Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The great strike of the conductors and drivers of the Chicago West Division Railway Company is over, and the cars of the various Jines are again running. The strike la^®** v '4 days. At the outset .the employes eated haughty contempt, were grossly insulted byhaving a communication reciting their grievances torn up in the presence of the messenger bearing it, and the officers of tho company refused every tender of mediation or advice from the Mayor and other officials looking to a settlement of the trouble claiming that there „was but one side to tho question, and that they would never yield or treat with tho strikers. Meanwhile the strikers stood firm, public sympathy sided unanimously with them, tho railway company found it impossible to resume operations on its linos, notwithstanding 400 policemen were placed at its disposal, and finally unbent so far as to hold a conference, through its President, with the strikers. An agreement was immediately reached by which tho conductors and drivers returned to work. The substance of the arrangement was that tho charges against tlio sixteen men whose discharge caused tho strike were to be investigated by tho President, nnd, if not sustained, tho men to be reinstated.

A cyclone in three sections swept through Oshkosh, Wts., cutting different paths through the city and demolishing or injuring hundreds of houses. The Exposition Building and St. Paul’s Church are in ruins, and St. Peter’s Catholic Church is badly wrecked. Roofs were blown from stores, the'rain damaging tho stocks, and all the smokestacks in town were leveled. The greatest havoc was wrought in the lumber district, and in the residence section some dwellings are barricadod by fallen trees. Twenty people are reported injured, one or two fatally. In the district north of the town farm buildings, stock, and crops suffered severely. A storm at Waupaca, Wis., destroyed several small structures and blew down trees and chimneys. Nineteen barns and six houses at Liud, Wis., were wrecked, and crops destroyed. The cyclone lollowod a path six blocks wide at Madison, entailing heavy damage to buildings, • residences, and churches. • At Spaita several structures were leveled, and at Plainfield numerous houses were blown down or unroofed. Tobacco shops at Edgerton and Stoughton were razed, a number of horses and cattle being killed. A cyclone affected great damage in the vicinity of Allegan, Mich., and a funnel-shaped “whirler” near Monticello, Minn., shattered buildings and tore up the prairie in spots, many persons making narrow escapes with their lives. Striking mill employes to the number of 1,000 paraded the streets of East Saginaw, Mich., and compel ed several of tho mills to stop running, but offered no violence. Two more Mormons have been sentenced under the Edmunds law to fino and imprisonment for polygamous practices. "Upon investigation the report that two cases of sporadic cholera existed in Toledo turns out to be unfounded. It is now charged that a pme-land Hng exists in Minnesota, wnich has created a monopoly detrimental tq the interests of settlers. Seventeen persons who took part in the church riot of June 28 at Toledo, 0., have been held on a charge of murder in the first degree. Three thousand troops have been or-

dered from the departments of Texas and the Platte to Fort Reno, Indian Territory, for service against the hostile Cheyennes. By the capsizing of a steam yacht on Lake Minnetonka, Minn., during a storm, eight persons, including ex-Mayor Rand, of Minneapolis lost their lives. The Interior Department has ordered that all established trails In Indian Territory which have been illegally closed or obstructed be opened and kept open for all cattle having no infectious disease, and that those who continue to obstruct these trails be removed at once with their herds. At Green River Island, in the Ohio River, near Evansville, Ind., Charles Harding and Janies Townsend fought six rounds with bare knuckles, the stake being the hand and heart of Miss Sadie Corning, a ruraj belb, for whoso affections they had long been rivals. Harding proved vietpr. Townsend was severely punished. Christopher Mann, 111 years old, died at Independence, Mo.