Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1885 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

America’s gifted comedian, Lotta, is nightly appearing at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, before large and delighted audiences. “Nitouche” seems io fit Lotta as though made to order for her, and it has been decided to retain it on the bills for another week. The comedy ii in itself a bright and animated piece, and it is made doubly attractive by the richness of Lotto’s convent novice, the naivete of her Japanese princess, and the drollery of her drummer boy. The . tribes of Indian Territory owning Oklahoma and the “outlet” strip—about 10,000,000 acres in all—are agitated over the appointment of a commission to negotiate for the purchase of the lands. There is general opposition to the sale, and the chiefs claim that President Cleveland favors holding the lands for the Indians, and that the appointment of a commission did not meet his approval, but was made with the view of learning the actual feeling of the Indians.... A statement having been made that the Pacific slope wheat to be sent to England this year would not exceed 14,500,000 bushels, conservative dealers at San Francisco have begun to figure on the prospects, and have come to the conclusion that there will be available for export from California and Oregon this season 26,000,000 bushels of wheat... .Wire manufacturers having ordered an advance in prices, the Cleveland (Ohio) Rolling Mill Company ended the long strike in their works by conceding the wages demanded by the men.... Fire destroyed the residence of Joseph Fisher, a farmer living in Linn County, lowa, the owner and his three children perishing in the flames.

A letter from near Fargo, Dakota, to J. C. Williams of Chicago informs him of the almost entire destruction of the crops on his farm by the prairie fires there, and says that many farms were completely burned over, the scene being one of utter blackness as far as the eye can reach. Another party states that the course of the fire could be discerned all along 125 miles of railroad, and in some cases the fire is known to have extended twenty miles from the track. This is the most serious fire visitation known since that which denuded untold millions of acres of forest land ’during the few weeks that followed the burning of Chicago in 1871.... A fire in the lumber district of Chicago consumed over 5,000,000 feet pf lumber and an office building, causing a loss closely estimated at $120,000, on which there is insurance to the amount of $100,000.... Warrants of the face value of SIB,OOO, purporting to have been issued by a trustee of Marion County, Indiana, and bearing Pollard’s indorsement, have been pronounced forgeries. An effort will be made to secure the extradition ot Pollard, who is in Canada. It is stated that the forged bonds afloat will reach $1,000,000. One hundred thousand head of cattle are quartered in the Delaware, Black, Little, and Black Cimarron regions of New Mexico by a syndicate, who. it is alleged, hold public lands in evasion of the Federal homestead law. It is reported that there has been bloodshed, six lives having been lost, and that there will be an appeal to the National Government... .A Portland (Ore.) dispatch says: “Several days ago A. C. Mayfield was shot and killed and his son dangerously wounded by unknown men at Ferndale, Washington Territory. It developed afterward - that the act was committed by John Guildy, who had had a difficulty with young Mayfield last fall over the election. A party started in pursuit and found him in the woods two miles from Ferndale. He refused to surrender when called upon. He was fired upon and killed, he sending two bullets at his captors before he fell. ” ... .A body of strikers made an attack on Laughlin’s nail mills at Martin’s Ferry, Ohio, firing on the men in charge, and severely wounding several. Fifteen of the ring-leaders were arrested... .In a judicial decision just rendered at Detroit, it was held that a prisoner brought from New York on a requisition for burglary, and then discharged, could not ■be held on another charge.. . .James C. Pusey, defaulting clerk of .the Kansas Penitentiary, was sentenced to eight years in the penitentiary.

.Of Minnesota’s total population. 1,117,793, there were bom in the United States 722,564, and 395,229 are of foreign birth. ... .Near Xenia, Ohio, a 4-year-old girl was killed and partially eaten by a bulldog.- . r • ./