Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1891 — OTHER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

Bob-sleds are in vogue at Goshen. James Kuntz, of Peru, is 110 years old. A heavy snow storm raged in Virginia on the 30th. ~ ~~ "s 7 A robber cave has been discovered in Miami county. The persimmon crop in Southern In- , diana is abundant. Farmers of Delaware county will establish a co-operative mill and warehouse. One of the Tennessee prisoners released by the miners was -captured at Greensburg. The finest steel hull of its dimensions ever launched in the West went into the river at Jeffersonville Monday. Abraham Barker, the New York dealer in commercial paper who failed in August for $4,000,000, has been indicted for grand larceny. G. Glessnor, of New York, secretary of the People’s United Legion, which has offices in Boston, has disappeared with SIB,OOO of the funds of the order. The Chilian Government, it was announced Monday.,has no intention of offering an apology or granting an indemnity for the recent massacre of American sailors. A mob made an unsuccessful assault on the Indianapolis jail Monday night, with the object of lynching Jesse Bissow, a rapist. For want of a leader the mob failed of its object. * J -- - The recently suspend'id firm orFieid Lindley, Weichers & Co., brokers, New York, are found to be without assets and with liabilities of SBOO,OOO. Field istheson of Cyrus IV. Field. The g a n elevator of the “Soo” road, at Gladstone, Mich,, was burned on the 29th, together with $150,000 bushels of grain. The dock caught fire and several thousand barrels of flour and tons of coal were also destroyed, A west-bound train on the St. Louis & San Francisco railroad was held up at Glendale, eight miles out from St. Louis, Monday evening, by six masked men, and ’he ex press car and registered mail of the postal car robbed. It is believed a large sum of money was secured. Mrs. Jefferson Davis has sued the Belford Publishing Company, of New York.to recover royalties on the sale of her book, “Jefferson Davis, ex-Presidentof the Confederate States; a Memoir by His Wife.” She also seeks to recover possession o the publication, alleging violation of th boh tract.

At Hammond, Sunday, five persons were severely bittewvby a supposed mad dog. A little boy named Reiley had his clothes literally torn from his body. Dr. Mullen, a prominent physician, and W. B. King were also attacked by the Infuriated animal. The dog frothed at the mouth, seizing hold of people and burying its poisonous teeth in human flesh. The Associated Press report on the : effects of the McKinley tariff law in France is reproduced by >ll gbe leading I journals of Paris, and is pronunced a most interesting document. Apropos of the question of admission of American pork. M. Siegfried, member of the Chamber of Deputies, says that the United States wil be able to introduce salt meats in France .In spite of the French duty, but that if i the United States Congress would diminish the,duties on French silks; woolen* ■ and cottons, a reduction of the French duty on American imports would be read- , Ily granted. A treaty of commerce with ■the United States, he added, was most desirable. I On West Main street, Muncie, are the two wives of one man, with their eight children, in destitute circumstances. They , are Mrs. Sheppard Falkner, No. 1, with I leven children, and Mrs. Sheppard Falkner, No. 2, with one child. Three years ago i Falkner was divorced from wife No. 1 at i Watseka, 111. Leaving her with seven ' children, he married No. 2 at Champaign, I lit, and moved to Muncie a year ago. Re- ' cently No. 2 has been in poor health, and i It was agreed to send for No. 1 and FalkI ner’s children, who were in a poor-house, The woman accepted the offer, not aware that she was to enter the home of another woman, for whom she was to act as servant, but she was in a helpless, condition and consented. It has now developed that Falkner soon tired of the gossip caused by the strange situation, and he has aban* dohed the whole party, leaving, them in quite a dramatc position. Jesse Jacobs is a murderer, for. Ilka Cain, he has slain his brother. The deed was committed at Boyleston, in Clinton county, and that vicinity Is in intensest excitement over the crime.. On Friday, Ellsworth Jacobs, tho victim, went to Frankfort, and after drinking and hanging about the saloons, returned homo to Boyleston in a reckless state of intoxication. Entering the village store, he found a party of men, one of whom was his brother Jesse, sitting at a table playing pedro. Being refused the privilege of playing, the drunken man playfully began an interference in the game, which resulted in his brother kicking him out of tho room. At the door he drew a knife and staggered to ward J esse. The latter, retreating, snatched up a wagon neckyoke and felled his brother to the walk. Friends gathered around and pickdd him up, and Jesse started home with him. However, he took him only as far as the barn, covering him with straw and leaving him until morning, when a doctor wa* summoned, who pronounced his injuries fatal. He died Sunday night. The murderer was not jailed until Monday, and he was found weeping bitter tears W|th the rest of the family Circle that clustered about the bedside of the dying man.