Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

August Tuxhorn, a farmer near Me Pherson, Kan., was foiled in an attempt to kill his wife and four children. He then fired all the builnings on his place and blew out his brains. In the burned house was $4,000 In money. The Sae and Fox Indians have leased 200,000 acres of grazing lands to Kansas parties for ten years, at $40,000 per annum, the wire fencing to revert to the Indians at the expiration of the lease. Ten tons of giant powder in Rummers magazine, near Toledo, Ohio, was exploded by the detonation of a tub of nitroglycerine, which had been placed near a fire to thaw. The explosion was heard at Detroit, sixty miles away, and in the immediate district smashed windows, leveled fences and barns, and tore Umb3 from trees. In two schools near the scene a panic occurred, many children being bruised; and a spring wagon, containing four persons, was thrown into a ditch. An employe of the magazine was seriously burned, but will probably recover.

Sarah Earro, a colored woman of Chicago, baa been awarded damages of $6,650 against Frank Parmelee, for having her buggy overturned by an omnibus. The November crop report shows that 1,254,069 acres have been seeded to wheat in Michigan, and the condition of the plant Nov. 1 was 107 per cent. The Governor of Montana favors a reduction in the size of Indian reservations, and enters objections tc the leasing of lands by the red men. He recommends that no polygamistic Mormon be allowed the right of pre-emption. During a Democratic celebration at Wellington, Has., Mrs. John Schnarr was struck in the eye by a sky-rocket and instantly killed. Another rocket, carelessly placed, went driving into the offices of the Phillips Houbo, striking the night clerk in the mouth and coming out behind the ear. His condition is precarious. W. F. Hood, of Pittsburg, Pa., a guest of the hotel, was seriously wounded in the face. Judge Knickerbocker, of the Probate Court of Cook County, 111., refused to admit to probate the will of the late Wilbur F. Storey, made in 18&1, on the ground tbattbo testator was not then of sound mind, and appointed Austin L. Patterson administrator of the Storey estate, with power to collect. Counsel for Mrs. Storey*tobk an appeal. Many farmers in the vicinity of Fargo, Dakota, refuse to part with their No. 1 hard wheat at 48 cents per bushel, the lowest rate ever known In that region. A National Convention of cattle growers was held at Chicago last week, and was largely attended. A National Association was formed, and a committee appointed to attend the Bt. Louis convention with a view to bringing that body under the provisions of the organization. Resolutions were adopted indorsing the work of the Bureau of Animal Industry, and especially commending the ability and energy of Prof. Salmon, its chief.

After an absence of two years, the eminent tragedian, Mr. Lawrence Barrett, makes his reappearance at McVieker’s Theater, Chicago, this week, in a round of his favorite ro'.es. He opens in “Yorick’s Love,” whioh will he followed by “Hamlet,” “Hichelieu,” “Merchant of Venice," and “Julius Caesar.” Mr. Barrett hag surrounded himself with a strong supporting company of artists, including Mr. Louis James and Miss Marie Wainwright. The explosion of a barrel containing resin and turpentine, at No. 102 Quincy street, Chicago, severely burned Adam and Bunnell Poale, James Daley, Eddie and Maggie Burke, Anna Ward, and Steive Bassett, children living in the neighborhood. They were attempting to make a bonfire of the barrel, and some of them, it is thought, will die from their injuries. The entire business portion of Huron, Kan., was reduced to ashes, the loss being $40,000. Arrangements have been concluded between Schaefer and Slosson for two billiard matches In Chicago in January. Two tramps entered the house of a farmer named Danlon, at liesplainos, Cook County, dtabbed his wife to death, and fatally injured the farmer hlmaelf. Bobbery

was undoubtedly the miscreants' motive, but all they secured was $27. Owing to the meager description of their persons, no arrests have been or are likely to be made.