Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1886 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

Chicago detectives have arrested “Bobby” Adams, a notorious burglar, who is said to have planned and been the chief executor of the Minneapolis Postoffice robbery, whereby the perpetrators realized about $14,000 worth of stamps. The other'* night, when off fjheboygan, Wis., the steamer John Pridgeon, Jr., collided with and sunk the steam barge Selah Chamberlain, the second engineer, a firebi an, niMi tiirtjr ucck nan as oi uro muer boat being drowned. The Chamberlain was valued at $60,000. The Pridgeon is not badly damaged.... .A mob of masked men surrounded the jail at Monticello, 111., overpowered the Sheriff, and took out Henry Wildman, a wife murderer, and hanged him..... .When the remains of Chief Justice Chase reached Cincinnati they were borne to the Music Hall, where addresses were made by Congressman Butterworth, Gov. Foraker, ex-Gov. Hoadly, and Justice Stanley Matthews. James E. Murdock, the veteran actor, recited a poem, after which the casket was borne to Spring Grove Cemetery, and consigned to rest in the family lot. Mrs. Katharine Chase Sprague was present at the services. The National Educational Association will hold its next meeting in Chicago, July 12, Ten thousand teachers will probably be in attendance. FOR more than a quarter of a century no two names have been more familiar to American theater-goers than those of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Florence. Love and matrimony among stage people usually run at cross purposes, but the case of this couple furnishes a shining exception. It as reputed that in all these years their domestic life has been as happy and free from “fiunily jars” as their acting haS beeh ileligbtftil to the admirers of pure comedy. No one who ever saw Mr. Florence as “Gen. Bardwell Slate, the member ot Congress from the Cohosh District,” and Mrs. Florence in the role of “Mrs. Gen. Gilflory.” in the “Mighty Dollar," can fail to cherish a delightful recollection of those artistic and amusing interpretations. The Florences began their annual Chicago engagement at McVicker's Theater on Monday last. The German Orphan Asylum at Indianapolis was destroyed by fire early the other morning, one of the boys perishing in the flames. The boys were removed safely from an upper story, by means of a ladder, by the matron and her attendants. The owners of the sunken propeller Selah Chamberlain have filed in the District Court at Chicago a bill for $65,000 against the John Pridgeon. on which claim the latter was seized by the marshal. Search for a trunk of jewelry missing at St. Louis showed that it had been wrongly shipped to Memphis, where jt was* claimed by a railway engineer who held the check, and who was detained by the police j until the truth was known.... Nineteen brakemen of the Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain Bailways, have been arrested for systematically robbing the cars.