Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1885 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

Roman Nose, once the chief medicine man of the Cheyennes, who last spring killed a white woman in Indian Territory, has been surrendered to the civil authorities at Leavenworth, by onler of Attorney General Garland, to be tried in the Federal* Courts for murder... .The Korell family of five persons are seriously ill at Cleveland of trichiniasis, the result of having eaten freely of uncooked ham. A physician believes that he can 6ave their lives. Mb. W. J. Florence appeared last week at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, in the character of Jules Gbenreizer in the play of “No Thoroughfare,” and delighted ms admirers by as fine a bit of acting as was ever seen upon any stage. The present week he will appear in a variety of plays, including “Our Governor,” the “Mighty Dollar,” and as Captain Cuttle in “Dombey & Son. ” It is claimed by statistics compiled by the liquor-sellers of Chicago that the city has a foreign population of 455,000 and only 174,000 Americans.... The Burlington Road has projected 250 miles of new track in Nebraska. The Lincoln and Grand Island branch will be extended to Broken Bow, one hundred miles.... Thomas King, a packing-house laborer, living at No. 2529 Cologne street, Chicago, killed his wife Ella by beating her head almost to a jelly with a chair. The fiend has been arrested... .The Circuit Court at San Francisco has declared void the alleged marriage contract between tne late Senator Sharon and Miss Sarah A. Hill, on the ground that the signatures were forged. ... .The great billiard contest between the three experts, Schaefer,Vignaux, and Slosson, is finally ended, and Jacob Schaefer, of New York, is now entitled to be called the champion of the w0r1d.... The real estate transactions in Chicago for the year amounted to nearly $48,000,000. The value of buildings erected was $20,000,000, the residences alone numbering 1,657.... Judge Crozier, of Leavenworth, at the request of the Attorney General of Kansas, enjoined a wholesale liquor firm from selling goods during the trial of a suit brought against it, and the doors of the store were closed within five minutes. Five large liquor dealers are preparing to remove their goods from the city... .A dastardly attempt was made to blow up the elegant residence of Judge Lambert. Tree, in Chicago. An infernal machine, in the shape of a carefully constructed dynamite bomb, was found on the front 6teps of the residence, which is now occupied by General A. C. McClurg. It was exploded on the lake front and blew a six-foot hole in the frozen ground. ... .A fresh riot took place last Sunday in Detroit among the congregation of ' St. Albert's Polish Catholic Church, the crowd, being estimated at two thousand. An attorney named Larned was struck with a stone. All the windows in Zoltowski’s grocery were broken. Officer Ewing was knocked down with a snowshovel. Detective Tuttle was thrown into a gutter. A captain and fourteen policemen fought the rabble all the afternoon. Bishop Borgess is confident that the trouble is incited by the deposed priest, Kolazinski.