Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1886 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

The Great Western Glass Works at St. Louis have closed ’down, the managers claiming that, owing to the tippling propensities of the men. the factory could not be properly operated. The workmen enter a denial, and assert a strike was impending due to the employment of boys to do men’s workßeligious excitement made a maniac of Rhode Clemens, at Havensville, Kansas. While going home ‘from prayermeeting on Wednesday night he murdered a neighbor, and was eating his heart when found on the roadway. AT a meeting of stockmen and others nt St. Louis it was agreed to memorialize Congress in opposition to the oleomargarine law... .At Corydon, Ind., John M. Bealy. Recorder-elect, took possession of the office, having received his commiss on and taken the oath. Henry Wright, the retiring Recorder, and a party of friends entered the office, knocked Healey down, and took away, the books. Two hundred citizens interfered, placing the rioters in the court house for safe-keeping... Duluth ■was Visited by a disastrous tire, which consumed two of the largest elevators in the city with their contents of nearly a million bushels of grain, and resulted in the loss of three lives. The total loss approximates $1,000,000, and is nearly covered by insurance.... :The President of the MarqUrtte, Ontonagon and Portage Road is credited with saving the lives of twenty.four men shipwrecked off Marquette in a recent storm. He ordered the railway track cleared of trains, and appealed to the life-saving crew at Portage City to travel 110 miles, with a special engine and car, at the greatest speed possible. The imperiled sailors were taken from the rocks in a terrible gale.