Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1887 — It Overcame Him. [ARTICLE]

It Overcame Him.

Wm. M. Hoover vacated the Treasurer’s Office to-day. He has been a faithful and accommodating official. The time and labor demanded in printing the premium list for the Jasper County Fair has prevented due attention to the paper this week. President Cleveland takes the ground that if a Republican bolding office under his administration, blackguards the Democratic party ( he must be bounced. The parties tried in the Federa Court for the tally sheet forgeries (instead of Conspiracy, as indicted) should have been acquitted; but the republican jurymen could not cast aside their politics.

Notwithstanding the funds in the State Treasury is lower by reason of the radical members of the Legislature, the republican State Treasurer the other day gave the pretended Lieutenant Governor over five hundred dollars. A tenia 1 * railway accident occurred . r»*'je Toledo, Peoria & Western tVih, Wednesday night. The train tvas carrying 960 excursionists. When three miles east of Chattsworth City, 111., it plunged through a burning bridge killing and wounding three or four hundred of the excursionists and employees of the road. It is supposed the bridge was set on fire with the object of robbery.

State Treasurer Lemcke sa, s the general fund in the State treasury i.» reduced to nothing. The failure of the Republicans in the last Legislature to join the Democrats in devising means to raise revenue has est the finances of the State in a bad state.

Before the Hale & Nor cross fight came on—this is tradition almost—there arrived in town a dissipated miner who had worked in the mine. He was pretty badly down, apparently, but he went into a broker’s office, and, after being told to get out as a tramp, be said he thought a good deal of Hale & Norcross and wanted to invest a trifling sum in it. Two feet, at $175, were bought for him, and he gave the certificate to the broker, saying that be was going to Mexico prospecting, and he would like to leave it behind to be dealt with as the broker saw fit. Pie •was not heard of for months. Hale & Norcross was up to $12,000 a foot. One morning the broker found the dilapidated miner on his doorstep when be came down to business. The miner rose and said: “Well, I’m here. I thought I’d come and see you. I s’pose there ain’t nothing left o’ that Hale & Norcross. I guess you must ’a sold it out, but I'm down an’ ain’t got a cent. Maybe you’d lend me four bits to get a bit of breakfast?” The broker looked at him and gave him $5 to go and get a batii and a breakfast, and presently he return ■ I. , “Sit down and wait a minute. I’ll Drake up your account presently.” lie left the dilapidated man on tire edge of a chair. He came back with a check and sent his clerk down to the bank. The clerk returned with a big bag of g°-d. The poor devil watched the proceedings with a miserable indifference. The gold was stacked upon the counter. “ Look here. I’ve sold your two feet of Hale & Norcross for $25,000, aud here’s your money.” The miner fell down on the floor and cried like a baby. He could not read or write and had no idea what the market was. He sent a draft of S2,O>H) to his mother, The broker bought for him $20,000 worth of registered bonds, and gave him $2,400 in coin, which he spent in three days. Two bunko men brought him in drunk and tried to get his bonds, but the broker drove them, out, and when the man got sober he came and had the bonds sewed into his clothes and was dispat--W: ast. To has t ever been hen- », . ,-i 1 Jirw*ci*e9 iikimkv-.