Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The Coroner’s jury investigating the railroad horror near Indianapolis, Jan. 31 last, find that the bridge was weakened by the repairers substituting temporary for permanent rods, but cast direct responsibility on no person, thus shouldering the blame on the railroad company. One of the most comprehensive coin collections in the United States was stolen by burglars from the office of Dr. H. C. Brainard, of Cleveland. Nearly one-half of a flock of 6,000 sheep on the Dakota bad lands, owned by Marquis Demores, having died this winter, the belief gains ground that they were poisoned by his enemies. A contract for through sleeping-cars between Chicago and San Francisco has been signed between the Central and Union Pacific and the Northwestern Roads and the Pullman Company. A dispatch from Fort Buford states that the Indians at Poplar Creek and Wolf Point Agencies are at the point of starvation. They have eaten their dogs and horses, the game is destroyed, and many warriors are unable to resist the extreme cold. The rations issued monthly by the Government are devoured within a few hours. The Illinois Supreme Court has rendered a decision declaring the Harper bill, which imposes a license of SSOO on whisky and $l5O on beer and malt liquor, constitutional. By the explosion of a tank of oil, which a boy fired at Bellefontaine, Ohio, six children were severely burned. The winter packing of hogs in Chicago shows a decrease of 459,000 when compared with the corresponding period of last year. The directors of the Chicago and Alton Road report the gross earnings for the year as $3,810,610, and the operating expenses os $4,879,958. The total amount of Stock and bonds is $26,309,822.