Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1892 — A Former Resident Shot. [ARTICLE]

A Former Resident Shot.

Phillip D. Armour, of Chicago, is a very wealthy man, but of quite a different “meke-up” from Jay Gould, jthe Vanderbilts and the Astors. He has given away millions for charitable purposes, and only a few days ago gave in one sum $1,400,000 to endow a mission and a manual training school, which he had previously established. Andrew Carnegie is another man whose public benefactions mount into several millions, and so to is Rockefeller, the Standard Oil magnate. But none of them has, for their wealth, a better record for philanthropy than Ges. W. Childs, founder and proprietor of the Philadelphia Ledger.

The Lafayette Courier, while' it professes to be in favor of opening the World’s fair on Sundays, nevertheless criticises the fair directors very' savagely, and accuses ] them of bad faith, because after | accepting the government’s 5.000, j 000 half dollar coins, with their I contingent requirement's a closed' Sunday, they are now asking j Congress to relax tue Sunday j closing law, to seme extent. We j can not see any fairness or good ' sens<-in thb. view o£ thfi Courier. I If tbe fair directors, who are sup-, posed 11 b ■ a- •' we Q'i'ik are, 1 acting in the interests of the pub- ‘ lie nt large, thought it better for the interests of the fair to accept ' thea^p.o i ■■■ihtyia i ■ F.G’ ; requirements, it was their fluty so l to do. Andiuc”', if they tlti ik if would be fir the public good to have the Sunday closing law modi-, fied or repealed, it is agvin ttiijir duty to ask Congress to modify or. repeal it Io violate the law, ■would be acting in bad faith; to .ask j iiave it repealed it> quite another' thing, and not an act of had faith, ' 'J"2 . ./l—l-AUJMg ■’ The Indiana Caprca.v Court, has declared the Gerrymander act! uncorptitutipnnl, and the state isj mow withuuthlegislutive apportion- ( meni law, and hill l*c »*♦ until IL present legislature, which meets the first Monday in January, enacts a new law. It is probable ihat, the C9SB* of honest, pnvern- 1 men* will -nnt gain much by this ’ decision. The Democratic legislature will enact a new law which will be nenr'v or quite as unfair as the oue jnst set a J.h, :.lu will 1 rely upon its t>eing sustained by the Supreme Oonrt, which will be Democratic when the new judges

take their seats. The Court, in its decision, holds that the present legislature, although elected under an illegal law, is a legislature in fact if not of right, and as such enttlqd to act.. The decision does not affect the legality of the acts of former 1-gislal tires, as no one, in fact, ever supposed such a decision would, although previous to the election the Democratic papers and orators, under the lead of the Indianapolis Sentinel, tried tQ..make political capital by claiming that a decision agaiust the Gerrymander would invalidate the acts of all legislatures chosen under its provisions;

Jacob Kdser. wh j many_years ago was a resided t of Rensselaer, and later edited the Winamac Republican for many years, and wks at one time a state Senator, but who removed to Clinton, Mo., a number of years ago, was shot and badly wounded at that place, on Tuesday of last week. The following account of the affair appeared in the Chicago papers, last Wednesday. Clinton, Mo , Dec. 13.—Levi Hartley, a veteran of ttye war of the rebellion and recently an inmate of the soldiers’ home, made a desperate and prob:. success!'til attempt to assnsmate Postmaster J. Keiser here | today.. About noon Mr. Keiser stood jat the general delivery window, his back to the opening, trying to deciphera signature; —Hartley walked to within six feet of him and fired three shots in rapid succwssioH. ; T. H. Bates, a bystander, sprang forward and wrested the pistol from Hartley’s hand. ,_Twonttb» shoisi teak effect,, one tin- below the right shoulder, the other two inches loxver. Hartley calmly rmosikcd; “I.did it IJuul uulu it-’.’ He was placed in j-.ii brtjr.e yearsrtgo Hartley was de-ck-red of unsound mind and was sent to the soldicrj’ home. During his absence his wife secured a divorce and married Keiser, whose attentions to her had caused much scandal. Hartlev returned home a short time ago, and has repeatedly made threats against the postmaster. The doctors are of the opinion that Keiser can not live. ■ ~~