Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1886 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

The Detroit lady who has charmed Senator Jones is Miss Frances Palms, whose father is reputed to be worth at least $12,000,000. She rejected his offer of marriage, and her father forbade him to enter the house. The Senator then asked Bishop Borgess to aid in bringing about a marriage, and received in reply a withering rebuke. .... Wm. N. Price has been arrested at Windsor, 111., on the charge of being responsible for the Georgia Aldridge outrage. Miss Aldridge is still very weak.... A trust company of New York has petitioned the Federal court at Indianapolis to appoint a receiver for the Chicago and Atlantic Boad for default of interest on bonds aggregating $11,500,000... .New Mexico, having fin*'* ished a penitentiary, took twenty-live of her convicts home from Kansas. A twelfth son of Carl Detloff, christened Grover Cleveland Detloff by permission of the President, was baptized at the German Lutheran Church at Detroit. Congressman May bury acted as sponsor for the President, and when the question was asked, “Do you, Grover Cleveland, renounce the devil and all his works?” Congressman Maybury responded “Yah” with die other sponsors, in deoidedly poor German. The child, after this ceremony, be- * gan to cry, and Maybury decided to leave the kissing of. it to the President himself.... Commenting on the recent decision of the Indiana Supreme Court, in upholding the legislature’s right to control telephone rates, Mr. Edison says if the law is to prevail universally, the Patent Office might as well be closed, for capitalists will not take up inventions. He believes that the" doctrine is fatal to progress, and thinks the United States Supreme Court will declare the Indiana statute to be unconstitutional.... A schedule of the defunct Ritziuger Bank, Indianapolis, shows: Assets, $267,827.74; liailities, $455,868.53. There were 1,400 depositors, and the assignee says he thinks he can pay 45 cents on the dollajb- The live stock on Ritzinger’s farm will be sold March <,lO. Weibern Wartena, a Hollander, was hanged at Rensselaer, Ind., for the murder of a neighbor named Dregher in 1884. Wartena confessed his crime soon after his arrest, but upon the scaffold declared his innocence .... T. C. Dutro, a St. Louis capitalist, whiie examining the Col. Sellers mine at Leadville, fell into an eight-foot stope and suffered injuries which resulted in Ids death, y That fine actor, Mr. W, J. Florence, appears this week atMcVicker’s Theater, Chicago, as Bob Briefly in the “Ticket-of-Leave Man.” Mr. Florence was the original of this character in this country, and played it for nearly six months in the East when it was first brought over. Mr. Florence is probably the most versantic artist nojv on the stage; equally at home in high or low eomedy, an Irish brogue, a French or German dialect fits his tongue as well as his native vernacular. In English dialect parts he has also been successful/ The Rev. Sam Jones, the evangelist, preached three times, in Chicago, last Sunday. fifteen thousand people heard him during the day, and he seemed to hold the audiences spellbound.