Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1884 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

In accordance with the proclamation of the Governor of Wyoming the Veterinarian and Executive Committee of the Stock Association of the Territory have issued a circular to the railroads and the public generally stating that no cattle froin the States will be admitted into Wyoming without a quarantine of ninety days, or longer if judged necessary. This nction, ’it is ex-' plained, is due to'a fixed belief that contagious disease exists among herds in various States, and importa--tion without quarantine might lead to its spread in the Territory.... A severe wind and rain storm swept over the section of country in the vicinity of Madison, Wis., and Galena, 111. Much damage was done to standing crops. Many farm buildings were unroofed and several bridges swept away.... .The foundry of the Peninsular Car Works, at Detroit, was burned, cansing a loss of $17,000. Forged indorsements to the amount of $25,000 have been confessed by Samuel Wannamaker, once a very wealthy citizen of Youngstown, Ohio, who fled last June. He recently returned in a penniless state and nearly dead from consumption, and . thought best to divulge the truth.. w .Fire at Detroit burned two planing mills and a number of stores and one dwelling, the loss reaching $50,000. The explosion of an oil tank injured two persons. One man broke a leg by jumping from a window, and another had his face badly burned..... Near Farmer City, 111., a passenger train was derailed and a number of persons injured, one or two fatally. Ex-Governor Hendricks, of Indiana, who was on the train en route to Peoria, escaped with a few slight bruises. Editor John C. Shoemaker, of the Indianapolis Sentinel (defendant in the Blaine libel suit), was injured internally and returned home. In the Blame-Sentinel libel suit at Indianapolis the defendants on Sept 18 filed a bill of discovery; Alter reciting alleged facts previous to Mr. Blaine’s marriage, they claim that no record was made of the marriage; that the officiating minister has been dead for years, and that as Blaine is himself cqgnizant of all the occurrences,, and as it will be necessary for them to prove illicit intercourse with the person to whom he was subsequently married to justify the publication complained of, they demand that the plaintiff answer the inteiTOgatories previously propounded; that the proceedings be stayed until answer is made; or, if no reply is returned to the questions, that the case be perpetually restrained. Statements are 6ent out from La Crosse, Wis., that the damage to wheat by rust is widespread, and that a Minnesota miller suffered heavy loss in New Y'ork on flour made from 6mutty wheat which he had cleansed.... .lYederick Band has been appointed receiver of the Indiana Banking Company at Indianapolis, to succeed J. C. S. Harrison, and the criminal proceedings against the latter will be stopped... .Leading citizens of Eau Claire, Wis., appeal to the public for aid for the sufferers by the recent overflow of the Chippewa River, and have appointed a committee to distribute contributions. J. B. Mobin &. Co.’s butter and cheese storage warehouse at Cedar Rapids, lowa, was destroyed by fire. The loss to building and contents is said to be $40,000... .Isaac Jacobson, the murderer of George Bedell, was executed in. Chicago with such mechanical precision that death was instantaneous with the fall of the drop. Several towns in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana were shaken, on the afternoon of Sept. 19, by an earthquake of a few seconds’ duration, the oscillations being more perceptible in the upper stories of structures. Tableware wife dashed to the floor, furniture disturbed, and windows wrecked, alarming the inmates, *Jfbo, in

Ynauy instances, fled panic-stricken to the streets. At Detroit the intake was severely felt, and the river rose some inches; The Methodist Conference and Ladies’/.Missionary Society, in session at Defiance* Ohio, hastily quitted the building which they occupied; and the 4isturt>ance almost caused a panic at a reunion in Ottawa, Ohio. Children in the schools at Indianapolis became alarmnl, and occupants of railroad depots in the sections visited imagined that a locomotive hnd collided with the buildings. A rumbling souiul was heard in some places, resembling a distant explosion,’ Tremors were also felt in portionsof Canada, Kentucky, and West Virginia. and were so severe in the suburbs T>f Cincinnati as to terrify the children in the schools. The eminent tragedian, John McCullough, began ah engagement at McVieker’s Theater, Chicago, on Monday, in his great character of There are many who regard Mr. McCullough’s personation of the Roman father as the very crown.and flower of all his tragic embodiments. The great actor is supported bv a strong company. the principal members of which have long been associated with hijm > Buchman Bros., clothiers, of 4 Cincinnati, have made an assignment. Their liabilities are placed at $100,000.. .. .Bronson, Mich., was visited by a conflagration, and one side of two business streets was totally destroyed. Loss, $50,000.... .Incendiary fives at Cleveland in the same locality as the big fire of two weeks ,ago caused a loss of $250,090, with insurance of about tbe same..:.. By order of the State Veterinarian of Illinois, four horses afflicted with glanders were killed on the premises of J. W. Barber, of Decatur, after they had bben quarantined for thirty days .. .So stagnant is the lumber trade at East Saginaw that the Board of Trade resolved to ask the boom companies to suspend rafting for the season and the mills to shut down as rapidly as possible, thus closing business six weeks earlier than usual.... The steamers Morning Mail, Bonanza, and Lily, were burned at Cincinnati, involving a loss of about $60,000.