People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1893 — Page 6

The People’s Pilot RENSSELAER, « : INDIANA.

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL Extra Station. * In the senate bills were Introduced on the Sth to liquidate expenses arising from the war and to repeal all acts providing for the creation or maintenance of sinking funds. A resolution for the appointment of a joint select committee on finance was placed on the calendar. The house purchasing clause of the Sherman act was discussed ... In the house the new rules were adopted with an amendment providing that eulogies on deceased members of the house and senate shall be delivered Sundays and on no other days. Adjourned until the 9th. Ma Wolcott (CoL) introduced a resolution fat the senate on the 7th for the immediate repeal of the McKinley tariff law. The Sherman repeal bill was further discussed, Mr. Stewart (Ner.) concluding his speech in favor of free coinage of silver and Mr. Walthall (Miss) speaking in favor of bimetallism.... The house was not in session. Mr Faulkner (W. -Va.) advocated the suspension of silver purchases for four years in the senate on the Bth. The following nominations were received from the president: Theodore Runyon, of New Jersey, to be ambassador to Germany; Alberts. Willis, of Kentucky, to be minister to the Hawaiian islands; Henry M. Smythe, of Virginia, to be minister to Hayti; Ellis Mills, of Virginia, to be consul general to Honolulu, and William Carroll, of Maryland, to be consul general at Dresden, Germany.... The bouse was not in session. In the senate the principal speech on the silver question on the 9th was made by Senator Teller (CoL), wno advocated the free coinage of the white metal A bill was introduced by Senator Morgan (Ala.) which has for its object the keeping of silver in circulation.... In the house bills were Introduced to pension soldiers of the Indian wars as Mexican war soldiers are pensioned; to make the pension for total blindness 8100 a month; to prohibit the suspension or stoppage of any pension until after a full hearing and examination: to Increase the pension for total disability from 872 to 1400 a month; to repeal the reciprocity clause of the McKinley law, and to place binding twine and cotton bagging on the free list. Mr Dolph (Ore.) presented in the senate on the 11th a petition of the conference of the , Methodist Episcopal church in Oregon for the repeal of the Geary Chinese exclusion act Senators Teller (CoL) and Pugh (Ala.) spoke against the repeal of the silver law. In the house no business was transacted.

DOMESTIC. A. A. Zimmerman, the world’s bicycle champion, went a mile at Springfield, 0., in 2:05 3-5, breaking his previous record. H. Hellman, dealer in general merchandise at Kyle, Tex., failed for 8100,000. Arrangements have been made to open a spiritualistic college at Liberal, Mo., the first school of its kind ever founded in the world. In session at Indianapolis the ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic elected Mrs. Amanda J. Withern, of Minnesota, as president. The Woman’s Relief Corps selected Sarah C. Mink, of New York, as president. Robert L. Gruschow, cashier of the Pabst brewing company, was held up in his office in Chicago and robbed of •8,000. The twenty-seventh national encampment at Indianapolis of the Grand Army of the Republic adjourned after adopting the report of the pension committee which deny that the secretary of the interior and the commissioner of pensions have power to drop pensioners from the rolls without first giving them a hearing; declare against the presumption of fraud until charges have been proven, and say it is the duty of the pension commissioner to at once restore to the rolls the thousands of pensioners now standing illegally suspended. Gov. Flower, on behalf of the state board, presented the New Y’ork building on the world’s fair grounds to the board of lady managers, the magnificent structure to remain in Jackson park as a permanent museum of woman’s industrial work. A cyclone struck Lockport, La., killed six persons, seriously injured several others and left the town a mass of ruins. An outbound world’s fair special on the Pan-Handle road and a inbound Valparaiso accommodation on the Pennsylvania road collided near Colehour, a Chicago suburb, and eleven men were killed, fourteen were seiiously and five were slightly injured. Mrs. Wilson Berry and her son were killed near Fairfax, Va., by Mrs. John Scott and her son. A quarrel was the cause. The three national banks at Mankato, Minn., reopened their doors after having been closed a little over a month. Nancy Hanks went a mile in 2:04% at Indianapolis. This was within threequarters of a second of the wonderful mare’s record. Mrs. Caroline Tegen, aged 45, died in St. Louis of self-imposed starvation. For twenty days nothing but one glass of lemonade passed her lips. Cashier Blackley, of a Delta (Col.) bank, was killed by robbers. Two of the highwaymen were killed by a resident

Robert McEvoy, a trusted clerk in the Merchants’ national bank in Chicago for twenty years, played the races and is a defaulter to the extent of $25,€OO. He was missing. Twenty thousand persons in the track of the recent hurricane in the south were said to be in danger of starvation. The town of Baldwin, Wis., was almost entirely wiped out by fire, the loss being over SIOO,OOO. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the Bth aggregated $733,575,705, again5t5661,152,209 the pluvious week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1892, was 34.9. Four children of James O’Neal (negro) were burned to death in their home near Versailles, Ky., during the absence of their parents. Anarchist Claus Timmerman was sentenced in New York to six months in the penitentiary for inciting to riot Business 'failures to the number of 838 occurred in the United States in the •even days ended on the Bth, against 885 the preceding week

William Smith, a Camden. (Ark.) negro who murdered a man named Pierce last fall, was executed at Camden. Owing to the collapse of several world’s fair hotels Nelson, Matter <fc Co., one of the oldest furniture houses in Grand Rapids, made an assignment with liabilities of 8400,000. Two men captured a mail wagon at Terre Haute, Ind., aad gagged the driver and rifled the pouches. Joseph Dysart, lieutenant governor of lowa from 1874 to 1878, died at his home in Vinton, aged 75 years. Richard M. Hooley, the veteran theatrical manager, died at his home in Chicago, aged 71 years. The world's fair directors say the total disbursements up to the Ist inst. amount to 825,516,356 and the balance on hand was 8562,001.99. At Dunlap, Tenn., Lafayette Grimes was murdered by white caps whose arrest he had procured. At Bayport, Mich.. Peter Straubus, a bridegroom, was shot and mortally wounded by a party of serenaders. The office of the Adams Express company at Akron, 0., was entered and 87,000 taken from the safe. Almost the entire business portion of the town of Cayucos, Cal., was destroyed by fire. The receiver of the Evansville & Terre Haute railroad was dismissed and the road restored to the stockholders. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the National league for the week ended on the 9th were as follows: Boston, .714; Pittsburgh, .607; Philadelphia, .584; Cleveland; .560; New York, .549; Brooklyn, .523; Cincinnati, .482; Baltimore, .446; St Louis, .416; Chicago, .416; Louisville, .383; Washington, .327. Five children of F. W. Whitney, near Silver Hill, Ark., were burned to death while their parents were at church. Except 813 the 85,000 stolen from the Adams express at Akron, 0., has been recovered and the thieves arrested. According to the government report the drought has worked greater damage to corn than was expected. Figures on wheat make it the smallest yield since 1885, the amount being about 371,000,000 bushels. Bennett's casino, a variety theater in Brooklyn, N. Y., was burned, the loss being 8150,000. George W. Dye, one of the wealthiest planters in northeast Georgia, is dead, and has left his fortune of over half a million to the negro family who attended him for the last fifty years. An incendiary fire destroyed the property of the Sulphur Mines company at Mineral City, Va., causing a loss of 8100,006. Precisely at noon on the 9th President Cleveland was made a father for the second time, the new baby, like its predecessor, being a girl. Mrs. Cleveland and her daughter were reported to be doing well. Fire destroyed the United States marine hospital at Port Townsend, Wash.

Guiteau's body was buried under the laundry floor of the Washington jlil, and is still there, according to Deputy Warden Russ. It was supposed to be in a museum. George P. Kegariz, a prominent Dunkard preacher, aged 60, hanged himself to a tree at his home near Salemville. Pa. No cause was known. George Sicor, Frank Fare and David Simmons, United States marshals at Dennison, Tex., became involved in a row which resulted in all three being fatally shot. James H. Walker, of Philadelphia, and Joseph L. Kilran, of Elwood, Ind., died at the same hour on passenger trains at Pittsburgh, Pa. The grain elevator of the W. C. Fuhrer Milling company at Mount Vernon, Ind., was burned, the loss being 8100,000. At Chillicothe Richard Brown (colored) shot and killed Nellie Wolfscall (also colored) whom he was about to marry, and then fatally shot himself. The world’s first parliament of religions began a seventeen days’ session in Chicago. In these meetings the delegates from different churches all over the world will present their views of the great subjects of religious faith and life. Twenty business houses and residences were destroyed by fire at Canby, Minn., the total loss being 8200,000. In the past six months thirty-five state banks in Kansas closed their doors, five of which have resumed business. The distillery at Lynchburg, 0., owned by Freiburg & Workum, was burned, the loss being 8100,000. In filling a lighted gasoline stove Mrs. Maxwell, of Clinton, la., and her daughter Stella were fatally burned. Twenty-three men scattered through Jackson and Elbert counties, Ga., were arrested with wholesale counterfeits of silver dollars in their possession. Some fiend or fiends entered the graveyard in Hudson, Wis., and pushed over, broke and otherwise destroyed | twenty-two of the most costly gravestones.

The town of Colfax, Wis., was said to have been destroyed by fire. The issue of standard silver dollars from the mints and treasury’ offices for the week ending on the 9th was $425,559, against $539,208 for the corresponding period of 1892. Flames in the lumber yards of the Pullman Car company at Pullman, a Chicago suburb, caused a loss of $250,000. Having won the third trial race, the yacht Vigilant has been selected to defend the America’s cup. October 18 and 19 have been selected as the dates for the annual convention of the American Bankers’ association in Chicago. The National Association of Post Office Clerks met in convention in Chicago. L. S. Meintjes, of South Africa, in a race against time at Springfield, Mass., lowered the 5-mile bicycle record to 11:09 3-5. By a vote of 29 to 9 the national commission of the world’s fair decided to adjourn sine die.

W. O. Barney, treasurer of Defiance county, 0., was found to be >26,000 short in his accounts. Twenty masked men held up the New York express train on the I.a Ire Shore road near KendallviHe, Ind., and after wounding the engineer blew open the safe in the express car and stole its contents. In New York and vicinity seven per sons died from eating toadstools, supposing them to be mushrooms. .Striking Italians took possession of the mining town of Beadling, Pa., terrorizing the inhabitants Twentyeight were arrested. The following banks have resumed business: First national at Le Mars, la., First national at Nashville, Tenn., Commercial at Stevens Point, Wis, Western national at Pueblo, CoL, and Bank of Florence at Florence, CoL The steamer Shermoksha was burned on the River Volga in Russia and fifteen of the crew and twelve passengers lost their lives. A heavy pall of smoke hung over Lake Michigan and made navigation as dangerous as though it was a heavy fog. It came from forest fires in Michigan. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Benjamin Churchill, the last of the pensioners of the war of 1812 at the Chicago agency, died in Galesburg, 111., aged nearly 100 years. At the state convention m Lynn, Mass, of the people’s party George H. Cary, of Lynn, was nominated for governor. Mrs. Sarah Wilson celebrated her 102 d birthday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. William Skinner, in Kalamazoo. Mich. Hamilton Fish died of heart failure at his country residence at Garrison’s, N. Y., aged 85 years. In 1842 Mr. Fish was elected to congress, in 1848 was elected governor of New York, and in 1851 was made United States senator. Mr. Fish was also secretary of state during President Grant’s administrations, from March 11, 1869, to March 12, 1877. South Dakota democrats in convention at Scotland nominated Chauncey L. Woods, W. H. Stoddard and Henry C. Hinckley for supreme court judges W. H. Mcllenry, an lowa pioneer and the first mayor of Des Moines, died in that city, aged 77 years.

FOREIGN. Hayti is said to be on the eve of another revolution. Fall in silver has caused great business depression. The latest news from Rio de Janeiro reports that a revolution has broken out there under the leadership of Admiral Custedio J ose Mello. In the British house of lords the Irish home-rule bill was rejected by a vote of 419 against to 41 in favor of the meas* ure. The steamship Campania made the run from New York to Queenstown in five days,fourteen hours and fifteen minutes, making a new record. Advices from China say that recent floods destroyed fourteen villages in the prefecture of Shuntienfu and 16,000 lives were lost An official decree has been issued announcing that an international exposition will be held in France in 1900. Alfred Picard is named as commander general. The Canadian government has refused to ratify the immigration agreement made with the New York commissioners that all immigrants landing at Canadian ports, but destined for the United States, should be inspected at the port of entry by United State* officers.

LATER. Addresses were made in the United States senate,on the 12th by Messrs. Mitchell, Teller and Stewart against the repeal of the silver bill, and by Mr. Hawley in favor of repeal. In the house bills were introduced to strike from the rolls the names of all pensioners in receipt of an income of S6OO a year or possessed of property valued at $5,000; fixing the pension for loss of entire leg or arm at SOO a month; for loss of leg or arm above knee or elbow joint at $55 a month; for loss of hand or foot at SSO a month, and providing that the pensions of all pensioners who are inmates of the soldiers’ homes shall cease so long as they shall remain inmates of such homes. Matz Zeifk. a well-to-do farmer near Fort Bodge, la., hanged himself because of the death of a favorite cow. Advices from the Crimea say that cholera was committing terrible ravages, and that hundreds in the province of Taurida were dying daily. In the trial trip at Philadelphia of the cruiser Columbia all speed records were beaten. She made 21.3 knots an hour. L. S. Coffin, nominated for governor by the prohibitionist republicans of lowa, declines to make the race. A GAS well with a flow of 50,000,000 cubic feet a day was struck on a farm near Findlay, O. Charles de Lessees, sentenced in Paris to six years’ imprisonment for complicity in the Panama canal frauds, has been released from prison. A HIGHWAYMAN took S6OO worth of property from passengers in a stage coach near Klamath Falls, Ore. To build and operate the world’s fair, including obligation in suspense, cost up to August 31 $24,532,369. The liabilities on that date were $1,455,215. Adulp Krug, city treasurer <sf Seattle, Wash., was found to be $135,000 short in his accounts. He had fled across the border into British Columbia. Timber fires in the vicinity of Deadwood, S. D., have destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of property. Moreaus Crosby, of Grand Rapids, who was lieutenant governor of Michigan in 1872, died in Boston, where he had gone for his health, aged 54 years. A dp.ought of eighty-six days in Chicago and of 126 days in many western states was broken by rain on the 12th. It was stated that the masked men who held up the express train on the Lake Shore road near Kendallville, Ind., secured $150,000 from the express car.

THE SILVER DEBATE.

Synopsis of the Dtoeoaaioa in the United State* Senate. On the sth Mr. Peffer (pop., Kan.) concluded hi* argument in support of his free coinage amendment to the repeal bill. He was followed by Mr. Stewart (rep. Nev.) in opposition to the repeal of the Sherman act. Touching on the demonetization act of 1873 he intimated that Senator Sherman’s vote against that bill was because he knew it would pass and wanted to conceal from the senate a knowledge of the fact that it omitted the silver dollar from the list of coin*. He claimed to have shown that the leading members of the two bouse* who were present during the consideration of the bill were ignorant of the fact that the silver dollar was omitted in the codification of the mint laws "Th* senate and the country must judge,” said Senator Stewart, “whether a fair opportumty was afforded the members of the two houses to know of omission of the silver dollar from the list of coins. No reference was made in the debate in the senate to the omission of the silver dollar. ” He said the fact that Senator Sherman, who did so much to secure the recommendation of the gold standard by the Paris conference, introduced in 1868 a bill with a harmless title adopting the gold standard, claiming that the gold standard was an American idea—that he had charge o the mint bill from beginning to end and failed to inform the senate that it demonetized silver —was most astonishing. The legislation was not demanded by the people. They knew nothing of it It remained a profound secret so far as the masses of the people were concerned, for more than two years Coming to the recent election. Senator Stewart said the contest between the two great parties was a sham battle over the tariff and the force bill to secure power to be used for another and very different purpose. He had told the people, he said, that it made no difference which party succeeded. The result would be the same. The power and patronage of the administration would be used to destroy silver. Referring to the Sherman act Senator Stewart said that notwithstanding the numerous violations of it by the executive department it had added 3150,000,000 of Legal tender money to the currency of the country. There was no evidence that the Sherman act had up to this time inflicted any injury upon the country. The banker’s panic, he said, was inaugurated to force congress to demonetise silver. The president in his message failed to inform congress that the apprehended evils which produced the panic existed only in the imagination of the bondholders, the bankers and their newspaper organs, who had created the present distress for their own selfish and sordid purposes. The immediate duty of the hour is to relieve that distress. There is an honest remedy and a dishonest remedy. The honest remedy is to restore silver; or, if that could not be done, to utilize the silver in the treasury by issuing silver certificates on it, and by issuing enough greenbacks to relieve the distress. The dishonest remedy is to pass the repeal bill, to sanctify to infamous act of 1873 and to fasten a perpetual gold standard upon the country. Before the conclusion of Mr. Stewart's remarks the senate adjourned. On the 6th Mr. Stewart (rep., Nev.) continued his speech. After talking for an hour he paused for a rest and Mr. Teller (rep, Col) came to his aid by suggesting the absence of a quorum. The roll was called and (a majority of senators trooping in from the cloak rooms) fifty-nine senators answered. Mr. Teller explained his reason for calling attention to the absence of a quorum. He insisted that those who opposed the measure should be heard and that the friends of the measure should be in the chamber while it was being discussed. There had not been a member of the finance committee who was in favor of the bill in the chamber for the last hour. He intended while this debate went on to see that there was a quorum present. Mr. Stewart then resumed the floor, and, showing no symptoms of bringing his speech to a close at sp. m., Mr. Voorhees (his patience apparently exhausted) asked him whether he wished to continue his remarks during the evening. The reply was that he hoped to be excused. Senator Voorhees then said that with the senator’s permission he would move to proceed to executive business. The motion was agreed to. On the 7th Mr. Stewart (rep, Nev.) postponed the continuation of his speech until Mr. Walthall (dem-., Miss.) had spoken. Mr. Walthall then argued in favor of bimetallism. He expressed his readiness to cooperate in prompt action on the bill, and suggested that there was a simple mode of arriving at prompt action. If the declarations of policy, h« said, which the substitute contained were qpibodied in the form of an enactment he believed a vote could be reached in half the time. He argued thSt the bill should be addressed to some other legislation than the mere repeal of the Sherman act; that congress should “strike at the root, not merely at the fruit.” It it were found that the Sherman law, and not the McKinley law, had been the culminating atrocity of recent legislation, haste should be made to supplement the educational feature of the campaign of 1892 by teaching the people now that that campaign had been conducted to success on a mistaken issue. Mr Stewart then resumed his remarks, opening with a tirade against the owners of two New York newspapers for presuming to dictate the policy of the senate and reflect public sentiment Then he took up Mr. Voorhees’ record on the silver question and quoted from his autobiography in the Congressional Directory to show his inconsistency. He read documents and newspaper clippings to show the tariff and the force bill were the overshadowing issues in the presidential campaign. At 4:15 Mr. Stewart announced that he would now close, saying: “There are several branches of the subject which I have not yet touched and which I wish to speak upon, but I will close this speech here.”

On the Bth Mr. Faulkner (dem., W. Va.) spoke on the silver question. He announced his intention to vote for the repeal bill, but in doing so expressed his belief in silver as a money metal and declared his intention of bringing in an amendment to the present bill providing for the coinage of 13,030,000 of silver per month until the aggregate circulation of silver of the country shall reach <800,000,000. No evidence was furnished, he said, to show that the charge so freely made, that the purchase of 4,600,000 ounces of silver per month has been the chief disturbing element in our financial system was true, and he contended that the want of confidenoe which had been manifest by the people was a want of confidence in our financial institutions rather than in any particular kind of money. Mr. Turp'.e (dem., Ind.) advocated bimetallism. The issue which confronted congress was not whether silver should be further used as money, but whether its purchase should be continued. The very act of purchasing was a discrimination against silver, because gold was brought to the treasury. He predicted that an epoch of free trade was about to appear and of freedom of the ballot, and there could be no doubt that when these two things were secured the free coinage of silver would necessarily be brought about. Mr. Jones (dem., Ark.) favored the repeal of the Sherman act, not in part, but the whole. He would vote against the pending bill and would resist its enactment into law as long as possible unless it were coupled with some measure recognizing silver and providing for an expansion of the volume ot the country’s money. On the 9th Mr. Teller (rep., CoL) spoke on the repeal bill. He began by referring to the "lecturing” which the senate was receiving from the newspaper press of the country. Senators, he said, were ordered, as if they had masters, to proceed without deliberation, to do with hot haste that which in the judgment of if not a majority at least a very respectable minority of the senators would be a very disastrous thing to do. Not only had senators been told that they must vote at once but it had been asserted over and over again that senators who represented states fortunate enough to be filled with mineral wealth were representing their individual interests and had not even the right to vote on the question. Mr. Teller then quoted from New York papers as to the alleged pressure which the administration was to exert on the house and senate for the passage ot the repeal bill He read a dispatch from the Washington correspondent of the New York American stating that the negotiations for the surrender of the silver democrats in the senate were at an end, that

the administration insisted on unconditional surrender; that Senator Vest was now the angriest man against the administration that could be found in the country and had threatened to join in delaying action. Mr. Teller yielded to Mr. Vest (dem., Mo), who said: “If there is any ultimatum coming from the president it is not known to myself nor to any of my associates. However much we may differ from, the president none of us shall ever come to the degrading conclusion that h* will send a message to United States senator* seeking to control their action. As to what is stated in regard to my action about delay it is simply and unconditionally false, and the product of newspajier imagination incited by newspaper rivalry. ” Mr. Teller then made some sarcastic allusions to what “purported to be a telegram from the president of the United States to a member of congress congratulating him and his associates on the passage of the repeal bill by the house of representatives" The speaker wanted to know, (in weH-f?igned astonishment) if anybody could tell him that “the president of the United States was guilty of that gross breach of public decency? Why, of course it was a newspaper yarn and a newspaper falsehood. The president of the United States attempting to procure legislation, having carried it from his summer home at Buzzard's Bay. sent his thanks—we are told —to Mr. Wilson and his associates. Incomprehensible! Impossible! What further need do you require of the mendacity of the press?’ Mr. Teller then addressed himself to the Sherman act, alleging that under it for over two years the country had been prosperous and that its only influence had been beneficial. Before the conclusion of Mr. Teller's remarks the senate adjourned. On the 11th Mr. Pugh (dem., Ala.) spoke in opposition to the repeal bill. He said it was the determined and unalterable purpose of the opponents of repeal to stand upon their convictions of public duty and fidelity to their pledges to the people whom they represented, and who had honored, hem with their confidence on the vital question, until their physical strength was exhausted. Mr. Teller (rep., CoL) resumed his speech againt the repeal bill. He asserted, and he believed it could be demonstrated, that if it had not been for a preconcerted effort in the money eenter of the country to prevent it, the Ist of September would have seen better times in the finances of the country than the people were experiencing today. The calling of congress did not relieve the country; in fact, the condition became worse from the time congress was called in ex traordinary session. Mr. Teller said he would at some other time give to the senate his conception of the cause for the recent distressed condition. In his opinion it was due to legislative misconduct.

Mr. Teller next directed himself to stock operations. A New York paper had published daily for some time the depreciation in value of stocks or the destruction of values occasioned by the Sherman law, as the paper said. The paper had finally got the amount up to 1700,000,000. In his opinion a great many stocks were selling on the market to-day for more than they were worth. He cited Northern Pacific, which he said had fallen from 70 to 17. It was said all the great owners connected with it unloaded when it was 70. That company had $250,000,000 of indebtedness; $75,000,000 held in Germany; a great amount owned in Holland and England. He then instanced Erie stock. He did not suppose anybody pretended that Erie would ever pay out He next referred to Reading. Did any intelligent man believe that any of those three great concerns were solvent? Did not everybody know they were insolvent? This disturbance did not come from the Sherman law. It came from the misconduct of officials. Mr. Teller said he did not mean to sav criminal misconduct, but that they did not deal fairly with their investors. It behooved congress, he said, when it came to legislate upon this subject, to find the cause of the evil, and, if within its power, to remove the evil. Mr. Teller then yielded to a motion to go into executive session, saying that he had reached a point where he could quit for the present and he would take up another branch of the subjeo some other day.

BANK ROBBERS KILLED.

They First Shoot a Cashier—Daring Daylight Robbery Committed at Delta, Col., by Outlaws—One Escapes Pursued by a Posse—Stolen Money Recovered. Delta, C«l., Sept. 9.—Cashier A. T. Blachly, of the Farmers’ and Merchants’ bank, was shot dead while defending his trust Thursday morning by three robbers. Two of the robbers are dead and the third will soon be in the hands of the officers of the law, who are in hot pursuit Three men had been seen lounging about the bank for a day or two without any apparent business. About 10:45 o’clock Thursday morning, when no customers were present, they entered the bank and covered those present with their guns. The spokesman, presenting his revolver at the head of Cashier Blachly, demanding that he hand over what funds there were in the bank. Mr. Blachly refused. The robber without any further warning fired, killing him instantly. The three men then grabbed all the cash in sight, amounting to perhaps 11,000. Then they started for the outside, where their horses were hitched. W. Ray Simpson, who keeps a hard ware store near the bank, heard the shot and seizing his loaded Winchester got into the street in front of the bank just as the three robbers were rushing out He opened fire at once and with the first shot one of the robbers fell dead. He fired again and another robber dropped. The third had time to mount his horse and start down the road for the country. By this time the bank was the center of an excited multitude of citizens. As soon as they ascertained what had occurred they rushed to their homes, secured horses, guns and ammunition and set off after the fleeing robber. A portion of the posse in pursuit of the third robber returned Thursday evening and reported they had lost the trail in the mountains and that the man would probably escape, as he was well mounted. The dead men had been stopping at one of the hotels for several days -under the names of James G. Bradley and Clarence Bradley. James was recognized as a member of a gang which robbed a bank at Tellurido, Col., three or four years ago. A reward of SSOO has been offered for the missing robber. Cashier Blachly leaves a widow and several children and was an old resident of the county.

Colfax, Wis., Reported to Have Been Burned—Forest Fires Raging.

Chippewa Falls, Wis.,Sept. 12.—This city and vicinity have been covered with smoke for several days from forest fires, which are devastating sections of northern Wisconsin. The fires have continued at intervals for two months. A great many farmers have suffered losses of hay, grain and buildings. A report has reached here that Colfax, a small town on the Wisconsin Central 21 miles from here, was destroyed by fire. No word can be secured by telegraph, and it is supposed telegraphic communication has been cut off. There has been no rain here for six weeks and the country is as dry as tinder.

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