Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1888 — THE WESTERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE WESTERN STATES.

The partially consumed body of a man supposed to be Morgan, of Fort Smith, Ark., was found in the embers of a fire in the Indian Territory near there, showing marks of violence. It is believed he had been robbed and murdered. Melville E. Stone, who founded the Chicago Daily News in 1875, and has been since then editor-in-chief of that journal, has sold his interest to his partner, Victor F. Lawson, and retired from the newspaper business. Mr. Lawson, by this deal, becomes sole owner of the valuable plant, and will hereafter have charge of the editorial conduct of the News. 11l health, caused by close application to work, is given by Mr. Stone as his reason for retiring. The Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Road have inaugurated a through vestibule train service between St Paul and Chicago. The will of the late Commodore Kittson has been filed at St. PauL It disposes of millions in a very concise manner. The amount which the estate will clear up is estimated by the Commodore at $4,000,000. Each of his eleven children is given SIOO,OOO at the start, and the remainder of the estate is to remain undivided until the youngest child, becomes of age, which will be in 1896. Fire destroyed the candle and glycerine works of the Dearborn Manufacturing Companyin Chicago. Loss about $115,000; insurance, $83,000. A Quincy (Ill.) dispatch of Thursday says: “The river is higher than for many years, and is over ten miles wide at this point. The Indian Grave levee is utterly ruined, and will not be rebuilt It cost over $200,000. The losses to the farmers in the Indian Grave and Sny Valley districts is roughly estimated at over $1,000,000. Quincy is now cut off from all railroad communication with the West The tracks of all linos are under water, and flat cars loaded with rails are run on the bridges to save them from being swept away. ” At Bloomington, Ind., Bill Patrick shot and killed a saloon-keeper named J. W. Carter. Patrick escaped. Three of the five defendants in the tallysheet forgery cases at Indianapolis—Reardon, Counselman, and Metcalfe—have been acquitted, while in the cases of Budd and Sullivan the jury were unable to agree. Coy and Bernhamer, who were convicted several weeks ago, have been taken to the penitentiary at Michigan City. . , Merchants employing collection agencies to realize on slow debts will do well to be careful as to the methods used. A dry-goods dealer of Mexico, Mo., has been fined SSOO and costs because a collection agency sent one of his customers a bill inclosed in an envelope on which the words “Bad Debts” were printed in large type. A mail-pouch on a through mail train from St. Louis to Boston, it has just been learned, was cut, and five registered letter packages taken. William George was hanged in the penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, for murder. He refused spiritual advice and bore up well during the ordeab Fire at Palouse City, W. T., destroyed seven business blocks, at a total loss of $250,000, With a total insurance of $75,000. Michigan’s local-option law is declared un-

constitutional by the Supreme Court The decision is based upon the point that the act in question was entitled “An act to regulate the manufacture and sale of liquor," whereas the local-option Jaw does much more than that, and is, therefore, invalid under the clause of the Constitution which provides that no law shall embrace more than one object, which shall be embodied in its title. The decision is regarded as a great victory by the liqtpor men. A terrible hail-storm swept over Pratt, Kan., destroying fruit and wheat and corn for miles of territory. People caught out had their heads laid open by the driving hail Cattle and pigs were killed. All windows facing the north and west were broken. Each farmer’s loss in the territory covered is from SSOO to SI,OOO. At Cullison and Wellsford roofs were broken in by the weight of the hailstones. A terrific wind-storm swept over the mining town of Aurora, thirty-five miles south of Springfield, Mo., which blew down nearly all the tents in the camp, leaving hundreds of people without shelter to battle with the storm. There was no loss of life, and the only reason assigned for this is that the people were in tents instead of houses. A great deal of stock in the surrounding country perished by falling buildings. Charles J. Maetih, a notorious horsethief, has been given ten years in the penitentiary at Indianapolis, Ind. It is said that he has stolen about two hundred horses in Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, and lived in fine style with his family at Mitchell, Ind. He was captured in St Louis and taken to Indianapolis for trial Four of the leaders of the election night murders and riot at Lima, Ohio, were arraigned, pleaded not guilty, and were remanded for trial June 25.