Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Judge Chipman, of Detroit, has granted a divorce to the wife of Mark Hopkins, the St. Clair millionaire, on the ground of cruelty. Within six months the County Agent at Chicago has expended SIO,OOO in conveying insane persons to their homes in other States, on evidenco that they had been deliberately shipped to the Garden City. Two persons, named McKinley—father and son—were killed by lightning at Mendota, Mo. The Secretary of the Kansas Board of Agriculture reports that at least 40 per cent, of the winter wheat has been abandoned and the ground seeded to spring wheat. Ho estimates the product of winter wheat at 12,000,000 bushels.

Burglars were caught at work on a safe in an office at Sedalia, Mo., by two policemen. One of the latter was shot in the face, and the officer, returning tho fire, shot a burglar through the heart. The other robber then decamped.

The annual election of the Chicago and Northwestern - Railway resulted in no changes of importance. Chauncey M. Depew voted on $7,000,030 of stock owned by William H. Vanderbilt. The directors declared dividends of 1% per cent, on the common stock and 2 per cent on the preferred.

Reports to the Illinois Agricultural Department state that the condition of the wheat crop in general is worse than it was a inontk ago. The reports mention the appearance of the army worm in the meadows In a few localities, but In small numbers. “Crops of all kinds are in better condition in Southern Dakota than at the same time last year,” says a Yankton dispatch. In Ohio, according to a Columbus dispatch, “thousands of acres of wheat have been plowed up, the crop not being worth harvesting, and in many places the estimated yield of that yot standing is placed as low as a half-bushei to the acre. The Hessian fly is doing great damage to the crop.” Some of the men in Chicago, reports the Tribune, who have been watching tho situation from the start, now say they do not believe the wheat crop of the United States will aggregate anything like as much as 350,000,000 bushels this year, and some of them think the total may even fall below 300,000,000 bushels.

The Postmaster at Lewiston, Idaho, has absconded, after having stolen some $50,000 by means of fraudulent monayordors.

A mob of seventy-five masked men entered the jail at Eldora, lowa, and took therefrom two brothers named Rainsbarger, and literally riddled them with bullets. The victims were brothers of the two Hainsbargera now in Marshall County (Iowa) Jail for murder, and had been arrested for an alleged attack on Dr. Underwood, a prominent witness for the prosecution. Attachments were served upon Cortinas’ Wild West combination at Galesburg, 111. The cowboys, Mexicans, and Indians

■connected with the show seized the herd of ponies belonging to the concern and started for the West. No attempt was made to stop j them.

Rhyner & Co., the insolvent bankers of Highland, 111., have liabilities or over SBIO,OOO, with assets of $339,092, of which $111,823 are doubtful or desperate. At Gudsell’s Station, near Evansville, Ind., John Butcher quarreled with James H. Munnis in regard to tffe right of way for a loaded team, and fatally stabbed him. Butcher, when pursued by officers, emptied two. revolvers, reserving the last cartridge to blow out his own brains. In a fight between twenty-four cattlemen and a band of Apache Indians at the mouth of Doubtful Canon, N. M., two of the latter were killed. Chicago notes: The police are waging a war of extermination against the gamblers. Mayor Harrison, accompanied by his family, has gone to the Hot Springs. The real-estate transfers for the week aggregated $1,020,059. The east-bound freight shipments for tho week were 43,083 tons. The death rate for May was largely in excess ■of what it was a year ago. The total deaths were 1,130. Tho United States Grand Jury has returned indictments against witnesses in the Mackin-Gallagher case, who are charged with perjury. Sunday racing has been inaugurated at the Chicago Driving Park, und the pulpit has declared war against the desecration. Over 10,000 people attended the opening game of the National League base-ball season between the Chicago and St. Louis Clubs.

It is claimed that the census of Fargo, Dakota, now partly completed, will show a population of 10,501.