Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

By proclamation Gov. Crosby, Montana., has established a quarantine against Texas cattle. He justifies his action by stating that $200,000,000 worth of cattle in the Territory would be endangered by the importation of cattle from the infected districts. Dr. Paaren, State Veterinary Surgeon of Illinois, recommends that Southwestern Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and the greater part of Texas, Arkansas, and portions of Tennessee, Kansas, and Missouri be regarded as infected regions, and that cattle from those regions be subjected to quarantine until the Ist of November. The famous cannon “Old Kickapoo” was purchased for sll2 from a Chicago junk dealer by the Kansas Historical Society, and will be shipped back to Topeka. Correspondents of E. P. Bacon & Co., of Milwaukee, report heavy losses in the barley crop, by hail and rain storms, in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Dakota, lowa, and Nebraska.

The estimated corn crop of Nebraska this year is 120,000,001 bushels—nearly 19,000,000 bushels greater than last year. A Topeka dispatch reports that “Gen. Batch has encamped with six companies of cavalry at a point twenty-five miles southeast of Caldwell, Kan., and proposes to clear Oklahoma of two thousand invaders.” Two squadrons of United States oavalry descended upon Oklahoma Payne’s camp at Bock Falls, Indian Territory, arrested the leaders, and started them off for Fort Smith. The women, children, and new offenders were escorted to the Kansas line. Of Payne’s paper, which was ready to go to press, 100 copies were printed, when the machine was packed up and loaded into a wagon. The boarding-house, drug store, and some other cheap structures were burned, and not a vestige of the settlement was permitted to remain. Payne, who had been bloodthirsty in his threats, was docile as a lamb under arrest. In a ball game between the Minneapolis and Milwaukee clubs at the latter city, Pearson, the Minneapolis pitcher, broke his arm in delivering a ball. Nineteen lepers were placed on the steamer Oceanic at San Francisco, the city giving each of the unfortunates a ticket and $5. The defendant in a “Mother Hubbard” dress case at Omaha was dismissed, deference to public opinion causing the Police Chief not to prosecute. The style of dress involved is now worn more than ever. Heavy frost in Wexford and adjoining counties in Michigan damaged small fruits. Ex-Sheriff Colbath, of Lima, 0., and Mrs. Leatherman, a female friend, were run over by a train near that place and instantly killed. McCormick (pitcher), Briody, and Glasscock have quitted the Cleveland league team, and will play the remainder of the season with the Cincinnati Unions. A herd of Texas cattle, unloaded at Lemurs, lowa, recently, was infected with Texas fever. Five died. The disease was communicated to one herd of native cattle and fifteen died. The authorities of Topeka, Kan., put two disreputable negresses at work cleaning the streets with a party of male vagabonds, and as one of them showed resistance a ball and chain were attached to her leg. The colored people gathered on Main street by hundreds, showing great excitement, and at night they held a meeting and passed resolutions denouncing the Mayor. - I

“Tbe Pavements of Paris,” a translation of a Porte St. Martin melodrama, by the French authors, Belot and D’Ennery, is the attraction at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago. The company, which is a targe one, was organized by Mr. John Rlckaby, and includes, among ethers, Harold Foraberg, Ralph Delinore, J. E. Thompson, Lolti Jordan, Emily Bancker, and Tillie Shields. The piece was produced at Xiblo's last year, and has since been revised. Helena (Montana) dispatch: "Meager particulars are received of another slaughter of horsethieves in the Musselshell region, 150 miles northwest of here, last week, by cowboys. While in pursuit of stolen horses, a log bouse was discovered in the timber on the mountain-side. It was secretly watched a day or two, during which time several small parties of men came and went, some by day, others by night, having In -their possession horses evidently stolen. It becoming, evident that it was a rendezvous for horsethieves, the cowboys congregated, and last Monday night crawled up close to the house and attacked fourteen hor e-thieves who were about the premises at the time. Nine were killed and live escaped. Tbe cabin was fired and burned. There never was a period in the history of this Territory when so much horse-thieving was going on. The citizens are now determined to effectually stop it. Fully fifty thieves have been hanged or shot within the past month.” The Muskegon Base Ball Club (Northwestern League) has disbanded. Reports from Fargo, D. T., state the wheat crop is the largest ever known in that part of the country. Texas fever has swept away thirtynine head of cattle in one herd at Lemars, lowa. The State Veterinarian is on the ground, and has established a rigid quarantine.