Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Three children were burned to death In a barn near Circle vllle, Ohio. They went to the barn to emoke, and get fire to the structure. A skiff containing four men capsized opposite Bellaire, Ohio, and Walter Tunney and Patrick Dixon were drowned. In Mayfield Township, near Sycamore, 111., Louis Taylor, a hired man, shot and killed Florence Mitchell, 17 years old, and then set Are to her clothing. The murderer then went to a creek near by, plunged in, and then shot himself through the heart. The theory is that he made improper advances, was repulsed, and In his rage killed the girl, and then, fearing lynching, he committed suicide. Near lowa City, lowa, two brewers were on trial for violating the liquor law, when the mob, inflamed by whisky, seized the Prosecuting Attorney, stripped him of his clothing, and tarred and feathered him. A Constable who interfered was seriously cut. The rioters then went to lowa City, awed the town officers, and attempted to kill the principal prosecuting witness and his brother. Reports received from various points In Dakota and Minnesota indicate that harvesting is progressing very satisfactorily. The weather is quite favorable. The wheat and rye crops are good. Wheat will yield an average of sixteen bushels per acre, and in iseme places the yield will be about twentyfive bushels. Rye yields about thirty bushels to the acre. The barley crop is excellent. Several head of cattle, infected with Texas fever, have been killed by the authorities a± Clinton, 111. A fire in the eastern part of Cincinnati destroyed the saw-mill of Hinton & Cole, the cattle-sheds of the Miami Road, and ten frame dwellings, the losses aggregating $75,000. Oliver Dalrymple, the noted Dakota farmer, says he will harvest 32,000 acres of wheat this year, and that the average yield will be about nineteen bushels per acre. Recent rains have greatly improved the Kansas eorn crop, and It is now predicted that the yield will be large beyond precedent. Gov. Murray, of Utah, has asked that troops Ibe used to drive back from San Juan County Utes from Colorado, who have killed two men, burned and destroyed property, and threaten other outrages. All the whites in the valley have been expelled by the marauding Indians. A fine broke out in the city of Anoka, Minn., about twenty miles from Minneapolis, and before the tissues were subdued the entire business portion of the city, the High School building, three banks, two flouring mills, an elevator, and several other important structures were destroyed. The fire spread with extraordinary rapidity, and defied every effort to stop its progress. The heat was intense, ana many were prostrated while trying .to subdwe the flames. The losses ane estimated at 51, 030,000. w. D. Washburn ,& Co., are the heaviest sufferers.