad., of Bright’s disease and dysentery. He was on his way to Toledo from St Louis, accompanied by hia wife and two physicians. From Toledo the party intrude 1 taking a yacht cruise of some ten days around Lake Eria The body was ombalmed and taken to St Louis. Mr. Talmage was a cousin of the Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, and was reputed to be rich, having had at least $500,000 in good se .urities. He began railroading as a clerk in the general freight office of the Lake Shoie Road at Buffalo.

A San Francisco dispatch say 3 that “William Kissano, alias W. K. Rogers, lias filed a demurrer in the Circuit Court to the suit of the Chemical National Bank of New York, the beginning of which action was made the oco-sionfor reviving the remarkable criminal record* of Kissano in the East In the demurrer the counsel for Kissaue hold that the present action is barred by the statute of limitatio is.”

The bonds of E L Harper and Ben E Hopkins, late officers of the wrecked Fidel.ty Bank, were Thursday at Cincinnati increased to $230,001 and $100,030 respectively. A Chicago telegram of Friday says: “The war is over!” Good-by, boys!” “Empty is the pool-room, Riley’s gone!” These inscriptions and others of a I ke tenor were chalked up op the big blackboards in Riley’s poolroom on Gamblers’ alley, last evening, in intimation of the fact that the new State law against pool-room gambling goes into effect to-day and that the glory of Riley’s had departed. Fully 1,(300 men and boys were in the pool-room at 6 o’clock when one of these inscriptions was being chalked on the board. Some were waiting to get their tickets cashed on Tennessee, the winner of a hurdle race at Washington Park, and others who had no tickets to cash were

lingering sorrowfully around asking each other if life was any longer worth living. All of them raised a hbwl when Riley’s clerk chalked up “Good-by, boys. ” One suicide and four known embezzlements are credited to losses in the Chicago pool-room daring the past week. A batheb unfavorable report on crop cond tions has just been issued by the Territorial Statistician of Dakota. Hot winds have proved injurious. Corn averages ICO per cent, with an increased acreage, while the condition of spring wheat is but 86 per cent From parts of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana reports are to the effect that vegetation is suffering for rain. In some districts there were refreshing showers last week that did much good. The yield of gram is quite large in portions of the States mentioned.