Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1886 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

George M. Thompson, cashier for the Pullman Palace Car Company at Cincinnati, placed $475 in bills and silver on a desk in a bank in that city while he wrote a check, but when he turned to pocket tho cash it had disappeared. There is no ’clew to the thieves... Charles Crocker, of San Francisco, has given $33,000 to the Girls and Boys’Aid Society,‘with which to erect a building on the lot donated by Senator Fair... .A masked mob at Nicolaus, Cal., forced the forty-four Chinamen in the town to board a steamer, and compelled the captain of the vessel to take them to San Francisco.... The Union Pacific has reduced passenger rates from St. Louis to Los Angeles, Cal., S3O, $34, and $25 on unlimited, limited, and secondclass tickets respectively... .Santa Fe (N. M.) dispatch: “Eight sheep-herders on the ranch of Solomon Lima, Valencia County, near the Arizona line, had a fight with the Apaches recently, and all the herders were killed. The Luna brothers, with two mounted forces, have gone to the scene of the fight.” A JURY at Los Angeles, Cal., awarded Louise E. Perkins $75,000 damages in her suit for breach of promise against “Lucky” Baldwin... .Mrs. Thos. A. Hendricks received from the State Democratic Club of California an engraved letter of condolence, inclosed in a massive solid silver envelope, laid in a morocco case lined with satin.... Albert Mitchell, a trusted employe of the Missouri, Pacific & Wabash Railways at St. Louis, has been arrested for abstracting SI,OOO from an express package, and confessed the crime. His accounts as aud he expected to cover a portion of the deficiency by the theft. that the Illinois Penitentiary authorities had advertised in several’ papers that they had convict labor to let, when they assembled at Joliet last week they found that not a single bid had been made. It is believed that the agitation of the convict labor ques- L tion had deterred contractors from making proposals, and the Commissioners are puzzled as to what they should do with the idle men. " ”>„ There are no new developments in the Windsor (Ill.) outrage. Miss Aldridge’s condition is improving, and she will recover. A family of nine persons living near Akron, Ohio, were taken sick with trichiniasisjfrom eating raw pork... .The foundries of St. Louis and vicinity give’ notice that they will be obliged to shut down for want of coke... .The Indiana Supreme Court has sustained the law fixing telephone rentals at $3 a month... .Joseph H. Yewdale, a pioneer newspaper publisher of San Francisco, died at Milwaukee.... A SIOO,OOO soldiers’, home will be built in 10wa.... A train of sixteen cars of raw silk passed through Chicago from San Francisco. It was valued at over $1,000,000, and was scheduled to cross the continent in thirteen days.