Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1894 — FIERCE FITZSIMMONS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FIERCE FITZSIMMONS

Lu.oeks the I.'fn Ont ot Con Riordan, His Sparring Partner. ■ At Syracuse, N. Y„ Friday night, Bob /'■'itzsimmons knocked out Con Riordan, i <is sparring partner in tho first round of his usual exhibition at the close of his vaudeville show. Riordan was hit so j aril that lie died at 3:15 a. m,, Saturday, i 'he accident occurred at 10:30 p. m. At 2 Saturday tho physicians declared I hat Riordan would probably die, and

Fitzsimmons sa-> place-1 under arrest and taken to jnl’. I’ltwiinmons was very low spirited over the .-natter, and xlcclarcd that he had no ide». ho had hurt Riordan. Riordan had been drinking, an-l is supposed to have been partially Intoxicato-l. At 11 a, in. Saturday Fitzsimmons was arraigned In pollen conrt on * charge of manslaughter In the second degree. He pleaded “not guilty,’* and waived examination. He was then taken before Judge Northrup, who released him on liO.fr.K) bail. Thejiulk of evidence tends trt show that the blow that killed Riordan was a now “punch.” which rttzslinmoiis discovered a few weeks ago, and has been practicing in anticipation of his coming bout with Corbett. A committee of twelve, representing live hundred merchant millers of tho country, met at Chicago, Nov, 16. to devise means for decreasing the output and raising tho price of flour. An agroem n was formed to shutdown the mills for a period of six weeks, within throe months, beginning Dec 10. Tho agrooincntVill bo in force when mi 11$ representing a production of 150,OJ) barrels a day have tigned the same. The Roby Racing Association opened Its winter engagement, Friday, Nov. 16. Four thousand people were in attendance. The track was in good condition, and the neat her was fair. Never before has there been so many horses at tho track. Already more than seven hundred stalls arc filled. Two hundred more stalls will be erected at, once. i J. J. Higgins; an electrician, at Chicago, Friday night, killed his landlady and then shot, himself. Higgins was behind with his rent, and had been threatened with •joctment. t A syndicate is said to be organising at Denver to control the silver market of the* world. The syndicate proposes to dictate prices to an extent that will prevent sud--1 4»n fluctuations. t