Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

A natural gas deposit was struck at Frankfort, D T., at a depth of eighty-five feet. When lighted, explosions followed which shook all the buildings in the place. A hail-storm devastated a section near Huron, D. T., reeulting In a damage to crops estimated at $,10,009. The dry-good house of Wear, Boogher & Co., of St. Louis, has made an assignment to Nathan Cole. The liabilities are believed to be about $450,000, and the assets are reported at $620,000. The largest home creditor is the St. Louis National Bank which holds $25,000 in paper. Most of the indebtedness is in New York and Boston. On judgments aggregating $45,457.80, a Deputy Sheriff, in Chicago, seized the extensive cigar factory of Louis Cohn & Son, Nos. 15 to 27 Wabash avenue. The liabilities will probably reach SIOO,OOO. A recent examination of the pay-roll of the Chicago, Milwaukee and Bt. Paul Railroad shows that that corporation employs about 28,000. persons. A tree, overturned by a storm, fell npon a dancing pavilion at Broad Ripple, Ind., which sheltered a number of picnickers. A dozen persons were injured, some seriously. Three children of Joseph Ashley, of Suamlco, Wis., went out to pick berries, and were drowned while bathing in the river. I H. H. Young, statistical agent for Minnesota, estimates the wheat yield of the State at 44,000,000 bushels. A party of masked citizens of Sabina, Ohio, drove the inmates of a brothel into the street, and blew up the house with giant powder. The keeper of another disordetly place was taken from bed, given a coat of tar and feathers, and warned to leave town. An inventory of the estate of the late Cyrus H. McCormick shows stocks and bonds aggregating $3,000,003, an interest of $1,870,4)00 in the Harvester Company, and real estate producing an inoomeof $128,795, besides vast amounts of other property. Lafayette Huff, of Oxford, Ohio, has received $6,000 from the Pan-Handle Road for injuries insisted by ejection from one of its trains.

Lucy Hughes, of Muncie, Ind., 10 years of age made a nearly successful attempt to strangle herself with her garter because her mother punished her for neglecting the baby. In the Ohio "Valley thesdrought has resulted in set loub losses to farmers, who are on the alert to prevent their parched fields taking fire. Hay is sl6 a ton and advancing, tobacco is badly injured, and corn Is threatened. , The Health Department of Chicago has received warning that a physician of San Francisco has started Eastward with two lepers, whom he proposes to exhibit In all the large cities and on the steps of Beecher’s Church in Brooklyn. The Health Commissioner of St. Louis, a ter fully investigating the rumored case of obolera on board the steamer Annie P. Silver, reports that the family involved were

never fn France, and that their child died from summer complaint. They are Italians, and have lived in Louisiana forthc past year. Pleasant Valley, Clear Creek, Brunswick, and the section around those towns in Wisconsin were swept by a hall-storm, the frozen lumps being eight to ten inches in diameter. Dwellings were shattered, cattle, bogs, and sheep killed in largo numbers, and crops entirely destroyed. Much-needed rain fell throughout Southern and Central Ohio, the storm resulting in the death of six persons by lightning. John C. Bacha, representing himself as a millionaire cattle dealer of Las Vegas, was drugged by thieves in Cincinnati, and robbed of $13,000. The opposition to the Scott law in Cincinnati by the saloon keepers has left the olty without any means to pay the police forco, and report has It that they are to be discharged. An electric street railway has been put in successful operation in Cleveland.