Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1884 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

Michael Griffin, of Des Moines, lowa, who was fined SIOO and costs, to be committed to jail until paid, was brought into court on a writ of habeas corpus, claiming that the Justice could not imprison beyond thirty days, and that he had no jurisdiction. Judge Given decided that the Justice had jurisdiction, and that the costs were no part of the penalty. An appeal will be had to the Supreme Court. Capt. Payne, the Oklahoma adventurer, and seven of his associates were arrested at Rock Falls, Indian Territory, a few days ago by a United States officer. They- were taken to Fort Scott, Kas., where they will probably be tried by court martial for disobeying the instructions of the military authorities... .A coachman at Minneapolis, named Peter Johnson, after taking a lady to visit a friend, walked out on the lawn and shot himself through the heart. Ten head of cattle were killed at Elmhurst, HI., under the instructions of the State Veterinarian, Dr. Paaren. The post-mortem examination showed that the disease was pleuro-pneumonia of the most virulent type.... The Second National Bank at Xenia, Ohio, has closed its doors. The cashier, Mr. J. Ankeny, engaged in grain transactions with a friend named Smart, and induced the bank to make large advances to his friend. Both lost. Mrs. Crowdher and Mrs. Cormaek had a dispute about some work at O’Fallon, near Belleville, 111, Mrs. Crowdher struck Mrs. Cormaek with a steel file, inflicting a fatal wound. The murderess then retired to her home, where she committed suicide by cutting her throat... .The savings bank of Adrian, Mich., with SBO,OOO due to depositors, has suspended payment. A JURY in the Cook County Probate Court at Chicago, after listening to the medical and other testimony produced regarding Mr. Wilbur F. Storey, proprietor of the Chicago Times , pronounced that gentleman insane. The court appointed Mr. Austin L. Patterson, the present business manager of the Times, conservator of Mr. Storey’s property’. A railroad car attached to a circus train caught fire near Greeley, Colo. Seven-ty-five men were sleeping in the car at the time. Ten men perished, and several others were badly scorched. 'A dispatch from Denver gives the following particulars of the accident: “At 11 o’clock last night the train belonging to the Anglo-American circus, Mr. Ortdn proprietor, left Fort Collins for Golden via the Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific Road. Forty minutes later, when near Greeley, the sleeping-car, in which seventy-five men, employed as roustabouts in the circus, were asleep, caught fire and was wholly consumed. Ten men perished and two more were seriously and five slightly burned. The fire was communicated from an open torch with which the car was lighted to a quantity of gasoline which was being carried in the same car, causing an explosion.”.... Evansville, Ind., was visited by a terrific wind, rain, and hail storm, lasting over an hour. The steamer Silverthome, with steam up, had her ehimneys blown overboard. The Josiah Throop was badly wrecked. Many houses o were demolished, and roofs and chimneys blown off. The steamer Belmont was lost in the hurricane below Evansville, and ten or fifteen persons were drowned. Among the lost are Capt. John Smith, E. C. Roach and son, Miss Laura Lyon and sister, Sallie Bryant and mother, and others unknown. «The boat was valued at $15,000. The Chicago Tribune prints extensive reports of the condition of the com crop in Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri. The reports indicate a magnificent com crop for 1884. The reports are especially gratifying from Kansas and Nebraska, where tiie acreage in com has been largely increased, while the prospects are of the brightest. According to the returns, nothing bat early frosts can interfere with a bountiful harvest..... The Governor of Montana sent a special agent to investigate the reports of starvation among the Piegans. It was found that in a band of 2,000 the deaths for lack of food averaged one per day. The Governor has u/ged the Secretary of the Interior ,to issue full rations to the sufferers until Congress can take action. Striking miners at Snake Hollow, Ohio, commenced a riot at 2 o’clock on Sunday morning, Aug. 31, by firing several hundred shots at the guards. William Hare was killed and two others received serious wounds. A hopper worth $4,000 was burned, and the telegraph wires were cut In response to a call by tbe Sheriff, Gov. Hoadly ordered the militia companies at Lancaster and Lexington to be in readiness to march. Ohio’s wheat crop of this year will yield 43,982,969 bushels, of excellent quality. This is the largest crop of the State, except that of 1880, when the yield was 48,540,000 bushels. The oat crop will produce 23,893,663 bushels, or about 31.2 bushels to the acre. The barley

crop will yield about 1,000,000 bushels. Com has suffered from drouth, and is about 79 per cent, of an average crop. Reports of the corn crop in Illinois, says a Chicago paper, are not quite as encouraging as previous reports.' There is little change to note in lowa reports. The prospects are very good. In Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Kansas an immense yield is promised.