Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The Masonic Grand Lodge laid the corner-stone of Nebraska’s new Capitol, at Linooln, last week. According to reports from the various counties of California the loss caused by the June rains will aggregate 135,000 tons of wheat, amounting to 7H per oent. of the entire crop, and 600,000 tons of barley, or about 12 per cent, of the crop. A large portion of the grain is lodged, and the harvesting will therefore be expensive. J. K. Arms by & C0.,0f Chicago,dealers in canned goods, who have been doing a business of three to nine millions a year, have failed for about $300,000.

The private banking house of Fletcher k Sharpe, at Indianapolis, suspended payment last week, and made an assignment to William Wallace, who gave bond in $600,000. Tbe failure caused quite a run on other banking bouses. The suspension is said to be due to large advances on grain and pork paper, on which currency could not be obtained. Assurance is given that the assets are ample to meet all claims by depositors. The boiler in Carter’s saw-mill in Monroe County, Ind., exploded, killing three men and fatally injuring four others. Dawson Brothers, manufacturers of mill machinery at Wilmington, Del., have failed for $60,000, and the senior member of the firm has absconded. The wife of William Scholes, a wealthy oattle dealer at Bettsville, Ohio, Cod with, the hired man, Eugene Eld rid go, in her husband's absence, and the latter, upon his return home, found the decomposing body of an infant in bis deserted house. Hiram Campbell & Sons, who own the Mount Vernon and Sarah furnaces at Ironton, Ohio, have suspended payment, with liabilities of $300,000. By the capsizing of a rowboat on the Illinois River at Henry, 111., Rev. L. O. Thompson, the Presbyterian clergyman at that place, bis son, a boy of 14, and a son of Dr. Bishop, of Medina, N. Y., who was on a visit to them, were drowned.

The first car-load of beer ever sent east from California was shipped last week from San Francisco to Chicago. Rev. Dr. E. N. Potter, President of Hobart College, has declined the Bishopric of Nebraska, to which he was rcoenlly elected. Reports have reached Ottawa, Ont., that foot-and-mouth disease prevails among oattle at Helena, M. T., and an Investigation will be made. The members of the wreoked banking Arm of Fletcher At Sharpe, of Indianapolis, have deeded all their real-estate to a trustee for the benefit of creditors, their wives joining in the conveyances. Lair, one of the men on trial at Grand Forks, D. T., for the murder of the Ward boys, has been acquitted, the verdict causing much excitement. One of the jurymen has been arrested, charged with perjury. In that he went into the case determined that the prisoner was not guilty. Thomas Brigham, a farmer near Whitewater, Wi?., went to the pantry at night for a lunob. He mistook for custard a plate of poison prepared for rats, and died in great agony within an hour. , Sowers & White, bankers at Ovid, Micb., are insolvent.

W. F. Burget, saw-mill proprietor near Delphi, Ind., has failed for $10,(Ml. Mr. Shewell’s new drama, “Shadows of a Great City,” which had Its first representation at McVicker's Theater, Chicago, last week, has made a groat hit The story Is, as they 6ay of certain novels, one of “love and crime,” <the lover being, of course, accused of the crime, but coming out vindicated in the end. It introduces tho auditor to many of the cele rated places in and about How York City, showing them only so tar realized as is necessary for sta-re purposes. While the play is an exceptions ly strong one, its moral atmosphere is pure, and it is absolutely free from ob ectionable language. Mrs. Harry Culver, of Bay City, Mich., locked up her young son for disobedience. Finding some matches in the room, be set fire to the tied and was smothered. It is feared that the mother will die A Helena (Montana) dispatch says that five horse-thieves, whoso names are

unknown, were hanged near Rocky Point on the Missouri River, by a band of cowboys. organized for the purpose of clearing out the thieves infesting that section. Thirty-two stolen borse9 wore recovered. This makes a total of thirteen horse-thieves hanged and shot in the Judith and Muaoteahell section within the past three weeks. Two blocks in the business district of Cedar Springs, Mich., burned during the prevalence of a high wind. Two hotels, the railroad depot, Johnson A Link’s mill, and folly two-thirds of the residences are among the structures destroyed. Three men and a boy perished in the flames. The St Louis Hot-pressed Nut and Bolt Manufacturing Company, William H. Stone President, has made an assignment. Liabilities, $50,000; assets, $70,000. The private banking-house of A. & J. C. 8. Harrison, at Indianapolis, suspended last week, and by order of the local court was placed in the bands of the Sheriff. The liabilities are estimated at $500,000, and the depositors number from 300 to 400. A dispatch from Helena, Mont., says that Belknap, the famous entrepot to the Cceur d'Alene mines, has been destroyed by fire. Only five houses and the depot building are left. The fire started In an unused house. A high wind made the fire spread fast. There was no fire department in the town. Hardly any goods were saved. The loss is estimated at over SIOO,OOO. Sixty days ago Belknap had 2,000 people. The boys about Davenport, lowa, have unearthed a box containing about one hundred pounds of counterfeit dimes. Eight million feet of lumber was destroyed at Big Bapids, Mich., by fire, involving a loss of about $85,000. An iron steamer to accommodate 2,000 passengers, with a length of 225 feet, is to be built at Detro.t, after the pattern of the City of Kingston, which makes twenty miles per hour on the Hudson river. Clem Sudkemp, a furniture-polisher, shot his mistress, Ada Harvey, alias Daisy Clifford, In her room on South Halsted street, Chicago, and then shot himself. Both shots proved fatal. The motive of tho double crime is said to be jealousy.