Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1884 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

I By the explosion of a steam thrashingmaehme near Litchfield, HL, two men were killed and six others were seriouslyscalded. '....A hail-storm three miles in width caused a damage of $50,000 to crops in the vicinity of Huron, Dak... .As a result of a blow in the breast from a ball, received some weeks ago,-John McDonough, catcher of the Fort Wayne ball club, died at Mt. -Clemens, Mich., of quick consumption.... Since Jan. 1 3,798,169 bushels of wheat were shipped from Milwaukee, against 952,787 for the corresponding period in 1883. There are only about 77,000 bushels at present in store. A gentleman from Philadelphia has shown the secret-service officers in Chicago a S2O Treasury note made wholly with a pen, its execution being so complete as to deceive a keen expert. ... .Wear, BoOgher & Co., dry goods, St. Louis, have made an assignment. The liabilities are $450,000, and the assets greatly in excess of that sum.... The cigar manufacturing firm of Louis Cohn & Co., of Chicago, has failed. The liabilities exceed $50,000. The value of the assets has not been determined... .The Mississippi River Logging Company, at a meeting at Clinton, lowa, resolved that it was the sense of the association that the mills close down Sept. 15, provided the Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, and lowa mills suspend operations at the same time... . At Dayton, Ohio, Dodd’s hav-rake wprks, six frame dwellings, nqmlier of Rubles and sheds were destroyed by fire, causing a. loss of $75,000.... There are 28,900 names on the pay-rolls of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Road.

During a thunderstorm at Des Moines, lowa, lightning fired four houses, which were entirely consumed, and a large dairy bam in the suburbs, causing a loss of $20,000. The storm was the heaviest known in the history of the city. ...The wholesale cigar house of Frederick Deutsch, in Chicago, has been closed by the Sheriff. His assets are estimated at $46,000, and he has been doing a business of $150,000 per annum.... Three men were killed on a&rm near Rushville, Ind., by the explosion of a steam thrasher, and five others received serious injuries. John M. Johnson, of Dakota, one of the Grand Army veterans, was accidentally injured while jumping off a street car at Minneapolis. Both legs had to be amputated. Corporal Tanner, of Brooklyn, after the election of the Grand Army officers, called the attention of the comrades to the matter. In a few minutes $3,000 was subscribed for him, the national organization giving SSOO, and the Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois State organizations $250 each. Several individual subscriptions were handed in by the comrades.... H. H. Young, Statistical Agent of Minnesota, after deducting losses by recent storms, places the wheat yield of that Stat£ at fully 44,000,000 bushels... .C. A. Sylvester’s carriage and wagon works at Charles City, lowa, were burned, resulting in a loss of $48,000, with $25,000 insurance. Accobding to Mr. Baynes, statistical agent of Dakota, the spring- wheat crop of that Territory will yield 26,000,000 bushels. The grain is of good quality. The Minnesota crop is estimated at 44,000,000 bushels. The winter-wheat yield in Nebraska will be from thirty to forty bushels per acre, ’and the spring- wheat yield from twenty to twenty-five bushels. Bye, oats, corn, and barley promise wdl in Nebraska and Minnesota • Beports of the condition of the crops in lowa and Illinois continue favorable. This ia especially so as to com. Wheat will be

up to the hveradkL The smaller grains are fair to good. Tha. potato crop has suffered in some localities tin account of drouth, ... The Health Ctrtnmissioner at St. Louis officially notifies 'Surgeon Hamilton that in the suspected case on the steamer Annie P. Silver the child died of summer complaint, that the family have resided in Mexico for more than a year, and that they came to this country seven months ago. .. . Joan C. Bacha, a millionaire cattle-dealer of Las Vegas, was drugged in Cincinnati, and robbed of $13,000.