Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

There are thirteen cases of small-pox at Leroy, Mich. The stockholders of the Central Pacific Road re-elected Stanford, Hopkins, the Huntingtons, and the Crockers as Directors. Maud S made a mile for exercise at Cleveland in 2:12)4. In an affray in a Keokuk, lowa, hotel, B. D. Courts, of Dean, shot R. Spence dead. Tho murdered man accused Courts of stealing money from him, and followed up by an assault* when Courts used his revolver, firing fonr shots. W. L. Lamb, a Toledo (Ohio) tobacco racrchrnt, was fatally shot by a burglar. lamb tried to overpower the robber, whom he caught in the hallway, but after the shooting he escaped. At Denison, Tex., Joe Knntz shot his divorced wife, and, walking several blocks to where he lodged, entered his room and shot himself dead. A number of bogs at Rockford, 111., which had been bitten by a mad dog, are dying with hydrophobia.

The net earnings of the St. Paul Road for tbe first half of the year are fully up to those of tbe preceding period, owing to a diminution of expenditures, although the receipts fell off nearly $1,000,000. It is alleged that the late President W. R. McGill, of the Cincinnati and Eastern Road, who was killed by falling from a car, procured about $30,000 on spurious notes, and that bis victims were friends.’ These developments give rise to the belief that he committed suicide. At the Chicago Driving Park a wonderful performance was witnessed by 10,030 persons. The pacer Westmont and running mate, harnessed to a light road wagon, made a quarter of a mile in thirty seconds, a half mile in one minute, three-quarters In ninety seconds, and the full mile in 2:01%. But for a break by on the last eighth of a mile, the record would have been two minutes.

The estimated yield of wheat in Michigan this year is 21,965,391 bushels—--1,512,841 bushels less than the crop of 1883. St. Lonis is arranging for an international convention of veterans of the Mexican war, in October. It is claimed that President Diaz has promised to send fifty prominent participants to the gathering. Everett & Weddell, who for thirty years have conducted a private bankinghouse in Cleveland, made an assignment liabilities at 81,000,000, They state that their assets are ample to pay all claims in full, with interest. Some citizens of Kewanee, 111., tarred and feathered a social offender, and rode him out of town on a rail to the musicof-eleigh-bells. The Illinois Department of Agriculture reports an average yield of winter wheat in the northern division, and about threefourths of a crop in the central and southern portions of the State.