Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1885 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

Near Blakesbnrg, lowa, a band of masked men seized Pleasant Anderson, hurried him to a school house, where a mock trial was indulged in. the sentence being death. They then hanged him to a tree. A year ago Anderson was acquitted of the murder of Chris McAllister, but a feeling prevailed in the community that he was guilty, and the lynching was the result ... .Col. Hatch is organizing an expedition at Leavenworth, composed of six troops of cavalry and a company of infantry, to remove another band of raiders from the Indian Territory.... Iron manufacturers in the Mahoning Valley have agreed upon a redaction of 10 per cent in the wages of all employes except members of the Amalgamated Association .... The toy firm of Etzel, Hutchison A Go., of St Louis, with liabilities of SIOO,OOO, has declared itself insolvent Reports from the stock ranges of Montana are of the most discouraging character. The snow has fallen to a great depth, and the absenee of wind to carry it away makes it next to impossible for cattle to get at the grass, and Block are starving to death... Advices from extreme" Southwestern Texas state that tire recent cold weather was quite destructive to live stock in that section, large numbers of poor cattle and sheep having penshed.... News is received of the wreck of the German berk Lisle near Petrolia, Cal. The first officer, the oook, and three seamen were drowned.....A colony of three thousand Finns is about to be established in Hancock County. Michigan. A priest and his advance guard have landed atPortl&nd,Maine, on the way to select a site Fire swept away $260,000 worth of business property at Evansville, Ind. A mob fired the Bristol tunnel on the Baltimore A Ohio Road near Shawnee, 0. The flames were extinguished, but a few hours later the tunnel was again set on fire by the inoendiaries. Twenty thousand dollars’ worth of damage was done... .The body of Dr. James H. Harris, a well-known physician who died suddenly at Indianapolis, waS tamed over for dissection to the Medical College. His will contained this stipulation, and his wife mitered no objections.... William 8. Denny, assistant postmaster at Remus, Mich., was arrested on New Year's Day for opening registered letters. He promptly pleaded guilty, when arraigned at Grand Rapids, and was sentenced to "one year in the penitentiary... .Dr. Shillockhas been arrested at Chaska, Minn., for bodysnatching.” The physician’s brother and a student in the Minneapolis College Hospital are also involved.. ~A tablet over Kit Carson’s grave in Taos Mexico, was dedicated last week' Delegate Joseph delivering the oration. Times are hard in Kansas. Corn is selling as low as 10 cents a bushel, and farmers are using it for fuel. Trade is dull and the banks have shut their money up in their vaults. Millers refuse to reduce the price of flour, and the railroads help to keep toe country poor by charging the same price for takinggrain to marketas when wheat was worth $1,25 a bushel and com was bringing 40 to 60 cents... .In consequence of his renouncing his belief in the doctrine of eternal torment, the Rev. D. M. Brown, pastor of toe Methodist Church at Las Vegas, N. M., has been compelled to resign.... The money package lost by toe Adams Express Company at Indianapolis was in some mysterious manner replaced in the safe, probably by toe frightened thief.... Michael Mullen, Lieutenant of Police, at Cincinnati, was sentenced to twelve months in toe jail for arresting voters at the last election under false pretexts. .. .Clinton Smith, 19 years old, shot and killed his father at Terre Haute... .L. 9. Huffier, absconding Mayor of Davis City, lowa, was arrested in Decatur County, lowa. ...The Bay View Mills, near Milwaukee, have resumed... .Andrew Eichenbrecher, founder of toe Zoological Garden at Cincinnati, died from heart disease.