Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1884 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

Surveys have beeu made for an iron bridge across the Mississippi Hirer at Prairie du Chien, to take the place of the pontoon structure. The latter has paid from $35,000 to $50,000 per annum. The new bridge will be built by a stock company, at a cost of SBOO,OOO or mere, and will be nearly a mile in length , “Omaha Charley,” a desperado, whose real name was Charles Stevens, was taken from the jail at Maryville, Mo., by a mob and hanged from the railroad bridge. Stevens 6hot Hubert Kramer at Maryville, Dec. 3. Another lynching occurred at Daggett, Cal., where William White, charged with killing Josiah O. Harris, Dec. 5, was hanged to a telegraph pole by a party of regulators .... J. W. Mills' saloon at New Paris, Ind., was destroyed by incendiaries, who were opposed to having a liquor shop in the town. The citizens of Andersonville. Ohio, turned out in great numbers and dispatched a tiger which had escaped from his winter quarters' in a menagerie. The animal had killed hogs, sheep, and cows along his route, but attacked no human being.... Keuben B. Springer, of Cincinnati, known throughout the country for his gifts to public institutions, died* in his chair, from paralysis of the heart, in his 85th year.... The wheat yield of California, this year, officially reported, is 57,420,188 bushels, leading all other States in the Union. This is the product of 3,587,864 acres, being an average yield of 16.4 bushels. An indictment has been rendered by the Federal Grand Jury at Chicago against Jos. G. Mackin, Henry Biehl,, and Arthur Gleason, and another against Strausser, Hansbrough, and Shields, judges of election in the -Second Precinct of the Eighteenth Ward, and Kelly and Sullivan, election clerks in the same precinct. Biehl and Gleason were arrested and put under $5,000 bonds each. Mackin gave himself up, and was also put under bonds in a like affiount. With the rendering of the indictments the investigation come 3to an end.... The horrors connected with the Crouch murders at Jackson, Michigan, received reenforcement last week by the attempt of a witness to cut his throat. The sudden breaking out of fire in Gray, Toynton & Fox’s candy factory at Detroit caused the girls employed in the second story to rush for the fire-escape, in descending which one young woman fell aad was slightly hurt. Three girls were seen at a window, but a sudden burst of the fames drove them back, and they were burned to death. When James M. Lean- stepped down to a hotel parlor at Logansport, Ind., to be married to Ida Hostetter, it was found that Ida had fled with Burton Weaver. Leary had purchased a marriage license, feed the parson, and expended S6O toward the faithless one’s trousseau.... Forty-five lodges and 4,000 members were added during the year to the Good Templar phalanx in Dakota... .Two Idaho cowboys - tied their left hands together and fought a duel with knives until both fell dead. Neill McKeague, who gained notoriety in connection with the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Willson, near Chicago, last spring, has just heen sentenced at St. Catherine’s, Ontario, to six months' imprisonment at hard labor for assaulting a clairvoyant, who “revealed” some unpleasant things in his past life Orrin A. Carpenter, who was acquitted of the murder of Zura Bums, at Lincoln, 111., has fled from that place to avoid assassination bv the girl’s father. His once ample fortune has shrunk to a quarter section of faming land. \ A verdict was returned at Cleveland, Ohio, by the jury in the freight-discrim-ination suit of Scofield, Shurmer & Teagle against the Lake Shore Boad for $5,000

in favor of the plaintiffs. , The railroad charged the plnintiffs a higher rate for the transportation of oil thniv the Standard Oil Company was obliged to pay,... A verdict for $50,000 was rendered at StPaul againfet the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroad, in favor of C. L, Dunn, who was injured in an accident in February last near Green, 10wa.... .Elisha Hoyt, of Washington, Ind., assigned owing to embarrassment caused by the failure of the banking firm of Hyatt, Leviugs & Co. ' His assets are reported at $250,000, and liabilities SIOO,OOO.