Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Twenty-seven thousand dollars were stolen at midday from the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Cashier’s office, at the corner Of Franklin and Adams streets, Chicago. Paymaster Bartlett, who is suspected of carelessness in rendering possible the incursion of the robbers, has been suspended pending an investigation of the affair. No clew to the crime has yet been discovered. The Chicago prints the acts concerning the outbreak of tije foot-and-mouth disease at Neosho Falls, Kan. A district circular in shape of a diameter of fifty miles, with its center somewhere in Greenwood and other counties, in Southeastern Kansas, is affected. Gov. Glick, a prominent stock-raiser, is giving exclusive official attention to the matter, and believes that the disease can be stamped out with the expenditure of $6,000. The locality is already closely quarantined. This is the first outbreak of this catt'b-pest in America. The disease generally leaves the animal without feet. The United States Veterinary Surgeon at Fort Leavenworth, Dr. Holcomb, detailed to investigate the cattle disease in Woodson. County, Kansas, reports it the foot-and-mouth disease in a severe form, and not the dreaded anthrax or black leg, as at first supposed, which is much more fatal, killing «0 per cent. When the animal is attacked it * becomes feverish and stupid, and the climax Of the disease is the rotting off of the hoofs, followed by death. In the instances in the present epidemic the disease is confined to northwestern Woodson County, but as cattle have gone to other parts of Kansas from

there since the epidemic broke out other localities are apt to be affected. Five men employed in the construction of a railroad in Pyle Canon, Union County, Ore., were caught under a mas* of earth and rock and instantly killed. A party of ten prospectors who re-cently-left Rathdrum, on the Northern Pacific Road, for the Cceur d’Alene mines, are believed to have perished in the snow, as they have not been heard from for thirteen days. x A snowslide half a mile wide in the Little Cottonwood, Utah, swept away the works of the new Emma Mine and killed twelve persons. At a meeting of the representatives of the barbed-wire manufacturers at St. Louis, recently, it was resolved to amalgamate the various companies under the name of the National Barbed Wire Company of America.