Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1886 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

Masked highwayman in the Fort Robinson robbed a stage of $5,000 in gold consigned to the Paymaster. General Howard has sent out detachments of cavalrv, and scouts are in the field from Sidney, Cheyenne and Deadwood. The loss is likely to fall upon the express company. Al the funend services over the remains of the Rev. H. D. Jardine, at Kansas City, the Bev. Mr. Betts, of St Louis, who

preached the sennon. arraigned the prosecution in the scandal case, and intimated that the deceased died a martyr... .The (explosion of a boiler in the basement of St. Mary’s Catholic Church at Fort Warne, Ind., wrecked the structure and the parsonage adjoining, and killed the engineer and a little girl. Fire completed the work of destruction, the loss reaching $65,000... .Little Rock (Ark.) special: “News from Indian Territory announces great loss of stock from the effects of the recent storm, which is described as being the most severe ever experienced in Indian Territtory. Cattle have drifted for miles, and numbers have been found frozen, having been checked by wire fences. Streams are frozen, and the ground is covered with snow, and the extreme weather has increased the mortality among the stock.” Thirteen men were instantly killed by an explosion of fire-damp in a mine at Almv, Wyo. A train of thirteen cars was ■ broken into fragments, and the corpse or a passenger was blown seven hundred feet. .... An assignment has beep made by the Gilbert Tobacco Company, of Fulton, Mo.,whose liabilities Are $48,600.. . . Fourteen' - prominent citizens of Redfield, Dak., have been arrested for participation in the Ashton county-seat war.... .Petroleum has been struck for the fourth time at Lima, Ohio, at a depth of thirteen hunched feet, and other wells are being drilled The Chicago Times gives reports from nearly five hundred points'as io the crop of com and hogs in the Northwest and Southwest. It appeal’s that the yield of corn has been overestimated and its quality ranked too high. Ohio and Indiana farmers have sold more freelv than those in other States. The hog cholera has made its Tippearance in every State of the corn belt, forcing hogs upon the market much more rapidly, than is usual, and it is probable that the receipts at the chief packing points for the remainder of the season will be less than last year.

The dramatic event of the week in Chicago has been the appearance .of Sig. Salvini at McVicker’s Theater in a number of his great impersonations. During the week he appeared in “Coriolanus” and “Othello.” The latter is agreed by the Chicago critics and theater-goers to be his grandest role. The present week will be devoted to “Othello,” “Ingomar,” and “King Lear.” People visiting the city should not miss the opportunity of seeing the greatest tragedian of this or any other age.

Captain Upsan, the newly appointed agent for the northern Cheyenne Indians, has arrived at Miles City with a Blacksmith and a farmer. The tribe numbers about seven hundred, gathered at Rosebud, and Tongue rivers... .Most of the bills passed by the recent Cherokee Legislature are inioperative from the fact that they were drafted by inexperienced clerks, their intent being completely obscured in many instances .... The impeachment of Judge W. I Hayes, of the Seventh lowa District, is demanded. It is claimed by Prohibitionists that he has made efforts to nullify the prohibition laws, and charges of collusion with District Attorney Gannon are also made.... The arrest of James Batt, a saloon-keeper at Akron, Ohio, shows that he formally purchased for five cents the handsome young wife of Newell Stratton, and lived happily with her until the law interfered... .The finest gas well in Ohio was struck at Tiffin, at a depth of fifteen hundred feet, when the flow of oil became so great as to stop the drilling. About twenty masked men went to the jail at Vincennes, Ind., early Saturday morning and demanded the colored murderer, Holly Epps. They broke into the hallway and covered the-Sheriff with revolvers, but after fruitless attempts to obtain the keys and batter down the iron door, the mob dispersed. The following morning the mob were more successful. They assaulted the jail, battered down the doors, dragged the murderer from his cell, hurried him to the outskirts of the town, and hanged him to the limb of a tree. r.