Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1887 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

The death of Chief Justice Morrison, of the California Supreme Court, is announced. .. .John Walters, one of the Irish patriots of '9B, died last week at Detroit, Mich., aged 108 years... .Many prominent citizens are interested in the coming semicentennial anniversary of Chicago, says the Chicago .Vetcs. Efforts are on loot to have a grand celebration of the event this fall. It is proposed to give a grand encampment of veteran, regular, nnd militia soldiers, to which will be invited military organizations from Great Britain and other foreign nations. Prize drills will bo given, to be participated in by American soldiers nnd others by representatives of the armies of foreign nations. A Mexican Lieutenant and four soldiers crossed the boundary at Nogeles, A. T., and at the point of revolvers demanded the release of an alleged Mexican prisoner. The American oflicers captured the Lieutenant, but re-enforcements from the other side effected his release after several shots . had been fired. A Mexican is reported to have been fatally wounded. Bequests for territorial and national troops have been gent out, and diplomatists have taken the affair in hand. While scolding her husband at Milwaukee, Mrs. Wilbelmine Meyer fell to the floor and suddenly expired.. . .Ex-Con-gressman Edward Breitnng.’one of the pioneers of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, who died in Georgia, left $5,000,00(1 or more to his widow and 60n... The Governor of Missouri has appointed J. A. Seldom of St. Louis, Circuit Judge to till the vacancy caused by the selection of Judge A. M. Thayer for the • Federal Bench Detroit tMich. i Special: “It is a report, apparently well authenticated, that Jones, ex-Senator of Florida, for so many mouths a persistent sojourner in Detroit, will seek are-election by the Florida Legislature. .In doing this, it is said he will lay before that body the true reason of his long absence from the national capital, aud will a tale enfold that will not only vindicate his own course, but create a national sensation in the nature of charges that he will make, and the high standing of the statesmen whom he will involve. It is said that this 6torv ha 6 been confided to the care of a trusted few, but the secrecy which the Senator maintains has been enjoined upon those whom he has favored as confidants. Whatever the conspiracy that the gentleman from Florida may unfold when in his judgment the fullness of time may be reached, he now declines absolutely and positively to be interviewed upon the subject or any phase of the same. He will give no information either by denial, admission, or intimation.” At Ellsworth, McLean Comity, 111., a band of thirty-eight woman marched to the “gallon house” of A. J. McGrevy nnd asked him to close up his saloon nnd leave the place. This be refused to do, when they charged on ithe place. McGrevy met them at the door with a hatchet, but was promptly knocked down by George Whittaker. The women then raided the place, rolled out all the liquors and spilled them in the mud. The women declare that they will clear out all the gallon houses that may come there ...On Sunday last a young man entered the engine-room of the Chicago Water Works and began looking around. No particular attention was paid to him, as ■ a great tnanyppretsffs visit the place every day. He seemed much impressed with the working of the machinery, end wandered from one part of the room to another. An hour later one of the engineers was ranking his rounds and was bonified to see pieces of flesh and ibone on the fly wheel of one of the largest engines. Closer investigation disclosed the mutilated remains of the young man whirling around on the crank of the engine. He was emsbed beyond all semblance to a human being, aud his clothing was torn to shreds. It was a case of suicide... Joseph W. Bingham, a journalist well known throughout the West, killed himself with a razor at the resid- nce'of his father, at Indianapolis. He had long suffered from insomnia.