Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1883 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

An Indianapolis journalist, after traversing the flooded section of Indiana estimates the damage to property in the State as follows: At Jeffersonville, ♦025,000; New Albany, >73,000; Madison, >200,000; Aurora, >150,000; Lawrenceburg, >850,000; intervening country along the Ohio, >300,000. This does not include any calculation as to the loss from the suspension of business and trade, as the manufacturers cannot get to work for a month after the water subsides Over six thousand residences are either swept away or desolate, and thirtyfive thousand people are dependent upon charity for food and clothing. The damage at Louisville, Ky., he estimates at >1,000,000, and at Cincinnati at twice that amount. Cairo dispatches of Feb. 20 report the Lower Mississippi rising, and in the district immediately below Cairp much damage has been done, and suffering prevails in the Kentucky lowlands. The Mackinaw river, in Central Illinois, has caused great devastation, >50,000 worth of bridges alone being wrecked. 'The Iroquois river, from the Indiana State line to the Kankakee river, in Illinois, was reported as having an overflow of un-heard-of proportions. It had become a great broad lake, submerging farms and inundating towns and villages. The city of Watseka, 111., was flooded. The Kankakee river is also booming at a tremendous rate. The water at Memphis was eight inches below the danger line, but the interior was being flooded by old breaks in the levee at Trotter’s Landing. The Cincinnati Flood Relief Committee, having resolved to use funds sent from abroad only for the relief of neighboring cities, issued a circular stating that they had all the money they could judiciously use for such purpose. Liberal contributions were made in the larger cities, both East and West, for the benefit of the flood sufferers.

The work of rescuing the bodies of the drowned miners in the Diamond shaft at Braidwood was being vigorously prosecuted on Feb. 20. The sufferers by the calamity number thirty-four widows and ninety orphans. A special committee has issued an appeal for aid, and a bill was introduced in the Illinois Legislature appropriating SIO,OOO to relieve the distressed. Adjutant General Elliott was sent by Gov. Hamilton to inquire into the necessities of the families of the drowned, and found a pitiable condition of things. The Archbishop of Chicago has offered to take care of the Catholic orphans. The lumber dealers of the Mississippi valley are called to meet at Quincy, 111., March 7. Dr. Richter, of Cincinnati, who has been appointed to the new Diocese of Grand Rapids, is the youngest Bishop in the United States The Northwestern Dairymen’s Association, which met in Mankato, Minn., last week, closed its proceedings Saturday by the passage of a resolution calling upon Congress to at once enact effective and stringent laws and make an ample appropriation to stamp out, as soon as possible, every trace of pleuro-pneumonia, and, by a rigid system of quarantine, render its importation impossible. Mr. Samuel J. Medill, managing editor of the Chicago Tribune, died of consumption at Quincy, ILL

Near West Lebanon, Ind., a severed section of a freight train dashed down a grade into the preceding’ part, creating a great wreck, which was set on fire, and in which John Meehan, of Fort Wayne, and L. H. Turner, of Flora, HL, were burned to death. F. M. Kerr, for twelve years employed in the Chicago banking house of Preston, Kean & Co., decamped with over $50,000 in cash and bonds. A negro named Williams, for outraging Mrs. Taylor, was lynched at Tellers--burg, Ind. The culprit was left hanging near the scene of his crime. Mrs. Tilly Schondea, of Springfield, Mo., put a bullet through the head of her 3-months-old infant, and then killed herself. The Illinois State Board of Agriculture located the State Fair for the next two years at Chicago. Fayette Brown, of Cleveland, has been appointed receiver for Brown, Bonnell & Co., of Youngstown, giving bonds in $ 100,000. The mills will be kept in operation for the present > An assignment for the benefit of creditors has been made by the wholesale grocery-house of W. T. Allen & Co., of Chicago. The liabilities of the firm are estimated at from $400,000 to $500,000, and it is hoped that the creditors may secure from 50 to 75 cents on the dollar.

With the exception of one or two ranges on the plains, cattlemen agree that the loss by the storms of the winter will not exceed 1 per cent John G. Donahoe has brought suit at Milwaukee for $20,500 against Charles D. Nash, President of the Newhall House Com-, pany, on the ground that the latter failed to reconstruct the building after knowing its unsafe condition. A wonderful silver discovery is reported in the mountains twenty miles South of Tucson, the ore crossing being 100 feet wide and a mile long, averaging $275 per ton. A Methodist minister purchased the first claim. Both houses of the Indiana Legislature passed bills appropriating slvo,ooo for he sufferers by overflow.