Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1886 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

James Howe, who published the first sporting paper in the United States, died last week at Lafayette, Indiana.... A collision on the Missouri Pacific Road, in a •nt just outside Independence, killed both engineers and wrecked eight car-loads of live-stock. At a meeting in Chicago of the Illinois Board of Live Stock Commissioners, at which Governor Oglesby, Attorney General Hunt, and parties representing the beef and cattle interests of the Stock Yards were present, it was decided to slaughter at once the 2,000 head of cattle now in quarantine at the Harvey farm and the sheds of the four distilleries in Chicago. The State is obliged to pay the owner for all sound animals slaughtered. It was estimated that a fair average price would be $33.33 a head. If all the quarantined cattle are killed—about three thousand head in all—the cost to the State Would approximate SIOO,OOO, not allowing for those animals found to be diseased, on which the owner must stand the loss. It is calculated that it Would take $20,000 or $30,000 more for other expenses. Lightning at Lima,Ohio, set fire to several oil tanks, the flames from which destroyed the machinery of many wells. Barns and houses were burned, and three persons were stunned by the electric fluid. ... .Hailstones six inches in circumference fell at Madison, Wis., breaking 10,000 panes of glass, and denuding trees of leaves and twigs. In a few instances iron roofs were riddled... .The Catholic convent at Urbana, Ohio, was unroofed by wind, and shade and fruit trees suffered severely. tragedy is reported from Cuba/cra’KtP County, Mo. Malcolm Logan and consisting of a wife, three children. anS.an adopted girl 7 years old, were killed farm near that place. The first suspictflH. ihat the crime had been committed was developed when a neighbor discovered a trail of blood leading to the house. He followeu v ib The first object he discovered when he entered the house was the body of . .the adopted girl lying in the hall. The girl had been killed w ith a hatchet. The rear portion of the house was burned down, and in the ruins were found the charred re. mains of Mrs. Logan and her three children. The body of the father was missing. The trail of blood was again followed, and a mile and a half from the house Logan's body was found. He had also been killed with a hatchet, and his body was dragged some distance to the railroad track and placed on the rails. Logan had recently disposed of some property and received $1,300, and robbery is supposed to have been the motive for’ the crime. . Arguments in the Bell telephone suit were concluded last week at Cincinnati, and the court took the case under consideration. The court decided that it would hear the Government demurrer for the sub-com-panies at the December term at Columbus. .., .Two members and two clerks of the late Board of Public Works of Cincinnati have been arrested for the embezzlement of sums ranging from SIO,OOO to $15,000. .Knight Templar A. C. Strong, of Naperville, DI., was killed by the care near St. Louis while returning from the eondave. - • A Chicago dispatch says the Live-Stock Commission for some reason or other has held off the slaughtering of the cattle affected with pleuro-pneumonia. The board s difficulty is to find some combination of cattle dealers willing to advance the SIOO,000 necessary for buying and destroying the diseased cattie under a guarantee that the next Legislature will reimburse the parties making the advance. Extra deputies have been placed around the various barns to carry out the quarantine to the letter.... A party of buffalo-hunters sent out by the National Museum at Washington is being escorted by troops from Fort Keogh into the Mussel Shell country, where less than two hundred head are left out of 200,000 grazing there four years ag0.... Lightning started a conflagration in the forests of the Yellowstone National Park, which is de- ' Stroying immense tracts of timber.