Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1885 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

At the competitive drill of the at Detroit the home council was awarded the first prize, and the Cleveland Club the third, which so incensed. the latter that they left the grounds and took a steamer home.... Kansas City was visited by a heavy rain-storm, which flooded many cellars and caused the collapse of two brick buildings. A tornado in Hancock County, Ohio, inflicted serious damage upon crops, and destroyed a large amount of property.... Yincent J. Scott, a private banker of Detroit. failed, as the result of a steady demand upon the resources of the bank by frightened depositors. The assets and liabilities are estimated at about $150,000.... The Payne Oklahoma colony, which lias been in camp at Caldwell, Kan., for some months, is breaking up in compliance with instructions from Capt Couch.... The Secretary of the Illinois Millers’ Association, who has just made a tour of Missouri and Kansas, says the quantity of wheat in those States is smaller and the quality poorer than reported... .James W. Marshall, the discoverer of gold in California, has just died in extreme poverty in that State. The general land office has specific knowledge of the illegal inciosure of nearly 700,000 acres of the public domain, and estimates that not less than 10,000.000 acres in addition are illegally inclosed, all of which will be thrown open to settlement proclamation.

Five of the Independent Order of Foresters marched through the streets of- Chicago with bands and banners, in celebration of the seventh anniversary of the establishment of the organization in Illinois. After the parade, appropriate ceremonies took place at the Base-Ball Park.... Strikers- forcibly shut down the salt block of Carrier, Heath & Co., at Essexville, a mile from Bay City, Mich.: Sheriff Brennan went to the scene with a posse and a fight ensued, the mob using stones and clubs and the officers revolvers. The Slit riff was shot in the forehead by an unknown man, the ball grazing the brain. Nine of the mob were arrested, two of whom were wounded... .C. P. Judd, appointed by the President to be Special Agent of the Northwestern Labor Bureau for Nevada and the Territories, has been placed in jail at Dona ver, Col., on a charge of horse-stealing. Judd admitted his 'guilt and says he has served terms in the penitentiaries of Kansas trad Colorado for a similar offense.. /.The* family of Daniel Abagh, Jr., near New Philadelphia, Ohio, were poisoned by eating toad-stools. One boy died and .four other persons are in‘a critical condition. .. The official announcement is now made that the Wisconsin Central Railroad Company will build an independent line to Chicago, using the Waukesha route Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson, the authoress, died at San Francisco of cancer in the stomach. She was appointed a special Indian Commissioner by President Arthur, and was also engaged by the Century company to write a series of articles on Southern Californio, Oregon, and Washington Territory. " An ei-bmkeman of the Atchison, Topeka and Suita Fe Bailroad has just obtained Judgment at Wyandotte, Kan., for $50,000 damages for injnries received in the road’s service in 1883. This is said to berths biggest verdict ever returned in the United States in a personal damage case....Chasteen Hngbe3 has been arrested at Topeka, Kan., for the murder of J. M. Smith, a prominent banker of Kansas City, Mo., who was thrown

over a high bluff at that place ami killed, on the night of Jan. 25, 1881. The crime has heretofore been wrapped in mystery.. ..In the Chickasaw Nation., I. T.. David Hunton shot and killed his cousin, Samuel Smiley, in a quarrel about the" ownership of some horses. Huuton fled, but was pursued by Smileyls friends and slain.... The lumbermen’s strike at East Saginaw, Mich., is practically ended, the terms of the millowners having been accepted.

Goldsmith’s grand old comedy, “Shfe Stoops to Conquer," will be given at MoVicker’s Theater, Chicago, the present week, With the following powerful cast: Sir Charles Marlow, Ralph Hojyard; Mr. Hardcastle, Harry Edwards; Marlow, Herbert Kelcey; Hastings, George Paxton, Tony Lumpkin, Harry Hawk; Stingo, Edwin Wight; Diggory, Daniel Leeson; Mrs, Hardcastle, Mme. Pon'isi; Miss Hardcastle, Caroline Hill; Miss Neville, Mollie Prindivillo.

A marauding band of twenty Piegan Indians, witb<Beventy-five stolen horses in their possession, were overtaken between Razor and Half-breed Creeks, Montana, by a party of cattlemen, and, during the battle that ensued, all of the Indians were killed and the horses recovered... .An Indian Territory dispatch says that a majority of the Cherokees are opposed to leasing lauds in the “Cherokee Strip.” A mass-meeting is contemplated for expression of opinion on the subject.... Fort Scott (Kari.) dispatch: “Two train loads of cattle from Indian Territory, numbering 900 bead, passed through this city to-night, eu route for Chicago, being the first to make their exit from dire Territory under the President’s order. These cattle were, brought oyer the St. Louis, Fort Scott and Wichita Railroad from the ranch of the Austin cattle Company, 165 miles west of Anthony, Harper County. ” Investigations by agents of the Signal Bureau show that locusts are very abundant in portions of Dakota and Montana, where they are inflicting serious damage upon crops. Prof. Forbes, State Ento'mologist, reports that crops in Northern Illinois are suffering from the ravages of grasshoppers.... Walter Lennox Maxwell, the alleged murderer of C. Arthur Preller, arrived in St. Louis on the 16th inst., in charge of officers. Threats of lynching were made as the prisoner was hurried to the jail. He would not talk about the trunk tragedy.... A farmer living near Rockford, Ind., has died from glanders, the ' disease having been communicated by his horses, among which it has existed for several years.... The Minnesota State census shows the population of St. Paul to be 111,397, and of Minneapolis 129,200.... The daily aggregate flow from the natural gas wells at Findlay, Ohio, now exceeds six_millian feet.