Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1885 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

A cyclone in three sections swept through Oshkosh, Wis., cutting different paths through the city and demolishing or injuring hundreds, of houses. The Exposition Building and St. Paul's Church are in ruins, and St. Peter’s Catholic Church is badly wrecked. Roofs were blown' from stores, the rain damaging the stocks, and all the smokestacks in town were leveled. The greatest havoc was Wrought in the lumber district, and in the residence section some dwellings are barricaded by fallen trees. Twenty people are reported one or two fatally. In the district north of the town farm buildings, stock, and crops suffered severely. A storm at Waupaca, Wis., destroyed several small structures and blew down trees, and chimneys. Nineteen barns “and six houses at Lind, Wis., were wrecked, and crops destroyed. The cyclone followed a path six blocks wide at Madison, entailing heavy damage to buildings, residences. and churches. At Sparta several structures were leveled, and at Plainfield numerous houses were blown down or unroofed. Tobacco shops at Edgerton and Stoughton were razed, a number of horses and cattle being killed. A cyclone effected great damage in the vicinity of Allegan, Mich-, and a funnel-shaped “whirler” near Monticello, Minn,, shattered buildings and tore up the prairie in spots, many persons making narrow escapes with their liv.es. ' TnE great strike of . the conductors and drivers of the Chicago West Division Railway Company is over, and the cars of the various lines are again running. The strike lasted eight days. At the outset the employes were treated with the most haughty contempt, were grossly insulted by having a communication reciting their grievances torn up in the presence of the messenger bearing it, and the officers of the company refused every tender of mediation or advice from the Mayor and other officials looking to a settlement of the trouble, claiming that there was but one side to the question, and that they would never yield or treat with the strikers. Meantime the strikers stood firm, public sympathy sided unanimously with them, the railway company found it impossible to resume operations on its lines, notwithstanding 400 policemen were placed at its disposal, and finally unbent so far as to hold a conference, through its President, with the An agreement was immediately reached by which the conductors and drivers returned io work. The substance of the arrangement was that the charges against the sixteen men whose discharge caused/ the strike were to be investigated by the President, and, if not sustained, the men to be reinstated.

Gen. Sheridan has left Washington for Fort Ueno, Indiap l 'Territo*ry. Advices received by the War Department indicate that the situation at that point is extremely menacing. A dispatch from Kansas, says: “Advices received from Indian Territory leave little doubt that the situation there is more menacing than has been admitted by the authorities, and prompt action by the department is necessary to prevent an outbreak. Agent Dyer, under instructions from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, undertook to make a census of the Cheyennes, but was stopped by the ‘dog-soldiers,’ who thieatened with death any who should report them for enrollment, at the same time placing tw o of their number as guards over the agent’s office. They stopped work on the farms and threatened Dyer with death if he persisted ip carrying out his orders. They openly declared that Dyer must go, as he restricts their liberty. Dyer has simply been trying to keep them at work. ” ... .Nine hundred striking lumber workers left Bay City, Mich., in barges for East Saginaw, where they paraded the streets., carrying banners inscribed “ ten Hours a Day’s Work!" and visited a number of mills, compelling the employes to leave their saws. A foreman who confronted them with a drawn revolver was knocked down and roughly handled. Most of the mills on the Saginaw River closed. In whisky circles at Cincinnati there is some exoitement owing to the fact of the discovert that of spirits exported, to procure an extension of the taxing period, hundreds of barrels have been lost by leakage on shipboard, notwithstanding which the Government will demand ti_« tax for the full amount originally shipped when the whisky is returned to this country. r .. Charles Harding «>nd James Townsend, two Evansville (Ind.) youths, have been claiming the hand

of Miss Sadie Corning, and met in an obscure place tb fight it out, the loser to surrender 1 his rights. They fought seven rounds, in which both were severely punished, the former, howlever coming out the victor. As soon as he is able to see he will insist upon wedding the lady, and will ask Townsend to “stand up” with him .. .At Ogden, Utah, Judge Powers. President Cleveland's appointee, from whom the polygamists expected clemency, imposed the extreme penalty of the' months’ imprisonment and S3OO fine—upon two prominent Mormons convicted of illegal cohabitation.... Secretary Endicott ordered three regiments of cavalry-' and the Fourth Infantry to proceed to Fort Reno, Indian Territory, making in all a force of 4,000 troops, tb quell the threatened Indian outbreak.... Gov. Martin of Kansas has written a letter to the Secretary of the Interior protesting against the transfer of' the Apaches from Arizona to the borders of Kansas... .The Secretary of the Interior has given notice tliat if the cattlemen in Indian Territory persist in obstructing the trails they will be ordered to remove their herds at once..'.. A pleasure yacht capsized during a storm on Lake Minnetonka, drowning ex-Mayor Rand of Minneapolis, his wife and two sons, and several other persons... .The census of Northern Dakota gives it a popu- • lation of 150,000, against 36,465 in 1880.