Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1887 — THE WESTERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE WESTERN STATES.

Thebe was a hung jury in the celebrated Cora Lee trial at Springfield, Mo. lowa’s estimated corn yield for 1887 is 252,502,000 bushels. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul Railway Company’s locomotive and repair shops at Watertown Junction, Wis., were destroyed by fire. The flames wipod out the entire plant, the loss being estimated at $200,003. Ed Sneed, who shot dead O. H. Loomis in Kansas City during a drunken quarrel, July 26, 1884, was hanged at Independence, Mo., on Friday. He died without a quiver, bnoed was tried times for his crime. Alfred Blunt, a wife-murderer, was hanged at St Louis on Friday. Life was extinct six minutes and fifteen seconds after the drop fell. He died murmuring a prayer. Blunt murdered his wife with a razor in a fit of jealousy, May 21, 1886. Ho was 32 years old. A dispatch from Bluff City, Utah, says that a party of five Navajo Indians visited tho trading post of A. M. Barton and killed him. Ono of the Indians lassoed him ancl threw him to the floor; two others seized his legs and arms, while a fourth -shot him several times in the head. They then helped themselves to the contents of the store, and departed without molesting the wife or family of the murdered man, who had taken refugo in tho room adjoining the store. Sidney Corbett, a newspaper reporter of Jackson, Mich., was publioly horsewhipped in that place on Friday, by tho wife of the editor of the Daily Courier, for his alleged agency in procuring the publication of a scandalous Btory regarding her. A St. Louis dispatch of Monday says: “The Sunday law was generally observed in this city yesterday, and it was exceedingly difficult to get a glass of intoxicating liquor at any tittie during the day. Large numbers of people wandered from one Sunday haunt into another until noon, when they became satisfied that the law was being enforced, and then departed for tho country, where were numerous extemporized beer gardens. The grip railroad aloue carried 30,000 people to the country. Eighteen saloon-keepers were arrested for violating the law. The police say not one escaped. The hotels refused to serve liquors to the guests from tho bar, but tho steward received a private stock from tho guests’ rooms before dinner and served it at their tables. The clubs served liquors as usual, it having been decided that they are not amonable. The result was that the Habbath was very quiet. The streets appeared deserted except along street-car lines, where the people flocked. There was scarcely any drunkenness and very few arrests for disturbances. ”

The main building of the Chicago Packing and Provision Company, at the Chicago Stock Yards, was visited by a fire Sunday morning, doing damage to the extent of about $1,000,000. S.-veral firemen were injured. The young crops in Illinois and other Western States are in need of rain. Harvesting is making rapid progress. Corn prospects are generally excellent, and those of fruit fair. The hay crop is poor. Two Cleveland bankers, E. A. Crumb and George O. Baslington, have failed. They attribute their suspension to tho recent wheat deal in Chicago. One of the boilers of the Standard Oil Refinery at Lima, Ohio, exploded, wrecking three others, demolishing tho building, and fatally injuring several workmen. Five persons, ono of them Charles R. Carter, who was to have been hanged for murder, killed the Deputy Sheriff at Mount Vernon, Mo., and escaped from jai’.