Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1885 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

The sensation of the week in Chicago has been the great strike of the conductors and drivers of the West Division Horse Railway Company, causing a total suspension of street car traffic on the West Side, embracipg over half the population of the city. Public sympathy was entirely with the strikers, and attempts to run the cars were met with determined resistance on the part of the populace. The company would start cars out from the barns guarded by squads of police and Deputy Sheriffs, but vast crowds wquld block the tracks, drive the men frdm the platforms, and return the cars to the barns or turn them upside down in the streets. Several of the drivers and conductors were assaulted with stones and clubs and severely injured, and a number of the strikers arrested on charges of riot and disorderly conduct. At one time Mayor Harrison appeared on the scene aud attempted to reason with the mob, but he was compelled to beat a hasty retreat Omnibuses, express wagons, and other conveyances did a large business in carrying passengers. Azari, Silvestri, and Gelardi, three of the five Italians implicated in the Caruso murder at Chicago, were convicted and the death penalty fixed by the jury. , Mercurio Mid Bova were declared not guilty. The murder was one of the most fiendish in the criminal annals of Chicago. The victim was a friend, companion, and fellow-countryman of the assassins. While he was being shaved by one of them, two others threw a rope over the neck of the unsuspecting man, and, after choking him till life was extinct, hurried out, purchased a large trunk, and packed the remains into it. They then shouldered the ghastly freight, went into the street, hired an express wagon, carted the body to the depot and shipped it to Pittsburgh. Two of the murderers were arrested in New York while in the net of purchasing passage to Italy with money taken from the clothes of their victim.... The trial of Joseph C, Mackin, of Chicago, for perjury in connection with the recent electien fraud inquiry, resulted in a verdict of guilty, and a sentence of five years' imprisonment in the Penitentiary. .4 In the United States Circuit Court at Keokuk, lowa, Thomas Thatcher, of New York, was appointed receiver of the Missouri, lowa and Nebraska Railroad, one of the lines recently severed from the Wabash system. At Springfield, 111., Gen. John McNulta was appointed receiver of the Toledo, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway, vice Judge Howland, of Indianapolis.... At Peshtigo, Wisconsin, twentyfive buildings were destroyed by fire, the losses aggregating $75,000. Babcock <fc Co.’s shingle-mill and 60,000 feet of lumber at Manistee, Mich., were burned, with a loss of $45,000 .The only son of Mr. Thomas Kilpatrick,'a Cleveland dry goods merchant, who was? suffering from diphtheria, was killed by a leading druggist ordering a stronger dose of medicine than called for in the prescription.... The settlers in the neighborhood of Durango, Colo., fear trouble with the Indians, and are asking for protection. Gen. Auger thinks that the troubles with the Colorado Utes have been brought on by the cowboys and that they have been greatly exaggerated. Indian Commissioner Atkins expresses the opinion that the sensational reports recently sent cut were in pursuance of a scheme to dispossess the Utes of their reservation lands.... Heavy rainstorms visited Eastern Kansas and Western" Missouri last week. The work, of gathering the wheat crop is brought to a standstill, and he damage is reported as great.... The Secretary of the Kansas Board of Agriculture estimates the wheat yield of the State .this year fit 12,233,385 bushels. Gold and silver coins valued at $1,600 have been unearthed on a farm .near Racine, Ohio, including a number of old and rare American and foreign pieces. There have been traditions of buried treasure in the neighborhood since its earliest settlement. ...Meetings held by Mormon missionaries at rural school-houses in Wabash County,. Indiana, have been broken up by indignant citizens, who riddled the doors and Windows of the build* ings with stones. No converts were made...... Fire in the Future City oil-works at St. Louis entailed a loss of $50,000. Three firemen were badly burned while fighting the flames. Afire at Morristown, Shelby County, Ind., destroyed most of the business houses in the village. A fire at Green Bay, Wis., destroyed the Opera House and several other buildings. The little city of Stoughton, Wis., was visited last week by a most destructive conflagration. It is estimated that over $60d,000 worth of property was de-

stroyed. Thirteen' large tobacco warehouses. the Chicago, Milwaukee and St, Paul Railwav Company's depot, and several small buildings, together with most of their contents, were burned. The fire originated in the old hay-press building used as a tobacco warehouse. About one hundred cars were ip the yard at the time, many of which were burned. The cars greatly hampered the fire brigade and the citizens in their efforts to subdue the flames. The total loss of tobacco is nearly eleven thousand cases, wprth about fifty dollars a case. The. losses are .quite , well covered by insurance.