Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1885 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

Reports gathered by an Eastern agricultural journal represent the ■winter-wheat situation in the Northwest as favorable, although the crop will not be equal to that of 1884 in any State save Michigan. Spring ■wheat promises an average crop. Oats and com look well. The grass crop of the Northwest will be less than in 1884... .Two newspapers and a legal firm in Cincinnati have been sued for libel by Simeon Harris, a Chicago attorney,, who lays his damages in the aggregate at $175,000. The census of Milwaukee, just completed, shows a population of 158,368, against 115,578 in 1880... .A majority of the distillers composing the Western port Association have determined to discontinue the old organization and form a new one, to be known as the American Spirit Company, and to be incorporated with a capital stock of SIOO,OOO. The headquarters will be at Chicago. Milton A. Smith, who killed his wife to whom he had been married twenty-one years, had home him thirteen children, was hanged at'Osceola, Neb., in the presence of 5,000 people, who broke down the /fence surrounding the gallows, and thus obtained an unobstructed view of, the hanging. Friday, July 25, waa Day” in Mormoudom, and for the first time in many years there was no celebration of the anniversary at Belt Lake City. Precautions had been taken by the Federal authorities against ' trouble, but there were no demonstrations of any kind, and profound quiet prevailed throughout the day .. .The Rev. W. H. Hickman, a Methodist preacher, created a sensation at the Battle Ground camp-meet-ing, near Lafayette, IndL/ by advocating marriages between blacks and whites. Tim! long-deferred plan of the Chicago, Burlington k Quincy Railroad to build a Biw line to St Paul on the east side of the ./* • . • • .

Mississippi River is reported as soon to be executed. The new road will he called the Chicago, Burlington & Nortbeirn .. ,-.At a recent mass-meeting in the Cherokee Nation, which was attended by many thousands, resolutions were adopted protesting, against the sale of a single foot of Cherokee land for white settlement. .. B. S. Brainard, Postmaster at What Cheer, lowa, 6hot and killed Jack Day, who was one of a party who attempted to capture a lot of contraband whisky... .John Maupin was taken from the jail at Mound City, 111., by a mob of fifty masked men and hanged. His crime was the murder of John L. Daniels, his son-in-law, who had obtained a divorce from a former wife and married Manpin’s daughter in the face of the latter’s threat to kill on sight if the marriage ceremony was performed. The ’killing took place within two hours after the wedding.