Daily Republican., 1884-08-21
NEWS SUMMARY.
PLEURO.PNEUMONIA.sCOuRGyD
By DISEASE DESTRUCTION
OF FCROPS-THE INDIANS.

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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
BY DISEASE DESTRUCTION
OF CROPS-THE INDIANS.
The Chicago Breeders Gazette says
that contagious pleuro pneumonia has
found q lOdgment In Illinois. Il is
known to exist In i've Jersey herds in
that State, and the Infection may lie
more widely spread. The Commission
or of Agriculture at Washington has
the existence of the disease In Illinois.
that owners of all herds of Jersey cat
tie In the United States into which tae
new animals have been introduced since
January laet, stop the shipment OF cat
tie until after October LIST.
Cansrell, village OF 200 IL blabitants
in Van Buren County, Iowa, ia being
4 scourged by a disease which is believed
to be violently type of gray or bloody
flux, though some of the physicians pro-
nounce 1t cholera. Tho disease comes
on with cramps, succeeded by bloody
discharges and spasms. The deaths are
one in every four attacked. Thirty-two
persons weae sick ON Monday, and ten
deaths had occurred. The neighbor-
hood is not in the usal line of travel.
A desprcb from Bismarck, Oak ia,
says it has rained hard for twenty-four
hours. Reports from ths West show
much damage. At Belield the crops
we're entirely destroyed by hail, ana at
| Little Missouri eleven miles of railroad
| track were washed out. At Fargo there
has been no such fall of rain for two
years. 1t will cause delay of the
harvest, aid may have caused serious
damage.
Indian Agent McGillicuddy, of the
| Pine Ridge Agency, in Dakota, reports
that "Son of now ater" recently at
tempted to kill him. "An article in .
cheap publication saying that the In
tdians had the right to kill McGilli-
cuddy, caused the Indian to make the
attempt" He Is under arrest, subject
to the order of the Indian Office.
A telegram from Shamokin, Penna.,
says the Buck Ridge m ne, owned by
the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron Company, is on fire, and it will be-
necessary to flood it through the Green
hack colliery. The loss will be heavy
posed to have caught from the ma
chinery.
| The Holyoke, Massachusetts, Water
| Power Company issued orders on Tues
jday 10 all the mills in Holyoke to
shut down until last night, because of
| low water, caused by leak In the
dam. This is said to De the first stop
! page OF the kind ever ordered In that
city.
Special advices from the City ofMexf-
CO to the st. Louis lobe-Democrat
say the authorities deny that any con-
AMI ha va ham tn
maintained by the authorities regard
ing the trial and disposition of the
prisoners.
In Andover, Vermont, on Tuesday,
Mrs. Ida Merrill, her son Sewell. and
Mrs Lucius Jacquith, were thrown from
a wagon by the horse taking fright. Mrs
inj njured, Mrs. Jacquith perhaps fatally.
Bids were opened on Tuesday In
Washington for dredging the Washing
ion channel of the Potomac river. The
lowest bid was that of Benson 81 McNeA,
per cubic yard, aggregating $123, 700
Governor Knott of Kentucky j, has par
doned James Cunningham and Owen
Bradley, the prisoners who rendered
valuable assistance to the Off GERS dur
Frankfort last week.
Mary Dance, ,lored, was yesterday
held TO bail in Washington. on the
charge OF having falsely sworn that she
was widow, and thereby received .
pen sion for several years after she had
MARI led a second time.
Agent Dyer of the Cheyenne and Ara.
pahoe Indian Agency has informed the
officials at the Indian office that some of
theIndiens are abusing boys that have
returned from the Carlisle school,"
Two sons of Isaac Beard, at Spring.
held, Ohio, set fire to their father'a
house yesterday, while playing with
matches, and one of them, aged five
years, was buried to death.
Bowner q Phillips planning mill. the
contents of an adjoining lumber ward.
two dwellings and dye house, in New.
ark, Ohio, were burned yesterday, Tho
loss is about $4,000.
Henry Crawley, from Johnstown.
Penna.. was yesterday held for trial in
New York - for Obtaining illegal board
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel for
month.
Ensign Capeheart, who is sick of
yellow fever at Key West, is reporte.Ss.
to be improving.
A fire In Albinston, Ontario, yester.
day, destroyed thres stores, causing q
.oss of S25 900.
Six stores in Madison, Florida, were
burned on Tuesday night.
A number of stores in Rockville. On
,ario, were burned yesterday. Loss