Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1884 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

A woman who keeps a saloon at Marshalltown, lowa, continued to sell liquor contrary to the prohibitory law. She was arrested and gave bonds, but still defied the law. The Sheriff attempted to arrest her. She resisted, drawing two revolvers on him. After he had secured assistance he managed to take her to the jail, but the people threatening to tear it down she was released. The woman's resistance is said to be instigated by a local brewery.... The Rev. L. 0. Thompson, a popular author and preacher, his son, Sidney, and another lad named Freddie Bishop, Were drowned in the Illinois River at Henry, 111., by the skiff capsizing in the eddies near the dam.... Charles Pulty, a fare-collector on the bridge at St. Louis, was hurled from the structure by the protruding step of a mail car. He fell eighty feet to the water, and was drowned before aid could reach him.... D. E. Swan, chief clerk in the Treasurer's office of the Northern Pacific- at St. Paul, has embezzled several thousand dollars and fled with a woman... .A dispatch from Ironton, Ohio, announces the failure of Hiram Campbell & Sons, iron manufacturers, and places the liabilities at $300,000. An artesian well is to be bored at Aber deen, Dakota, with a view to obtaining permanent power to run a mill producing 200 barrels of flour per day..... The aeSuittal of Lair, implicated in the murder of re Ward brothers at Devil’s Lake, Dakota, was followed by the quashing of all the indictments Frank E. Everett, banker at Golden, Colo., committed suicide while insane from the use of chloral Mrs. Sylvia S. Olds, living near Paw Paw, Mich., committed suicide by drinking kerosene and arsenic. - -.—-- The village of Cedar Springs, Mich., was destroyed by fire, four persons losing their lives. A damage of $50,000 was done by flames at the saw-mill of John White, at Cheney, Mich Four men lost their lives in a fire at Toledo... .A. &J.C. S. Harrison, the Indianapolis bankers, suspended last week, the firm applying for a receiver. Two of the men proposed declined to act. and the Sheriff was placed in possession The deposits are between $500,000 and $600,000, a large amount of which is trust, and $40,000 city funds.... Cotter, Beattie & Co., general merchandise and lumber manufacturers at Ovid, Mich., are insolvent... .The. Commission firm of Harmon, Spruance & Co. , of Chicago, has suspended. A shortage in corn amounting to 1,000,000 bushels is said to be the cause of the failure. A Helena (Montana) dispatch sass that five horse-thieves, whose names are unknown, were hanged at .Rocky Point, on the Missouri River, by a band of cowbovs, organized for the purpose of clearing out the thieves infesting that section. Thirty - two stolen horses were recovered. This makes a total of thirteen horse-thieves hanged and shot in the Judith and Muscleshell section within the past three weeks. Judge Reininger, at Mason City, lowa, has decided that the prohibition law.of the State is constitutional. At Muscatine a similar decision has been rendered, but an appeal has been taken.... The owners of 50,000 head of cattle in Oklahoma have formed a pool to reduce the expense of taking care of herds, ahd will employ one man and eight horses to every thousand head...., By a boiler explosion at Mount Vernon. Ohio, two tramps sleeping in a blacksmith shop near the scene were killed—one named John Carey and the other unknown.... Some boys playing in a lumber-yard at Davenport unearthed a box containing several pounds of counterfeit 10-cent pieces, bearing the date of 1845.... Some carrier pigeons liberated at Springfield, Hl., flew to Cleveland in about eight hours.