Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1883 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

City Editor Keator, of the Ft. Wayne Gazette, beat Editor Cooper, of the Gall, into unconsciousness in the streets of that city. Cooper published a scandalous matter about Keator, and the row resulted when he refused to make retraction. Crop reports from every county in Indianavhave been published, from which the following averages are drawn: North Division—Vyheat, per cent, of condition, 70; corn, percent plrnted and to .be planted, 100; clover, per cent of condition, 97; timothy, per cent of condition, 99; peach buds, per cent alive, 30; apple buds, per cent alive, 88. Central Division—Wheat 70, corn, 100, clover 68, timothy 96, peaches 21, apples 77. Southern Division—Wheat 76, corn 97, clover 89, timothy 95, peaches 70, apples 90. The Indiana Harmer publishes reports from Ohio and Dlinois showing the relative conditions: Wheat Indiana 72, Illinois 73, Ohio 71; corn, Indiana 99, Illinois 100, Ohio 100; peaches, Indiana 40, Illinois 61, Ohio 20; apples, the same in all the States Dodge City, Kan., which has never enjoyed an enviable reputation, has become the scene of the most flagrant lawlessness The most desperate element of the community has undertaken to drive out the more orderly class, and a vigilance committee has taken possession of the place, with the tacit consent of the mayor. An appeal has been made to the Governor of Kansas to establish martial law at Dodge City. The burning of barns in Eastern Indiana is attributed to farm hands, who are endeavoring to drive farmers to abandon the use of self-binding harvesters and other improved farm machinery. Some of the Dakota legislators have been indicted for crooked work in connection with the Capital Removal bill. Four legislators swore before the Grand Jury that they were offered money for their votes. Eleven frame structures, including the Postofflce, at Vienna, Ohio, were consumed by fire. An error in the compounding of a prescription caused the death of three inmates of the St Louis City Hospital T. North’s bank at Vassar, Mich., was robbed by burglars, who cracked the vault and exploded the cash safe, from which they took $4,000. They were at work on the strong box containing currency amounting to $7,000 when they were frightened away. Railway fares from Louisville to Chicago were cut last week to $2, and from Louisville to Indianapolis to $1 The war grows out of the refusal of the Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis Company to continue the arrangement of last year for an excursion of $7 to Chicago and return.