Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1886 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

SVIT was commenced by the Government in the United States District Court at Columbus, on the 23d of March, against the Bell Telephone Company and other companies which are indirectly interested with Bell. The bill filed alleges that Bell secured his patent by fraud and false representations, and the’prayer of the Government is that the patent shall be declared void. The defendants are cited to "“appear June 1 A controlling interest in the • Illinois StateJournal has been purchased by Charles T. Strattan. who has been elected President of the company. J. C. Buchanan retires from the establishment, and J. R. Stuart will be managing editor... .The plant and joboffice of the Dubuque Th>ie-n have been purchased for $28,000 by H. B. Layton and Raymond A. Patterson, of Chicago... .The main vault of the Sub-’Treasury at Chicago,’ resting upon a brick arch, coutaiuß lbO tons of coin, and a warning has been issued against adding to the pressure. Fred Schramm, a well-known business man of Burlington, lowa,, being depressed by the death of a daughter, threw himself in front of a locomotive, and was decapitated. The Hon. William M. Smith, of Lexington, McLean County, 111., committed-, suicide a few days ago. He left the house in good spirits and a few minutes later was found in the barn dead, with a bullet-hole through his head. He was a general merchant and large farmer and stock-dealer, and worth $60,000. Mr. Smith was fbrmerly a member of the Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Commission, was for several terms in the State Legislature and Speaker of the House, and for a quarter of a century a representive Illinois Republican. He was fifty-seven years of age, a native of Kentucky, and came to Lexington thirty years ago. He leaves a wife and one daughter. He has been in failing.health for several years, but was believed to be improving, and his mind-had not seemed affected... OwenL. Allen, the postmaster at Vandalia, Michigan, when placed in arrest by Inspector Metcalf last week confessed a shortage of $23.2, and - admitted having suppressed four letters from the Postoffice Department containing commissions for his Democratic successor, William F. Shilling.... A great prairie fire is raging in the Crow Reservation in Manitoba, and it is alleged that the Indians seek to drive off the cattle belonging to ranchmen. Mrs. Kate Dawson, wife of a farmer living near Indianapolis, who eloped with her step-son, poisoned herself with arsenic, and her paramour took morphia, dying in-a few hours.. ..A stock company with a capital of $300,000 has been organized at Chicago for the purpose of holding a World s Pastime Exposition annually, beginning on or about July 3,1886, and continuing 100 days. Outdoor sports of all kinds are to be the attractions there... Frank Mulkowski. the murderer of Agnes Kledzieck, was hanged in the jail-yard at Chicago. He made a full confession to a priest, and left his effects to an acquaintance in the jail. On the scaffold be bore himself like a martyr, but in his cell be cursed in a frightful manner. The husband of the murdered woman watched every detail of the execution. Gen. Crook and staff held a conference in Sonora with Geronimo and his Chiricahua hostiles. The chief begged for the lives of himself and companions, but was informed that he must surrender unconditionally or fight to the death. "The Street 1 ear strike at Columbus, Ohio, was settled by arbitration, by which the drivers -and conductors get an increase of twenty cents a day. The strike of the drivers at Brooklyn (N. Y.) continues.