Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1885 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

The Oregon Railway and Navigation Company reports its September earnings at $577,000,’an increase of $490,000 over the earnings for the corresponding month of last year. The Indiana, Bloomington and Western Railroad makes an increase of $5,741, the Ohio Southern of $12,689, and the Peoria, Decatur and Evansville of $719. ... .A decision rendered by the Michigan Supreme Court will have the effect of firmly establishing local option in all villages in the State organized under the general corporation law. The Michigan Supreme Court has declared the law of that State unconstitutional... .The flour production at Minneapolis last week reached , 171,066 barrels, beating all former weekly records by nearly 20,000 barrels. The market rules dull and inactive. A street-car at St. Louis became immovable at a grade, and a crowd of strikers gathered, who pulled the driver from his position, the mon falling in such a way that he was run over by the wheels and dangerously hurt The mob next unhitched the mules and shoved the car, with ten others, down the incline, the collision smashing the vehicle to splinters. The police appearing on the scene, a fight followed, the officers using their batons with great effect. {Seventeen of the rioters were arrested, and many others were badly wounded..,. The Rev. H. D. Jardine, of Kansas City, whose conduct has caused much gossip of late, has been convicted by an ecclesiastical court on the following charges: First, improper conduct toward a little girl; second, indecent conduct toward a-lady who had Come to confession; third, use of narcotics, producing incapacity for transacting ordinary business. The court's sentence recommended to the Bishop is deposition from the ministry and immediate Inhibition from ministerial functions..... A Deming (N. M.) special says: “Reports are coming in from various parts of Arizona that the old pioneers of that Territory, tempted by the reward of $250 for Indian scalps made by several counties in Arizona, have started out on a hfint for redskins with a view of obtainining their scalps. They think this is the most practicable method yet suggested of forever ending the Apache Indian war. The $250 is merely incidental to the hunt; it pays for the whisky and tobacco used in camp. ’.... H. S. Crocker & Co.’s immense stationery and printing establishment, in San Francisco, was totally destroyed by fire, the estimated loss on building and stock being $500,000.... A war among brewers prevails at Cincinnati, and prices have been reduced >to $7 per barrel. The manufacturers fear that saloon-keepers will lower the price of beer to three cents per glass. ... .The first double conviction under the Edmunds law occurred at Salt Lake City last week, W. D. Neusom being found guilty of polygamy and illegal cohabitation. The wheat crop of Kansas will be about 11,000,000 bushels, or one-third the’usual yield, all of which will be needed for home consumption. A tract of 4,261 acres of pine land in Clare County, Michigan, has been sold to three lumber companies for ~5400,000...... The Catholics of Newark, Ohio, have laid the corner-stone of a church to cost $50.000.... A note from a Minneapolis miller to a gentleman in Chicago states that the wheat ground (by him) last week yields only about three-quarters as much flour as that of last year; commenting upon which the Chicago tribune remarks: This is a surprising statement, as it would indicate thenecessary consumption of about six bushels of wheat for each barrel of flour that is manufactured. It would mean that a wheat crop of 857,000,000 measured bushels, which Sto be the latest Government esis only equal to about 270,000,000 of Rood wheat for the produc-

tion of flour. We need not sty that this, would leave us in the position of havina not a single bushel of wheat to spare for export, even after counting in the surplus remaining from the crop of last year. We give the statement without indorsing it. That the average bushel of wheat of the crop of tww is not equal to that of IHS4 is apparent from a glance at the statistics of daily inspection in this and other markets of the country: but the reduction in, value may prove to be far less than above indicated. Glanders has broken out in the stales of J. H. Truman, near BushneT, 111. Two of the horses have died, and several otheis are sick. The State Veterinarian has ouarantined all the animals which have been exposed to the contagion, which was introduced from Montana.