Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1886 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

Thk contract for the construction of the new building for the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce has been awarded to«Norcross & Co., of Worcester, Mass., for $524,860. Worcester t ranite is the material chosen. This bid does not include excavation and carving, which will make the total cost SBOO,OOO At Medina, Ohio, five men worked three hours on the safe of the County Treasurer, which contained $30,000, and were compelled to abandon their attempt. During 'hat time they held Marshal Frazier aa. a_. prisoner, bound and gagged, in a corner of the office. A kumbek of wholesale liquor dealers of Ohio have tak.-n joint action by employing oonnsel to bring suit iu the United States Supreme. Court to test the constitutionality of the Dow liquor-tax 1aw.... A ‘‘Patriots League” has been loaned in Chicago, the object being to antagonize the socialistic.movement. A platform has been adopted and » fficers elected for the ensuing year. The prospects of the organization . are-good. „ ..The Wonnhago.lndians aroundBlack River Falls. W isconsin, are reported as .dost itute—on account—of. re of the Qoverumeiit to pay them their annuity. The recent theft of,soo,o(Mi from an Adams express car on the St. Louis and San Francisco Road, for which Messenger Fotberingbaui is now in ariest, has been traced out by the Pinkerton agency. “Jim” Cummings aud two, of his accomplices were last week captured iu Chicago qadtaken to St. Louis. The tracks of Cummings had been very closely followed up by Robert Pinkerton e'er since the 10bbery, says a Chicago d spatch. It was d scovored some w,-« K s ago that he was infatuated with a trad woman of St. Louis who was preparing to move to Chicago. Her movements were closely watched. and she was soon located at a house on Halsted #ue, t near Madison. Shortly alter Jim Cummin;s wrote his last letter to St. Louis thr* e strange Yuou arrived in Chicago and took up their residence at the same house as the woman from St. Lon s. They were much-looking iallows witn the swaggering gait pecul.ar to brakemen. They kept eery quiet during the that r.veek of their stay in the city, but after that -t gsu to frequent gambling hdusi s arid other notorious resorts. At one resort ■Jim’ displayed his money quite freely and indulged iu queer methods of getting rid of it. Several tine s he op lied his pock* tl>ook and throw a j&f bill rih the ßoot, and directing that every pers m residing ia or employed in the house should bo given ?1. Alt the small t»ills in the house had to l>e kept- itr ■active circulation to make change. On one occasion when he tnrnw u ISJdJn ite On the poor the proprietor pl od it up. Ties ca tsed him t> remark, r\\ Hv do you heep end bark course If- Wl nt are your servant.-, for ?" A short time afterward "ha held a glass of wine before him and said : “Some people fear death. I don't. I would just as lief put n piatol to my head and die right heie as drink ibis glass ofwine, ’ He drunk tjm wipe, .however Becoming tnerere-kless w ;th his lmmey on *of hi# partners took the red pockt tbcxiK *«m' fr-ui “him. TBJif“Tse "lutstffPdPtt “tjrini >< irtmtifisr about to lake some money out of, the old stocking that encircled his waist, but stopped when the jocketbook was bunded back t-,i him. Turning to a i ystander ho remark* d : "ll you knew who I atn you v onldu t #i*eak to moyou w uld leave mo “ The answer wos; 'll. Ijneis n t; but where did you. get so much, money r’ Ha laughed h-artijy and repb.d. rt. I stoppjd a train down lierc.' Then, as if realizing that he ha-1 made a s. no IS slip of the toui-Ue, he suddenly b came quite aobir tiud I**st all liis volubility. The lavish manner in which they n*~ul their money attracted the atfe nliou ol ■*cciiprtnts of the house •Where they were living. The information in the posaessi nos tho I’inkert u; agency caused an hsusUfUly sharp lookcwiTtd I>r h-; t On thu house cm Hi:lkied street Things seeming ripe for n capture, a body of detectives made a descent iil*ou the house and found Jim Cummings and ti.e it. I ouis wo.rn.HU in bed. A package of Ss .(KTi Ttfis foend in vest l-ocket. fti.tl

tL' identified aapart of the prorfoai of the I rxprexa ear robbery. The two other accouipllcce of dimming* were also arretted.