Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

A fire in Brannan street, San Francisco, destroyed the furniture factory of Kragen & Geist, and a number of dwellings, the loss aggregating $75,000. A dispatch from Miles City, M. T., says that many of the most extensive stockgrowers of the Territory have leased ranges of the Canadian Government for terms of twentyone years, and are driving the cattle to the new pasture, much to the disgust of the Canadian stock-growers. Over twelve thousand acres of lanjl belonging to the estate of Jay Cooke & Co., and located in Minnesota and Wisconsin, were sold at auction in Chicago. Low prices ruled throughout The recent mysterious assassination of Wayne Anderson, a wealthy farmer, near Mountain Grove, Mo., has been solved by the confession of his sons that they murdered him. A letter from Sierra County, New Mexico, gives the details of the discovery of a wonderfully rich deposit of silver ore, averaging over one thousand dollars per ton. Six car-loads have already been shipped to a smelter. The immense publishing house of Belford, Clarke <fc Co., Chicago, connected with which were Donohue & Henneberry, It S. Peale, Peale & Co., and Van Antwerp & Co., publishers, and the Central Lithographing Company, was burned. The loss will approximate $1,000,000.

The belief is expressed that the Wisconsin Central’s new line to Chicago will bo opened July 1. Contributions received at the Chicago police headquarters for the victims of the Haymarket riot have reached $47,500, in addition to $13,000 subscribed by members of the Board of Trade. John C. Henning was hanged at Crawfordsville, Ind., for murdering Lottie Vollmer at Rockville, Oct 24, 1885. Henning spoke for half an hour from the scaffold in a calm and self-possessed manner, smiling and nodding to acquaintances below him. He reviewed his life and trouble, and said lie was ready to die for the murder. A Chicago dispatch says: “A receiver in this city has just forwarded to a shipper in Nebraska exactly five cents per bushel as his share on a consignment of corn. The property bad been sold in store here at twenty-seven cents per bushel, twenty-two of which went to pay railroad cost of transportation, the storage, and commission. Iu another case this week the Nebraska shipper received the magnificent sum of twenty-six dollars and fifty cents, being the whole amount coming to him from the salo of a car-load of some five hundred and fifty bushels of corn, the railroad freight on which to this city was one hundred and forty- _ seven dollars and fifty cents. The average of charges on these two parcels was five times, and the warehouse charges alone, one quarter, the sum remitted to the country shipper of the corn. ”

Near Greatorville, A. T., E. P.Wemple sup. rhitendent for a Chicago washer company, Was killed by Indians. Three of a band of Indians who attacked Jones Brothers’ ranch near Hooker’s Ilot Springs, A. T., were killed and sculped, ai d the others driven off. The Presbyterian General Assembly, in eestri >i at M liueapolis, changed the name of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of thy NvUlnv. st, of Chicago, to “The McCormick I biological Seminary of the Northwest.” Gioes extravagance of the board

managing the County Infirmary at Cincinnati has been unearthed. In ihe item of coal it in shown that the board paid for 275 tons more than were hauled there by the railroad. A constable of Sedalia, Mo., levied on the household goods of Martin Irons, the “agitator,” to satisfy a debt of $7 for rent A six-foot rotary saw in a shingle mill at Menominee, Wisconsin, flew to pieces while running at full speed. A large section cut through the iron roof, and another nearly severed a large cross-beam.