Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1887 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

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The Hon. Albert J. Seligmnn. who was kept hostage by the miners at Wicked, M. T., for unpaid wages, was released upon the New York firm of J. and W* Seligmnn A Co., telegraphing the necesgary amount, ($75 .noil' to Helena to pay oft the then. The miners not only protected thir property,.but treated their prisoner-with the utmost courtesy , Fourteen indictments against persons who violated the (lection .laws Inst November were returned nt St. Louis by the I’nited States Grand Jury. Warrants were issued for the arrest of the accused. Miss. Langtry began a three weeks' engagement at McYicker’s Theater, Chicago. on Monday night, in “A Wife's Peril.” Her performance of Lady Ormond'has received high praise. The company supporting Mrs. Langtry is a thoroughly excellent one. -It. includes Mr. Charles Coghlau, one of the finest actors Euglnn 1 has yet gent ns. This excellent actor will lie seen as Captain Bradford in “A Wife's Peril,” and Claude Melnoite in “Lady of Lyons,” which will be played during th> second week of the engagement. “The School for Scandal” will probably be seen in the last week. Miss Van Zandt ■ is, says a Chicago paper, engaged in getting ready for publication a history of Spies and the other condemned anarchists. An interesting feature in the book is an autobiographical sketch by Spies, in which he blasphemously compares himself Jo Christ and finds-an analogy in the crucifixion of his own condemnation for inciting the Haymarket massacre. At Leavenworth, thirty-five masked men broke into the jail, took out a negro ravisher named Richard Wood, and dragged him to death in the streets by a rope attached to the saddle of a masked horseman. Ncreffort is likely to be made "to arrest the lynchers. Two gentlemen largely interested in oil-fields of Pennsylvania, after prospecting for petroleum in the vicinity of Marion. Ind., have begun negotiations for the lease of several hundred acres of, land. The region has already developed an unlimited supply of natural gas... -.'Fred- Wittroclr has made a statement under oath that after Fotheringham was bound and the booty secured be offered the messenger SIO,OOO if he would give the detective a false d- s-rip-tioa of him- Fotheringham replied: “Well, I’ll 6ee about it. Send the money to J. J. Mapp>es. Kansas City.” The money was never sent, ..as- the messenger was scared into giving a good description of Jbe robber.