Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1883 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

A woolen mill at Mexico, Mo., was swept away by fire. Loss, >50,000; insurance, >3O,(XX). The burning of the Miami distillery at Hamilton, Ohio, entailed a loss of >IOO,coo. William Keys, a farmer of Greenfield, Ohio, accused Stanton and John Taylor. sons of a neighbor, of stealing from him. A fight ensued, when Keys shot Stanton Taylor through the heart and mortally wounded John Taylor. The cut of logs in Northern and Central Wisconsin for the season just closing will, according to careful estimates, be about per cent below the average, amounting in the aggregate to something ike 1,500,000,000 feet Two men named Coomes and Smith, residing eleven miles northeast of Helena, Montana, who were suspected of arson, were hanged by a mob. The Exchange Bank of Denver, Col., has closed its doors. A child of 5 years, who was bitten by a dog at Sioux City, lowa, died five days of hydrophobia The Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Central Railroad Company has ceased to exist, being succeeded by the Chicago, St Louis and Pittsburgh Railroad Company. Reports from the pineries of the Upper Mississippi say that tho crop of logs secured this season will be about the same as last The most notable transaction in fast horse-flesh that has taken place during the fast two years was consummated in Chicago last week, it being the purchase by Messrs. H. 0. Jewett AOo., of Buffalo, N. Y, of the trotting stallion, Jerome Eddy. record2:l6%. The sum paid was >25,000, cash in hand, and, with the exception of Smuggler and Piedmont it is the largest sum ever paid for a trotting stallion. A feud between cattlemen culminated in a fight near Fort Huachcua, on the Mexican border of Arizona, in which six men were killed. Near Charlestown, Arizona, a party of coal prospectors were set upon by a band of twenty Apaches, who killed several of the parry and wounded three. A wagon that was used by old John Brown in the transportation of runaway negroes and in carrying arms for the raid on Harper’s Ferry has passed into the possession of the editor of an lowa City paper.