Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1886 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

A MOB at Olympia, Washington Terri4oiy, on the morning of the 9th inst., took possession of the houses of Chinese residents and ordered them to leave within three days. The Sheriff and a posse did •what they could to protect the unfortunates. President Cleveland ordered General Gibbon to Seattle to maintain order, and issued the'following proclamation: Whereas, It is represented to me by the Governor of the Territory of Washington that domestic violence exists within the said Territory, and that by reason of unlawful obstructions and combinations and tbo assemblage of evil-dis-posed persons it has become impracticable to enforco, by ordinary course of judicial proceedings, the laws of the United State at Seattle and at other points and places within said Territory, whereby life and property are threatened and endangered; and. Whereas, In the j udgment "Or the President an emergency has arisen and a case is now presented which justifies and requires, under tjie Constitution and laws of the United States, the employment of military force to. snjrpress domestic violence and enforce the faithful execution of the laws of the United States, if the command and warning of this proclamation be disobeyed and disregarded: Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President •f the United States of America, do hereby command and warn all insurgents, and all persons who have assembled at any point within the ■aid Territory of Washington for the unlawful purposes aforesaid, to desist therefrom, and to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective •bodes on or before 6 o'clock in the afternoon of the 10th day of February instant. And I do admonish, all gOoi citizens of the United States, and all persons within the limits and jurisdiction thereof, agaimrt aiding, abetting, countenancing, or taking any part in such unlawful acts or assemblages. John G. Thompson, ex-Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of, Representatives, and fourteen years Chairman of the Ohio Democratic State Committee, died last week at Seattle, W.T., of valvular insufficiency of the heart, after an illness of five months'. The attack was brought on by hardships undergone in the discharge of his duties as special timber agent. In October he made an extended trjp through a rough country, riding one day forty miles through rain and sleeping the next night under wet blankets. The following day he was so ill is to be unable to continue the discharge of hi* duties, and, returned to Seattle. He never afterward left his room.. Tfce boiler in Follett <fc Stanley’s feed-mill at Oshkosh, ■Wis., exploded, killing two men and peverehr wounding several persons. A portion of the mill and machinery was completely wrecked, L Judge Booms of Chicago, ronderod a

I decision to the effect that the will of the I late W. F. Storey, of the Chicago Times, j rflade in 1881, was valid and entitled to admission to probate. A Seattle (Wash. Ter.) dispatch of tho 11 tli inst. says: "This city lias become a military camp, and every corner is guarded by n sentry, and military rule i 3 supreme, ! There has been no effort on the part of the j rioters to interfere, nor to even hold a i meeting. They are without recognized | leaders, aud arc utterly powerless to do anything so long as the military are under arms-. There is, howeyver, an intense feeling of bitterness agqmst the militiamen who did the shooting on Monday, and it is openly threatened that they will be hanged as soon as military rale is relaxed. Precautionary measures against mob violence have been taken by the authorities of Portland and Olympia.” A female detective is said' to have secured the information which recently led to the largo opium seizures by Collector Beepher, of San Francisco.’. . .An assignmrat has been filed by the Garfield Manufacturing Company, of Chicago, engaged in the harness line, with liabilities estimated at $100,000.. . .The appearance of a huge grizzly bear at New Holland, Ind., has caused consternation in the district. Parties of men are hunting the beast, but have failed to get a shot at him... .For contempt, in refusing to exhibit Hamilton County election papers, the Ohio House decreed that Clerk Dalton should be imprisoned for thirty days. As the Ser-geant-at-Arms was leading Dalton away, he was served with a writ of habeas corpus, and the prisoner, on giving bonds of SI,OOO, was released. The case will be first decided in the Common I’leas Court, and it is possible that it will re:icli the Supreme Court of the State. The Rev. Sam Jones, the evangelist,’ charges a Chicago publishing firm with piracy, in. that they have Copyrighted his sermons against him, thus robbing his wife and children Judge Rogers, of the Chicago Circuit Court, denied the motion for a new trial in the Storey will case, whereupon the counsel for the contestants took an appeal to the -Appellate Court. .. .Carcasses of deer, killed by wolves, .arp reported numerous in the Wisconsin section through which the Thornapple River, a tributary of the Chippewa, runs. The snow; was so deep that the deer could not ran, and so fell easy prey to their ravenous enemies. A Kansas dispatch says that 10 per cent, of the stock in the Arkansas Valley has perished this winter.... An ice gorge above St. Louis broke the other day, and huge cakes flowed past the city at the rate of eight miles per hour, sinking five or more boats at the levee.... Fire destroyed. (he business portion of Flagstaff, Ari. Eighteen buildings, with their contents, were consumed. .. .George Q. Cannon, the fugitive Mormon and.ex-Delegate in Congress, was arrested by Marshal Ireland at Winnemucca, Nev.. . .At Windsor. Illinois, Miss Georgie Aldridge was seized by unknown persons and banged tip to die, her feet being weighted with bricks. Her brother almost immediately discovered her and saved her life. A note was found on the scene stating that the crime was com milted to get even, with her father, who is a physician.;. .Theclosing services of Sam Jones and Sain Small, held in Cincinnati,were most extraordinary. Eight thousand people were packed in Music Hall, and the Odeon, adjoining, was also filled to overflowing, while it is estimated. that from 25.000 to 40,000 people were turned away. Jones opens Tli Chicago next.