Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1887 — THE WESTERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE WESTERN STATES.

Theee entertainments for tho benefit of the families of the executed anarchists, which had been extensively advertised, were held at Chicago on Sunday. The people who attended them were principally Gjrmans. Tho largest entertainment was at Twelfth Street Turner Hall, where speeches were made by Captain Black and John Gloy. Tho latter spoke in German, and he took pains to advise his hearers to give up the idea of helping their cause along by the use of dynamite, and to caution them that tho time had come for them to retrace their steps. A Joliet (I1L) dispatch says that the rollingmills at that place will be indefinitely closed on the 26th of December, and the men permanently discharged and paid off. The pay-roll of this company amounts to SIOO,OOO per month, and it employs 2,000 men. It will consequently be a severe blow to the business and labor interests of Joliet The plant is one of the most improved and successful in he world, and can compete with any works known In its report upon the Chatsworth disaster, the Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Commission censures the Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw Railroad for not patrolling its tracks.