Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1885 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

After eating oysters at a church social in Silver Mills, Ohio, fifteen persons were taken violently ill, two of whom died in a few hours. A physician declares it to be a ease of arsenical poisoning.... Six convicts escaped from the State Prison at Jackson, Mich., by a tunnel thirty-five feet long which they had dug under an abandoned shop, clear through the main wall twelve feet Suck.... H QaDmun. of Marion Center. J£an„ has been sentenced to forty imprisonment for debauching girls of tender years who were members of the Sunday school of which he was Superintendent' He is 40 years old, and is believed to have a wife in Indiana... .Capitalists from various points have been examining the country in titie vicinity of Augusta, Ind., where silver ore is said to have been found in the hills. ... .The Supreme Court of California has decided that Chinese children must be admitted to the public schools. Indians on the Winnebago Reserve, recently opened, have been summoned to Fort Thompson, and en route have set fire to the prairie grass. Settlers are now left unmolested. Hundreds of persons have invaded the Winnebago Keservation in Dakota on the authority of a dispatch saying that the President bad restored it to the public domain. The Sioux Indians are manifesting bad blood over these aggressions by the whites. In their efforts to prevent the invasion they have fired several of theshanties hastily erected in the disputed district There are wild rumors of bloodshed, but settlers lately returned say that no open break has occurred. The choice claims along the border are taken by squatters, some portions hav.ng more settiers than there are quarter sections..,. Josiah Locke, who once owned and edited the Journal at Indianapolis, fell dead while visiting that office the other day. Of late years he has been interested in a colony near Los Angeles, California. Dispatches from tire West state that there are about 600 boomers at Arkansas City. A dozen or more of their leaders waived examination by a United States Commisslbner at Wichita, and gave bail. Five companies of cavalry have camped near Arkansas City, and two companies of infantry are at Ponca agency. —— —The brilliant ballet spectacle, “Zanita," which’has been running so long at McVicker’s Theater, is now in its last week. Nothing in the way of ballet and spectacle has ever been more conscientiously and effectively given in this country. The dancing of Signorita Della quite realizes that well-worn phrase, “the poetry of motion.” She is as pliant and graceful as the fairy of popular tradition. Henry Stull, 105 years of age, died at Batavia, Ohio. He served in the war of 1812 at Lundy’s Lane and Chippewa. He went to the polls last November and voted for Cleveland. Tbb action taken by Congress in its closing hours with regard to the Oklahoma question was briefly this: The Western Representatives defeated the Dawes bill, which had passed the Senate, and the Byan amendment to the Indian bill was adopted, directing the President to enter into negotiations with the Indians with a view to opening Oklahoma to settlement The question as to whether these negotiations shall be opened through the agency of a commission or not is left to the President’s discretion. Ryan and other friends of the settlers think that the negotiations will result in the opening of the lands to colonists.——A dispatch from the West states that “Capt Couch and Gen. Hatch have both left Wichita, Kas., for the border of Indian Territory, the former to confer with the co’onists assembling there and the latter to station his troops to prevent the contemplated movement toward Oklahoma.” •.'GOY-Martin, of Kansas, has signed the "temperance bill which passed the State Legis ature last week. The bill contains a provision which invests the County Attorney with all the power of a grand jury. Citizens are required to appear before him

and testify on oath concerning their: knowledge of the pnrohase and Bale of liquors. He becomes both the Judge and the Prosecuting Attorney, and is allowed a fee of $25 for each conviction. This provision was disapproved Of by -the Governor, although he signed the bill, on 4he ground that it was dangerous to rest such powers in any man.. ..A horse disease which carries off more than half the animals attacked prevails over a wide area of Western Ohio. Pleuro-pneomonia has appeared among a herd of, Jersey catJtq belonging to the Missouri Lunatic Asylum at Fulton.... A tramp was found in a haystack on a farm near Lawrence, Kan. ,in a comatose condition from cold and hunger. After being resuscitated he said that he hnd not tasted food for eighteen days.... The failure is announced of George A. Davis <fc Co., dealers in agricultural implements at San Francisco, with liabilities of $170,000. .. .The Opera House Block at Albany, Mo., was destroyed bv fire entailing a loss of from $50,000 to $75,000. Thr Indiana State Board of Finance has awarded the temporary loan of $600,000 to Walter Stanton, of New York, who bid 101 1 per cent... .Three of tho convicts who e caped from the Michigan State Prison were traced through the snow from MosherviUe to Jonesville, jaded and hungry, and sent back to serve out their sentences.