Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

After an entertainment at Pana, 111., for the benefit of Emma Bond, unknown perrons hung Judge Phillips, who presided at the trial of Montgomery et ul., in effigy on the common. A barrel of gasoline in a hardware ■tore, at Alliance, Ohio, exploded with truly frightful results. The building was three stories In height. Five families lived in the upper portions of the structure. The building was totally demolished. Eighteen people were in the doomed place at the time, and half of them perished. The ruins took fire, and were partly consumed. A woman in the Street was fatally wounded. The boiler in the Twitchell shinglemill, near Blanchard, Mich., exploded, killing two men and injuring several others. Marquis de Mores reports a new disease among sheep on the Montana ranges, which has carried off 6,000 head of merinos sent from lowa and Wisconsin. There is an enormous falling off in the “hogcrop." Nearly 200,000 fewer hogs have arrived In Chicago this winter so far thaa came in last winter during the same period of time. A recent dispatch from Tombstone,

Arizona, says: “A messenger has just arrived from Opoeura, Sonora, and reports that the Apaches are murdering and ravaging that section. Four men have been killed since Jan. 25. The savages are thought to be a portion of Geroulmo’s band, for whom Capt. Rafferty, with troops, is on the lookout.” Farmers in the vicinity of Shabbona, IIL, find a ready market for seed corn at from $2 to $3 per bushel. Well-borers near Urbana, 111., struck a gas vein at a depth of eighty feet, which can be heard roaring at a distance of two miles. The Secretary of the Illinois Board of Charities has been collecting lithographs from theatrical companies, with which to amuse the insane patients.