Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1885 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

A mix was flleil iu the County Court nt Chicago, June fft. on behalf of Sidney Smith in his contest for the Mayoralty. The complainants, six in number, declare, in substance, that “they desire to contest the election of Outer Harrison on the grounds that Sidney Smith received about 1,000 majority, and that divers persons, who were not qualified doctors, nut! who were not entitled to vote, to the number of So>7 and upward, did vote for Carter H. Harrison for Mayor iq, the various election districts of the First, I'iHh Svt vtK KliftlitU PvvWl Mi — k't vt rttV4.t, artgtl U 1 % Ninth, Tenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Wards, and that these illegal vot e were counted l>v the election officers of the resportive precincts for Harrison, aud were included iu the returns so canvassed and formed part of the aggregate vote credited to said Harrison." They also claim that if the illegal votes credited to Harrison had been purged from the returns, the canvass would have shown the election of Sidney Smith to the office of Mayor of the city. One of the men shot by Arthur Nettleton at Paw Paw, 111., is dead, aud the other is in a precarious condition. Fears of mob violence Induced the removal of young Nettle ton to the jail nt Dixon. Tins treasury of Council Bluffs, lowa, is empty, and the police force', fire department sgd lights will be dispensed with unless hinds can be obtained from sources other than taxation.... A suit for s£o,ooo damages has Wen brought at Cincinnati by ex-Judge O’Connor against Judge James Fitrgerald, for language used by the latter from the bench iu t • trial of a woman charged with keeping a disreputable house, the Judge, who had learned that O’Couuor owued the premises, rcfiecting on persons who rent property for such purposes..,. Omaha disj> tch: '''Telegrams received at the V uion Pacific headquarters here from the agency at Huntington, announce the disooverv o t wonderful mineral quarts in the SUittAe River region, at a point thirty miles from Huntington. A Specimen from the vein in nossestuon of railway meu hero •hows' muon flee gold iu igneous rotten quarts and silver in pyrite- The former assays $473 to the ton, and the latter The ore is most easy of reduction. One man has already realieed from fifty pouuds of Quarts e: ashed iu a hand mortar $l4B. Tha new fields are in Idaho, near the Oregon State line, and con be approached within thirty miles by the Oregon Short Line, the closest stations being Waiser and Huntington. * , FEAKS of an uprising of the Cheyennes an iuoreasing, and the Governor of Kansas has telegraphed to Washington asking to have Government troops stationed at the ■onthweotvn eometpof that State to prevent an incursion by the Indiana. Government action iu the matter has been prombed. Military authorities at Fort Leavenworth think the danger of an uprising s igh! ... William Hayes, aged sixteen, left his home at P>raia» lowa, on horseback, to attend > religious services in a neighboring town. Two days afterward bia horse retained home, saddled and bridled, but riderless. Alter a prolonged search »he boy’s body Was found hanging from the limb of* tree, with the hands fastened behind him ad tha legs pinioned. It is believed that he Stas murdered by esoaped jail-birds, who took him for the eon of the bhenff, to whop he bore s striking reoemblauce, and thought he was pursuing theni AT Itetroit, M eh, in the application of the Hop Bitten Company of Bochester. S. T, toe a preliminary injunction against C. . ■ 1 , ;

D. Warner, of Bendbg, Mich., manufacturer of German Hop Bitters, to restrain him from nsing a similar name, bottle, and label in the sale of hie bitters, tho court (Justioe Mathews and District Judge Brown) ruled that tho defendant. C. D. Warner, hiul a right to use the words German Hop Bitters. jFoil a long time there has been serious 1 trouble in tho Polish Catholic Church at Toledo between the priest and his and a faction who were opposed to him. Over a year ago, in a row growing out of thin trouble, a man was killed, and the failure, to convict the parties guilty of the offense stimulated the opposition, which has been increasing in ferocity. A few days ago an attempt was niiuio to blow up the church with dynamite. Last Sunday the trouble culminated in a general riot, in which firearms nnd till manuor of woopons were freely used. Two men were killed, and several injured, while quite a number of houses were partially or entirely Bestroyed.... The greater portion of the mining town of Iron lliver, Mich., was destroyed by nil incendiary fire.... Much damage was done to crops, fences, and buildings, and several lives lost in the vicinity of Ashton, Dakota, by a storm. IlEroitTS from Durango, Col., show that the Indians who accompanied Agent Stollsteiiner to Dolores Valley to investigate receut outrages wero fired on by cowboys, nnd twelve Indians killed. The stampede of settlors from Dolores and Mancos .Valleys still continues. Throe hundred Blood Indians left their reservation in Northern Montana, aud are journeying south to-join ibe Piegaus in war upon tho Crows and Gros Ventres. • j