Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1884 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

In Dakota and Northern Minnesota the farmers have determined not to go into the __ wheat-raising business as - extensively as heretofore. Many of them will take to the cattle business as more profitable. The uncertain seasons, the low price of the cereal r and the high freights are the causes which have led to this determination.... Near Albert Lea, Minn., three men went out in a sailboat, which soon capsized. The heaviest man retained hold of the craft, while the others swam ashore for assistance. One of the latter gave out before reaching land and perished, and the man supported by the boat becoming exhausted was also drowned.... The Illinois Liquor-Dealers’ Association passed resolutions in favor of a geneml license system, and pledging its members to use all legitimate means for the repeal of certain objectionable features of the dramshop act... .Ex-United States Senator Nesmith has been placed in an insane asylum at Portland, Oregon. An accident to the engine of a Chicago and Alton passenger train compelled it to stop between Paducah Junction and Cayuga, 111., and a man was sent back to flag a freight following after, but did not go far enough. The freight crashed into the stationary passenger, throwing two passengers oft the track and setting them on fire, thev> being consumed with the engine, baggage, and fifteen freight cars. A heavy rain and thunder storm prevailed at the time, but the passengers miraculously escaped.... The cashier of the First National Bank at Las Vegas. New Mexico, heard robbers tunneling under the vault. He immediately placed guards around the building. A few hours afterward the masonry of the vault gave way. A Mexican descended into the cellar to investigate and shot one of the would-be burglars dead. He proved to be one of the masons who had built the vault. C Frederick 8. Nichols, the chief editor of the Memphis (Tenn.) Daily Avalanche, died very suddenly at Davenport, lowa, of paralysis of the brain.... Gillie Leigh, a member of the British Parliament, lost his life in the Big Horn Mountains of ’Wyoming, where he became separated from a hunting party- His body was found at the base of a precipice, . a , .“Jim” Bosey, a . sporting man who retired ih an intoxicated condition the pre-, ultras ■ night, threw himself from a thirdstory window of an - Indianapolis hotel, receiving fatal injuries

Three cases of Texas fever were discovered among native milch ,eows at Manhattan, Kan., but the' latter are incapable of transmitting the disease..... .Wisconsin’s tobacco crop this year will aggregate 22,500.000 Sounds, and will bring the glowers about 2,000,009.1... A stroke of lightning at Elmwood, 111., killed a babe lying asleep between its parents, leaving the latter unharmed. The managers of the -Soldiers' homes closed their examination of western points for a new institution by a visit to Leavenworth, where the scenery, atmosphere, drainage, and water supply seemed to make a lasting impression. Gen. Franklin is Understood to have committed himself in favor of the site. Justice Field has ruled at San Francisco that Congress intended by the act of 1884 to exclude parol evidence, thijts shutting otit Chinamen who left this country previous to the act of 1882..,.i Miss Wilton, a wealthy youug lady of New York, was frozen to death in a snowstorm ' on Long’s Peak, in Colorado. She ascended the mountain with a guide, but the storm coming on he went for assistance, and when he returned found her dead. ... Father Stack has begun a new suit at Philadelphia to compel Bishop O’Hara to reinstate him in his priestly offices. The Contest involved has b£gn going on for more than twelve years. . Kas., lias been selected as the location of the new Western branch of the National Soldiers’ Home. ; A LAlif.E party of lumber-yard laborers at Michigan City, Ind., sprang into the ferry-boat, and broke the supporting chain, the result being the drowning of two or more persons. Incendiaries in Cleveland fired the lumber-yard of the Saw Mill Company, causing a loss of $29,000. One firm, which received a threatening letter, has employed twenty-men to guard its premises. Two large buildings in Superior street were-set afire, but the flames were quickly extinguished.. . ..One freight train crashed into another near Dunlap. IIL Michael Sailigau, the engineer, was killed. A stock car full of cattle was destroyed by a tire ensuing... .John Wren, dealer in dry goods at Springfield. Ohio, failed, with liabilities of $20,000; assets, $15,000.... Ehler & Co.'s.sash and blind factory and McCracken’s tile works at Cincinnati were damaged $30,000 by fire. .. .Only the lightest boats can navigate the Ohio River at Cincinnati, where the water is sixty-eight feet lower than in February last.