Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1884 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

Robert S. Ayers, agent of the Southern Kansas Railroad Company at Garnett, Kas., also agent for the Wells-Fargo Express Company at that place, has been prosecuted several times for delivering packages containing liquor to parties in Garnett and vicinity. The packages were sent from Kansas City, and the agent was not presumed to know what they contained. He has been fined SSO in each case. In consequence of the prosecutions, several express companies have withdrawn their agencies from G-arnett and other Kansas towns. Twelve acres in the Toledo (Ohio) lumber district were burned over, the property destroyed belonging to the Mitchell <t Rowland Lumber Company, in whose yard the fire started; Nelson, Holland & Co., and J. B. Kelly. The loss js $365,000, and the insurance about $340,000 The police of Milwaukee havp arrested a man carrying on his person SIO,OOO worth of diamonds, on which he was endeavoring to obtain advances from pawnbrokers.... W. S. Jackson, a Colorado Springs banker, has been appointed receiver for the Denver and Rio Grande Railway. W. R. McGill, President of the Cincinnati and Eastern Railroad, recently lost his life by a fall from the door of a baggagecar on the trestle-work near Winchestej, Ohio. It is now learned that he had been securing money on forged notes, the amount involved being about $30,000, and the conviction grows that he committed suicide.... Four farmers from Macedonia, lowa, appeared in Council Bluffs, with search warrants issued by a Justice of the Peace, and demanded bottles of liquor, enforcing it with drawn revolvers. They were soon arrested for carrying concealed weapons, and were threatened with tar and feathers.... Joseph Smith, son of the “prophet,” and two others from Utah, are at Richmond, Mo., comparing the Mormon Bible with the original manuscript from the plates alleged to have been given by an angel to Smith, Sr., but the reasons for the comparison have not been made public.... Maud S., while exercising at Cleveland, trotted a mile in 2.122. “Billy” and “Charley” Hamilton were hanged at Warrensburg, Mo., for the murder of Carl Steible, a German A sanitary circular, urging that precautions be taken to prevent and counteract the inroads of cholera and suggesting the cleansing of streets, alleys, ete., has been issued by the Illinois State Board of Health to cities, towns,and villages... .Everett & Weddell, private bankers at Cleveland, made an assignment Their assets are reported to greatly exceed their liabilities, which amount to $1,000,000, and it is expected that the suspension will be only temporary. The Cincinnati Coroner has just returned a verdict on account of the deaths in the riots there some months ago. He finds that the rioters were killed by the officers of the law in the discharge of their duty in preserving the peace, which is anything but satisfactory to the Germans. A REW by play George R. Shewell, entitled “Shadows of a Great City,” was produced at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, this week, for the first time on any stage; and scored an immediate success. It is under the management of Joe Jefferson’s sons. The scene is laid in New York, the first act giving the audience a view of a pawnbroker’s shop in Catherine Market. The second is laid at Blackwell’s Island; the third and fourth on the Haijlem Biver; and the last scene is a banker’s mansion. The play is highly melodramatic, and the company presenting it is a very strong one. ' ' .