Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1886 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

There an still twenty-six of the Chicago policeman wounded in the Haymarket riot unable to report for duty. The total amount subscribed to the fund donated to the sufferers is $70,361... .By removing a rail on the Grand Trunk track near South Lyon, Mich., some miscreant caused the death of a fireman and the injuring of an engineer and brakeman. Iris said on the authority of a Cincinnati priest that Pope Leo has ordered that the $4,000,000 owed by the late Archbishop Purcell be paid within five years. Several conferences of the Bishops of the Cincinnati diocese have been held in the last three months, at which the subject of the debt has been considered, but no satisfactory basis of settlement has been agreed upon.... Julius Baum & Co., ' wholesale clothiers at San Francisco, have made an assignment with liabilities estimated at between $750,000 and $1,000,000... .Robbers blew up the farm-house of John W. Shryock, near Olney, W,, and escaped with $1,400 in money, after shooting Mr. Shryock in the feg... .Near Chetek, Wis., a farmer named Upeold killed his wife with a razor and hanged himself with a bed-cord. Joliet, DI., was* swept by a cy.’aone which demolished fifteen or twenty houses. Despite this frightful destruction of property not a person was fatally hurt. Everybody seemed to be aware of the approach of the cyclone some minutes before it struck the city, and secured their .safety by fleeing to their cellars. The cyclone came from the southwest straight up the Desplaines River. Constant flashes of lightning lit up the sky so that the funnel-shaped monster could be plainly seen as it came whirling toward the city with a roar like a hundred locomotives blowing off steam. The air was filled with boards, limbs of trees, sections of roofs, andpieoes of heavy timber. A. bridge was picked up bodily and deposited almost intact two blocks away. A heavy grindstone was blown 250 feet. Pieces of houses were carried a quarter of a mile. A large number of houses were more or less moved from their foundations and wrenched out of shape, many of them with great patches of shingles missing from their roofs. Telegraph poles were twisted off like pipestems, and the streets blockaded with a mass of tangled wires. Numerous holes were scooped out of the hard gravel streets. Eye-witnesses say that these holes were made* by balls of electricity, o« fire, winch bounded along the ground during the rush of the cyclone. Great trees were torn up, and their bodies twisted into every imaginable shape. Numbers of horses and cows were buned beneath falling barns, and-some were badly crippled. The horse and buggy of Deputy Sheriff Ward was hitched in front of nis* house when the cyclone came, and after it had passed the horse and buggy had disappeared, and no trace of it has yet been found. The damage to property in" the eity is estimated at $75,000, and may exceed that sum.

Frank Buck, a cattle dealer, was gored to death by a bull at Greenwood, Neb. One of the animal’s horns was run through his neck, and every bone above his hips was brokei... .George T. Setter, Assistant Secretary of the Cincinnati Board, of Public Works, is under SIO,OOO bail, charged with embezzling $6,000. It is said that the stealing has been going on for five years, and that other officers are implicated..... A dispatch from Nobart, Neb., says that “a party of hunters, including Judge Albert Herrp and Dr. Dinsmore, found a girl of 18 half-dad and chained to a log in the wall of a dilapidated dug-out in a lonely part of the Indian reservation. The girl was nearly dead of exposure and Granger. She said that her name was Mary Lathrop; that she was lured from her home at Rhinebeck. lowa, five weeks ago by her accepted lover on the promise that he would many her; that after they had left her home they had been joined by three young men; that when she had been brought to the spot where found she had been chained and repeatedly assaulted by the men nearly every day. A lynching party is now searching for the three men.”