Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1885 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

The Utan and Wyoming Central Railroad, with a capital of $3,500,000, has been incorporated at Salt Lake City. The line will run north to the shore of Great Salt Lake, in Davis County, and there connect with transfer boats. Another organization will extend the road through Wyoming, where it is proposed to make connections with the Chicago and Northwestern... .A dispatch from Sibley, lowa, says “the loss by the recent tornado, which extended over ten counties, is estimated to foot up fully $700,000. In Cherokee Cbunty alone the damage is said to be fully $200,000. There have been, so far, thirteen reported killed, Beven dangerously wounded, and sixty more or less injured. The scorm was over one hundred miles in extent. ”.... The second annual convention of the German Veterans was held at St Louis. Carl Winckler, of Chicago, was re-elected President, and it was decided to hold the next meeting at Cincinnati.... An oil well recently sunk at Lima, Ohio, is flowing at the rate of six barrels an honr.

' Sioux City (Iowa) dispatch: “So far as known twenty lives were lost and over fifty persons severely injured by the recent destructive storms’in lowa, and the estimated aggregate loss of property in the State is about $700,000, much of which falls upon farmers in the western and northern portions of the State, whose homes and crops were literally scattered to the winds. Deaths in Cherokee County are reported so far to the number of ten. The killed in Plymouth County number four. A large number were injured more or less seriously. There were many miraculous escapes fyom death and injury. A good deal of stock was killed. Chickens were slain by the hundreds, while hail beat the growing crops into the ground in various parts of the country. The injury to orchards and groves is something the country cannot recover from in years. The wonder is that there were not more killed and wounded. Over 600 claims for damages have already been filed with agents in Lemars alone, and it is thought the number will reach 1,000 in the county. It falls heavily upon several of the State companies,”.... Reports from the Indian Territory state that Bill Williamson, Pete Moore, and Geo. Morgan, members of a gang of desperadoes and horse and cattle-thieves, were captured by a vigilance committee near Healton, and hanged to a tree. Other members of the gang are being pursued, and will be lynched if caught. Ex- Senator James W. Nesmith died at Derry, Polk County, Ore., aged sixty-five. His end was peaceful, and death was as if sinking to sleep. He was a pioneer of 1813, and achieved national fame as the great Democratic war Senator from 1861 to the close of the war.... The area of com in Illinois is much larger than last season, es--5 peciaily in the wheat sections of the State. Insects have damaged' the growing plant quite seriously in rnhny portions of the State, and the season has been too cold for com to make its usual growth.

News comes from Fort Lewis, Colo., that six Ute Indians have been killed in the Dolores Valley by whites, and that the Chief of the tribe demands satisfaction or he will retaliate. Four Indians were killed at Rossfork Agency, Idaho. The trouble was occasioned by a couple of Bannocks, who had been depredating on the agency stock. Learning that they were " about to be arrested for their thefts they drew the Ind an police from the agency, opening fire upon them, killing two and wounding a third, the others escaping. Later in the day about 200 police surrounded the thieves near the agency and riddled them with bullets.—Advioes from the Indian Territory say there has been a feeling of alarm the last few week.s at Darlington, the Cheyenne and: Arapahoe Agency, on account of transferring troops from the Fort Reno garrison, which left the agency entirely defenseless. The Indians are in a moody temper, and an outbreak is feared... .A dispatch from Cincinnati, Ohio, reports the finding of $75,000 in fold and silver coin hidden in the walls of a ouso on Court street, recently occupied by a liquor-dealer named Bcbertz, who died the other day. Schertz always lived like a poor man, and the discover is a surprise. He left a memorandum for his brother showing in vbat place the money was hidden.... At West Wheeling, Ohio, a Polish potter

named Kessler strapped the dead body of his daughter to n plunk, and wtti about to place it in one of his kiln for cremation, when indignant cicize*s interferred ana gave the remains burial. Subsequently Kessler, who claimed to be acting under divine inspiration, attempted to murder his wife with an ax. <