Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1884 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

Mss. Warren, wife of Bishop Henry W. Warren, of Denver, Colo., has donated 9100,000 to Denver University for the establishment of a Department of Divinity to be known as "The Iliff school of Divinity," on condition that others endow a single professorship,.. .Margaret Kling, a 14-year-old girl of Milwaukee, has eloped with Henry Geahrig, 60 years of ago, for mars an inmate of the Soldiers’ Home. Owing to a dispute touching a mining claim, Edymrd Gallagher shot Mrs. Greenwood, near Sonora, Cal. The woman’s sou, Otis, followed Gallagher, and fired at him without effect, Robert Watson chased young Greenwood, but the latter turned on him, shooting him mortally. Watson’s son next pursued Greenwood, but he escaped and surrendered to the Sheriff, and both himself and Gallagher are in jail. Mrs. Greenwood and the elder Watson have died from their wounds. Kiralfy Brothers’ great spectacle. “Excelsior,” continues to be the. attraction at McVicker’s Theater, Chioago. It notable production, some of the most pleasing effects being introduced. The pantomimic work is good, in several instances highly oommendabK Mile. Nani aud Sig. Ettore Ooppini being really admirable in the intelligence and cleverness and force of their respective performances. The ballet figures indicate a great deal of study and pains in discipline, though it is difficult to control the 382 people employed on the stage. Gen. Mires, commanding the District of the Columbia, bus appointed an expedition to explore the Copper River, in Alaska, which is considered a dangerous undertaking, as the Indians are exceedingly hostile. ....In Detroit a bolt of lightning wrecked the front portion of the residence of A. T. Mcßeyuolds and stunned six persons.... In the Circuit Court at Chicago. Edward F. Thomas and au accomplice were convicted of swindling a woman by trading her a warranty deed to lots to which they had no title. Thomas was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary... .Because shq was not given $2,000 ihstmuieo atthe death of her mother, Miss Lizzie Bradley, of White Cloud, Kan., entered upon a fast forty -three days ago. She is now face to face with death, as her stomach revolts at •yerjjtouig offered. 1 Judge Pillsbury, who unis terribly injured on an Alton train in the riot at Brighton, 111., two years ago, was awarded damages of $12,500 by a jury at Joliet.... Isaac B. Sharp, formerly’ Circuit Judge at Wyandotte. Ran., killed himself with a revolver, Because of ill-health.... The sire of Johnston, the fastest pacer in the world, has been purchased bv'H. S. Woodruff, of Janesville, Wis. ...Alfred Yandecar. charged at Waupaca, Wis., with the murder of H. C, Mead,, n banker, in October, 1882, has been released on his own recognizance.