Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1886 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

The Rev. Abbott E. Kittredge, of the Third Presbyterian Church, Chicago, preached a sermon, in which he spoke severely of most, of the Justices of the Peace of that city. In the general condemnation he particularly singled out Justice Meech. Dr. Kittredge said; “All fear of the law is rapidly passing from the minds of wicked men; lawbreakers are only arrested to be set free at the solicitation of some Aiderman in return for a handsome bribe, as was true this past week, when one Justice by the name of Meech discharged a company of gamblers, at the request of the latter changing the offense from gambling to disorderly conduct, and asking only the tine of s'l from each.” Justice Meech took exception to this, and in the Circuit Court he has commenced suit by praecipe against Abbott E. Kittredge for $27,000.... In October last the Rev. T. L. Smith (colored) aii'd a party of friends were refused refreshments at a restaurant in Keokuk, lowa, Suit was brought under the civilrights law for slo.ooo,and the jury brought in a verdict for sl. The defense was that it was late at night when the party oalled, and that the defendant was anxious to close his shop. Dennis W. Hilda was hanged Friday at Prescott, Arizona, in presence of one thousand persons, for the'murder of Deputy Sheriff J. M. Murphy. At Leadville, Col., Cyrus Minich suffered the extreme penalty of the law for having been implicated in the murder of Samuel Baldwin on Oct. 13, 1884. Albert Cooley, his wife, and three children, living near McGregor, lowa, were burned to death by their dwelling taking fire. Mayor Smith, of Cincinnati, suspended Edward Hudson, Superintendent of Police, for insubordination, and appointed Arthur G. Moore Superintendent. This brings to a crisis the conflict between the Mayor and the Police Commissioners, as the lattter refuse to recognize the validity of Gov. Foraker’s action in removing them from office. The matter will be submitted to the Supreme Court for decision In Lake* View Cemetery, at Cleveland, last .week, the casket of James A. Garfield was placed in an ornamented bronze sarcophagus costing $2,000. The military guard about the vault will be continued until the end of June A party of Federal Marshals at Salt Lake went to the residence of George Q. Cannon and obtained service on his latest wife. For the arrest of Cannon the offers a reward of $500,.. .Th'e people of Seattle, Washington Territory, escorted 100 Chinamen to the dock and paid the fares of most of them to San Francisco... .The earnings of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad for January were $326,000, a falling off of $5,000 from a year ago. The earnings of the Louisville and Nashville Road for the same period were $1,056,910—a falling off of $113,839.