Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1883 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The Kansas rolling-mills, located in n suburb of Kansas City, shut down last week. The assets and liabilities are about #OOO,OOO each- Five hundred men were employed. . >* > John P. Coad, an extensive cattle owner of Wyoming, states that there will be no less of stock by the snow-storm, os the herds can stand a siege of twenty days. At the oil refinery of Thurmer & j

The water to soon Broadway, \taee heavy explosions at the Standard works scattered the oil in every direction, and for hours the conflagration went on, the loss being estimated at #3oo,ooft Sheriff Waite, of Sherman county, Neb., shot his mistress at Loop City and then committed suicide. • John C. Parker, a St. Louis murderer, was brought Into court for trial In the jury-room he shot his wife dead and inflicted fatal injuries upon himself. It la believed that the woman furnished the weapon. In the matter of the burning of the Newhall House, the Coroner's jury reports that the fire was set by some person unknown; that there were not enough night watchmen, and that the proprietors were guilty of culpable negligence Near Sidney. Ohio, a freight and passenger train collided, resulting In the death of four employes. The recent snow-storm in Wyoming exceeded in severity anything in the history of the Territory. Jack Williams, Thomas Booth and & r. Duty were killed by a snow-slide in Middle Park, CoL Mike Flynn, a companion of the victims, was rescued after being burled eighteen hours under the snow. He was fatally injured. Arthur Bryant, brother of the poet, William Cullen Bryant, a Well-known nurseryman, died at Princeton, HI, aged 80. It has been discovered that a coffeehouse in Chicago regularly takes the commonest grades and, by a chemical process, converts them into an imitation of old Government Java, at a profit of 5 cents per pound. Three hundred people were rendered homeless by the deluge at Fremont. Ohio. A man, his wife and child were drowned near Upper Sandusky, Ohio, while trying to cross a swollen stream. At Okmulgee, in the Jndian Territory, a Creek Indian, who had received a large amount of “back pay” due him by the Government, became suddenly crazed by his newly-acquired wealth, and went about killing every one with whom he came in contact After slaying three of his neighbors an effort was made to capture the wild murderer, which failing, he was shot to death by his pursuers. Illinois has 1,985 lunatics in the four asylums, 1,232 in the county almshouses and 1,917 under private treatment Hamline University, near Minneapolis, was destroyed by fire, with a loss of #65,000, partially covered by insurance. The work of rebuilding will begin as soon as building operations are practicable. A Pacific Springs (Wy. T.V stagecoach was caught in the recent terrible storm, and the travelers had to abandon the after which two of them were frozen to death, and another will lose his bands and feet The driver of the stage says the snow is two feet on the level, and cattle are starving. Capt. Payne and his followers, with a train of 100 wagons, were captured south of the Cimarron river, and were escorted to Fort Reno. The floods at Pomeroy, Ohio, put from six to ten feet of water in all the business houses, and the loss is estimated at iioo, ooa . Henry Deces, a German teamster, out his own and his wife’s throat at St. Louis while crazed with jealousy. The unfortunate couple leave five small children. Capt. McGregor, of the propeller Wisconsin, having recently crossed Lake Michigan, states that there were only thirty miles of open water, and that another week of cold weather might make a bridge from Milwaukee to Grand Haven.