Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Five of tlxe Cleveland (0.) Judges met last week to hear arguments In the ease brought by the Cleveland liquor-dealers to prevent the County Treasurer from collecting' Iho liquor tax under the Scott law until its constitutionality had been passed upon by the State Supreme Court. The Judges failed to agree. The liquor-dealers’ attorney then took a non-suit and Immediately appealed to tho Supreme Court. A fire originating in Moore’s planingmill on High street, Detroit, spread to Grand Kiver avenue, destroying the Heed block and other property valued at $60,000. Charles Francis Adams, Jr., President of the TTnion Pacific Road, reports that for the year ending June 80 the surplus income of the company amounted to 5.22 per cent, on the capital stock. The fixed charges of the system are $793,003 per month. A train on the Indiana, Bloomington and Western Road, en route for Peoria, was thrown from the track near Farmer City, Illinois, by a broken rail. Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks was a passenger, but escaped unharmed. Eight persons were so seriously injured as to be helpless, while several others received bruises. The steamer Dacotah sunk in the Missouri River near Providence. She was yalued at $24,000. At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Northern Pacific Road, net earnings of $5,425,820 were reported. The capital stock is $88,807,038, and the funded debt $40,278,000. Tho unsold lands east of the Missouri River amount to 4,079,965 acres, which are dedicated to the extinguishment of preferred stock. ALa Crosse (Wis.) newspaper intim ates that the damage to wheat by rust is very serious, and that grain has been sold at certain points on the basis of 28 and 80 cents per bushel. Elevator men complain of working in the cars, the wheat smells so badly. In the Blaine- Sentinel libel suit at Indianapolis the defendants on Fept. 18 filed a bill of discovery. After reciting alleged facts previous to Mr. Blaine’s marriage, they claim that no record was made of the marriage; that the officiating minister has been dead for years, and that as Blaine is himself cognizant of all the occurrences, and as it will be necessary for them to prove illicit intercourse with the person to whom he was subsequently married to justify tho publication complained of, they demand that the plaintiff answer the interrogatories previously propounded; that the proceedings be stayed until answer is made; or, if no reply is returned to the questions, that the case be perpetually restrained. Isaac Jacobson, the Finlander who murdered George Bedell, a North Clark street business man, was hung in the jail at Chicago. The unfortunate man seemed to have completely broken down before his execution. Judge Drummond has telegraphed the President asking to be relieved at once, before the October terpi of court. Several towns in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana were shaken, on the afternoon *f Sept, 19, by an earthquake of a few seconds’ duration, the Oscillations being more perceptible In theuppei stories of structures. Tableware was dashed to tho floor, furniture disturbed, and windows wrecked, alarming the inmates, who, in many instances, fled panic-stricken to the streets. At Detroit the quake was severely felt, and the river rose some inches. The Methodist Conference and Ladies’ Missionary Society, Jn session at Defiance, Ohio, hastily quitted the building which they occupied; and the disturb-

ance almost caused a panic at* a reunion in Ottawa, Ohio. Children in the schools at Indianapolis became alarmed, and occupants of railroad depots in the sections visited imagined that a locomotive had collided with the buildings. A rumbling sound was heard in some places, resembling a distant explosion. Tremors were also felt in portions of Canada, Kentucky, and West Virginia, and were so severe in the suburbs of Cincinnati as to terrify the children in the schools. The clothing house of Buchman Brothers, of Cincinnati, which succeeded Rindskopf & Co., has failed for $400,010. An incendiary fired the lumber yard of Monroe Brothers, on the upper flats in Cleveland. Two hours later the lumber yard of Browne, Strong & Co. was found in flames. Engines were obtained from five neighboring cities, and the Arc-men labored many hours to suppress tho conflagration. The loss is estimated at $250,000. At a conference of the lumber-dealers of the East Saginaw (Mich.) district, it was determined to shut down the sawmills about the 10th of October and thus curtail production. The lumber market is dull, and immense quantities of saw-logs are on the hands of the dealers waiting purchasers. A majority of the Supreme Court of Dakota have decided in favor of the commission act moving the State capital from Yankton to Bismarck.