Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Mrs. Funston, residing near Galena, Illinois, was stricken with paralysis while buttoning a child’s shoe. She speedily roeovered, with the exception of her tongue, which she is unable to use in conversation. High warm winds have dissipated the snow on the Wyoming ranges, ana cattle arq now reported in a satisfactory condition. Angus (Iowa) dispatch: “The striking miners started a riot here, and drove all tbe miners at work out of town, beating and kicking them badly. One man at Keystone Mine No. 2 defended himself and was killed, and six others are reported sorious'y wounded.” The commissioners sent from Washington to the Central and South American States in the interest of commerce, report to the President that there should be regular (direct communication by steam, and reciprocal concessions in tariff duties. The recommendation is made that the Government establish an executive department, similar to the Board of Trade in England, to have the management of our foreign commerce.

Sioux City telegram: “Mr. Summerville returned from a hunt southwest of Valentine, Neb., and reports that lour hunters perished In the storm of the 30th ult., between Johnstown and the Dismal Hirer branch of tho Middle Loup. A man who arjlved here from Running Water brings news confirming the report of the freezing to death of seven men on the Niobrara River road. In Nebraska. Two of them were found Bitting in a buggy, frozen stiff, the horse having reached a station with his silent drivers.” The extensive iron works of Stoverlug & Fleming, on the Hate at Cleveland, i were destroyed by fire. The Denver Chamber of Commerce invites all friendly to the unlimited coinage of silver to meet in national convention in that city on Jan. 23. Sioux City, lowa was visited by a destructive conflagration. Two blocks, embracing numerous stores and offices, were wiped out. The loss is placed at $lO 0,000. Eleven persons drank coffee at the house of Mr. Van Fossen of East Liverpool, Ohio. Mr. Van Fossen died, and a dozen others were rendered dangerously 111. A package of rat-poison was found at the bottom of the coffee-pot. The convention of the Ohio coal miners indorsed Gov. Hoadly’s policy In not calling out troops to be sent Into the Hocking Valley. Four hundred Oklahoma boomers are encamped at Stillwater, Indian Territory, well armed and provisioned. W. S. Couch, their leader, sends word that th*y will fight until overpowered. Enoch W. Eastman, formerly Lieutenant Governor of lowa, author of the penal features of the prohibitory liquor law, died at Eldora, lowa. Mormon missionaries have gone to Mexico to negotiate for a rendezvous for Mormons liable to prosecution under the Edmunds law. Herman J. Mack, prominent in Jewish circles In Cincinnati, was found dead, hanging among the flies of* the stage of the Allemania Building. The jury in the Crouch murder trial at Jackson, Mich., after a consultation of three-hours, acquitted Daniel Holcomb. A boa-aonstrictor, eighteen feet long, M said to have been found at Fisher Station, Indiana, frozen Into a solid knot. In the Northwestern lumber region last year the total cut was 2,534,208,361 feet of lumber, 1,059,354,300 shingles, and 630,090,700 laths.