Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1887 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

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A large number of land entries in the Oberlin, Kansas, district have been canceled on the ground of fraud.,,.A little over three-fourths of an average yield is expected from the great wheat bell of 111in0i5..... Des Moines' big distillery has been sold to the whisky pool, and will be closed May 18. Six HOfDREP and SIXTY-FOI H crop reports from 747 townships in Michigan report the wheat fields looking “bare and brown,” but express the hope that the roots have not been hurt by the unfavorable March weather.... Messrs. Clapp A Davies, jewelers, of Chicago, failed for something near a hulf a million dollars. The immediate cause of the failure was the argent demand made upon the firm for money by creditors, mainly William B. Clapp, to whom they owed $65,1)00..... George Werner, teacher of a school near Milwaukee, punished a refractory pupil named Henry Seugbusch by apply.ng a ruler sharply to his wrists, and the latter fell back in his seat unconscious. Supposing that the boy hod fainted, he threw two pails of water over him. but the pupil was dead. "Werner fled, but afterward returned and gave himself up. William Kissa"xe, according to a private dispatch received in New York from San Francisco, has fled to Victoria, B. C., in order to be beyond the reach of the law in case the indictments held over him are not dismissed.... A premature blast killed six men and wounded seven at the camp of Kyner, Higbee A Bernard, near Buena Vista, Col. While working in n sixtyfoot cut on midland grade, a twentyfoot hole had been put down to blow off the face of the cut, nnd sprung with twenty kegs of black giant powder. The foreman was loading the charge, and when he had filled the. ten kegs the charge prematurely exploded, throwing masses of rock into the cut where thirteen men were working, instantly killing six and wounding seven. The wounded included Mr. Barnard, one cf the firm. The names of the killed are: Tim Sullivan. William Conway, W. S. Corcoran, William O’Neil, William Hopes, and an unknown man.

In the case of John Arensdorf, tried at Sioux City for the murder of Rev. George C. Haddock, the jury was discharged because of disagreement. Eleven of its nicrnbers were firm for acquittal.- The* trfffl' lasted twenty-five days. .Gov. Adams, of Colorado, has issued a quarantine proclamation against the importation of cattle from Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, West Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey, “New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Missouri, ■ Kansas. Pennsylvania. and the District of Columbia A conductor on the Baltimore and Ohio, Hoad, whose emigrant train was caught in tire cyclone, reports the birth of nine German babies between Bellaire and Mount Vernon... E. F. Clurn was hanged at Cassville, Mo., for the murder of-Miss Elia ! Bowe on the Bth of July last. Fully ten thousand people from the surrounding country gathered to witness the execution, j Clam was greatly affected amt cried bitter- ; ly. At times be would try to cbeer himself by singing hymns..A wheat corner j has been established in San Francisco, i ffm. Dresbaeh, the President of the Board : of Trade, and leading bankers are alleged to be the principals. All the surplus wheat crop of California is said to be cornered. The first genuine cyclone ever witnessed in the immediate vicinity of Wheeling, W. Ya., says a dispatch from that ,city, oc- 1 curred on Friday afternoon. It wrought devastation over a section of country ex- : tending from St. Clairsviile, Ohio, ten miles west, to a point as far- east as Wheeling. At St. Ciairsville many houses were demolished, and horses hitched in the street were blown about like chaff, and the vehicles demolished—A scantling sailed through the air for a mile, and cut as clean a hole ra the two walls of a brick bouse as a cannon ball would. Shingles were driven throu.h board.ng like arrows. The damage to property in • St. Ciairsville is placed at $200,000. Martins Ferry suffeied even more severely, and other towns in the' neighborhood felt the effects of the blow. When the storm struck the Ghio Kiver the water shot up in a perpendicular wall about twenty feet, and tnen fell back in frothy, seething foam; and simultaneously a shower of fence-boards, shingles, posts, and timbers, with some large sections of houses, fen in a sheet on the turbulent water. The river for miles is strewn with wreckage. The total damage wrought by the tornado is estimated at SI,OM,tHKi. Fortunately no lives were lost, though many narrow escapes from death are reported. 1