Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1886 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

Owing to a technical error, the indictment against Mrs. Emma Molloy, for complicity in the Graham murder at Springfield, Mo., was quashed in the Circuit Court.. .n.The semi-centennial of the admission of Michigan as a State was held on the 15th inst. at Lansing, with the Governor and other distinguished citizens in attendance. The musie was of a high order and the speeches were well received. Thb Ohio Supreme Court has decided that, the acta of the State Senate after the, desertion by the Democrats of their seats are perfetly legal. While drilling for gas at Akron. Ohio, at a depth of 2,400 feet workmen touched a vast lake of very strong salt water, into which an iron sounder was lowered 1,-000 feet.. . .Fire in M. T. Antisell & Co.’s piano manufactory at San Francisco caused damage in that and adjoining buildings to the extent of $230,000, with about $130,000 insurance. , Grace Brewer, a colored girl of Vincennes, Ind., was the only person graduating from the High School, eight white pupils refusing to appear with her. She read ft creditable essay on the difficulties of educating colored youth, and was given ft diploma. The Woman’s Suffrage Association of Kokomo sent her a silk badge and its congratulations.... Dr. 8. A. Richmond, known as the proprietor of the patent medicine “Samaritan Nervine,” drove to the office of the St. Joseph (M&) Herald, and entering it shot Colonel J. W. Strong, the editor, in the neck. Strong, who was sitting with his back to the door, jumped up and staggered to the back office, wherenpon Richmond fired two more shots, one of which mitered Strong’s body. In five minutes Strong was dead., After shooting Strong Dr. Richmond went from tho office to th.e street, and, walking twenty feet from the office door, fired a shot at his own head and fell to the sidewalk. It is not thought that Richmond’s wound is fatal. The latter is undoubtedly insane. The Supreme Court of Utah has affirmed toe right of Governor Murray’s appointees over the Mormon holdovers in the territorial offices... .The carriage factory of Hay dock Brothers, at St. Louis, was burned, involving a loss of $70,000. A liverystable fire at Leavenworth, Kan., destroyed property to the value of $60,000.