Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

A San Jose (Cal.) dispatch says a great sensation was caused there by the bold daylight robbery of the San Jose Safe Deposit Bank of Savings. A man entered the bank and obtained a bill of exchange for $65.50. A few minutes after the stranger departed the Cashier missed a tray containing SIO,OOO of gold in twenties. The alarm was immediately given and search made, but without avail. It is believed two or more men were engaged in the theft, and that while the attention of the bank officers was engaged by the men in front others slipped inside the counter and stole the money. The bank has offered SI,OOO lor the capture of the thieves or recovery of the money. A sensation has been created in Youngstown, Ohio, by the assertion of a local clergyman from his pulpit that several “society ladies” of that city have been under treatment for delirium tremens. Indignation was high, and the reverend gentleman will be asked to name his authority. The seventh anniversary of the institution of the Independent Order of Foresters in Illinois was celebrated at Chicago. There ■was an imposing parade under command of Chief Marshal William Kilpatrick, with Chief of Police Doyle as his aid. At the conclusion of the parade addresses wore made in the Base-Ball Park. There were about 4,500 men in line.

Postmaster General Vilas has left Washington on a vacation. He will be absent from duty two or three weeks. Sixteen mills at Saginaw City are now running on eleven hours’ time, and only four ten-hour mills are in operation. John Gate, an aged farmer, living alone near Missouri City, Mo., was found dead in bed, with his hands and feet bound, and several wounds m his head. There Is no clew to the murderers or their motive.

In the Chickasaw Nation, I. T., David Hunter shot and killed Samuel Smiley in a quarrel about some horses. Hunter fled, but was pursued by Smiley’s friends and ■lain.

"Wheat in Minnesota, north of St. Paul, has been damaged by blight and inects, and south of St. Paul by hot weather and storms. Corn in the same territory Is doing well. In Indiana there is an increase in the acreage of buckwheat and tobacco and a decrease in the acreage of flaxseed and potatoes as compared with 1884.

Cherokee Indians who are dissatisfied with the leases of their lands to the cattle syndicate will petition President Cleveland to proclaim them invalid and order the immediate removal of the cattle.

The corn crop in Central Illinois will be .one of the largest ever known, many fields averaging seventy-five bushels to the acre. Near Eddyville, lowa, one section of

a railroad train carrying Forepaugb’s circus ran into another, wrecking several cars and seriously injuring a number of employes. It is reported from Billings, Montana, that a party of cattlemen attacked a band of twenty Piegan Indians on the Musselshell River, killing all of them, and recovering seventy-five stolen horses which were in their possession. A new gas-well was struck at Find lay, Ohio, yielding 71,000 cubic feet per hour. There is considerable excitement at Ishpeming, Mich., over the alleged discovery of a rich gold-quartz vein. The new census puts Minneapolis ahead of St. Paul. The former has a population of 129,200, and the later 111,397. The Piegan Indians lost but one man in their recent skirmish with cowboys at Billings, Montana, instead of twenty, as at first reported. The Illinois State Department of Agriculture received a letter from State Entomologist Forbes stating that great damage was being done by grasshoppers to crops in the northern portion of the State. Maxwell, the alleged murderer of C. Arthur Preller, reached St. Louis on the 10th mst., and was met at the railway station by several thousand curious people. The prisoner still maintains a dogged silence whenever questioned about the hotel tragedy.