Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1886 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

The imitation butter and cheese bill has passed the lowa Senate. Manufacturers must plainly mark all packages, and hotel or restaurant-keepers who use the article must attach to it a plain label, giving its prober name. Violation of this provisionwill be deemed’a misdemeanor. At Greencastle, Ind., three men jumped on the platform of the private rail way car occupied by Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Florence, theatrical people, and attempted to force an entrance, but were driven off by a brakeman. It is believed that the trio intended robbery, as one of them remarked, upon seeing Mrs. Florence, ““.That’s the* woman with the diamonds.”..' .Harlan P. Tracy and J. B. Tracy, bankers at ElmWood, 111., have made an assignment The assets are $93,000, with liabilities about $66,0000;. .. It has been discovered that Lewis Township, Clay ana, has been swindled out of $3,000 bv Pollard, the crooked trustee, on a light-ning-rod deal. Payment of the notes will be resisted... That the natural gas area of Ohio 48 extensive js shown by the. development of the strong flow at Piqua. Mrs. Bohrman, residing in a suburb of Cincinnati, became deranged from financial losses, killed one son with a razor, fatally injured another with a hammer, and then cut her own throat.. J... Robert E. Rivers, scion of a wealthy Buffalo family, was tried by court-martial at Fort Wayne, Mich,, found guilty of desertion and forgery of paymaster's checks, and ' sentenced to twelve years in the Leavenworth (Kim.) Prison. Articles of incorpbr.itibb of the Wisconsin, Illinois and lowa Bridge Company have been filed at Dubuque. The company purposes to build a steel bridge across the Mississippi one mile north of Dubuque, and is backed, it is alleged, by the Chieago, Burlington’' and Northern Railway. .. .A Milwaukee citizen, whose wife gave birth to still-born twins, who were joined by a ligaipent. sues, a physician for $2,000 damages and the recovery of the bodies. The claim is made that the doctor has preserved them for scientific purposes.... The Supreme Court of Illinois has refused a rehearing of the case of J. C. Mackin,, the election conspirator. ■ A great novelty in the field of opera is afforded this week at McVicker's Theater, Chicago, in the shape of a Juvenile Mikado Company. It embraces the famous Hollywood children, and a chorus of fifty artists of tender years. The cast is as follows; The Mikado, Master" Martin Hayden; Nanki-Pod, Lizzie Hollywood; Ko-Ka, Little I Dick; Poo-Bah, Master ' James Rudolph; Pish-.Tush. Master Gus Williams; -Nee-Ban, Master Hannibal MyeTSTTfumYum", Little Baby Clara: Pith-Sing. Lotta Holywood; Peep-800. Little' Myrtle Loring; Katisha, Miss Marion Fleming. > C. P. Mathewson, President of a national bank at Norfolk. Neb., who had been mentioned as the next Republican candidate for Governor, has confessed himself financially ruined, and has fled to Canada. It is rumored that his fortune was lost in wheat speculations in the Chicago market. ... .The Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway shops at Milwaukee were flooded, by an inundation, and 1.700 men were forced to Suit work. St. Paul has just had one of je heaviest snowstorms of the winter. Street-car tracks were blockaded.. The Illinois Central Railway will probably relinquish the lease of its lowa lines when it expires next year.