Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1886 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

Lansing (Mich.) dispatch: “At the Agricultural College there is likely to be a revolt, owing to the expulsion of one of the students. He refused to testify before the Board, which immediately expelled him. The juniors have removed their effects from the college building.”... .One of the anarchists’ bombs was exploded in Lake Michigan, opposite Chicago. A stream of water several feet in diameter shot 100 feet into the air, and scores of fish- were killed. The latest issue of the Farmer's Review draws a decidedly discouraging picturebf the crop prospects. It reduces its last previous estimate of the spring wheat by ten to fifteen million bushels, which would bring the whole of our crop of wheat to between 405,000,000 and 410,000,000. It reports a probably large shortage in the corn crop, owing to want of rain, which is still badly needed, places the oats crop at only half an average, says there is a threatened failure of the potato crop, and declares that the greatest damage of all is met with in hay. The Northern fruit crop is about the only one that promises well. ... .Leander Moody was lynched by a mob at Seymour, Ind., for committing a nameless crime on a 10-year-old girl by the name of Lissem, who resides near Seymour.... S F. Converse’s wholesale and retail paper-house at Minneapolis, Minn., has been closed by the Sheriff,the liabilities being $30,000. Gen. John A. Logan spoke at the Grand Army headquarters at Salt Lake City, telling the polygamous Mormons they must obey the laws. He said no organization could successfully resist the spirit of civilization and the laws of the Republic; they must give up their resistance or leave the country. About 12,000 Grand passed through Salt Lake City during the week. They had big meetings, making antiMormon speeches every night. The Mormons are much agitated over the matter.... Near Butte, Montana, Miss Jane McArthur plunged into the river and saved three persons from drowning, but lost her life in attempting to rescue the fourth... .Mr, P. B. Smith, manager of the Northern Pacific Elevator Company at Fargo, estimates Dakota’s wheat yield for this year at 16,000,000 bushels. In the trial of the Chicago anarchists on Saturday, the 31st ult, the prosecution read articles from the Arbeitcr-Zeitung, thesocialistic organ, and exhibited the red and black flags of the anarchists, and there rested. attorneys for the defense offered a motion to have Neebe discharged, which motion was overruled. Attorney Salomon then made the opening address for the defense. There were two leading points in his argument: 1. There cannot be accessories without a principal. The State must prove that somebody was a principal in committing murder before it can convict others as accessories. 2. The defendants did not throw the bomb, therefore they are not guilty. It is estimated that the trials of the anarchist conspirators for connection with the haymarket murders will cost Cook County and Chicago about SIOO,OOO.