Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1885 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

THE lowa Supreme Court has decided that a liquor firm must pay Schufeldt & Co., of Chicago, $5,000 for goods obtained on credit The defense was the provisions of the liquor law, but the judges held that the intoxicants had been purchased in Illinois... ,W. F. McArthur, district attorney for Winnebago County, Wisconsin, was fatally shot by a cripple named Paul Steinel, an old resident of Neenah. The difficulty arose from a suit in which McArthur was Steiners counsel... .Horses on the stage line between Bismarck and Fort Yates, D. T., have been fonnd to be afflicted with glanders. Reports from Minneapolis indicate that there is not more than enough water-power, owing to the fall of the river, to drive half the mills of the city. There has been in consequence a decreased output of flour. Mill owners have formal a pool to reduce &e flour production one-third... .In a decision much longer than a Presidential message, a judge at San Francisco declares that under the laws of California Sarah A. Hill is the wife of ex-Senator Sharon, and is entitled to a divorce for deserton, and a division of common property. The estate involved is estimated at $10,000,000... .W. C. Harvey, stationagent at Panora, la., was robbed of an express package containing $2,000, which had been sent by the Valley National Bank of Des Moines to the Guthrie County National Bank at Panora. He was attacked by a ruffian, who shattered his arm with a pistol ba11. .. .Israel Bros., who owned clothing houses at Waterloo, Lemars, and Cedar Rapids, lowa, have made an assignment, with liabilities of $58,280. It is claimed that unsecured creditors will fare badly. ... .Flames consumed the building formerly known as the Academy of Music in Minneapolis, causing a loss of $200,000. The insuranoe was about $150,000. The building has recently been occupied by stores. .. .The Masonic Temple at Cincinnati was damaged by fire to the amount of SIOO,OOO, and Enoch T. Carson'sMasonic library was utterly destroyed. i, R. Mills & Co., printers, who occupied rooms in the building, lost $30,000. .... Four buildings at Peninsula Harbor, on the northern shore of Lake Superior, wire consumed by fire A man perished in the flames, and a woman was fatally burned. .*. .Hogs are dying in Southern Nebraska of a new. disease. In the head of each animal that dies of the complaint a large grub-worm is fonnd. According to the report of E. R. Hutchins, Superintendent of Labor in lowa, the average yearly earning of the head of a family in the State is S7BO, and the’avernge family expenses only S4OO. This is $251 better showing than Illinois, $2Ol better than Ohio, and $453 better than Massachusetts. Five-sevenths of lowa’s workingmen own homes, while but one-third of Ohio’s and of Illinois’ workingmen eDjoy a similar luxury. Carpenters in lowa average $2.25 per day, masons $3.66, blacksmiths $2.80, painters SHSO, plasterers $2.674, harnessmakere $2, and laborers $1.45.... A county-seat war is imminent in Potter County, Dakota. Gettysburg claims to have won the prize at the last election from Forest City. Over 2,060 Indians are concentrated at the latter place to prevent the removal of the records, which is threatened by the Gettisbuig people... .James Collins, a Panhandle Railway agent at Cadiz Junction, Ohio, fled Christmas night, taking SIO,OOO of stolen and borrowed money C. B. Bird, a Sioux City clothier, has failed for $25,000.