Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1887 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

The Governor of lowa hue issued a proclamation forbidding the importation of cattle from Illinois... .The executors of the estate of the late Cyrus H. McCormick, of Chicago, in their final report to the Probate Court, acknowledge the possession Of $4,978, 154.G5....There are 18,iMHt.OOO bushels of wheat in store at Minneapolis, St. Paxil, and Duluth. The best bard wheat is 1(1 cents per bushel lower than a year ago... .The Ilev. Dr. Blech, rabbi of a wealthy" Jewish congregation at Youngstown, Ohio, has left for parts unknown, after committing forgeries for large amounts. : ■ The final adjustment of the estate of the late Cyrus H. McCormick, Sr., "has just been made at Chicago. Annie Fowler McCormick and Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr., the executors, reported the total value of the estate to be $4,5'.<t>,484 and the discurseinents since theaAling of the will $183,200. Boston Corbett, who killed J. Wilkes Booth after the assassination of Lincoln, ” has lately been assistant doorkeeper of the Kansas House of Representatives. He became violently insane and held the Speaker's gallery with two revolvers. He will be sent to an asylum.'.. .The M isconpin Encampment of the G> A. R. unanimously adopted a resolution censuring President Cleveland for his recent pension veto. Patrick Tclly, an expressman at St. Joseph, Mo., long since secreted $2,000 in his cellar, with the knowledge of his wife and daughter. AV hen he failed to find it, a negro fortune-teller told him it had been stolen by his son-in-law. In the quarrel Which ensued, Mrs. Tully died and the children removed to Kansas City. The old man has lately discovered his treasure, and is delirious over the ruin it wrought.... At the meeting of | the Illinois Deportment. G. A. R-, the action of President Cleveland in vetoing the dependent pension bill was condemned, and members of Congress were asked to pass the measure over the veto. A tribute to the late General Logan was adopted. Captain A. C. Sweetser,- of Bloomington, was elected Department Cbmmander, and Springfield was ebosen as the next place of meeting « '. A severe earthquake-shock was felt at Fredericktown, Mo., last week... .The Chicago anarchists are again showing their teeth. At a meeting the other night the" Speaker shouted loudly for bullets find force The labor movement in Chicago, 'be Chairman said, hud been dragged into politics by reactionary politicians and demagogue's. It was therefore the duty of every thinking man to tell workingmen that they were misguided, that electioneering would not help them, that one revolver was a far better argument than five dozens of votes, and that it was the social revolution, alone the workingmen should expect their salvation from. Other speakers followed in the same strain. The police of Cincinnati Ifate arrested a man giving his name as Charles E. Baker, on suspicion of being the fellow who has regularly pinched lathes on the Afreet at night until their cheeks or arms were black and blue. He was pointed out by a victim. ....Dairymen ' at Elgin, 111., eomplaih that the oleomargarine law has diminished the demand for their product, in (Chicago-. and predict that creamery butter will not bring over thirty cents a pound for years to come....A heavy snow-storm swept over the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains, and'besidesthe damage to telegraph Wires several persons were frozen and hundreds of cattle werebuiied. Heavy snows also visited Michigan. . . .Morris Hatfield shot his’wife at Bethany, 111., and; then shot himseltb He died at once, but his wife will recover. The.. court ig Sioux City,’ Jowat imposed ~ fines ranging from S<JSO to SWiO against the saloon-keepers of that place, ordered them committed until the amounts weie paid, and also that their places - be sealed by the Sheriff. Only one saloon remains. -