Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

A mob from Wilmot came to Traverse, Dakota, and demolished the Court House, no resistance being offered. This was the opening of another county-seat war. Seefield’s’ elevator at Utica, Minn., together with all the buildings in the place save one, was destroyed by Are, entailing a loss of from $25,000 to $30,000. A fire in a structure at Cleveland caused the burning to death of an aged woman and a child, seven other persons being injured by jumping from the windows, one of them fatally. The financial loss is $42,000, well insured. Dubuque (Iowa) dispatch: An epidemic of diphtheria among horses in this vicinity has broken out and is growing to alarming proportions. It has appeared in almost a violent form, and is raging not only In Dubuque County but in Grant County. Five children of Henry Lewiston, a farmer near Owatonna, Minn., were burned to death. The parents received serious injuries from the flames. The children cremated were four boys, aged 18, 15, 6, and 4 years, and a girl aged 10. A few bones and a small quantity of charred flesh, wholly unrecognizable, were all that could be found of those who met so horrible a fate. At Bloomington, Ind., Chesley Chambers, a young man, was identified as the person who robbed the express car on the night of April 27, and shot Baggagemaster Webber and Express Agent Davis. Wright, the man held on suspicion, was released. Ten tents at Capt. Couch’s Oklahoma camp, near Caldwell, Kan., were blown down during a wind storm and a number of persons injured, though none were dangerously hurt. Considerable of their property was destroyed. The annual report of the Chicago Department of Public Works shows that the cost of public improvements In that city last year was $7,275,116; that over 42,000,000 gallons of water was daily pumped, from which $795,494 had been realized; and that 'there was to the credit of tlio water fund in cash tl c sum of $797,817. For land (Ore.) dispatch: “Generous and steady rains which have fallen throughout Oregon and Washington Territory the last week, followed by cloudy and warm w< atl er, have assured, as far as past weather can, an extraordinarily large wheat crop.” The body of a wealthy farmer, named John Allinton, was found by fishermen in the Dupage River, near Channahon, 111. During the campaign he bet heavily on Blaine, and declared he would not live under a Democratic administration. He disappeared Nov. 14. Around his neck was a rope attached to a twenty-five pound weight. C. F. Boesch & Son, retail dry-goods dealers, of Burlington, lowa, failed for $100,009. Independence (Kansas) dispatch: “One of the heaviest and severest rain-storms that ever have visited Southern Kansas occurred last Friday, flooding the Elk and Verdigris Rivers and drowning a number of cattle. Six persons were drowned on Card Creek, seven miles west of this place, among Whom were Mr. Rin, Mrs. Wood, and two children. Great damage was done to railroads and bridges.” A cyclone parsed through Rooks County, Kansas, dea‘<ng death and destruction in its path. Several persons are reported killed and fifty injured.

Alexander Stawast and John Van- ! newport were drowned in the river at Des Moines, la., while loafing. The Illinois Central is accused of indentions to build and operate a new line to .St. Paul.