Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1886 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

Near Minneapolis a large eagle, measuring nearly ten feet from tip to (ip, attacked two surveyors. Professor 55'. F. Carr and Samuel Chute, severely wounding the former, and making a desperate effort to bear him away. Timely aid arrived, and the bird was captured. His talons are over four inches in length... .Reuben Hill and his three sons, residing at North Liberty, Ind., were instantly killed while attempting to drive across the Grand Trunk tracks. His daughter had a leg broken.... Judge Gresham of the United States Circuit Court in Chicago has decided to remove the present receivers of the. s\'abash Railway and to foreclose the mortgage on the system east of the Mississippi River. ... Fred Joslyn, a school teacher at Henderson, Mich., killed a citizen who attempted to thrash him for whipping his boy. Joslyn proceeded-to Owosso and surrendered to the jailer.

Gov. Hvbbabd, of Minnesota, issued a proclamation declaring the county seat of Traverse County, Minnesota, to be Wheaton, in accordance with the result of the recent election, changing'it from Brown’s Valley. On receipt of the news of this decision at Wheaton the County Commissioners, sent a party of about one hundred men, with teams, to Brown’s Valley to remove the records. They were proceeding to do so, when tney were attacked by residents of Brown s Valley, and a lively fight took place around the Court House, in the course of which axes, j hammers, and revolvers were freely used, and the records and furniture were scattered about the streets. The Wheaton men were finally driven off without getting the records. Several persons were seriously, but none dangerously, hurt. Robert Grayob, the murderer of Berry Evans, was hanged at St. Louis, Mo. He partook heartily of a breakfast of ham and eggs, fried oysters, and toast and tea. No man ever died more gamely. Not once while be stood on (he gallows could even a quiver be noticed in him Oscar A. bimonds, of Fort Wayne, Ind., a wealthy and influential citizen, who had been a terrible sufferer from nervous prostration.’ killed himself with a revolver. His deaths is due wholly to overwork in caring for his large interests. The collapse of the overloaded hardware establishment of the A. F. Shapleigh A- ‘ Cantwell Companyat St. Louis Saturday i afternoon led to a disastrous fire, widen made a clean sweep of half a block of valuable business property, causing a loss of $750,W0. Two clerks in the tablishment perished in the ruins, and two firemen and several clerks were seriously injured.... Mgr. Capel’has .published a statement declaring his iutdlition to sue the editor of the Sin Francisco Arffimatit for originating the scandalous stoii s affecting his charac’er J recently published in the East and the N-w York papers that printed them.. ..Jehn Baker, Congressman-elect from the Eighteenth Illinois District, was fined So and costs for assaulting a reporter at Belleville. .. ,Wm. Reed was shot and killed at English. Ind., by Ben Smith, in a dispute oyer the proper spelling of a word.,. .Jacob B. Heogle died of starvation at Rockford, 111. . His mind was disturbed andhs refused to eat.