Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The sensation of the week in Chicago has been the great strike of the conductors and drivers of the West Division Horse Railway Company, causing a total suspension of street car traffic on the West Side, embracing over half the population of the city. Public sympathy was entirely with the strikers, and attempts to run the cars were met with determined resistance on the part of the pop ulaee. The company would start cars out from the barns guarded by squads of police and Deputy Sheriffs, but vast crowds would block the tracks, drive the men from the platforms, and return the cars to the barns or turn them upside down in the streets. Several of the drivers and conductors were assaulted with stones and clubs and severely injured, and a number of the strikers arrested on charges of i lot and disorderly conduct. At one time Mayor Harrison appeared on the scene and attempted to reason with the mob, but he was compelled to beat a hasty retreat. Omnibuses, express wagons, and other conveyances did a largo business in carrying passengers. Dispatches from St. Paul intimate that the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad has absorbed the Fargo Southern Railroad, running from Fargo to Ortonville. Henry Grotenheimer, a Cincinnati commission merchant, made an assignment. Liabilities estimated at $50,000, and assets between $35,000 and $40,000. Adolph B. Spreckels, charged with assault and intent to murder M. H. De Young, proprietor of the San Francisco Chronicle, has been acquitted by a jury. Three hotels, eight shops, and several saloons and dwellings at Peshtigo, Wis., were destroyed by Are, which broke out In the Duket House. The loss reaches $75,000. Heavy rains in Kansas have resulted disastrously to crops in low lands, and compelled many families to move away. Railwaytracks have been washed out and bridges swept away. It is feared at Tombstone that Lieut. Hanna and six men, who were sent from Oputo to San Beranrdino in charge of the prisoners captured in the recent fight at the former place, have been massacred, as they have not reached their destination, and no traces of them can bo found. The settlements on the Mancos and Dolores Rivers in Colorado are threatened by the Utes, and the Governor has been appealed to for protection.

The little city of Stoughton, Wis., was visited last week by a most destructive conflagration, it is estimated that over 5600,000 of property was destroyed. Thirteen large tobacco warehouses, .the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company’s depot, and several small buildings, together w ith most of their contents, were burned. The Are originated old hay-press building used as a tobacco warehouse. About one hundred cars were in the yard at the

I time, man.; of which were burned. The cars ‘ greatly hampered the Are brigade and the citizens in their efforts to subdue the flames. The total loss of tobacco is nearly eleven thousand cases, worth about fifty dollars a case. The losses are quite well covered by insurance.

Immense damage has been done to the crops in Eastern Kansas and Western Missouri by continuous cold rains. The loss of wheat in Kansas is estimated at 1,000,000 bushels. The crop estimate of the State Board of Agriculture is 10,200,000 bushels, instead of 12,000,000 bushels, as telegraphed. Schwabacher & Selig’s wholesale liquor house at Indianapolis was closed by the Sheriff. The liabilities are said to be $75,000, with the assets in excess of that amofint. Tramps stole the clothing of an unknown man who was bathing in the Missouri River at Omaha. He remained in the water all day, and when he came out at nightfall he was found to be insane, and died a few hours later. Having been refused her hand in marriage, Hiram Chamberlain fatally shot his sister-in-law, a widow, at Mankato, Minn., and then shot himself. Chamberlain will recover, but will be blind. It has been decided that the new compulsory-education act in Minnesota Is a penal one and that children must be either sent to a public school or educated at home according to the usual course of publicschool study in the English language. Lena Swallow, the trotter, which won the 2:23 class race at Chicago a few weeks ago, has been sold for $J,500. The mare was purchased for $223 two years ago, the Indiana farmer who owned het reserving her until after the plowing had been done.