Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1884 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

An extraordinary scene was enacted near Justice Schell's office in Scott Township, about thirty miles from lowa C ty, Two lowa City liquor-dealers named Graff and Dostal were being prosecuted for selling liquor contrary to the prohibitory law. Soon after the attorney for the piosecution, Mr. Bailey, the constables, and the agent of the Law-and-Order League came upon the scene they were set upon by a mob of about two hundred; Mr. Bailey was seized: he was stripped of his clothes, and tar was poured over him. At this point some constables interfered and Bailey made his escape info the Justice's house. The constables were then set upon and badly beaten. When the news of the outrage reached lowa City there was much excitement and great indignation. Warrants were sworn out for the arrest of the ringleaders of the m0b.... On a farm near Sycamore. 111., Louis Taylor killed Kitty Mitchell and set her clothes on fire. On being pursued by citizens he waded into the creek and shot himself dead. Mrs. Mitchell has lost her reason. The Democratic State Convention of Georgia met at Atlanta and made the following nominations: Governor, H. D. McDaniel; Secretary of State, N. C. Barnett: Controller, W. A. Wright; Treasurer. R. A. _ Hardman; Attorney General, Clifford Anderson. -The nominees, with the exception of Hardman, are the present incumbents. ....The Republicans of Michigan, in convention at Detroit, nominated Gen. R. A. Alger for Governor and C. A. Luce for Lieutenant Governor. The rest of the ticket stands as follows, the incumbents being-rerramffinted in each case: Harry A. Conant, Secretary of State; Edward H. Butler, State Treasurer: William C. Stevens, Auditor; Gen. Minor S. Newell, Commissioner of State Land Office; Moses Taggart, Attorney General; Herschel Gass, Superintendent- of Public Instruction; James M. Ballou, member of the State Board of Education..... .The Democratic State Convention of Missouri, in session at Jefferson City, made the following nominations: " For Governor, J. S. Mannakuke, of st, Louis; for Auditor, John Walker, the present incumbent; for Register of Lands, Robert McCullough, present incumbent; for Judge of Supreme Court, Judge F, 81ack.... The Republican State Central Committee of Ari tansas nominated 'a full State ticket, as follows: Governor, Thomas Boles; Secretary of State, Paul Graham; Auditor. J. R. Berry; Treasurer. S. A. Duke; Laud Commissioner. J. A. Ba'rnes; Attorney General, Jacob Trieber; Superintendent of Public Instruction, J. B. Ward. The Northwestern Base-Ball League virtually disbanded at Milwaukee, and a new’ organization, composed of the St. Paul, Minneapolis, Winona, and Milwaukee clubs, was formed. A new schedule was also arranged..... .The township authorities at Clinton, 111., killed fourteen head of infected cattle, for which S4OO was .paid to Owing to the diminished rainfall of this season the water in the Mississippi River is exceptionally low, and the flour-mills and saw-milfs run by water-power have suffered—the saw-mills most, because owing to the lack of water the logs cannot be floated from the booms to the prills The entire business portion of Anoka, Minn., was destroyed by flames. Washbum & Co., alone- lost $200,000. Seventy buildings were burned, and the total loss is placed at $1,500,000. 4 . .The Cheyennes are reported to be burning the grass in the Powder River Valley in Montana, and the stockmen are somewhat alarmed... .The Quincy Base Ball Club has disbanded.