Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1887 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

Mb. John McGovern has been called to Omaha to conduct the editorial columns of the Evening lice in (Eat city. He has been identified for many years with the newspapers of Chicago, having filled and held with fine ability responsible positions on the daily press, but it was perhaps as editor of the Current and as the author of several popular books that he became best known to the literary world. The Chicago Daily AY irs says: “We doubt not that Mr. McGovern will he cordially welcomed by . his professional brethren in Omaha—he certainly carries with him to his new field of labor the best wishes of the many Chicagoans who recognize his personal worth no less than his intellectual attainments and abilities. ” Mayor CARTER H. H ujulson positively declined the Democratic nomination for Mayor of Chicago. Five fine steamships are under construction in the ship-yards at Detroit and vicinity. ...Mrs. Joseph Matteson, of New York Mills, Minn., murdered her infant daughter and then committed suicide.... The Court House at YoTkville, 111., was burned, but the records were saved.... Constable Fierce, at Des Moines, refuses to surrender to the United States on Federal writs of replevin, the liquors seized in the drug store of Hurlbut, Hess &■ Co. .... Some person unknown bought a draft for $4,995 at St. Joseph. Mo,, and forwarded it to the Secretary of the Treasury to be placed to the credit of an unknown debtor. . .Jackson Marion, who killed John Cameron fifteen years ago, was hanged at Beatrice, Neb. Ho addressed the spectators in a firm voice, and exhibited unusual firmness on the scaffold.. Thomas H. Ilardiag was hanged at Dillon, M. T.. for the muider of William Ferguson, a young stage-driver, while driving bis stage from Melrose to Glendale, May 29, 1886.. . .A freight train ran into -a standing passenger train on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad, near Leetonia, Ohio, telescoping two cars. The engineer of the passenger train was killed, and several other itersons were injured. Arguments in a case involving $15,000.000, which is virtually a contest of the will of Francis Palms, were begun last week at Detroit. The special point involved is 'a clause which, it is alleged, violates the statute of perpetuity. The Grand Jury at Chicago on Saturday returned indictments against the following persons for malfeasance in office ana conspiracy to defraud the county: Daniel J. Wren, County Commissioner; Adam Ochs, ex-County Commissioner, Chairman of the board in 18S4-’8o; John E. Van Pelt, ex-County Commissioner; Harry Yarnell, Warden of the Insane Asylum; William J. McGarigle. Warden of the County Hospital; Charles Frey, Warden of the Infirmary; Elisha A- Robinson,.grocer, furnisher of*county supplies. The parties were arrested and gave bail. Joel W. Kellogg, a prominent politician of Elkhart, lud., has been sentenced to three years in the penitentiary for embezzling SII,OOO from a building association... .Judge S. H. Treat died last •week at Springfield, 111., at the age of 75. from Bright’s disease. He was appointed to the Federal bench by President Pierce. ....The great trotting race between Oliver K. and Harry Wilkes, which was arranged to take place, id-. San Francisco April 2, is declared off. as Oliver K. has strained a tendon in his foreleg The Commissioners of State Contracts at Springfield, IIL have passed an order refusing to pay out any more money on the printing contracts pending the investigation of the printing “combine.” ...Canvassing is about to commence in Cincinnati for the guarantee fund of $1,000,000 required to insure the success of the Ohio, centennial, to be held next year. The exposition is to ,be located in Washington or Eden Park, and will last one hundred days....W. Irving Bishop gave some interesting specimens of mind reading at the Palmer House in. Chicago, and, blindfolded, drove a carriage and pair throngh the streets and found a scarf-pin which had been secreted in an overcoat in Kerrigan's law office in the Howland Block.