Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1886 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

Cincinnati saloonkeepers will not pay their taxes under the Dow law until its legality is tested in the courts.... The suit for damages of Mrs. Thankful Tanner at Cleveland, Ohio, against the widow of President Garfield, has been decided in favor of the latter. An alleged attempt to procure by bribery the escape of the notorious Maxwell from the St. Louis jail is reported.... The Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis Railway was sold under a foreclosure decree at New Albany. Ind., to a committee representing the bondholders, for $760,000, subject to a $927,000 lien... .A Chicago telegram says: “The latest new thing in cereal product is oil from com. A sample of the article was exhibited on 'Change in this city yesterday. It is claimed to be good for all the purposes of the cotton-seed oil —which means that it ran be used in the soap factory as well as the cuisine, and that its cost when made on a large scale will be but about four cents per pound. Previous to this the only kind of oil obtained from corn was an incident of the whisky manufacture, and called * fusel,' which other people besides the total abstainers regard as injurious to the human frame.” A dispatch from the Apache country states that the trail of five Indians was recently discovered within three hundred yards of Fort Huachuca. and that veteran officers of the army are in favor of using bloodhounds to catch the fiends pf the border. A cyclone at Hunter, D. T., blew a farm-house to pieces. One man inside was killed outright and several others were seriously injured.... The Germania Hotel, at Crookston, Minn., was blown down and eight persons were injured, though but one seriously... Captain Francis Jeffrey Dickens, son of the famous English .novelist, died suddenly of paralysis of the heart while dining with friends at Moline, Hl. He was 41 years old ...A disastrous fire visited Muscatine, lowa. The total loss was $200,000, most of it being sustained by the Muscatine Lumber Company... .The Mower County National Bank, at Austin. Minn., suspended, the liabilities being about $90,000.