Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1885 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

The Kansas State Live Stock Commission, at its meeting last week, recommended to the Governor the subjection to quarantine for ninety days of cattle from the following State's: Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey. Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio** Illinois, Kentucky. Tennessee, and four counties in Missouri, namely, Callaway, Boone, Audrain, aqd Montgomery, to guard against danger from pleuro-pneumonia.... The new Police Commissioners of Cincinnati have ordered the immediate closing of gambling-houses, the expulsion of confidence men, and the arrest of street-walkers for vagrancy and of sidewalk loafers- for loitering The commission appointed by the Legislature of Wisconsin to purchase a residence for the Governor 'the house and grounds formerlyoWned by Ole Bull, for $20,000... TSh epidemic among Bheep is reported from Clinton County. Illinois, where a farmer buried thirty of his flock in one day. John H. Shaw, a Democratic member , ] of the Illinois House, was found dead in his room at n hotel in Springfield ou the morning of April 12. Dri Kerr testified at the inquest that the deceased probably succumbed to paralysis of the brain during the night. Mr. Shaw was burn in Boston in 1825, was a lawyer by profession, and resided at Beardstown Fire in the Stillman House, Cleveland, Ohio, destroyed the upper story of the building, causing a loss of $50,000. The servant girls, whose quarters were on the seventh floor, had barely time to escape. At Lee’s Summit, twenty-five miles from Kansas City, twenty-eight buildings were destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of SIOO,OOO. Ten stores at Robinson, Kan., were burned, causing a loss of S4O,OQy. Cutsinge’s starch factory was burned at Edinburg, Ind.; loss $75,000.