Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Lee Pettis, one of the men acquitted of the assault on Emma Bond, was married reoently. The father of Pettis’ wife killed himself a year ago because of bis daughter’s affection for Pettis. Three persons were billed at Grand Haven, Mich., by the falling walls of a brick store which had been gutted by fire. The last gold bank in existence on the Pacific coast has removed from San Francisco to Petaluma and reorganized on a currency bests. The body of Walter Ream, a soldier buried twenty-one years ago at Knoxville, lowa, has been found almost completely petrified. It was Instantly recognized by his comrades. Late advices from the Coeur d’Alene gold fields report discoveries of gold in the district known as Dream Gulch, so oalled because of its discovery on account of the alleged dream of a Frenchman. Four men slutoed out five pounds two ounces of coarse gold there in two days. The result of the disoovery had the effect of advancing the price of claims all along the ereek. The first fatal shooting occurred at Murrayville tho 13th of April, when a fiddler named Ricnards, known in the region as “Tommy the Masher,” was killed by a gambler named McDonald. A shad weighing twenty-six pounds was found in a dry-dock at Cbioago the other day. It must be one of a lot placed in Lake Michigan two years ago by the Fish Commission. An artesian well bored for the city of Lincoln, Neb., has a flow of 100,000 gallons per hour, and a complete system of water works will be commenced this summer. A Japanese waiter shot and fatally wounded Mrs. Gudgell, the landlady of a hotel at Ogden, Utah. The murderer was lynched soon thereafter. According to information gathered over the wires by the Chicago Times, winter wheat in IlllnoW, Ohio, lowa, and Indiana is in excellent condition, injury by frost having been confined exclusively to scattered points in the two former States. Tho plant in Missouri has evidently been badly damaged by cold weather. Wisconsin reports a falling off in the acreage of spring wheat, as the farmers are giving greater attention to tho dairy. Dakota and Minnesota have a larger acreage than last year, and there is a prospect of the largest yield for years, no damage from insects being reported at any point. A Truckee (Cal.) dispatch says: Three hundred feet of snow-sheds fell half a mile west of Summit and covered a wTorkingtrain and a number of Chinese. Six deaA, Chinamen have been taken out. Five others are seriously wounded. Dr. Law, of Cornell University, who has been investigating the cattle disease at Neosho Falls, Kan., says it is positively not contagious. Brig. Gen. Lawrence, of the Missouri militia (Eastern Division), has resigned, and Gen. Sherman has been appointed by Gov. Crittenden to succeed him.