Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1887 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

Lord William St i lly Lab purchased, for $45,000, 1,500 acres of land nenrTnynga. Livingston County. Illinois.... A tract of land seven miles from Denver, proffered by a committee < f citizens, lias been accepted by General Sheridan for a military post . . At the session of the National Builders’ Convention, in Chicago, resolutions were adopted favoring a better system of apprenticeship in the trades uniformity of building contracts, and the insurance of employes against injury from aecideut. The local Builders' Exchange entertained the visiting delegates at a sumptuous banquet at the Grand Pacific Hotel. Cattle on the ranges of New Mexico, Indian Territory and Colorado have come through the winter in excellent shape and with but slight losses.:.. Manager A, M. Stanton, of George K. Sistnre's Son's Bank, at Detroit. has fled with $29,000 of the bank’s funds.... Marshall & Co., agricultural implement dealers at San Francisco, who had branches in the East under the name of Edmiston, Waddell A Co., have fled to Canada, taking $200,000 belonging to creditors. They secured $85,000 from San Francisco banks on worthless notes.... The Montana law imposing a tax on “drummers” has been - declared unconstitutional so far as it applies to representatives of firms not located m the Territory. The commercial agents of home firms must, however, pay the tax, and a special session of the Legi-lature to remedy the evil is talked of. John H. McKenzie, an lowa farmer who killed John H. Biggs, oue of his neighbors, about a month ago, was taken from the jail at Coming, lowa, by a mob of masked men, on the night of the 2dinst.. and hanged to a tree The arrest of Kissane in California who has been identified as the New York noteforger, brings the Cleveland. Ohio, papers to the front with the charge that he is the individual who planned the burning of the steamer Martha Washington and the incidental tragedy at that place as far back as 1851. . . .The large Hotel Del Monte, at Monterey, Cal., one of the finest on the Pacific coast, was destroyed by fire. The cost of the hotel, when it was. built, was $350,000. It was built by the California Fouthem Railroad Company. There was no insurance. There were 300 guests in the house,.all of whom’ lost their baggage and other effects.