Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1886 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

The swamp land in the southeastern part of Allen County, Indiana, is to be reclaimed by the Little River ditch of forty-four miles. The contract was let for $137,000. bids having been received from all parts of the country... .The motion to dismiss the case against the anarchists charged with unlawful assembly and indorsing the action of their Chicago brethren during the Haymarket riot was argued in die Court of Criminal Correction at St. Louis. Judge Noonan sustained the motion, holding that there was nothing to show that the alleged unlawful resolutions, as offered, were adopted... Seven men who were boycotting a bakery at Cincinnati have been held to the Grand Jury in SI,OOO bonds each on a charge of blackmail... The motion for a new trial in the case of Brooks, alias Maxwell, who killed Preller, was overruled at St. Louis. .... A forest fire reached alid destroyed Romeo, Wis., reducing to ashes saw and planing mills, 5,000,000 feet of lumber, a boarding-house, and dwellings. The loss is $150,000, with $50,000 insurance. Mrs. Theresa Turpin, who lived near Princeton. Indiana, cut the throat of her 7-year-old daughter, hanged her baby daughter, and then went' to the barn and hanged herself. The youngest child is still living. The woman left a note stating that the devil had been after her, and she

couldn’t get away from him. “ The safe in the postoffice at Minneapolis was drilled by burglars, who took SIOO in currency and SIB,OOO worth of stamps. The mail-cartier’s horse and a mercantile delivery wagon were seized by the thieves to carry their booty to St. Paul.... A terrific electric and wind storm, with torrents of rain and hail, swept across McLean Count?, 111. It was a genuine cyclone, the funnel-, shaped, gyrating cloud, and the green sky peculiar to twisters being present... .The populace were thoroughly frightened, and many rushed out into the street in the rain. Hundreds of trees were wrecked and blown into the street and across the street car tracks. Tin roofs were stripped from buildings and small buildings demolished. A peculiar turtle, with neck and tail eight inches long, and the head of a snapper, fell into the street from a cloud. During the progress of a game of baseball at Cincinnati, on Sunday last, bet ween the home team and the Brooklyn club, some decisions of Umpire Bradley angered the crowd and it went wild. Some one hurled a beer glass at the umpire and a dozen more followed, one of which struck Bradley on the foot. A- fight broke out in the west pavilion and Bob Clark, one of the Brooklyn players, seeing some of his friends in the fight, seized a bat and climbed into the stand to take part in the affray. He was soon pnt back in the field, Mid "the fight stopped. Meanwhile two or three thousand people poured into the field from the \ stand.., threatening the umpire and the Brooklyn players, and the private policeman had all he could do to protect them from the howling mob. Bradley escaped by fleeing to the directors’ room, where he remained for fifteen minutes. After the disturbance in the pavilion had been quelled the crowd slowly left,the field, and play was resumed without further incident In the crush in the grand-stand a number of benches were broken and the reporters’ stand was demolished, but nobody was hurt.

Over thirty thousand people attended the three base-ball contests in Chicago last week, between the present chjrmpiops and the famous Detroit team. AH three games were won by the Chicago club fey the respective scores of 9 to 4. 8 to 2, aiid 3to 1. In the three games the Chieages made 26 base-hits, with a total of 47; the Detroits 19 hits, with a total of 22; the Chicago* made 11 errors, the Detroits 15; the Chicago pitchers struck out 19 men, the Detroit pitchers 11,