Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The Banmm wire works at Detroit has made an assignment, throwing 500 men men out of employment. The report of John S. C. Harrison, receiver of the Indiana Banking Company te to the effect that he holds certificates of deposit for $6,208 as his only credit against $101,817 with which he is chargeable, and has mortgaged all his property to secure his bandsmen. Ho was arrested and held to bail in $60,000. Lightning Btruck the farm-house of Nathan Miller, near Maryville, Kan., killing h:s four dtiu thters while asleep. Their ages were 17, 13, 9, and 7, respectively. A boy of 5 was bad y hurt. The mother is n a cri ical condition from the shock of the bereavement. Chailes Wright, a IG-year-old boy, fatally shot his stcp-fntlier, Joel Laws, a farmer living near Sbeibyville, ini. Laws had quarreled with his wife and trie.l to get into a house where she was staying. Wright resisted Laws, anl m doing so fired the fatal shot. At her residence in Cincinnati, Mrs. Upmeier assisted her boy in breaking open a six-pound rocket by striking it with a hatchet. The explosion which l'o’lowed mortal y wounded the woman and her little daughter, injured two children, and wrecked the premises. The school census of Chicago, just completed, indicates a population of 62.‘,r85, an Increase of 12!4 per coat, within a year. The Chineso number 2J7 and the colored people 7,517. It is estimated that the wheat yield of Minnesota for this year will excoed that of last year by 4,110,000 bushels, an increaso of 10 per cent.: the entire corn crop will yield from 20,000,0 0 to 25,000,000 bushels; the barley crop will produce 7,000,000 bushels, tho largest evor known in tho State; and the oats crop wilt bo about 33,(0 ),03J bushols, 10 per cent, more than the crop of 188 a A boy named Bentley, 12 years old, fell from a flag-staff sevonty-flve feet to the ground at Flint, MLh., and was not fatally Injured. The Grand Central Depot at Cincinnati, which cost $;OJ,000 was opened by a reception to President Ingalls by theOrdorof Cincinnatus. A Cincinnati paper reports that John R. McLean, of the Enquirer, is negotiating for the pure use of the Chicago Times. It Is Stated that oi.e of McLean’s foremen has been in ( h < a o inspect ng tho typo-selting department of the 'l ima*. A company has been organized at Denver to build a furnace for cremation purposes. Maud S., on a slow track at Cleveland, trotted a milo in 2:09%, beating all reoords. The floo<T at Cincinnati last spring so thoroughly cleansed the bottoms that the death-rate is the lowest in four years.