Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1886 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The date of the execution of Brooks, •who murdered Preller in a St. Louis hotel, has been postponed for sixty days, to permit of an appeal to the Supreme Court Hailstones five inches in circumference fell at Madison, Wis. Several thousand panes of glass wore broken, and hundreds of birds were killed. The Governor, Attorney General, and Live Stock Commission of' Illinois, accompanied by Dr. Salmon, of Washington, and veterinarians from several States, spent a couple of days in Chicago investigating eases of pleuro-pneumonia in tho distillery yards, and witnessed tho slaughter of some infected cows. It was decided that all tho cattle in tho infectod stables* some 3,000 in number, should be slaughtered and tho sheds burned. Texas fever has appeared among several herds of cattle in Saline Count)', Missouri. A. C. Sti'ong, a Knight Templar of Naperville, 111., was killed by a train at Cheltenham, near St. Louis, Mo. Charles Doll and Major James Morgan, members of the late Board of Public Works, of Cincinnati, and Charles T. Blackburn, its clerk, were arrested in that city charged with embezzling largo amounts of tho city funds. The Northern Sioux have decided to establish mail and transportation routes throughout the frontier region on the cooperative principle, the work to be done by the young men of the nation. As ail tho labor will bo performed on foot, young warriors are now in training for their part in the enterprise. Each runner is to make seventy-five miles per week.

Lightning started a conflagration in the I'oreßts of the Yellowstone National Park, which is destroying immense tracts of timber. The Indians of Leech Lake Reservation, in Minnesota, sold SIO,OOO worth of berries this season, most of which is certain to be expended for whisky. Commissioners Wright and Larabee report that at White Oak Point they learned of the sale of an Indian girl of fifteen years to a lumberman for a sack of flour. Pleuro-pneumonia was discovered last week near Akron, Ohio. Thirteen cattle have already died on a farm near there. The Governor of lowa issued a proclamation quarantining the Stato against Illinois cattle on account of the reported prevalence of pleuro-pneumonia. A Chicago dispatch says: “The infected cattle in the distillery yards at Chicago are guarded by twenty-nine deputies employed by the Federal Government, The Commissioner of Agriculture is willing to pay $25,000 toward the destruction of the animals now in quarantine, the Illinois authorities having $50,000 available. ”