The Russellville Democrat., 1889-08-08
THE WEST.

THE WEST.
 TaE tobacco crop of Rock and Jefferson Counties, Wis, was completely ruined by Q recent hail storm.
 FoR two or three days the mountains in the vicinity of Gunnison, Col, have been ablaze with burning timber
 NINE persons were poisoned at Burling- ton, Wis, the other night by eating dried beef shipped 10 local dealers by Chicago firm. Four victims were precariously ill, while the others were on the road to re- rovery. A cat and dog who were given the meat would not eat it.
 GOVERNOR FRANCIS, of St Louis, re- gently denied emphatically that he went to New York for the purpose of selling the Merchants bridge to Jay Gould.
 GENERAL ScHoFIELD has directed the commander of the division of the Pacific to take such action as may be necessary 10 protect settlers near Calispeld, Wash ington Territory, from the Indian out break threatened there.
 THE Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton passenger train was wrecked at Oxford, O., on the night of the 3lst Twelve or fourteen persons were killed and injured.
 HARMLESS earthquake shock was felt in California on the morning of the 31st.
 TIE Indians at Mile Lac, Minn., re- ceived fresh cousigumeuts of firewater from Mora and Little Falli last week, and the result was big drunk. Three were reported dead.
 LACK of water caused a boiler explosion east of Fairfield, Ill.,, the other day. One man was killed and two fatally injured.
 THE Sierras and Milton stage was stopped by two highwaymen near Cooper olis, Cal Wells, Fargo & Co.'s safe was blown open, but found 10 contain nothing. Seventy-fve dollars taken from the pas sengers was all the robbers secured.
 THREE young ladies of good family named Flanagan, McCabe and Farrell wero drowned the other night while try ing to cross the Menominee river, near Isbpeming, Mich.
 A HORSE suffering from hydrophobia run amuck in Chicago the other day, bit ing two men and several animals before being killed.
 COLONEL CANADAY, sergeant at-arms of the United States Senate, who had been in Alaska with Senate committee, is ly- ing quite ill in Montana.
 ELEVEN business houses in Fennville, Mich, were destroyed by fire the other night, causing S35 900 loss. A tramp's CdFelt5SHsSs was the cause.
 IN the Washington Territory Constitu- tional convention the clause forbidding counties to grant subsidies for any pur- pose whatever was adopted.
 THE United States Senate Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands in the West com menced its labors at St Paul, Minn., on the 1st Those present were Senators Stewart of Nevada, and Reagan, of pF ln survey and Major Powell.
 THE Chicago worlds fair committee held a meeting recently and elected Mayor Cregier president. Two hundred representative men were present and an executive committee was appointed.
 FROST visited the low grounds about Galena, H., on the morning of the 1st and damaged growing vegetation.
 SENECA SEvALIN, who caused Mrs Clara Belle MeDonald's divorce from her hus- band, the son of the president of the Pa cific Bank of San Francisco, and then robbed her of $20,000, has been sent to the California penitentiary for ten years.
 NEWS from Gunnison, Col, recently was that the Utes were off their reservation and were intimidating settlers.
 TREASURER COLEMAN, recently default ing in Warren County, O., is S63, 900 short.
 MANDAN, Dak., was devastated by fire on the afternoon of the 2d.
 A RAILROAD deal was reported by the Chicago Times by which the Chicago & Alton would purchase or lease the old Kansas Pacific track to Cheyenne. It was not thought likely, however, by the gen. eral public that the Union Pacific would lose control of it's terminal at Kansas City.
 A PASSENGER train left the rails on the South Park (Col.) railroad and fell down an embankment The engineer was killed and the fireman was seriously hurt. Sev- eral passengers were injured.
 Two cases of giant powder exploded in pit No, at Marquette, Mich, recently. Two men and three boys were killed.