Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1887 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

W. B. Todhvnter, cattle owner, who owns 250,000 acres of land in Oregon and Nevada, has made an assignment to an Oakland (Cal.) firm. He owes $400,000. ~..Sherman A Marsh and Schnabel A Co., two barb- wire manufacturing firms of Chicago, have assigned for the benefit of their creditors. In both cases the liabilities are estimated to be nearly double the assets, and the amounts involved are several hundred thousand dollars. Sherman A Marsh's failure is attributed by Mr. Marsh to the interstate commerce act. Crop reports from 135 counties in Minnesota, Dakota, and lowa show that seeding through the Northwest has been completed. With favorable weather, the crops harvested next fall in Minnesota and Dakota will be unprecedented... .Old settlers in Wisconsin say this is the driest season for forty years. 'Wells have failed, the earth is like ashes, fields and pastures have become sandy, and the wheat crop will be a failuie unless rain speedily falls. The extensive shops of the Minneapolis -and St. Louis. Ilailr<jad, atUdiuneapol is, were burned, with a loss of $150,000. A fire at Milton, Missouri, destroyed the County Jail and a number of business structures; loss, $53,000. Destructives forest fires are reported in the Northern Peninsula of Michigan, and in Wisconsin, near Waukesha. William H. ‘Sanford, Sil, of Washington, Ind., mistook his son Hamlet, aged 16, for a burglar, and shot him deadA stay of proceedings has been granted in the Grottkau ease at Milwaukee until the next term of the Supreme CourtA squad of police at St. Louis narrowly, escaped destruction while being drilled with a Gatling gun. It was the first one they had ever seen, and in fooling wit n -it rt was-discharged—several times..... Hammond, Ind., suffered 1 torn a disastrous fire. A distillery, a butterine factory, lumber yards, and other property were consumed; the loss is about $150,090..i.. At Caledonia, Dakota, the skeleton of a man was'found on the banks of til's Bed River. Near by was a hut, which was found to contain about $5,000 in greenbacks and gold and silver... .Young Yarboiough, of Emporia, Kansas, who was convicted of the murder of L. D. Collier, son of the Rev. Dr. Collier, attempted to take his own life by severing an artery- He will recover.