Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

A package of dynamite exploded in the Denver and Rio Grftnde yards at Denver, wrecking: an empty car and injuring the switchman. The victims of the yachting disaster at Lake Minnetonka were buried at Minneapolis. Business of all kinds was entirely suspended, and flags were hung at half-mast. The funeral procession was the largest ever seen in that city, being a mile and a half long. The streets along the route were lined with people, and fully 6,000 were at the cemetery. The bodies of ex-Mayor Rand, his wife, daughter, son, and nephew wore buried in one grave, and those of Mr. Coykendall, bi 4 find another. Cleveland dispatches state that the iron mills in that city have 6hut down indefinitely, and the strikers there are reported as still showing signs of an intention to make trouble. There are fact ons among the strikers, however, and some of them are in favor of returning to work at once. East Saginaw mill-owners thre ten to shut down for the year if the labor troubles there continue. One or two proprietors have already taken the course indicated. At Bay City work has been partly resumed. Since July 1, when a high license law took effect, 250 wlno and beer saloons In St. Louis have beeu closed. Gen. Howard, commander of the Department of the Platte, has been ordered by the President to make all possible preparations for any emergency that may arise in the near future in Utah.

The State census of Nebraska, just completed, shows the State to have a population of about 700,000. In 1880 It was 453,000. In tho same period the city of Omaha has Increased in population from 30,563 to 61,835. Advices from Fort Buford, in the extreme northwestern corner of Dakota, are to the effect that tho grasshoppers had, made their appearance in that vicinity, and were devastating the growing crops. A dispatch says the grasshoppers began work on one wheat field 0:’ one hundred acres, and had destroyed the grain for a distance of ten feet entirely around the flo d. Neal Thornton, a desperado, who murdered Policeman Daniel Sheehan at Joplin, Mo., was taken from jail-and lynched. A report comes from Fort Keogh, Montana, that in an engagement between Carpenter and Robinson’s cowboys five cowboys and seven Indians were lulled, and that there is g'reat excitement among ranchers and settlers on Tongue and Rosebud Rivers. It is stated that if the military attempt to disarm tho redskins of Indian Territory, who have cause! the array of such a large body of soldiers against them, there will be resistance to the death. The Northern Cheyennes are reported on the war-path, and troop 3 have been sent from Fort Keogh to the scene of the troutles. The reports of ravages by grasshoppers in Colorado have been investigated by an agent of the Department of Agriculture, and found to be grossly exaggerated. No traces of the migratory species were found. In a hard glove-fight near St. Paul,

between Thompson, of Cleveland, and Hadley, colored, of St. Paul, five rounds were fought, when the referee gave the fight to Hadiey because of Thompson’s unfair work. There will be no exposition at Cincinnati this year, the merchants of that city having determined to hold a monster bazaar, patterned after the famous fair at Nijni Novgorod, Russia. The Governor of Minnesota issued an appeal to formulate a petition to Congress to take action looking to opening up the mines of the Northwest to tide-water navigation as the surest means to avoid the present exorbitant transportation charges. The Dakota Central Railroad Company will begin work at once on an extension from Centerville to Pierre via Yankton. The Mineral Narrow-Gauge Railroad, extend ng from Hancock to Calumet, Mich., has been sold to a New York syndicate for $200,000. A dispatch from Centralia, IIL, states that the apple crop in that vicinity will be larger than for many years past.