Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

.Near Blakesburg, lowa, a party of citizens hanged Pleasant Anderson for thd murder of Christian McAllister. He was lost year acquitted of the crime by a jury in Mahaska County. A fire at Pierre, D. T., caused a loss of 540,000, with $30,000 insurance. The burned structures will not be replaced until spring. Four men were killed by the explosion of a tug-boat in the river at Chicago. A fire at Evansville, Ind., originating in the dry-goods house of Miller Brothers, destroyed property valued at $250,000. The German bark Lisle was wrecked on the California coast, and tho first officer and four seamen were drowned. A package of $8,300 in currency, consigned by a bank in Indianapolis to tho Treasurer of the Unite 1 States, was abstracted 1 etween the express ofliee and the railway station. May Howard, the actress, was declared insane by the authorities at Shelbyville, Ind., and was transferred irotn the home of her sister to the asylum. Her real name is Victoria Dennis.

Reports received at Bozeman, Mont, are to the effect that cattle are starving to death in the Madison and Yellowstone regions. The snow is two feet deep on the level, making it impossible tor the animals to g.t at the grass. A small boy found attached to branches of trees near Rockford, 111., two bags containing counterfeit half-dollars. At Jackson, Mich., a hack containing Jud Crouch, the murderer, was demolished and the horses killed by a locomotive, but the passenger escaped uninjured. The coldest weather recorded there was noted at St. Paul, Minn., on the 2d of January, 36 below zero. Throughout the Northwest the temperature ranged unusually low, marking 55 below at Winnipeg, 45 below at Bismarck, and 40 below at Duluth.

Dr. Shillock, of Chaska, Minn., has been arrested for grave-robbing. His brother and a fellow-student were forced by the Sheriff to abandon a corpse on the road. A mob wrecked the Bristol Tunnel on the Baltimore and Ohio Road, near Lexington, Ohio. Three hundred feet of the structure caved in, compelling a transfer of passengers. The loss to the rail way company is very heavy.

At Buttzville, D. T., the general store of D. H. Buttz was burned. Loss, $28,0Q0; insurance, 815,000. Three horses were killed at Boody, 111., on account of acute glanders. Some mysterious disease has swept off hundreds of cattle in Northern Kansas and Nebraska. John How, one of the Vice Presidents of the Wabash Railroad, and at one time Mayor of St. Louis, died at San Francisco. A police lieutenant of Cincinnati, named Mullen, has been sentenced to one year in jail for imprisoning citizens on the day of the October election in order to . defraud them of their votes. Bishop Gilmour, of Cleveland, some months ago closed St. Prokop’s Bohemian Church for rebellious acts, and placed watchmen in charge. Fifteen women belonging to the congregation last ■ Sunday attacked three policemen with stones and clubs, regaining possession of the parsonage. The low prices prevailing for farm products have brought about a marked revival of mining in the Galena lead region. Hundreds of farmers are prospecting or taking out ore in Illinois and Wisconsin, and two train-loads of dry bore are daily shipped from Highland.