Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

At Youngstown, Ohio, while watching a game of bull Sunday. Oscar Gilchrist was struck in the eye by a foul tiy with such force that thg eye wasNrnocked into a pulp and fell out of his head. It, rolled down over his cheek and fell to thg ground. E. W. Hutchins, of the millinery firm of Osborne. Hutchins &. Hunt. of Ci n<-i nati, died in his berth in a sleeping-car on the Cincinnati. Hamilton and Dayton train, near Toledo. He had recently had a fall from a street ear. and that may have been the cause of his death. Corn this year in Oklahoma will be so plentiful that it probably will not brin# more than 8 cents a bushel. Aside from a few districts, where rue crop was injured by hail, an unprecedented yield is reported, and it is thought that there will be a surplus of alipost half a million bushels in the territory to ship. David Lewis and James 'Thomas rode four miles north of Vannattas, Ohio, Monday night on their bicycles. They had but fairly got under way on the return trip when a terrific wind arose. Putting their feet on the coasters the -cyclers were carried by the wind for nearly four miles at almost a mile a minii,te, a part of the distance being up grade. Th« y v, , able to' dismount iu a covered bridge just before the storm

The Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians are becoming restive and trouble is fear--ed. Sixty Western Colorado have stirred up a c&mmotroh at the reservation by introducing “the corn dauee,” similar to the ghpst dance, .which causes, the Indians to become .wildly excited. The visiting Indians evaded Indian Agent Woodson and for two days gave their new dance in a secluded spot 'agiiinst. hid orders.- Woodr Von finally corralled the Colorado Indians and sent them home. For teaching them the new dance, the Cheyenne and Arapahoes gave the visiting- brawes a fine herd of l ponies recently purchased sos the Indian" for use in cultivating their farms.

A peculiar election is to be held, Cincinnati Monday. Cincinnati owns ;i. large railway syM'em, know n as the "Cincinnati Southern, now operated by the Queen and Crescent Company, running from Cincinnati to Chattanooga." It was built by the eity soon after the war. when it was thought thgt the only other road by Which the Southern trade could Is? reached, the Louisville and Nashville, was discriminating in favor of Louisville. It has proved an exi>eriSTVe JTreeo~of pr<>]rerty, and the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway Company having offered to give $19,000,000 for it, the proposition to sell the property .for that sum will be sublnitted to the voters of the' city, wno are the real owners of the road, The State convention of Populists of Indiana at Indianapolis adopted a platform almost identical With the St. Louis utterances. The ticket nominated is as follows: Governor, Thomas Wadsworth, Daviess County; Lieutenant Governor— A. P. Hanna, Montgomery; State Auditor, N. M. Jennings, Johnston; Secretary of State, S. M. Holcomb, Gibson: State Treasurer, F. S. Robinson, Putnam; Attorney General, D. H. Fernandes, Madison; Supreme Court Reporter, I. N. Force. Martin; Statistician, J. S. McKeever, Clark; Superintendent Public Instruction, J. B. Freeman, Howard. 'Die faction that favored the indorsement of the Democratic ticket gave as a reason that the Populist party would not be able to maintain a State committee, or even pay the secretary. They argued that the great majority of the Populists are in favor .of free silver and when the Democrats have declared for it and have a prospect of success it would, be folly to carry on a Populist campaign.