Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1884 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

At the outer end of the Hyde Park waterworks, just southward of Chicago, fifteen laborers had been living in a cabin built on a platform in the lake. The other morning the structure was toppled over by the waves. The Chicago life-saving crew rescued five of the sufferbis from the timbers to which they had clung for hours. Ten of the party probably lost their lives in the angry sea In Elkhorn Cut, twenty-lfve miles from Omaha, on the Union Pacific, a light engine and a freight, train dashed together, one of the locomotives and several cars being demolished. The engineer and fireman of roastedtodeath. . . . The Indiana Supreme Court has decided that it has no power to respite or grant pardon to convicted criminals, The law conferring that power onany other person than the Governor is unconstitutional. Miss Mary Hoyt, daughter of the late Jesse Hoyt, the millionaire, visited a New York police station the other night, abused and hurled missiles at the officer in charge, and was locked up for being drunk and —disorderly; She made asccne rn a.Justice’s Court and was fined $lO. As.she had been an inmate of an asylum in 1882, her friends declare that she was temporarily insane, but not intoxicated. ■« Day Brothers <fc Co., dry goods dealers at Peoria, HL, made an assignment just ten minutes before United States Marshal Jones stepped into the establishment to make a seizure for Eastern creditors. A partial statement shows: Secured claims, $200,000; other liabilities, $122,000; assets,. $86,000... .L. B.'anden & Co.’s steam flouring mill at Fort Dodge, lowa, was destroyed by fire,' with 2.000 sacks of flpjjr;and 10,000 bushels of wheat. The loss is $75,000, with SBO,OOO insurance.... During a Democratic demonstration at Clinton. Ohio, one man was killed and two badly injured by the explosion of a cannon. ....Small-pox, supposed to have been brought by emigtants, is spreading rapidly in the vicinity of Brookings, D. T. The Third Presbyterian Church, at the comer of Ashland and Ogden avenues, Chicago, was destroyed by fire. The flames broke out in the organ loft and almost immediately spread to the trestle work of the roof. The loss is in the neighborhood o.f $75,000. The insurance on the building was about $91,000. ...A majority of the heavy shippers of Porland, Ore., have determined to give their business next year to the Union Pacific Road, throwing over the Northern Pacific Company because of its alleged bad faith. ~. .The motion for a new trial for James Dacey, the murderer of Aiderman Gaynor, was refused at Woodstock by Judge Wilson, who sentenced him to be hanged Nov. 21..... At Troy. Ind., Mrs. Hendershot was murdered by her husband and sons for refusing to sign a deed to a ffirm to which she held title. The villains were promptly arrested. One of the sons was lynched by the citizens of Troy.. Work has been renewed in the Calumet and Hecla mine, in Michigan, the flames having been smothered with steam... .Charlee W. Butler was hanged at Columbia City, Ind., for wife-murder. A desperate effort was made by his friends to secure a respite or commutation of the sentence.

The Dakota Methodist Episcopal Conference adopted a resolution refusing' to consent to admission of the Territory as a State unless its constitution contained prohibition.... Ten cases of glanders were discovered at Vincennes, lowa?.. .The Rev. J. M. Robinson, of Indianapolis, was tffound dead in a sleeping-car berth at Peoria.