Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1887 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

At a justice's office in the township of Jefferson, adjacent to Chicago, Niun Van Zandt and August Spies were married by proxy, the latter being represented by his brotter, holding a power of attorney. Leonard Swett, counsel for the anarchists, pronounces the marriage illegal... .The aggregate annual product of Illinois coal mines, according to the State Hoard of Labor Statistics, shows a decrease for last year as compared With the previous year. Industrial depression and Eastern competition are the given causes. A revival is anticipated. Mrs. Langtry has had the satisfaction this week of playing to very nearly Jhe capacity of McYickers Theater, says the Chicago Morning -Yfirs. Her illness on Monday night was unfortunate, but so great was the desire to see her that less than $25 was returned, the disappointed patrons gladly accepting seats for other nights during the week. Mrs. Langtry-'s performance of Lady Ormond is a discriminating and carefully drawn piece of work. Next week the “Lady of Lyons” will be played. The third week of Mrs. Langtry’s engagement at McVicker’s will be devoted to a produc.ion of “Clanearty,” Tom Taylor's drama. A dispatch from Miles City reports the cattle scattering on the ranges or crowding to the river for water... .Mrs. Emma Molloy is conducting a revival at Vancuover, where she went in search of Mrs. Graham, generally supposed to have been murdered in Missouri. „ Several distinct shocks of earthquake were experienced throughout Central Illinois and Indiana on the morning of the 6th inst. A heavy rumbling noise was heard at first, followed by several violent vibrations of the earth, shaking houses, rattling windows and doors, and causing a panic among live stock herds. At Springfield, : 111., the citizens were aroused by the rattle of crockery,windows, pictuies, and at otte house, wirere the people were up 1 ait.nding the wants of a sick person,-tiro swaying was so distinct as to cause alarm, and the invalid insisted on being removed to the open air and placed as near mother earth as possible. At another place the glass doors of the wardrobe were thrown violently open. and the case tottered as if to fall. At about the hour these shocks were felt in Indiana and Illinois, the people of Owatonna, Minn., were startled by thunder and - lightning lasting an hour, with the mercury, below zero. NrAßTolono, 111., the engineer of a fast . Wabash train discovered three young men dimbling over the tender toward him. They ordered the train stopped and made the fireman holu up his hands, saying that they were going through the express car. The engineer quietly drew a revolver from his tool box and forced the would-be robbers to leap off one by one.