Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The saloon-keepers of Youngstown, Ohio, detailed one of their number to keep open all night and submit to arrest. Money has already been raised to carry the case to the Supreme Court. The proposition of the Chicago Live Stock Exchange to practically demonstrate whether pleuro-pneumonia is contagious or not, by supplying ten head of healthy cattle and guaranteeing the expense of exposing them to the contagion said to exist among certain Illinois herds, was heartily indorsed, by the Omaha Live Stock Exchange. Near Delavan, Wis., Albert R. Tapping and Winifred C. Dewey, while out riding, were instantly killed at a railroad crossing. The young people were engaged to be married. Eau Claire (Wis.) dispatch: The flood ravages at Eau Claire are over. The highest mark registered was twenty-seven feet, being four feet higher than the flood of 1880. The current moved at the rate of eight miles an hour. The dams held out well except the one in the north fork of the Eau Claire. The Delis dam was crushed by the great pressure of 50,000,000 feet of logs. The loss in the immediate vicinity of Eau Claire is estimated at $500,000, and the entiro loss in the Chippewa Valley at $4,000,000. Half a million feet of logs broke from the boom near the Eddy mills and floated down stream. The booms on Paint Creek, a tributary of the Chippewa River, went out late last night, and the water in the Chippewa Elver rose rapidly. This, with the floating logs, carried away the upper bridge of the Wisconsin Central at Chippewa Falls, and also the lower bridge between there and this city. The Milwaukee and St. Paul bridge and all the city bridges here and tho city bridge at Chippewa Falls are all carried away. Every bridge on the Chippewa has gone out —five railroad bridges and five wagon bridges. In this city the loss is appalling. No satisfactory estimate can be made at this time. Jn and between Chippewa Falls and Eau Claire the loss will not fall short of $3,500,000, and it may greatly exceed that sum. In this city over two hundred houses havo been swept away. Only one life lost so far as heard from.

The Michigan wheat crop yields somewhat more than sixteen bushels per acre on the average. Oklahoma Payne and his confederates have been indictod by the United States Grand Jury at Wichita, Kan., and will be given a hearing at Topeka, Nov. 11. At Pierre, D. T., a block of thirtyfive buildings was destroyed by fire, the loss beiDg SIOO,OOO. It is estimated that the corn crop of lowa this year will be 300,000,000 bushels, the largest ever known in the Hawkeye State. Encouraging reports of the corn and potato crops have been received from several districts in Illinois and lowa. Frank Hutchings, the strangler, was hanged in Ban Francisco. Benjamin Johnson was executed at Cincinnati for complicity in the murder of a negro family, whose warm corpses were sold to a medical college for $45. An Indianapolis dispatch says of the ’Blaine-Sentinel libel suit: “Senator Harrison, Mr. Blaine’s leading counsel in the libel suit, unqualifiedly denies the statements of specials from here reporting him as saying he had proposed to the S entind attorneys to produce Mr. Blaine in court in person within a week provided the Sentinel wpuld agree io an immediate trial. Mr. Harrison says: ‘I had no interview with any one about it. When I was approached by reporters, 1 always said that I was not trying my case in the newspapers. I sold nothing of that kind. The present stay of proceedings in the suit is owing to Mr. Blaine's attorneys’ objections to the rule requiring Mr. Blaine to answer interrogatories propounded to Mr. Blaine by the defendant Mr. Shoemaker, publisher of The Sentinel, reprints his proposition that if Mr. Blaine will truthfully and without evasion answer the interrogatories, he will agree to submit the case to a Jury without further evidence or any argument. In the Blaine- Sentinel libel suit at Indianapolis, on the 13th inst, Judge Woods declined to rule that the plaintiff must answer the interrogatories submitted

by the defendants. Senator Harrison, however, stated that the questions would be abswered, but refused to state at what time.