Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

James Clark, confidential clerk of Rudolph Hochkofler, a large commission merchant at San Francisco, Is “short” $30,000, which he spent In speculation, Ham Patterson, a negro, was taken from bed, near Fulton, Mo., and killed by a mob. It appears that Patterson and his brother Julius circulated scandalous reports about nearly all of the women In the neighborhood, which greatly exasperated the men, and some twenty or more reputable citizens took the matter in their own hands with the above result. A dreadful wreck occurred on the St. Louis division of the Wabash Railroad, ten miles from Decatur, 111. The two rear coaches aud a sleeper were thrown from the track and forty people Injured, two fatally. Chicago detectives recently learned that Joe Clough, the leader of a gang of burglars, would arrive In that city by a Lake Shore train, In a huge trunk. The baggage came promptly on time, and was oonsigned to a brother of the crook. The officers followed It to Its destination, where they broke the look and took out their man. The Vanderbilt party made the trip from Detroit to Cincinnati in five and onehalf hours, the distance being 263 miles. Barbed-wire manufacturers, in session at St. Louis, decided to advance the price of wire a quarter of a cent. Reports of the wheat crop from various parts of Michigan indicate that in the northern counties If will be 87 per cent, of an average and In the southern tier about 87 per cent. Clover Is rather backward, and will average 90 per cent. Apples will be about the same, while peaches will scarcely exceed half of a full crop. Reports from various parts of Dakota and Minnesota regarding the condition of the spring wheat crop are very encouraging. There Is an increased acreage, and from present appearances there will be an abundant harvest. The oat crop is also looking very well. The Illinois Department of Agriculture finds the prospects not encouraging for over 84 per cent- of an average yield of winter wheat. The crop outlook in lowa is of a most cheering character. Ten persons were seriously and about forty slightly injured by the falling of the grand stand at the base-ball park in Chilli cothe, Ohio, during the progress of a game. A sanguine inventor has secured permission to lay a seventeen-inch pneumatic tube along the canal from Chicago to La Salle, Illinois, for the transmission of grain and small packages by compressed air at the rate of a mile a minute. S. P. Burt, Vice President of the North Chicago Rolling Mill Company, dropped dead In a hotel in Northern Michigan. Two months ago, in Milwaukee, he married a woman who had been a domestic in his family, to whom he leaves a costly mansion and $500,000 in mining property. The Northwestern Manufacturing and Car Company, of Stillwater, Minn., of which United States Senator Sabin is President, has failed, with liabilities of about $1,000,000 and assets that will aggregate $4,000,000. J. H. Townsend & Co., millers, also suspended, their liabilities being estimated at $500,000. Serious riots occurred at Quincy, 111., growing out of the strike of the union stovemolders there and the attempt of the manufacturers to supply their places with nonunion men. One of the non-unionists was 3hot through the hand. The driver of the wagon in which he rode was also woundod by a pistol-ball.