Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1887 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The premature explosion of a blast at Buena Vista, Col, resulted in the killing of six men and the wounding of seven others. Sixty meat-dealers at Akron, Ohio, recently refused to handle carcasses sliippod thither from Chicago by Armour & Co. The firm opened three retail markets and speedily brought the boycott to a close. The explosion of a barrel of varnish resulted in a tire which destroyed the building at Milwaukee occupied by the Charles Baumbach Company, wholesale druggists. The total loss is about 3170,000, with insurance of 395,00). The business portion of Ainsworth, lowa, was swept away by fire, causing a loss of between $50,00) and 375,000. Twentyseven buildings were destroyed, and many families rendered hotneless. A genuine Western cyclone visited the immediate vioinity of Wheeling, W. Va., last week. The storm commenced at 9k Clairsville, Ohio, extended ten miles west, and as far east as Wheeling. Everything in its path was swept away, but strange to say the loss of life is reported as being smalL The damage is estimated at 31,000,000. The jury in the case of John Arensdorf, charged w,th the murder of the Rev. Mr. Haddock, of Sioux City, lowa, failed to agree, and were discharged, after having been out twenty hours. On the first ballot the jury stood ten for acquittal and two for conviction, but after the third ballot one of the jurors joined the majority, leaving only one—Dennis O’Connell—in favor of conviction. Jhidge Lewis was at first disposed to send the jury back, but changed his mind when Juror O’Connell addressed the court and announced that bis mind in the matter could not be changed if the jury were locked up for weeks. “For the murder of Miss Ella Bowe in July last, E. F. Clum was last week executed at Cassvllle, Mo., in the presence of 10,000 people. Burglars at Coshocton, Ohio, administered a fatal dose of chloroform to Mrs. Amanda Murphy and her young dauglror. The conductor of an emigrant train reported eight births to German mothers between Bollaire and Mount Vernon on his train. The Governor of Colorado has issued a quarantine proclamation aganißt the introduction of cattle from many of the Eastern States, including Illinois. In one of the schools at Wabash, Ind., thirteen children are down with cerebrospinal meningitis.