Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1885 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

The National Butter, Cheese, and Egg Convention assembled at Chicago last week. Norman J. Colman, Commissioner of Agriculture, addressed the delegates in relation to the manufacture of artificial butter, and advocated stringent Federal legislation. J. W. Gould, of Ohio, stated that the Health Officer of Cleveland recently found 33 per cent, of vaseline an “butter” sold in that market, and he remarked that it disheartened a dairyman to compete with the oil wells of Pennsylvania. Colonel H. W. Hatch, a member of Congress from Missouri, thought butterine should be branded with a raw head and bloody bones. The Secretary reported that during 18831885 the receipts of butter in Chicago footed up 238,733,000 pounds, and the shipments 250,041,000 pounds. The fact that the shipments were greater than the receiptsi" was due to the shipment of 12,000,000 pounds of bogus butter. He had collated some statistics about butterine, which showed that from May 1 of this year to May 1 of 1886 the output will easily reach 20,000,000 pounds. The receipts of cheese in Chicago for 1883-1885 were 119,600,000 pounds, and the shipments 97,065,000 pounds. From November 1, 1883, to November 1, 1884, there were received 332.000 cases of eggs, against 429,000 the previous year. The shipments for 1883-1884 were 112,000 cases, against 188,000 cases in 1884-1885. The Governor of Indiana issued a proclamation quarantining the State against infected cattle. Illinois figures in the list as one of the States from which cattle cannot be imported unless certain guarantees are given... .A haif-crazed cobbler named Ritterberg murdered a Chicago policeman who attempted to arrest him, and then turned the pistol upon himself and blew his brains out.

Four counterfeiters were captured at Cedar Rapids, lowa, while manufacturing bogus dollars. The chief of the quartet is George Harris, of Massachusetts.... The Piegan Indians have left their reservation for a thieving tour in Wyoming^.. .Jasper E. Sweet, indicted for the recent murder of Dr. Waugh, in Chicago, arrested in Kentucky, has been brought back for trial. William Sharon, ex-Senator from California, died in San Francisco, after an illness of a week, during whichJime he was unable to take nourishment. He was in his sjxty-fifth year. ' Promptly at noon of the 14th, in the I ' 0 jail at Chicago, the three murderers of Fiijppo Caruso were simultaneously executed, They spent the previous night in the libfhry with Italian priests. The bodies were interred in Calvary Cemetery, each of the condemned men having bequeathed his remains to a benevolent organization.‘<-''l The production of the “Mikado” at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, the coming week should attract the attention of admirers of comic opera everywhere. The pany engaged is exceptionally well having appeared for two months at the Standard Theater, New York, where it wqp generally conceded that the production sur-

passed any effort in light opera heretofore seen in this country. The entire company, chorus, scenerv, costnpies, etc., will be brought from New Ybrk intact, and Mr. Anthony Reiff will direct the efficient orchestra. ,z ■ ' ,

Alva L. Pound, the detective who shot Griffin for robbing the Shite Treasury of Nebraska, Was sentenced to the penitentiary’ for two years; but Gov. Dawes at once reprieved the prisoner for twenty’ days, in order to make out ail unconditional pardon. ...The Supreme Court of the State "Of Illinois has affirmed the judgment of the lower court which convicted Joseph C. Mackin of perjury... Maria P. Storey, the first wife of Wilbur F. Storey, has tiled a petition asking to be made a party defendant to the second wife’s bill so as to protect her interests in her former husband’s estate. She says that she was married to Mr. Storey the 22d day of June, 1847, and obtained a divorce from him Ifeb. 17, 1868, on the ground of desertion, with $2,000 a year alimony. He then owned real estate worth SIOO,OOO and personal property, consisting of the Chicago Times and its good-will, worth several hundred thousand dollars more. Some of the property he owned at the time of his death was the same he owned when he was divorced, and she claims a share in this. Rev. Dr. Clinton Locke, of Chicago, has been requested by a clergyman of Galveston to receive contributions for the sufferers by fire in that city. Jay Gould, the New York millionaire, was among the first to contribute for the relief of the sufferers, the amount of his donation being $5,000. C. P. Huntington gave a like sum. At an explosion in the boiler-room of the Bull Domingo Mine at Silver Cliff, Colo., ten men were killed. Hugh N. Broods, alias Maxwell, alias D’Anquier, was arraigned in the Criminal Court at St. Louis, and formally charged with the murder of Charles Arthur Preller. He pleaded not guilty.