Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1886 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

“After twenty-one days of tiresome tactics, the jury in the anarchist case has been completed,” says a Chicago dispatch. “This could not have been effected but for the fact that the defense had exhausted its peremptory challenges. Mr. H. T. Sanford, the twelfth juror, answered all the questions pnt to him satisfactorily, saying that, although he had formed a decided opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the accused on a general theory, he felt that he could give them a fair trial. Mr. Foster, of the defense, objected to him, but the objection was promptly overruled by Judge Gary, who observed that the jnror came within the fact of his being sufficiently lligent to have an opinion, which he admitted could be governed by the evidence, seems to have been sufficient to move Lawyer Black to note an exception, as the last kick of the defense against respectability. After the long delay there is mnch satisfaction in the reasonable assurance that a jury somewhat above the average has been secured. It is in a measure a compensation for the time •wasted in reaching it. The State's Attorney was prompt in opening the case for the people, and there is no apparent reason why it should not go steadily on to a conclusion. At best, the trial must be a long one, as there are hosts of witnesses to be CTatninedr* ; ; —- Fond dc Lac (Wis.) special: “Gentlemen who have resided in this county since 1848 say that they have never before known so serious a drought Of late years marked attention has been paid to stock-raising and dairying in Fond du Lac, and these branches of farm industry have especially suffered, because of fee devastation wrough t in pastures and the shortage of the hay crop.” The last two weeks of the engagement of Mr. Palmer's fine dramatic company at McVicker's Theater, Chicago, will be devoted to the long-promised play, “Jim the Penman,” which has had such a long ruu in London, where it was bought out. Sir Charles Young, the author, is well acquainted in America and is a great admirer of this'country. He is the author of several plays. The cast for the representations at Me Vickers includes the strongest members of the Palmer company—Messrs. Davidge, Kelcey, Le Moyne, and Holland, and Misses Hill and Harrison. A. B. Thompson, the absconding bank cashier of St. Louis, left a letter stating that he had been ruined by speculation and used the bank’s money to carry himself along until discovered. He was recently seen on a steamboat in Canadian waters by a party of three acquaintances... The St. Louis Grand Jury returned indictny?nts against six members of the City Council for drunkenness and bribery in connection with the electric railway bill. Two of them —Pishon and Adams—were arrested and put under bonds of $1,500 each. . ..A murderer named Bill Haley was taken from the jail at Paulding, Ohio, by a masked mob of one hundred men, and hanged to a tree. Haley was a desperado, who some time ago got 'into an altercation with Matthew Crosby at Latty, Ohio, and killed him. On hearing the news Mrs. Crosby died in hvsterics. The people threatened to lynch'Haley at the time, but he was taken out of the county.... The severe drought still continues over nearly the whole of the Indian Territory, and ’ prairie fires are burning in every direction. The range is rapidly being ruined, and murrain has broken out among the cat! tie and many are dying.-... The first money received by the Cberokees from the cattlemen for grazing privileges is now being distributed at Tahlequah. It amounts to $300,000, each full-blood receiving $15.95. A claim for a share is made by colored residents, and the Delaware and Shawnee Indians.... A fire in Knapp, Stoat A Co.’s lumber-yards, in St. Louis, destroyed property valued at about $500,000. the insurance is estimated at $275,000;