Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

In a ball game at St Paul, Elmer Foster broke his arm in making the first pitch. The sympathy of the spectators took the form of a heavy purse. The Second National Bank of Xenia, Ohio, has suspended. J. S. Ankeney, its cashier, has been speculating heavily in grain, and his resignation was demanded. The capital of the institution was $150,000, and it reported a surplus of $30,000. The People’s Bank, St. Paul, was robbed of SIO,OOO. The money was taken from the safe by some person who must have known the combination. Dr. Salmon has submitted his report concerning the pleuropneumonia m Illinois to the Bureau of Animal Industry. If the infection shall be traced to the herd of Mr. Dye, an extensive Ohio speculator in Jersey cattle, he sayS it is probable the disease has been sown among animals of nearly every State in the Union. The malady is unquestionably pleuropneumonia. At O’Fallon, 111., after a quarrel about a dress, Mrs. Crowdber killed Mrs. Cormack with a steel file, and then so seriously injured herself with a knife that she died In a few hours. A jury in the Cook County Probate Court at Chicago, after listening to the medical and other testimony produced regarding Mr. Wilbur F. Storey, proprietor of the Chicago Times, pronounced that gentleman insane. The court appointed Mr. Austin L. Patterson, the present business manager of the Times, conservator of Mr. Storey’s property.

Wesley A. Lumm, while City Engineer at Sandusky, was Indicted for accepting bribes. He soon entered on a career of dissipation, which caused his wife to commit suicide, and he finished the sad chapter by ending his own days with morphine. Gov. Crosby, of Montana, says that the special agent sent by him to inquire into the condition of the Piegan Indians has just returned, and that he found they were dying of gradual starvation at the rate of one a day. The appropriations for this year only permits the agent to issue two pounds of beef and three pounds of bad flour per week. The Governor calls upon the Secretary of the Interior to assume the responsibility of issuing full rations until Congress meets in December. A Deputy Marshal in Kansas received information which led to the seizure of an illicit still near the village of Maxson, and the arrest of three men who had operated it for two years. Those sterling actors, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Florence, make their reappearance this week at McVicker’s Theater, producing Jessup and Gill’s “Facts,” and their old favorite comedy, “Mighty Dollar.” -They are supported by an excellent company. A railroad car attached to a circus train caught fire near Greeley, Colo. Seventylive men were sleeping in the car at the time. Ten men perished, and several others were badly scorched. A dispatch from Denver gives the following particulars of the accident: “At 11 o’clock last night the train belonging to the Anglo-American circus, Mr. Orton proprietor, left Fort Collins for Golden via the Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific Road. Forty minutes later, when near Greeley, the sleeping-car, in which seventy-five men, employed as roustabouts in the circus, were asleep, caught fire and was wholly consumed. Ten men perished and two more were seriously and five slightly burned. The fire was communicated from an open torch with which the car was lighted to a quantity of gasoline which was being carried in the same car, causing an explosion.”

Evansville, Ind., was visited by a terrible wind, rain, and hail storm, lasting over an hour. The steamer Silverthorne, with steam up, had her chimneys blown overboard. The Josiah Throop' was badly wrecked. Many houses were ’ demolished, and roofs and chimneys blown off. The steamer Belmont was lost in the hurricane below Evansville, and ten or fifteen persons were drowned. Among the lost are Capt. John Smith, E. C. Roach and son. Miss Laura Lyon and sister, Sallie Bryant and mother, and others unknown. The boat was valued at >15,000.

Striking miners at Snake Hollow, Ohio, commenced a riot at 2 o'clock on Sunday morning, Aug. 31, by firing several Hundred shots at the guards. William Hare was kited and two others received serious wounds. A hopper worth >I,OOO was burned and the telegraph wires were cut. In response to a call by the Sheriff, Gov. Hoadly ordered the militia companies at Lancaster and New Lexington to be in readiness to march. State Veterinarian Stalker writes to the President of the lowa fair that he does not believe there is a single case of pleuropneumonia among cattle in lowa. Kehlor Brothers’ flouring-mills at Waterloo. 111., were destroyed by fire. The loss is about $150,000, the insurance about SIOO,OOO. Governor Crosby, of Montana, in a letter to the Secretary of the Interior, protests against the manner in which the Piegan Indians are being treated by the Government*