Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1886 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

Evangelist Moody's churcli, on the comer of LaSalle and Chicago avenues, Chicago, has been partially destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at $25,000. The fire is believed to have been of incendiary origin. The Baltimore .t Ohio Railroad is making arrangements to establish a line of steamers between Fairport, Ohio, and Duluth .... The vault in the court house at Lac-qui-parle, Minnesota, was battered down, and the county records and treasurer’s safe removed to Madison, which at the recent election was voted the county seat.’...“Jim Cummings” lias written another letter. This time it is from Topeka, Kas.. and is an effort to prove that Express Messenger Fotheringham could not possibly have indited the previous epistles. He also endeavors to establish the messenger’s iunocence.... An immense audience assembled at Metropolitan Hall, San Francisco, to express indignation at the murder of little Mamie Kelly, the school was shot down by Alexander Goldenson. Several fiery speeches were made which created intense excitement. After the meeting adjourned the excited crowd left the building and proceeded to the County Jail with the evident intention of taking him put and lynching him. As it passed along the street the crowd was greatly increased, and by the time it reached the jail it numbered fully ten thousand. Several attempts were made to storm the jail, but it was guarded so strongly by the police that the mob was repelled at each attempt. William S. Wilson wus hanged at Jonesboro, 111., on Friday, the I2th inst. wlHcbiw quoted bo true-to. yourwives; wives be true to your husbands,” and asking the people to be charitable to his seven children. Wilson's crime committed on Jan. 7 near Jonesboro. He came home alter a protracted absence to the wife who Lad been the victim of* his neglect And abuse for twenty years, and in a quarrel drew a revolver and shot and almost instantly killed her. His defense was insanity. After liis conviction he was baptized into the Methodist Church. Wilson had served in the One Huiidred and Twentieth Illinois Regiment, and, although a deserter, he received a peusiou.... Albert G. Boynton, who shot and killed his wife and J. B. Kipp on Sept. 17, was hanged at Los Angeles, Cal. Boynton pursued his wife to Kipp’s house, where she had fled to shot Kipp for attempting to defendllerr The Chicago and Xorfhweslerti Road has" decided to extend its Wyoming Central line from Douglas to the Sweetwater Valley—a distance of sixty miles....UndeVa,decree of foreclosure, the Indianapolis. Peru and Chicago Division of the old Wabash system was sold to the bondholders for $1,806,000.... Frank Lockwood, a hotel man, was shot and seriously wounded by Lillie Quinn, a twenty-year-old girl, in a room in a Winfield, Kan.. hotel. The girl, thinking she had killed Lockwood, shot herself dead.... A dispatch from Albuquerque states that Cutting is not organizing a force for the invasion of Mexico, but has applied for work as a compositor. . ..John L- Sullivan, the Boston slugger, knocked Faddy Ryan out in three rounds in tfce presence of 9,000 people at San Francisco, The men fought with four-ounce gloves under the revised Marquis of Queensberry ruffs* In the first round Ryan got in two blows on Sullivan's face, and the round ended with a clinch. In the second round Sullivan rushed upon his antagonist, dealing frightful blows, and knocked Ryan down three times. The third round lasted just 1A minutes. .Ryan was knocked into a corner, and was unable to rise when time was called. The receipts of the fight are estimated at $12,000, of which Sullivan gets $9,000 and Ryan $3,000. > ' A Chicago dispatch says: Conferences were held on Saturday between the packers and the agents of the strikers, brought about by Congressman Lawler, but nothing was accomplished during the day looking to ending the Stock Yards trouble. In the evening, however, at a strikera’ toeeting on Hoisted street, ,T. P. Barry appeared and read a dispatch from Grand Master Workman Powderly declaring the strike at an end, and the demand of the strikers as unreasonable. The dispatch was a surprise, and created considerable ill-feeling. Powderly’s telegram ordering the men back to work was reoeived on Wednesday, but its announcement was for some unknown reason held back. As there are now nearly 19,000 at work in the packing-heuses it is impossi-

Me that all the old hands can find employment. Local Assembly No. 8357, Knight* of Labcw. has plaoed a boycott on Armour's products.