Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Extensive ravages are being committed by grasshoppers in oat and corn Acids in Southern Illinois. In a wreck on the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad, near Delphi, Ind., the baggagemastqr was seriously hurt, eight head of cattle killed, and $40,000 worth of rolling stock destroyed. At Cleveland, Ohio, in the presence of 10,000 people Maud S. trotted a mile in 2:089a, beating her own previous record by half a second and the record of any other horse by 1 >4 seconds. Intensely warm weather prevailed throughout the West ana Northwest last week, the mercury ranging between 90 and 105 degrees at various points in Illinois, lowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Dakota, Minnesota, and Michigan. For sixteen days the thermometer at Lohisville, Kentucky, averaged 90 degrees in the shade between sunrise and sundown, and about two hundred cases of sun-stroke were reported, of which twenty proved fatal. St. Louis and Cincinnati also suffered terribly from the heat. Valentine Wagner was hanged at Columbus, Ohio, for the murder of Daniel Sheehan, his brother-in-law. The culprit failed to preserve bis lourage when the hour of execution arrived. A desperate struggle between him and the officers took place before the sentence could be executed. Near Leadville, Colo., the engine and tender of a passenger train were wrecked by the explosion of a dynamite cartridge which unknown persons placed on the track. The passengers escaped unhurt. At Georgetown, Colo., Wm. Neff, a miner, lay down in his cabin and placed a stick of giant powder with fuse attached under his head. He then fired thofuse, andtho explosion blew his head from his body.

A postoffice official attempted to carry mail matter for Mexico and Central America on a Pacific Mail steamer as extra baggage, and was refused. The mall was subsequently sent overland, and the point is being made that the steamer had no right to discriminate as it did as a common carrier, and there may be a hereafter. Chicago was visited by a rain storm of unprecedented violence, the fall in eighteen hours reaching 5.58 inches, which was in excess of the total rainfall for any month of 1884. Many basements in the business quarter, containing valuable stocks of merchandise, were floodeJ, the losses aggregating an enormous sum. In the outlying districts extensive areas were submerged, and thousands of dollars' worth of property destroyed. Fears are entertained in Utah of a general uprising among the Indians of the Territory, who, it is claimed, are being incited to mischief by Mormon emissaries. Gen. Howard has left Omaha for the West to investigate the situation. A soldiers’ monument erected by the citizens of Sandusky County, Ohio, was unveiled at Fremont, with imposing ceremonies. Addresses were made by a number of prominent men.