Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

At San Francisco, a building owned by Charles Crocker, of the Central Pacific Itailway, and occupied by a wholesale stationery and printing: firm and other concerns, was burned with Its contents, tho loss exceeding $500,000. Four men were buriod in the ruins. Five white men and two Indians who were engaged in tho recont anti-Chinese riot near Seattle, Washington Territory, have been indicted for murder in the first degree. A propeller recently from Montreal was placed in quarantine at Detroit, and the crew of a dozen persons arrested and vaccinated. Hog cholera in a virulent form is prevailing in many portions of tho West. The congregation of St. Joachim Catholic Church, of Detroit, composed of French-Canadians, has determined to resist tho order of Bishop Borgess transferring their priest, Father Laporte, to Lower Canada. The case will be carried into the courts, and then, if necessary, will bo laid before the Pope. It is claimed that the Bishop seeks to replace all French priests In his dlooeso with those of other nationalities. The .ecclesiastical court which tried the Bev. H. D. Jardine, an Episcopal rector of Kansas City, on charges of immoral conduct, has found him guilty of three of the offenses specified, and recommends to Bishop Bobertson his deposition from the ministryMr. Jardlno has been temporarily inhibited from clerical functions, pending tho Bishop's action. At Chico, Cal., wheat was burned in two houses valued at $125,000. For the first nine months of 1885 there were 2,318 building permits issued in Chicago, representing an expenditure of $13,770,130. Over three-fifths wore for residence property. Gould promises the people of St. Louis a new union depot when satisfactory arrangements l'or the Iron Mountain Road shall have been made. The net earnings of the Central' Pacific for July were $875,882 — an increase of $159,294 over the corresponding month of last year. In a fight with gloves, at Leadville,

j between Burke and Clow, the latter the Colorado champion, the result was a draw. The former had agreed to knock the latter out in four rounds, and not only failed but was very severely punished. Fifteen horses belonging to A. H. Truman were killed under the direction of the State Line Stock Commission at Bushnell. 111. Four of them had the glanders, and the others had been exposed to the contagion. It is thought that the disease is now stamped out, so far as Illinois is concerned. W. M. Leeper, ex-candidate for County Treasurer, made an attack on Col. D. R. Anthony, of tho Leavenworth Times, striking him with his fist, and attempting to strike a second time with a whiffietree, but the interference of a bystander averted what might have been a fatal blow.