Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1898 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

At Minneapolis, Minn., the Fifth district Republicans nominated Loren Fletcher for Congress for the fourth time by acclamation. At Madera, Cal., County Treasurer Krohn was terribly beaten by robbers and the strong box of the county rifled of its contents by the robbers. At Astoria, Oregon, a fire completely destroyed the box factory of the Clatsop Mill Company, the Columbia Cannery, the Pacific Union Cannery and the Leinenweber Cannery. Roy Anderson and Thomas Cooper, convicts, were shot by a guard while trying to escape from the Ohio State reformatory at Mansfield. Anderson died. OoopArr will recover. '—-William Twinein, a commission merchant, who died a few days ago at Delaware, Ohio, left an estate valued at $7,000,000. The estate will fall to his seven sons and daughters. B. A. Speere refused to divulge the hiding place of his money to a band of masked men who called at his home near Quincy, Ohio, and they beat him so badly that he died in a short time. The docktrivu on the Duluth, Missabe and Northern ore dock at Duluth, Mifin., have gone out on a strike for higher wages. They were receiving $1.35, and ask $1.50. Over 100 men went out. At Cincinnati, the amalgamated iron and steel workers’ convention presented Mahlon M. Garland, former president of the association, a silver service of six pieces. Mr. Garland is now surveyor of customs at Pittsburg. A fusion of the Populist, silver Republicans. liberty, negro protective and socialist labor parties of Ohio has been practically agreed upon. Conferences looking to that end have been in progress for several days in Columbus, Ohio. Sir Henry Irving answered a message from the Bohemian Club of San FrflWciaco, expressing the sentiment that the Stars and Stripes and Union Jack were now entwined, with the following cable: “Love greeting. We shall coal together.” The Midland Terminal train from Cripple Creek, Colo., run down two crews of men near Gillette, ten miles out. Four men were killed. The men were at work on a trestle 100 feet high. The men realized their danger and jumped to the ravine below.

Kearney Speedy, known all over the country as a nervy bridge jumper, dived from the Merchants’ bridge into the Mississippi river at St. Louis and escaped unhurt. The distance was 128 feet. The river was very high and running with driftwood. In the case at Cincinnati of the Central Trust Company of New York against the Columbus, Hocking Valley and Toledo Kailroad Company Judge Lurton ordered • decree of sale, date not set, and appointed R. B. Cowen and A. H. Hifin 6s special masters to sell it. The minimum price set is $4,800,000. William C. Antisell, the well-known piano manufacturer, died at the receiving hospital in San Francisco, Cai., and not for several days was his identity known. Antisell, while intoxicated, had fallen off • car. He seemed to have sustained only • trivial wound of the scalp, but he died the next day. He was 45 years old. The directors of the Trans-Mlssissippi Exposition at Omaha have decided “that the,exposition grounds and buildings be kept open on Sundays from 1 p. m. to 10 p. and conducted in the same manner

as on week day*, except that the Bale of liquors be not permitted, that concerts be given, and that religious services be held in the auditorium on Sunday afternoons.*' One of the biggest transfers of packing house interests ever made in St. Louis was completed when D. L. Quirk turned over the plant and property of the East St. Louis Packing and Provision Company on the east side of the river to the Chicago Packing and Provision Company. The purchase was' arranged for in Chicago, the price paid being in the neighborhood of $500,000. A posse was sent out from Belen, N. M., in pursuit of two bandits who held up a Santa Fe train and robbed the express car. Word has been received of a fierce battle which the posse had with the outlaws about sixty miles southwest of Belen. The posse was led by Sheriff Vigil and was accompanied by several Indian trailers, who succeeded in following the outlaws to their retreat in an isolated district in the mountains. The officers came upon them and Sheriff Vigil called on them to surrender. A fierce fire from their rifles was the answer received by the posse. The deputy and an Indian trailer were wounded at the first fire, but the sheriff stuck to his post until he was struck dead by a bullet. The posse roturned the fire, and it is believed that one of the robbers was severely wounded, but both succeeded in making their escape. At Omaha, Neb., Miss Dorothy Mauer, a pretty young woman, secured un ax and chopped to pieces a number of groups of Cupids which decorated the Fipe Arts building of the exposition. She tried her weapon also upon several pieces of costly statuary, whose undraped figures she considered improper. The young woman performed her feat at midnight, and throughout the time occupied a most perilous position, banging out over the grand court of honor. Had the frail fretwork to which she was clinging in order to execute her work with dispatch given way she would have been precipitated fifty feet to the stone pavement below. When she bad done the work to her satisfaction she descended to the ground, again performing a feat involving great danger. She was met by a big policeman and several exposition guards, who had been prancing around on the ground begging her to desist in her work and come down that they might arrest her. Several times they had attempted to reach her, but the work had been too hazardous and the danger too apparent. The groups of statphry destroyed were very valuable and are utter-, ly ruined, pieces being scattered all over the building. The workmen gathered up several bushels of arms, legs and other parts of the figures. Miss Mauer, who is a Salvation army lieutenant, declares the figures were immodest.