Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The flour production of the Minneapolis mills last week was but 46,512 barrels—tho smallest since the milling: there reached Its present proportions. A magazine at Pueblo, Col., containing 37,000 pounds of powder and a quantity of dynamite, was exploded by a man shooting at a mark on the door of the magazine. Tho riiiernan was killed, his companion fatally wounded, and buildings within a radius of two miles more or less injured. Ex-Senator James W. Nesmith died at Derry, Oregon, in his sixty-sixth year. His end was’ peaceful, and death was as if sinking to sleep. He had been in failing health for some time, his mind having become impaired; Ho achieved national fame as the great Democratic War Senator from 1861 to the close of tho rebellion. Ernot Reburg, an ex-Mexican war veteran and tho oldest member of the Grand Army of the Republio in the United States, died at Vancouver, W. T., aged ninety-one years. During the year 1884, 8,825 insurance policies were written in Illinois by life and accident companies, the risks aggregating «22 ,453,389. The amount paid in premiums was $4,238,421; losses paid, $1,516,990. The Illinois crop report for June shows that the aroa planted to corn this season is much larger than last season, owing, probably to tho failure of the wheat crop in many parts of tho State. There has been more complaint of insects this season than heretofore, and the stand of corn is very uneven, owing to tho repeated replanting. Without a favorable fall for maturing the crops there will be an unusual amount of damaged corn on the market. The corn has generally been well cultivated, and sinco the first of June has made very satisfactory growth. The root-web worm, which has damaged the crops in many counties of the State, has disappeared or ceased to do any damage since the first of June. Sam Lawrenee and Charles Barry, members of Cole’s Circus Company, shot each other fatally in a dispute at Houghton, Mich. Remains of a mastodon have been found near Vincennes, Did. At Richmond, Ind., Thomas Cox walked 313 miles and 13 laps in thirty hours, beating the best previous record. Gold and silver coin to the value of $75,000 has been found hidden in tho walls and ceilings of a building in Cincinnati. The late owner, Louis Schertz, died recently, leaving a memorandum for his brother, telling him where the money war secreted, but not naming the amount. During his life Schertz was regarded as a poor man. The passage of Texas cattle through Kansas is opposed by the citizens of the latter State, and trouble is anticipated. Secretary Lamar has been appealed to. The claim is made that the cattle are diseased. A special from Fort Lewis, Col., says that six Indians had been killed by whites in the Dolores Valley, and that the chief of tho tribe was much enraged and demanded satisfaction. Four Indians wore killed at the Boss Fork Agency, Idaho. Tlie trouble was occasioned by a couple of Bannocks, who had been depredating on tho agency stock. Fearing arrest they drew tho Indian police from the agency, fired upon them, and killed two. Later about two-hundred police surrounded the thieves and riddled them with bnllots.