Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1885 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

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The Attorney General of lowa has decided that Cattell, the new appointee, is de facto State Auditor, and that warrants drawn by him_must be paid by the State Treasurer... .The forfeited lands of the Texas Pacific were declared open for entry at Tucson, A. T., and hundreds of people rushed to the land office to make entries. Gen. Anson Stager, a much-esteemed citizen of Chicago, died in that city last week. Gen. Stager organized and had charge of all the Government military telegraphic lines during the war. He was one of the most expert electricians in the world, and a man of extraordinary executive ability. He was 60 years of age. J. H. McVicker, of Chicago, secured a permit to place two additional stories on his theater, to cost $100,000.... .Capt Prindiville, who escaped from the steamer Michigan, says there are thirty inches of ice from the straits down to the islands, and from present appearances no vessel will be able to go from Chicago to Buffalo before June... .Joseph Aitaria, a laborer living in Illinois street, Chicago, was stricken with small-pox after the parade on St Patrick’s Day. He claims that he has never been in contact with the disease. Two Chicago firms have.made contracts to furnish the British army with 10,000,000 pounds of canned beef. The orders came from the British War Department, the destination being Woolwich., It will require two weeks to fill the orders. These are the largest orders ever received here, and, owing to their magnitude, the supposition is that they are to meet a war emergency. The canning houses are working day and night in order to meet these demands. Orth Stein, who three years ago killed George Fredericks, at Kansas City, for which he was once sentenced to imprisonment for twenty-five years, was acquitted on the ground of self-defense. The prohibitory liquor law was yesterday the cause of a fight on the street in Atchison, Kan., between the Rev. D. C. Miner and a saloon-keeper named Jesse Crall. The latter struckthe first blow, and x the struggle lasted for five minutes... .An explosion of gas caused a fire in the Michigan carbon-works, near Detroit, resulting in a loss of $150,000 before the city fireengine could reach the scene. The yard foreman, Isaac Burke, fell from the building and broke his shoulder-blade. An incendiary fire destroyed fourteen buildings at Oakland Cemetery, Ind., the loss being variously estimated at between $40,000 and SIOO,OOO. The insurance amounts to $40,000. '■

Douglas R. Hale, formerly manager of the Chicago Clearing-House, has been granted a divorce from a woman now serving a term at the Bridewell for shop-lifting. She was once the wife of Mike Weaver, the famous burglar..;. The Treasury Department has ordered a survey of the lot in Chicago on which the Apisraisers’ Building is tone erected, and work will be commenced at an early date. ’ , • » At San Francisco John Kane, a wealthy stock-raiser, insisted oh his wife accompanying him to Colusa County to live. Enraged at her refusal, he seized a Winchester rifle and fired; three bullets into her and then killed himself Ex-Gov. Fletcher, of Missouri, disappeared from St Louis, and no trace of him can be obtained. The Buchanan County Court House at St Joseph, Mo., was partially destroyed by fire. The building was completely gutted, except the wing containing the County Court and the office of the Recorder of Deeds. The Probate Court; County Collector’s office, and all the records and books were destroyed. The law library, valued at SIO,OOO was burned. The county jail was saved. The building cost $250,000. Perry H. Smith, formerly Vice President of the Northwestern Road, died at his residence in Chicago, of congestion of the liver. For some yean his health had been extremely poor, and a conservator was appointed for his estate.