Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1884 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

An investigating committee of cattle men, iccompanied by a special State Commissioner, visited Rankkin, Neb., and discovsred that Texas fever, brought in a herd from Texas, caused the death of several aead of cattle there, and that some of the stock had been sent to Montana, undoubtedly spreading tire disease. The sale of meat by butchers at North Platte has been prohibited.... J. C. S. Harrison’s report as .•eceiver of the Indiana Banking Company if Indianapolis is understood to indicate a shortage of $95,611.05, and that he pleads poverty and inability to make up the shortige. Harrison was placed under arrest on a charge of embezzlement, his bail being fixed at $60,000.... Some frightened stockholders in the Barmum wire-works at Detroit levied on its oroperty to secure advances made, and forced an assignment. The concern employed 500 men.... The Commercial Bank »f Brazil, Ind., has suspended. Its assets ire nominally $170,000, and its liabilities $140,000, including” the entire” Schookfundt »f Clay County.... Seven horse-thieves were found 'dangling from trees at the mouth of Musselshell river, in Meagher County, MonLana.... In a freight train collision near Elkhart, Ind., one may was killed and three seriously injured. John C, Montgomery, one of the defendants in the Emma Bond outrage case, is about to begin suit against the members of the Christian County mob who threatened to hang him, and who actually put a rope around his neck, soon after the outrage for which he was afterward tried had been committed.... Mrs. Upmeier, of Cincinnati, undertook io split open a rocket with a hatchet. She lud her daughter were fatally injured by he explosion which followed, and two children were fatally hurt.... .Four daughters of Nathan Miller, residing near Marysville, Kan., were killed by lightning while lleeping... .The village of Luning', Nev., except the railroad depot, was destroyed by fire. - W. W.- Culbertson, a member of -Congress from Kentucky, who was stopping at "he National Hotel in Washington, fired five (hots into his head, inflicting dangerous wounds. The cause is said to have been depression from excessive indulgence in liquor. While practicing on the Shelbyville (Ind.) track, Miss Nellie Burke, the rider, was thrown from her stallion, Hancock, but not seriously hurt, while, by rushing rgainst a fence, the horse, which was valued at $2,000, was impaled, and died on the spot. ...The Grand Central Depot at Cincinnati was formally opened last week. Ihe r building cost SBOO,OOO. Tons of dead fish, chiefly perch, are daily taken from Fourth Lake, near Madison, Wis., and buried in the sandbanks outside the city. The cause of the mortality can not be learned. “Shadows of a Great City” is in the fourth week of a successful run at McVicker's Theater, Chicago. It will be followed text week by “The Pavements of Pans,” from the French of Adolph Belot, said to be a play of unusual strength and interest

Edgab L. Wakeman, of Chicago, has organized a company with a paid-up capital jf SIOO,OOO to continue the publication of his sterling literary work, the Current..... fit a reception tendered by the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce to Robert Harris, tie stated that the Northern Pacific intended within three years to complete its branches.... .Maud S. trotted a mile at Cleveland without a skip in 2:09f. She was not accompanied by a running horse... .The present wheat crop of Colorado —2,100,000 bushels—is 5 per cent greater than any previous yield.