Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1886 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

The April crop rej>ort of the Illinois State Board of Agriculture shows that the condition of winter wheat has not been more promising since 1882 than it is this season, and with continued favorable weather there will be nearly an average yield per acre in the State... .In the Mill Creek Valley, nyir Cincinnati, hundreds of acres of growing vegetables have been destroyed by the, overflow of the Ohio liiver. ... 'Robert J.'‘Phillips, acolored wife-mur-derer, was executed at Indianapolis. Ind., on the Bth inst. ' A TURTLE which had been captured in 1842, and again in 1872, in Moultrie County, HI., and both times duly marked, was again caught, a few days ago. nnd, after having "Grover Cleveland” cut in its back, was cast into Uie waters of the Okaw River . . Reports of. discourtesy, shown—thjEL. Chinese Ambassador to the United States upon his arrival at San Francisco are denied by the United States officials of that city ... A fire at Socorro, New Mexico, destroyed ten business places, causing a loss of $52,000. An old citizen, named G. E. Ward, was burned to death. • i The Governor of Ohio, in calling tin attention of the General Assembly to the fact that by the end of the year the Treasury will be Bhort about $1,000,000. demonstrates that the sources of revenue have been steadily diminishing, and urges the taxation of* the liquor traffic and the -assessment of bonds and stocks at their true value iu money... Ira James and other citizens of Mattoon. Illinois, have organized a company. with a capital of $4,1100,000, to build a railway from Bast. tit. Ix>uis to Terre Haute ... .A lire at Quincy, Illinois, burned the Gem City Mills, conducted by Taylor Brothers & Co., the total loss being nearlv $200,000. A LARGE number of strikers at East St. Louie marched to the Ohio and Mississippi, Yandalia; Chicago. Burlington and Quincy, and Cairo Short Line yards, .where they compelled nil the. employes to abandon their work. At the. Alton yards the mob came face to face with a force- of Deputy Marshals, aimed with rifles, but retired when the deputies brought their weapons to ptheirshoulders. Matters were quiet at St. Louis. and some freight trains were sent out on the Iron Mountain and Missouri Pacific Roads. Under the Clark liquor law all the saloons in Waterloo. lowa, permanently closed their doors. The saloon-keepers of McGregor 6ent their liquors into Wisconmb, and pulled down the blinds until the Clark law can be carried to the Supreme Court - ’