Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1886 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

A telephone company at Hannibal, Mo., violated a contract with its patrons by charging $4 per month for instruments, whereupon the City Council repealed the charter of the concern. Near Enmpas, Mexico, Apaches killed an American and a Mexico, wounded an American and a Mexican, and decamped with their supplies El Paso, (Tex.) special: “During the past few days an unusual number of Chinese from California have passed through this city on their way to New Orleans and the numerous Texas cities along the route. They are the vanguard of tho mighty horde of Mongolians who are certain to sweep this way to escape from California, where they are now being mercilessly driven ont by the white settlers. News come from Socorro, Tombstone, Tucson, Doming, and other cities in New Mexico and Arizona that the influx of Chinese has struck those points, and that strong anti-Chinese Leagues have been organized in each of these cities, and also in this place, to drive the hunted Mongolians on toward the Eastern cities. The password is ‘move on.’ ” In demolishing a building at Alton, Illinois, formerly occupied by E. P. Lovejoy, there was found a small quantity of type once used in publishing The Observer. ... The roads in the Wisconsin pineries are now in excellent condition, and the logging crews are pushing work so rapidly that the desired cut will be made without difficulty.

Mbs. Maby L. Tebby, for the past eighteen years keeper of the lighthouse at Escanaba, Michigan, was qremated in a fire which destroyed the structure... .George Sooville, a Chicago i lawyer known throughout the country, was summoned for contempt in neglecting to pay alimony to his divorced wife. He offered to surrender some books belonging to Charles J. Guitenu, but was ■ ordered by Judge Moran to pay up or go to jail. Mr. Sooville stated that for two years his divorced wife had been engaged in writings b00k... .The McCormick Reaper Factory in Chicago has 982 men at work. The cigar manufacturing firm of Goldsmith k Brother raised the boycott upon thengoods by employing only union workmen. The trouble with the Dueber Watch-Case Company at Philadelphia has been settled by compromise. . ■—i Peteb Bubbitt, a wealthy pioneer of Elgin, HI., has befeh sued for $5,000 damages by a milliner named Jennie Doud, for asserting that she set fire to one of his buildings, which was recently burned.... The wife of Joseph C. Price, of Chicago, having been warned by a physician that she might die at any moment from heart disease, killed hgrself with a razor ... A resident of Des Moines paid S3OO for a pair of German carp raised hy Valentine Stillabpwer, of Columbus, Indiana The Marqhette, Houghton <fc Ontonagon Road will this year be forced to extend its tracks to the latter point or forfeit its valuable land grant... . The Trades-Assembly of Chicago has resolved to boycott the city directory and withhold thirty thousand names unle'ss the publishers discharge all non-union men in their employ.