Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1887 — THE WENT. [ARTICLE]

THE WENT.

Retorts show that the recent earthquake in the Southwest extended from the Pacific coast in Mexico and Southern California to the Rio Grande River. The dispatches state that there was an unusual disturbance, and that eruptions have broken out at various points. Southern Arizona experienced the severest shocks. At Tucson considerable damage was done to buildings. Goode were thrown from the shelves in stores and many houses were cracked. The shock was accompanied by a rumbling sound. Manv clocks were stopped and the entire population fled to the streets terror-strick-en. The court-house cupola swayed like the mast of a ship in a turbulent 6ea, and the building seemed as though it were toppling over. When the shock struck Santa Catalina Mountain great slices of the mountain were torn from its Side and thrown to its base. The public school building rocked to and fro like a cradle and gome of the plastering fell, causing the utmoat consternation among the scholars. Shortly after the earthquake a volcano broke out twenty-two miles south of Tucson, in Total Wreck Mountains, and the sky was brilliantly illuminated. At Benson the shocks were quite severe, and several buildings were damaged by serious cracks. At Tombstone, windows were broken and buildings cracked and injured, but no persons were hurt. Ten miles from the city a lake covering an acre of ground dried up completely in twenty minutes. The embankments along the New Mexico and Arizona Railway were moved from their former positions, in many instances as much as twelve inches. At Wilcox, a two-story dwelling-house was ruined, and other buildings were seriously damaged. The Indians on the Carlos Reservation were badly frightened. A LOT 128x114 feet at Chestnut and Seventh streets, St. Louis, has been purchased by Joy Gould, who will build upon it a nine-story structure, to be used as headquarters of the Missouri Pacific system. .. .The mills (flour, saw, and planing) and elevator of Mills & Houlton, at .Elk Siver, Minn., a chair factory, and Dickey’s otel, were burned, the loss aggregating $85,000... ,W: C. DePauw, the millionaire capitalist, manufacturer, and philanthropist, of New Albany, Ind., died in Chicago from a stroke of apoplexy. Two years’ imprisonment at Joliet and a fine of $1 was the sentence imposed upon Colonel Bolton by Judge Blodgett.at Chicago for a long series of embezzlements from the Government while the Colonel was Superintendent of second-class mail matter in that city. The stealings amounted to about $20,000. Bolton was arrested over a year ago, and was confined in the county jail until about four months ago, when he was removed to the county hospital on the plea that his health had been shattered by his confinement. A Marquette (Mich.) telegram says: “Reports of the recent windstorm are coming in freely. Tne thirteen counties of the upper peninsula were all swept. In some rich pine fields the trees were mowed down like grass. Millions of feet of pine us destroyed, houses unroofed or demolished, unfinished buildings scattered, and chimneys and outhouses destroyed. Scarcely a town or settlement escaped. Only three fatalities are reported, but many persons were seriously injured.” Paul Gkottkau, the Milwaukee anarchist, has been sentenced to one year's hard labor for inciting sedition...D. S. Fotheringham, who was arrested in St. Louis, in connection with the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad last October, has brought 6uit against the Adams Express Company Mid the Pinkertons for SIOO,OOO damages. He was indicted, but the indictment was quashed.