Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1884 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

Michael H. De Young, proprietor of the San Franc sco Chronicle, was shot in that city by Adolph Spreckels, a son of Clans Spreckels, the Hawaiian sugar king, on account of a recent article in the Chronicle respecting the affairs of the Hawaiian Commercial Sugar Company, The affair took place in the business office of the paper. Two shots were fired, the first lodging in De Young's left arm a little above the elbow and the second in his left shoulder. Both wounds were slight, the bullets were soon removed, and De Young walked to his carriage and was driven home. Spreckels was promptly arrested and locked up for safe keeping. The affray naturally calls to mind the tragic end of Charles De Young, a brother of M. H. De Young, four years ago, through the deadly aim and fatal execution of young Kalloch’s pistol.... Proposals are solicited for the grading of fifty miles on the extension of the Vanderbilt line in Northwestern Nebraska, which will bring the road-bed to a point ninety miles south of Deadwood by July 15.... Dakota’s new Capitol, at Bismarck, having been completed, Gov. Pierce has issued a proclamation, under the removal act, requiring all Territorial officers to be at Bismarck within thirty days. Judge Utt, in the Circuit Court at Dubuque, lowa, has rendered a decision sustaining the defendants’ demurrers to apetition by the Citizens’ League for an injunction to restrain certain saloon-keepers from selling liquor, on the ground that such sale was a nuisance and opposed to the State law. In his decision Judge Utt holds that under the prohibitory law there must be a conviction before an injunction can issue, and that to grant the petition would be to deprive the defendants of the right of trial by jury.... Maurice M. Despres, born at Tamblaine, France, Aug. 15, 1781, and consequently 103 years of age, has just died in Chicago. In his youth and early manhood he was an eye-witness of many of the stirring scenes during and subsequent to the French Revolution. .. .David Eastman, of Harlem, Winnebago County, Hl., lost a $5,000 farm by betting on Blaine, and long after election day refused an offer of S4OO to draw the wager. A young lady of Cairo is said to have won a lyisband by betting on Cleveland... .Between 1,500 and 1,800 men have been thrown out of employment by the closing down of the North Chicago Rolling Mill Company’s mills at South Chicago Workmen boring for natural gas at Findlay, Ohio, struck a vein of crude petroleum at a depth of 718 feet. Depression in the sugar trade has resulted in the serious embarrassment of the Belcher Sugar Refining Company of St. Louis, one of the oldest and best-known , firms connected with the sugar interest in this country. Its total indebtedness is reported at $650,000. The total vote of Dakota in 1882 was 45,185, indicating a population of 236,000. The vote this year indicates 205,000 in South and 170,000 in North Dakota,or 420,000 in the whole Territory, an increase of 45 per cent, in two years.... Gas from the well being drilled on the Pole farm near Cleveland, Ohio, ignited, destroying the rig and burning two men severely. The flame mounted upward forty feet, illuminating the surrounding country.... Three children of John Bonder perished by fire in his farm-house near Vassar, Mich., while the parents were at work in the fields. ... .A three-days’ convention of Christian workers, under direction of Mr. Moody, was held at Detroit... .The grain commission firm of Grier Brothers, of St. Louis, has failed. 1 A terrible disease is raging in the Kansas Penitentiary, where 800 prisoners are

confined. The disease is pronounced malignant typhoid fever by physicians who have investigated it. Six convicts are sick' and ten have already died. The penitentiary has been turned into a great hospital, many of the convicts being employed as nurses and in burying the dead.... The assignment of B. C. Winston & Co., hardwood dealers at St. Paul, with liabilities of SBO,OOO, was directly caused by the death of S. R. Stimson, the junior partner. .... The trial of Daniel Holcomb, at Jackson, Mich., for the murder of the Crouch family, has been indefinitely postponed on account of the death of Frank E. Hewlett, Prosecuting Attorney.... A factoiy at Youngstown, Ohio, is engaged in making nickel-plated shingles for the New Orleans Exposition... .The Grand Opera House, St. Louis, Mo., was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $175,000. It was insured for $150,000... .The Superintendent of Public Instruction for Dakota reports 50,000 children enrolled in the schools last summer.