Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1885 — TUB WEST. [ARTICLE]

TUB WEST.

Governor Marmaduke of Missouri is accused of having had pnhlished an affidavit that Bobert C. Pate gave money in 1875 to the St Louis Chief of Police and Major C. C. Bain water for the privilege of being permitted to ran keno rooms. This embitters the feud between Marmaduke and Bain water, the latter asserting in an open letter that Marmaduke knows the above-mentioned affidavit to be a lie, and that Marmadnke is a worse scoundrel than the man who perjured himself. The Chief of Police alleges that a written acknowledgment of the falsity of the affidavit is extant... .There is not a saloon open in Topeka, Kan. Seventeen whisky sellers are serving terms in prison for violation of toe law, and the fines collected from saloonists in the county for the past year amount to $11,500. Dispatches from the West and Southwest report that the strike on the Gould roads is assuming an alarming phase. The strike, which seems to be pretty general, extends along the MLoOuri Pacific Boad and Its branches in the State of Missouri, Kansas, and Texas. The Governor of Missouri sent by special train to Sedalia seven companies of St Louis militia with a Gatling gon, to hold in cheek the striking employes. There were seventy engines in the yards at Sedalia, and ten miles of loaded freight-cars on the sidetracks. The strikers adopted a proclamation promising to keep the peaoe at all hazards. . It is alleged that toe application of mortar from the walls of the Chapel of Knock, in Ireland, restored the sight of Mary MeAndrews, of Mingo, lowa, who had been blind for 6ome time. Other wonderful cases from application of the mortar are also reported... .Nellie Horan, of Whitewater, Wis., who was charged with poisoning her sister, mother, and father, has been acquitted. In toe United States District Court at Chicago, after listening to arguments relative to a new trial for J. C. Mackin and W. J. Gallagher, the election conspirators, two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary at Joliet, and imposed upon them fines of $5,000 each. He ordered them into the custody of toe Marshal, and deferred their removal to prison for ten days. About twenty Oklahoma boomers were brought to Wichita, Kas„ last week, and arraigned before Commissioner Sherman. They all gave bail in $3,000 each for their appearance at the September term of the United States Court. They at once re- ■ turned to Arkansas City, where the boomers are concentrating their forces. - «’*" Thomas J. Nayin, the of Adrian, Mich., who left that city in 1882 on account of fraudulent transactions, and was captured in New Orleans several days ago, has been placed in toe Adrian Jail.... A dispatch from Olathe, Kan., announces the death of Maj. J. M. Haworth, at Albuquerque, N. M. He was Superintendent of all toe Indian schools.

President Cleveland has issued a proclamation forbidding the invasion of Oklahoma. Gen. Hatch telegraphs that 1,200 settlers are encamped in Kansas, near the border..,.A Chicago Emigrant Asbocm&Mtt whose object is to furnish cheap Transportation to immigrants from Europe was incorporated, the capital stock being *IOO,OOO The citizens of Sarahville, Ohio, erected a post near the center of the village and severely whipped a man named Payton, who had beaten his children to an unmerciful degree... .Ground has been broken in South Minneapolis, Minn., for the erection of the largest elevator of that State. It will hold 1,500,000 bushels....A saloonkeeper of Des Moines, named McKee, was convicted on thirty-five counts of au indictment, and was fined $1,750. Gen. Joseph H. TAylob, D. S. A. and Adjutant General of the Department of the Platte, died at Omaha. The conference held at St Louis by the I Governors. Railway Commissioners, and Attorney Generals of Kansas and Missouri recommended that the Missouri Pacific Bead restore wages to the striking employes without prejudice. Notice is, therefore, given by Vice Presidents Hayes and Hone that old rates will be paid, and will changed except on thirty days’ notice. Maj. Frank North, a famous Indian scout, died at Columbus, Neb. Tom Fitzsimmons, William Stan wood, and Fred Esser, charged with grand larceny, and Tom Dorval with selling mortgaged property, escaped from the County Jail at Lincoln, Neb., by removing a largo stone and diggmg underithe bars between the cage and the lower corridor. Frank Bonham, charged with th« mur-

dor of his mother, brother, and sister, was token from jail at Independence, Kan., and hanged to the railway trestle-work... .An Omaha hotel was the scene of the murder of Henry Vorpoten, a barkeeper, by Thos. Ballard, well known as a hotel runner, who was intoxicated.