Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1887 — THE WESTERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE WESTERN STATES.

The Water-ways Convention at Peoria, 111., adopted resolutions calling upon the Ger.eral Government to aocept the locks and dams ceded by the State of Hlinois; alßo that it complete two locks and dams now being constructed, and that Congress authorize that a corps of engineers be sent to survey and report upon the feasibility of a waterway between Joliet and Chicago suitable for the largest river steamera The Hennepin Canal project and improvement of the Mississippi and its branchos were also indorsed. A committee was named to present the resolutions to all the national political conventions of 1888 for recognition in their platforms. From the testimony taken before the Coroner at Huntington, Ind., with regard to tho Kouts disaster, it appears that the list of fatalities will not exceed nino. The railroad men claim that the night was so foggy that danger signals could not be seen in time to prevent the accident A Cleveland dispatch says fire broke out in the laundry room of the Northern Ohio Insane Asylum at Newburg Wednesday evening. A high wind prevailed and the flamos spread with great rapidity. There was a fearful panic among: the unfortunate inmates, and a wild rush wa§ made to escape. The" attendants did all in\their power to quiet the poor wretches, and as 1 expeditiously as possible removed them froiji danger under guard. Six incurable patients? aged women, lost their lives. A gathering of excited persons at Minneapolis, Minn, Thursday night, burned in effigy Alden J. Blethen, editor of the Minneapolis Tribune , which paper published an editoral commenting in severe terms on the tour of Hhe President and his wife, and alleging that Mrs. Cleveland married the President from motives other than true affection. After the straw figure had been consumed, the men marched to the Tribune office and removed a picture of Mr. Cleveland which had been exposed in a conspicuous position since his visit to the city. Ex- Congressman Thad C. Pound, of Wisconsin, has been appointed by the President as Commissioner to inspect a section of railroad in California and Oregon. A rig soheme is on foot in New Mexico for the irrigation of 1,500,0tX) acres of fruit and farming land in the Central llio Grande Valley. It iB proposed to draw water for the purpose from the Rio Grande into a canal which will be 150 miles in length. A special dispatch from Tahlequah (Indian Territory) says: Serious trouble Is anticipated when the Cherokee Council meets. It is hard to see how bloodshed can be averted. When tho late election was over, on the face of the roturns, as certified by the nine national clerks, Joel Mayes was declared elected as Chief by 143 majority. Since then the returns have been so changed as to Count in Robert Bunch, the opposition candidate. Both parties are gathering in force and declare their respective candidates will be seated. The only way to settle this question is by force, there being no court to appeal to. It will be a fight between corrupt men and peace-loving citizens. In caso of trouble it is stated it will result in opening up the country and destroying tribal relations. Both sides arb Wined lor a pitched battle. In his verdict on the Kouts disaster the Coroner charges it to the negligence of the train-dispatcher and of the engineer of the freight train, and censures the company for allowing a crippled engine pulling a passenger train to be on the road a few minutes in advance of a fast freight Chicago special: “George Francis Train did not speak last night, as he had intended to, because the police prevented the meeting. Mayor Roche instructed Chief Ebersold and Inspector Bonfield to suppress the erratic

orator, and not to permit him to. any more harangues in this city. * „ .r George Francis Train was refused permission to lecture on the anarchists at Springfield, IIL, and departed for St Louis, where he delivered an address in which he proclaimed himself a “roaring lion,” and would turn the country upside down if the Chicago reds were hanged. Rev. Dr Washington Gladden, the distinguished political economist, whose constant and earnest efforts for workingmen are well known through his papers in the Century and other magazines, preached a sermon on Sunday at Columbus, Ohio, the fate of the condemned anarchists being the real subject He reviewed the evidence, and in an impassioned manner declared the verdict just, sympathy for the condemned men imbecility, and, if necessary, eaid the American people should demand the execution of the anarchists. He was frequently interrupted by applause. Stephen W. Rawson, a well-known Chicago banker, was shot on Sunday last by his stepson, William Slaymaker, as he was leaving the Third Pres byterian Church, where he had been attending divine services. His assailant, a boy 17 years old, was taken to jail, and the wounded man was carried to his home on Monroe street in a critical condition. The shooting grew out of the troubles between Mr. Rawson and his wife that have been so tnoroughly ventilated in the courts for some time past