Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1886 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

Chicago pavement contractors, who own or have leased all the land where cedar blocks are grown, are competing for work throughout the territory five hundred miles distant in every direction, as the smaller towns are actively improving their thoroughfares . .The block in Chicago owned by John Quincy Adams, on the northwest corner of Wabash avenue and Congress street, was destroyed by fire. Several firemen mere severely injured- The losses aggregate $700,000, the chief sufferers being “Belford. Clark <t Co., book publishers, and Donohue <t Henueberry, book binders.. St. Paul Road has three thousand teams at work on its extension of two hundred miles from, Ottumwa to Kansas City. The Northwestern. Road, on its completion to the Blaek Hills, will bring five tons of pig-tin to Chicago daily. A GAS well which seems capable of yielding one million feet per day has been developed at Bloomdale, Ohio, a small station on the Baltimore and Ohio Road. .... Persons sinking an artesian well in the heart of Denver, Col., struck petroleum at a depth of 1,100 feet. A big Row is expected. ... The Chicago, St. Paul and Kansas City Railroad, to run between Dubuque and Kansas City, has been incorporated. with a capital of $25,000,000. President Burch, of the Dubuque and Northwestern, and six others connected with the Minnesota and Northwestern Line, are the incorporators .... The interior of the Valley City Mills, at Grand Rapids, collapsed, causing a loss of about SIOO,OOO. The most notable dramatic evOT'OTThe" season, in Chicago, is the McVicker's Theater, of the famous A. M. Palmer Company, from the Madison Square Theater, New York, which begins on the Oth inst. The company is composed of artists of the first rank in their profession, and wjJlpresent a series of first-class comedies, including “Ciur Society. ” “ Saints and Sinners,” “Broken Hearts,” “Old Love Letters,” “Engaged,” “One Touch of Nature.” and a new play entitled “Love s Martyr,” by the author of “The Two Orphans.” Judging from the standpoint of. the importance of ’the- i -sererat"plsytT<y J be produced. Mid the phenomenally strong casts with which they will be presented, it can safely be predicted that the season at McVicker's cannot result otherwise than in a most brilliant success. , Five thousand citizens of Minneapolis assembled at the corner of Main street and First avenue to lay the corner-stone for an exposition building to cost $250,000... .At Sedalia. Mo;, a Tot of household furniture and other jtersonal property belonging to Martin Irons were seized by a constable to satisfy several judgments.