Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1886 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

Dr, H. W. Thomas, pastor of the People's Church, of Chicago, is about to appear in a new role, the Chicago Ledger having secured the service of his pen for a series of articles during the coining’year. Readers of that widely circulated paper are to be congratulated upon this distinguished addition to its list of contributors. E.U. Brown, teacher of a school in Boone Township. Harris n County, Ind., dismissed his school a few days ago because three colored children presented themselves as pupils. The latter were assaulted by the white children, and the affair has caused much excitement. The lowa Supreme Court has affirmed the decisions of the lower court in all the saloon cases from Ottumwa, including that of the notorious “Stormy” Jordan. Customs officers in San Francisco found in the coal bunkers of the steamer Rio Janeiro opium valued at $20,000.... Theodore D. Mize, cashier of the Chicago and Minqnk Coal Company, has surrendered all his property to apply on an embezzlement believed to"be sloo,(*otf, and will retain his position ... ,L. B. Frankel A Co., the oldest mining-stock tirm in Virginia City. Nev., failed for $915,000. The creditors include many of the most prominent shareholders in the Comstock mines. Their business was enormous, the receipts being about $50,000 a day- Great excitement was caused in Virginia City by thd suspension, and if the three members of th firm had not got away unpleasant consequences ■night have resulted. John C, Mann, of.-Minneapolis, has commenced, in a Chicago restaurant, the task of eating thirty quail in thirty consecutive days, the wager being SI,OOO. Onlv three successes in this;, line adorn the records. The St. Louis Woman s Christian Temperance Union adopted resolutions condemning the serving of alcoholic liquors at . the recent dinner given by Mrs. Whitney, ■wife of the Secretary of the Naw, to a number of ladies, including Mrs. President Cleveland.... A conference will be held at Columbus, Ohio, with ex-Senator Thurman by other counsel for the Government in the Bell Telephone case as to the next 1.-gil steps to be taken—whether to appeal to the United States Supreme C ourt or commence a suit in the Massachusetts courts... The I cderal Grand Jury came into court at Indianapolis and repotted no indictments in the matter of the local election frauds. Judge Woods plainly indicated that the jury had failed to perform torduty, .. .“Jim” Ctnrmmgs, in hie latest letter to a St. Louis paper, says he is tired of being chased around the country by de-

tectives, and offers to return $25,000 of the stolen money if they let him go in peace ... I'hi- excitement in mining stocks continues in San Francisco, says a dispatch from that city. The laboring classes are taking a hand in the deal, as over $4,000,000 has been withdrawn from the savings banks during the last ten days.... The Detroit Pipe Company's factory was destroyed by fire. Lom, SIOO,OOO. ' St. Lotus has secured the next (National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, provided satisfactory assurances ' can be given that the necessary ucconi.liqdations will be furnished.' Sept. 28. 29, and 30, 1887, was fixed upoh ns the time. I 1 ' ■ ' !