Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1885 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

Detroit telegram: "The meeting of Socialists drew a large audience at Germania Hall to discuss the dynamite question. Two German speakers led off deploring the use of explosives, and declaring that peaceful and constitutional methods were the best course for the Socialists to pursue. This elicited some applause, but when three other speakers openly defended dynamite violence and indorsed the Irish conspirators the applause became- deafening. Lyman E. Stowe cursed the present civilization, and said capitalists were waging a deadly war on the people. If the dynamiters had sent to heaven the bankers assembled in Saratoga last fall; if they woulctblow up a few railroad monopolists and send- them to Satan, and if both our own Senate mid the English House of Lords were dynamited to kingdom come, it would be a glorious thing for the masses. The meeting broke up m confusion without adopting the anti-dynamite resolutions prepared by those who caßed it.".. . .Judge Prendergast, of Chicago, having learned that a verdict for SIOO damages against a landlord was reached by a jury by the foreman flipping a penny, promptly granted a new trial.... Mrs. Sarah Althea Hill-Sharon has been awarded by the court in San Francisco $2,500 a month alimony and $55,000 counsel fees. Thb Illinois State Encampment, G. A. R., met at Peoria. A membership of 20,000 was reported, 105 posts being added during the year. A resolution was unanimously passed asking the Illinois Congressional delegation to Urge the passage of the Edmunds bill retiring Gen. Grant... .Geo. Scott, an aged resident of Gibson City, HL, seized a young woman whose clothes were on fire and carried her to a snowdrift, saving her life and losing his own. ... .Frederick Hempel, a prominent citizen at Beaver Dam. Wis., with whom a number of poor Germans deposited their funds, has failed for $30,000, with assets of but $4,000.....8ray Bros., grain commission merchants at San Francisco, failed for $50,000. with assets as large, but not readily convertible. New warrants are to be issued for the arrest of Couch and other Oklahoma boomers, to be made returnable March 5, the day which has been set apart for another raid upon the territory. General Hatch will make ammgements for preventing any future m vement that may be attempted The annual report of the Chicago and Alton Road for 1884 is given. Gross earnings amounted to $8,709,274 22, against $8,810,610.38 in 1883, a decrease of $101,336.16.... .Mr. Armstrong, of the Crow Agency, in Montana, has secured from the Secretary of the Interior an order for the imprisonment of three Indian chiefs who are turbulent characters....P. 8. Shelly & Son, wholesale and retail glass and crockery, at Peoria, Hl., have failed for $26,000... .Half the business portion of Marshall, Hl., was destroyed by fire, creating a loss of $40,000... .The business portion of Bisbee, Arizona Territory, was swept away by fire, the loss reaching $100,000... .The ministers at Shelbyville, 111., have begun a crusade against progressive euchre. Twelve bodies of the rictims of the snowslide at Alta, Utah, weye brought to Salt Lake. Four of those reported dead were reecued alive, after being buried for hours. By other avalanches in the vicinity six persons have perished. The Grannis Block, one of the finest office buildings in Chicago, was totally destroyed by fire. The firemen fought the flames for hours under the most trying circumstances. The cold was intense, and the streets were flooded with water, which threatened for a time to invade the basements of the neighboring buildings, where great damage might have beep done to perishable stock. Two banks and one private banking firm were among the sufferers. The total loss is estimated at $259.006. One fireman was badly hurt by a falling icicle.. .A plow factory at Hamburg. lowa, with its contents of manufactured farm implements, wagons, etc., was consumed by fire. Loss, $40,000; insured for $20,006. ’. .Mrs. Mack, of Janesville, Wis., who wee tried twice for murdering her husband, being convicted once, bus cheekmated the prosecution by marrying the principal witness against her, and, the other witnesses being scattered, it is not provable that the case will be called again.... Kat Mudmhntg, Ohio, new petroleum wells pened daily. Three spontera, •ventyrfive barrets each, were »e day, and the population is rapidly increasing... .Horses and cattle are dbring in large numbers in the Caldwell (Ohio) seption from a mysterious epidemic, the lorn to farmers thus far reaching $20,$00... .The Weatern Export Association, at

a prolonged session in Chicago, re-estab-lished the whisky pool. X On the Palouse .River, ■Washington Territory, a desperado, named Calvin Pierce, quarreled with a young miner named W. H. Newcomb, and subsequently crept up behind him and split his head open with a pickax. The - murderer jescaped, but an alarm was given, and he was speedily captured. A vigilance committee, composed of miners, tried Pierce, condemned him to death, and he was immediately hanged to the nearest tree. The body was left suspended some time, but was* finally buried. Milton MortoN, a Cleveland business man, suspecting that his place would be robbed, fixed a revolver so that it would be discharged if a certain window were opened. That night Michael Murray attempted to invade the place, and received the bullet in his chest Roswell Miller has been called to the St Paul Road. Joseph F. Tucker has accepted the position of Assistant General Manager, with entire supervision, of freight and passenger traffic.