Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1885 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

Striking employes (mostly Poles) of the Oliver Chilled Plow Works at South Bend, In<L, assembled at the works and permitted no person to enter, maiming those who made the attempt Several persons were wounded by the rioters, and great excitement prevailed. The Veteran Guards, G. A. R., turned out, and were appointed to act as special militia, and Captain Gore was ordered to report with his Elkhart company.... Striking miners at Shawnee, in the Hocking Valley, are said to be arming themselves with Spencer rifles. Three companies of militia liave been prdered to hold themselves in readiness.... .In a 12-iuch balk-line billiard game at St Louis, Schaefer defeated Catton, who scored but 180. Schaefer was to play 600 to his opponent’s 400.... James Morrison’s porkpacking establishment at Cincinnati was damaged $50,000 by fire. Schuyler Cobfax, on arriving at Mankato, Minn., on the 13th inst, walked threefourths of a mile to the Omaha depot in an atmosphere 30 degrees below zero, and within five minntes thereafter expired from heart disease. He was born in New York City in 1823. He served 6even terms in Congress, was three times elected Speaker of the House, and became Vice President in 1860. Since retiring to private life he has spent much time in the lecture-field... .Gov. Wil iam Hale, of Wvoming, died at Cheyenne, and W. W. O'Brien, a distinguished criminal lawyer, passed away at Chicago. Abbaugeieents have been made by theSouthwestenMlailway Association by which live-stock trhinß between Kansas City and Chicago irill be run in from forty-one to forty-two hours, instead of sixty hoars as heretefore. This change has been made in response to a request by the live-stock shippers, who claimed that they sulfered great loss on account of slow trains... .Joseph A. Dibble, a farmer near Osceola, Mich., was married adne weeks after the death of his first wife. At night ho was visited by a charivari party, upon whom he fired fr>m an upper window, killing one man and wounding three others. The Kart family, at Creston, lowa, twelve persons in all, have shat themselves up in their house, hourly expecting the end of (he world. They spend the time in poring over their Bibles; and fears are expressed that one of their number, a yonng girl, who is an “ unbeliever," will be offered as a sacrifice The unfortunate Emma Bond, of Taylorville, 81., suffers from paralVsia of the tongue, and is in a condition akin to death. ... .Thomas Farrell, aged 111, died at St. Paid. , A Bpo -pound hog, owned by Farmer Buchanan, at Bosooe, 111, waa accidentally under a straw rick last October. The animal was unearthed olive, and found to weigh but twenty-five pounds, but has increased its avoirdupois materially since its discovery... .The special Grana Jury for Cook County, Illinois, has found true bills against Mackin, Biehl, and nearly all the others charged with complicity in

the Eighteenth Ward election frauds.... William Felix Henry (oolored) was hanged, at Ed wards vilk,. HI., for murdering two negroes in 1883. .. ..Wright Leroy was executed at San Francisco for choking Nicholas Skerrett to death.. . .The Crouch murder case cost Jackson County, Mi 'll., $30,000. The /persons implic ited claim that their expenses ipve > ■■.vjjfltai fno Oral sen-ices ow the remains of tiwlate ex-Vice President Colfax took place at South Bend, Ind. The Rev, N. D. Williamson preachcMl the sermon. The relnaifisOwere placed in a vault An immense throng of people followed the dead'body to its last resting place. A detached ward of the Eastern Illi-' nois Hospital for the Insane at Kankakee, 111., was totally destroyed by fire. Tho building was occupied by forty-five patients, six attendants, and one night-watchman. Seventeen) patients are missing. Thirteen bodies were taken from the ruins, burned beyond recognition. All of the patients wete infirm or incurable, and many were rescued only by being dragged from the burning building and held. The fol-V lowing is a list of those that perished: Henry Brown, Rock Island; H. W. Belden, Galesbnrg; George Bennett, Morris; Joseph Colbert, Chicago; Orlando Ellis. Pon.iac; J. W. Gallowav, Muoonpin; Thomas Hickey, Springfield; Matthew Hague. Chebrase; T. Hachner, Stevenson County; Thomas H -relv. Chicago; John Johnson, Vermillion, Michael Jordan, Chicago; J. Nathan, Chicago; A. Runyard, Winnebago County; C. Strotz, Chicago: J. W. Tyler, Chicago; F. Weymouth, Putman County. .. .At Albion, Idaho, Perry- Pleasants, a criminal, was placed in charge of Charles Butterfield, a Deputy Sheriff. Butterfield stood guard over his prisoner with a double-barreled shotgun. The latter took advantage of ap opportunity to draw a revolver from his boot-leg and put a bullet through tho Sheriff. Butterfield, though mortally wounded, blew Pleasants’ head off with buckshot.... David E. Swann, who embezzled $51,000 from the Northern Pacific office at St. Paul, entered a plea of guilty, and was sentenced to thirteen years and and six months at hard labor... .In the Kent County (Mich.) Circuit Court, George Thurston was given a verdict for SB,OOO against Ransom D. Luce, for being kicked down-stairs by Luce ‘ten years ago... .A hurricane which swept over Steubenville, Ohio, caused damage estimated at $250,000. The First Presbyterian Church is a complete wreck.. ..A bill to change the capital from Bismarck to Pierre has been introduced in the Dakota Legislature.