Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1885 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

A decision has been rendered by the Ohio Supreme Court that assessments paid by saloon keepers—amounting to $2,()00,000—before the Scott law was declared invalid, can not be returned... .After striking shale gas, and some veins of rock salt, the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company discovered petroleum in their well at a depth of 2,700 feet, and the oil flow is now copious. The petroleum is unusually clear, and of the best lubricating character,... .The Illinois crop report for the mouth of June has been issued. The indications are that the wheat crop will be less than 10,000,000 bushels thi» year. Faimers are still engaged in plowing up wheat that gives no promise of returning the expense of harvesting. In many counties there will not be enough, wheat harvested for seed and consumption. The condition of winter wheat gave promise of 72 per cent of the average yield April 1, 94 per cent. May 1. and 66 per cent June 1. In Michigan all the crops look well, and wheat is much better advanced than usual. - ,

The lowa State Beard of Health has prohibited public funerals of persons who die from small-pox, scarlet-fever, or diphtheria... .Harlow, Spencer & Co., a St. Louis grain and commission firm, have failed for $90,000. —: A Tombstone (Arizona) special reports that the Apaches killed four soldiers belonging to Capt. Lowden’s command in Guadalupe Canyon. A Mexican named Oshow was killed by another band of Apaches six miles south of Bisbee, in the Whetstone Mountains.... A meeting of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union At Lafayette, Ind., petitioned, President Cleveland and Secretary Manning to remove Third Auditor Williams'’ ’from office... .Sparks’ store and flouring mill at Madison, XVis., was burned, with 6,C00 bushels of wheat and 500 barrels of flour. Loss, 35,000; no insurance,.. .The princigd hotel at Sheboygan, Wis., the Park ouse, was burned, causing a loss of $25,000.... Senator Cullom’s Committee on Interstate Commerce began its sessions in Chicago last week. u A train on the Sioux City Division of the St Paul Road was blown from the track near McCook, D. T., by a cyclone. The sixty odd passengers all received bruises, but only three were seriously injured. Miles of telegraph wires were leveled. Crops generally escaped, as no hail accompanied the storm. Omaha was visited by a blast which swept away $15,C00 worth of property...., A supplementary bulletin has.just been issued at Springfield by the , Illinois State Board of Agricu ture to the effect'that the latest reports have left no room for doubt that the growing crop of winter wheat will be the smallest raised in Illinois for twentyfive years past.... The ravage? of the Hessian fly will cause an estimated loss of 10,000 bushels in the wheat crop of Richland Township, Kalamazoo County, Michigan. .. .The steamer Joe Flemming, owned by the Lemp’s Brewing Company, of St. Louis, and used for towing ice barges, was burned at Depue, on the Illinois River. The loss is estimated at $30,000, with no insurance. The company engaged by Manager McVicker, of Chicago, for the production of John C. Freund’s new play, “True Nobility," on the opening of his theater, June 29, is one of the strongest that have been organized for Chicago in many years. It includes such well-known names as Robert Mantell, Edwin Varrey, W. B. Calisle, Bussell Bassett, Harry Hawk, Luke Martin, Charles Mason, Geo. Conway, Geo. Paxton, and John C. Freund, the author of the play, Viola Allen, Ida Vernon, Blanche Thorne, Etta Baker, Uanche Vang tin, and Mamie Doud. New scenery will be provided for the play by John Maggaronovich and J, Howard Edgers, and will incude two magnificent views of the Colorado region. Manager McVicker intends following “True Nobility" with a series of standard plays, and is now in negotiation with some of the leading members of the dramatic profession with the vie* of presenting the different plays with extraordinarily strong casta. ... ■ t

McVicker’s summer season will be in reality a great dramatical festival. ' j Six dwellings and seven, barns wer,e demolished by a tornado at Pulaski, lowa, and Sol Wfyers, wife, and child, and Miss Ellen Hoffman were killed. A number of persons were injured. Five houses were destroyed at one at Victor, and the Deaf and Dumb Institute at Council Bluffs. At Sioux City the cyclone wrecked a train, injuring several passengers. Heavy rains flooded large areas of territory and swelled the streams beyond all precedent. A tornado in Nebraska caused groat damage along the line of the jUnion Pacific RailroadA colored man named Turner Graham and his wife were killed by a mob at Osgood, Ohio. The pair were quarrelsome and addicted to drink, though harmless otherwise. They had been away from home on a spree, rand when they returned they were riddled with shot„.„ ! Telegrams received by the War Department confirm the reports of an attack by Apadhes upon Lawton’s camp, near Gaudaloupe canyon, New-Mexico, in which five soldiers were killed... .Chief of Police Harrigan, of St. Louis, was found guilty by the Board of Police Commissioners of receiving a reward from outside parties for police services and was fined SIOO and reprimanded. ... .In Peoria all public gimbling-houses have been closed, and the Mayor has, besides, ordered thot the saloons must suspend business Sunday.