Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1887 — THE WENT. [ARTICLE]

THE WENT.

The Illinois Grand Lodge A. 0. U. W. elected George M. Hitt, of Murphysboro, Grand Master Workman, and C. R. Matson. of Chicago, Grand Overseer, and decided to hold the next meeting at Springfield. .. The Wabash roundhouse, containing fourteen engines, was burned at Des Moines. lowa. Loss, $75,000. The estimates of the Cincinnati PriceCurrent indicate that the winter hog-pack-ing of the wjsole West was slightly larger than that of a year previonsly, but that the summer packing will show a decrease of some 10 per cent. The work of the eight * months ending with next October promises to reach a total *of about 5,000.000 hogs, against 5,644,000 for the corresponding time in 1886. The Governor of Montana has issued an order against the bringing of cattle to that Territory from the Eastern States... .Kankakee, 111., was visited by a fire, which destroyed many bnildings and did damage to the extent of about $50,000... .Afterboring to a depth of 1,136 feet at Lafayette, Ind., for natural gas, a strong vein of salt water was found, and the enterprise was abandoned A westbound passenger train on the Union Pacific was derailed four miles east of Sterling, D. T-, and six coaches were wrecked, one passenger killed and twentyfive injured... .The Murray Iron Works at Burlington, lowa, were -destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $40,000 and throwing 125 men out of employment. The works will be rebuilt at once. ...Alexander Mitchell's will has been filed in the Probate Court in Milwaukee. The bulk of the great estate goes to his son, John L„ with large bequests to his other relatives in this country... .R. Porter Ashe, the well-known turfman, seized his 11-year-old daughter on the streets of Los Angeles, Cal., and conveyed her to a hotel, from which she was afterward taken on a writ of habeas corpus sued out by Mrs. Ashe, who has recently separated from her husband. The child will remain in the custody of an officer pending a decision of the habeas corpus case. Mrs. Asho is a niece of Charles Crocker, the Central Pacific magnate.