Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1885 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

At Sturgis, D. T., Corporal Eoss Hollis, of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, who assassinated Dr. H. P. Lyncji, was hanged by the citizens. Freeman S. Cargan and wife were, nine years ago, in Saginaw County, Michigan, sentenced to life terms in the Jackson and lonia prisons respectively, for, the murder of Charles Smith. They were convicted on the testimony of Smith's widow, ■who was herself condemned to ten years’ imprisonment as an accessory. Just before her death, which occurred recently in the Detroit House of Correction, Mrs. Smith confessed that her testimony against the Cargans was a pure invention. Mrs. Cargan’s sentence has been commuted, and it is expected that her husband will soon receive a pardon... .Policeman Fred Gall, of Springfield, Ilk, is dead, being the third victim of the recent tragedy in that city. The Cincinnati Price Current says: The total number of hogs packed in the West last week was 70,000, against 120,000 for the corresponding week last year. From March 1 to date the total is 3,435.000, compared with 2,945,000 a year ago. Tift movement of hogs since March 1 at the more important points is snmmarized as follows: Chicago, 1,840,000; Kansas City, 585,000; Milwaukee, 150,000; Indianapolis, 138,000; St. Louis, 133,000; Cedar Eapids, 136,000; Cleveland, 102,000; Cincinnati, 74,000. A gigantic scheme for the counterfeiting of Brazilian treasury notes in this country has been unearthed by Government detectives. Lucius White, the supposed prime mover, is in jail at St. Louis, and several alleged confederates have been arrested at other points. They are supposed to have allies in Brazil who were to put the bogus money in circulation.

If the Wabash Eailroad Company will agree to reinstate the Knights of Labor discharged Jane 16 last it is said the strikers will cease all efforts to make trouble along the line... .Butler, Peters & Co.’s sawmill at Tallman, Mich,, was destroyed by fire, together with a large amount of lumber and five freight cars. The loss is SBO,000, with insurance of, $30,000. At an early hour in the morning City Marshal Evans and Poundmaster McNott were found, one dying and the other dead, lying in the main street of the Town of Geneva, Kane County, 111. It is not know r n whether they killed each other or were killed by burglars, though the latter theory has most acceptance. Each man was shot through the breast,... Owing to disappointment in a love affair, a sou of Gen. O. O. Howard shot himself in the breast in the Yeliowstone Park, inflicting probably a fatal wound... .The Western Iron Boat Building Company of Theodore Allen and H. W. Blaisdell, of St Louis, has made an assignment L About five thousand people witnessed a sparring-match between Sullivan and McCaffrey at Chester Park, Cincinnati. Six rounds were fought, when the referee gave a decision in favor of Sullivan, on the ground that he had made the greater number of “points. ” McCaffrey not having been knocked out, and being anxious to continue the contest, was hailed by the spectators as virtually the winner....At Geneva, HI., the funeral of the murdered officers, Grant and McNett yras attended by a vast concourse of the people. There have been no further developments in the case, and the identity of the murderers remains a profound mystery.... A spec al dispatch from Tucson. Ari.. confirms the story of the probable fatal wounding of Geronimo, the renegade Apache Chief.... The removal of cattle from the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservations is in active pr* greas, in aAordance with the orders of President Cleveland.... The reports from the Northwest are that the wheat crop will fall far shoi tof expectations. In some sections it will be almost a failure.