Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1885 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

Work is about to be resumed on the California and Oregon Railway, which will extend from San Francisco to Portland. ... .Brainerd, the St. Albans absconding bank President, who was abducted at Winnipeg by two Boston detectives and brought into Minnesota, -mysteriously escaped at Minneapolis, and his present whereabouts are unknown. _ The storm which visited Washington Court House, Ohio, almost demolished the town. Every publicbuilding and business house in the plaee. and about two hundred residences, were destroyed. Ten persons are known to have been killed, and over a, hundred wounded, several of them fatally. In Lancaster County, Ohio, the storm was severe, ten persons—being injured and many buildings wrecked. At Troy, Upper Sandusky, and other Ohio towns, the damage was extensive. Near Adrian, Mich, SIOO,OOO worth of property is reported to have been destroyed by the elements, and at Dublin, Ind., twenty buildings collapsed. Reports of serious losses from wind and lightning come from other points in Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin. The damage to lake shipping was also very heavy, and several lives were lost. ... The schooner Erie Wave|Pcapsized off Long Point, Lake Erie, the female cook and a passenger being drowned. The schooner Advance was wrecked off Sheboygan, Wis. Two vessels, with their crews, were lost off Two Rivers, Wis. A dispatch from Rock Springs, Wyoming Territory, says: “Seven hundred Chinamen have returned here, under escort of four companies of troops. The miners threaten to destroy the company’s buildings, all of which are under strong guard to-night Serious trouble is 6ure to ensue as soon as the miners think they have an -opportunity to carry out their threat. ”.... The three sisters shot by Perry Whitlock in Vermillion County, Illinois, will recover from their wounds, but his infant child will die. A private banker at Menomonee,, Wis., named Samuel B. French has failed, with liabilities of about $65,000... .Three women were drowned in Lake Traverse, Minn., by their boat capsizing during a storm.... Four young men who left South Haven, Mich., in a small sail-boat just before the late storm on Lake Michigan, have not been heard from, and were undoubtedly 105 t... .John Little, Congressman of the Eighth Ohio District, furnishes the following report of the recent cyclone at Washington Court House, Ohio:

The destruct on here is not so generally sweeping as at Jamestown, but it is vastly greater. The general course of the tornado was from southwest to northeast, through the long way and center of the city. Its general width was about six hundred “feet, with occasional breaks to the right or left. In its course of a mile and a half in town, it is the exception that any square escaped injury In most of them damages to property.are marked, and in some fesefful. The business portion suffered most. The injuries ranged from the shattering of windows to every stage of demolition. If a single house in this portion escaped harm, I have not noticed the exception. In two b ocks alone practical men have estimated the loss to buildings at tw,300. The damages to goods in these will not fall under $20,000. No class of property escaped. Dwellings of all grades, public halls, churches, school-houses, fell a prey to the storm’s fury. The individual losses, as shown by estimates of committees, will exceed $250,090. Emery A. Storrs, the distinguished lawyer, was found dead in bed at a hotel in hours previously of paralysis of the heart. Mr. Storrs had been at Ottawa since Sept. 1, engaged in professional labors before the Supreme Court in connection with the Mackin case, and had been somewhat indisposed for several days. , Dr. Hnrd left him smoking in bed at a late hour of the night, and Mrs. S.orrs, who occupied another bed in ' the same room, administered medicine to him several times during the night. She happened bo fall into a doze toward morning and awoke about 7 o'clock. She called to her husband, but received no answer. Going over to his bed, she placed her hand on him and found him dead.

Horror-stricken. Mrs. Storrs rushed from the room and cried out for aid. Dr. Hurd ' was hastily called to make an examination of the remains. He found that the cause of dea’h was paralysis of the heart. Deceased was 50 years old. Minnesota’s railroad commissioners are bringing suits against several railroad companies for violation of a new law requiring suitable waiting-rooms for passengers to be provided at all stations where the roads do business... .John L. Sullivan, the prize-ti, hter, pitched in a game of base ball at Cleveland Sunday. As the champion was leaving the grounds be was placed under arrest, charged with violating the Sundiv law... .At Cool Creek Mines, near Seattle. W. T., a large building'oeeupied by Chi ese .laborers was tired by a mob of masked men.. The inmales, about fifty iu number, escaped to the woods unharmed..... It is said 5.000 people will be thrown out

of employment in Montana Territory by the Interior Department ruling prohibiting the cutting ijof timber on unsurveyed mineral lands.. Outrages which were perpetrated at the residences of several United States officials ip Salt Lake City are attributed to the Mormons... .The 1885 crop of Wiscnsiu tobacco is pow nearly. all in, and the quality is reported very fair.