Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1887 — WEEKLY BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE WESTERN STATES. Owing to the protracted drought in Southern Indian a and Illinois, wells have given out and streams have dried up, so that in some places people are compelled to go several miles for drinking water. On the complaint of the Bank Examiner, Cashier C. C. Creciliu 3 , of the suspended Fifth National Bank of St Louis, has been arrested on charges of fraud anil forgery. It is alleged that fifty entries were found to have been changed; that his reports to the bank directors were false, and that he carried, with out security, five firms for sums ranging from $50,000 to $150,000. A call has been issued for a convention to be held at Aberdeen, Dakota, on December 15, for the purpose of petitioning Congress to authorize the holding of a convention to frame a constitution for a State embracing the whole Territory.