Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1886 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

Geohgf, E. Graham, the wife-mu*-derer, was taken from the jail at Springfield, Mo., by a mob of 300 men, and strung np to a tree. When the mob unlocked Graham's cell he greeted them with the remark: “Yon can hang me, but by G — d yon can’t scare me." The whole affair was conducted very quietly. A cattle company >bf St. Louis has leased over two million acres of grazing land in the British Northwest Territory for I twenty-one years without taxation. . The transfers of this land are from her Majesty the Queen... .There was held at Toledo, Ohio, last week, a reunion of the survivors of the wreck of the steamboat Sultana; which occurred twenty-one years ago near Memphis, by which about one thousand Ohio and Indiana soldiers lost their lives, after being released from' Confederate prisons. The remains of George E. Graham, who was lynched at Springfield. Mo., were burned in the potter's field there. The body was taken to the place of interment in a delivery wagon.- It is stated that before leaving his cell with the lynchers, Graham took a huge chew of tobacco that had been saturated w ith morphine, with the resalt that he was only in a semi-conscious condition when hanged... ■William E. Withers, a non-union switchman in the employ of the St. Louis Bridge and Tunnel Company, at St. Louis, was assaulted while going to his room. In selfdefense, as he claims, be shot and killed one of his assailants. He was with difficulty rescued from the mob and taken to the station.... Fercv Perkins, John Klingel, Charles O’Connell, and Policeman CassenbroUt. were bitten by a mad dog at Pullman, 111., and have gone to Paris for treatment bv Pasteur. .. .The Union Pacific Hoad is about to expend $400,600 in the construction of a union depot at Omaha, and in enlarging its headquarters building... .Indians are reported to have attacked a ranch twenty miles southwest of Pantano, A. T„ and killed eight persons. The packing establishment of Plnnkinton & Co., at Milwaukee, employing 300 men, shut down because of the dissatisfaction existing among laborers in general.. No demand had been juade upon the firm. ... . A hurricane prevailed for twenty-fonr hours in Nebraska, the wind being so heavy that trains were retarded. The effect on young stock, it i 6 feared, will be disastrous. .... The bank of Marietta, Ohio, has failed with liabilities of over SIOO,OOO. L. £ 13. Emanuel's furniture establishment at San Francisco, A. L. Bancrofts Co.*B stationery and publishing house and adjoining smaller buildings were destroyed by fire. The loss is placed at $750,000, with about $230,000 insurance. One man is known to have been killed by falling walls, and several others are reported as either killed or wounded.... Keystone, lowa, was visited by a fire which destroyed the Postoffice end ten other buildings. The chief portion of the business district of the town was consumed. A part of the mail matter in the Postbffice was burned. — ; Mr. Dion Boccicault has scored a great success in his new play, “The Jilt," Which is now occupying the boards of Mc"Yicker’e Theater, Chicago. It is a most, shunning comedy, happy ia situations, pure in sentiment, and simple in plot. Myles O'Hara, the character played by Mr. Boncicault. is a sort of Irish Bohemian, but still a gentleman, a devotee of the turf and a writer on sporting topics. Mr. Boucicault is unctuous in his humor as he always is, suggestive without ever being tooexpressive.