Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1895 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Mrs. S. S. Merrill, widow of the former general manager-of Chicago. and St. Paul Railroad, has been elected a member of the Milwaukee School Board. 1 The Lloyd, Latz & Thompson Dry Goods Compalfy of Kansas City has been closed up by the sheriff. Assets are estimated at $90,000 and liabilities $70,000. Work was suspended 30,000 Massillon, 0., miners ami will not be resumed until a scale for one year is made and signed. The suspension its complete in Massillon district, but will not be respected if the unorganized miners continue at work. At Hiattsville, Kan., over half a dozen people have been poisoned, some of them perhaps fatally, by medicine administered by a traveling woman dentist' who has skipped town. The.dentist traveled under the name of Dr.-Alberta Oberlin and claimed to come from St. -Louis. A frightful cyclone struck near the little town Of Patterson, twenty miles east of Hutchinson, Kan., at 4:20 Wednesday afternoon, and as a result ten persons are dead, twenty-five injured, twenty houses razed, and many barns and buildings destroxed and cattle, horses and hogs killed. A Tacoma, Wash., dispatch says: The cuticle of the late Tom Blanck, the desperado, has been tanned and will be made into pocketbooks. The people of Sunnier say it is an attempt to “immortalize a red-handed murderer” and accuse a physicitin of that place of tanning the human skin. •> The attachment suit of B. F. Crandall, proprietor of the Grand Missouri Hotel, Kansas City, Mo., against the Wagnerian Opera Company to satisfy a claim of $360 for board for sixty-four musicians was compromised. Mr. J)amrosch paid - Mr. Crandall SIOO and costs rather than be compelled to -try the case. Au electric and wind storAi in Wisconsin on Friday and the day before killed several people and damaged much property. The dead are: Joseph Anderla, aged 14, killed in his bed at Kelinesviile; Jasper Chlup, killed at Lodi; John Kitchenmeister, killed at Seymour; Mrs. Joseph Sutherland, killed in her cellar at York, where she had gone to get away from the storm.

At least fifty-two people are believed to have been killed near Sioux Center, lowa, in a terrific cyclone that passed over northwestern lowa Friday afternoon. Some estimate the entire death roll at 200 to 300, for many hamlets were in the storm. Four school houses are known to have been demolished, two teachers and several pupils killed, and scores of other buildings have been wrecked. Every iron ship in San Francisco harbor, with one exception, has been chartered. This is a condition of affairs which has never been before at that port. A year ago Mission Baj- was crowded with idle British ships, but one after the other they have been engaged at prices ranging from 25 to 31 shillings. The sudden demand for wheat carrying vessels was a mystery until the statement was made that the 200.000 tons of syndicate wheat was to be sold and shipped to Liverpool. The engaged tonnage in port now amounts to 58,583, while nt least forty more vessels which are on the way to San Francisco have also been engaged. A Chicago North Side man was so well satisfied last year with his flat and its renting price that he put in hardwood floors, papered, painted and otherwise improved, and expended many, good dollars on the property just iw if it belonged to him. “When it comes to signing another lease,” he argued to himself, “I’ll get a reduction because I've been such a good tenant." But he didn't. On the contrary, the landlord said: “You have been getting that flat too cheap at SSO. It goes for $65 next year.” Protests were vain. Threats to tear up the improvements were met with promises to sue for damages, and in the end the lease was signed jit $65. Six hundred striking St. Louis, Mo., brickyard workmen left their temporary headquarters west of Tower Grove Park Thursday, armed with stones and clubs, mid marched north towards the yards of the Cote Brilliante "Pressed Brick Company. The workmen at these yards refused to strike the other day when Visited by a committee from the union. A warning was sent to the superintendent of the works by the police, and he barricaded the gate lending to the yards and awaited the mob's appearance. When

the mob came up it assaulted the gats, but was repulsed, anti dispersed by the ‘tTfe - struggle - for a"Worf ~time T»e- ~ ing highly exciting. Judge Myers, of the. Leavenworth, Kan., District Court, has made a very irnpor tan t order affecting the rights of Dr. Leslie E. Keeley. W. F. Johnson, of Topeka, sues Dr. Keeley for SIOO,OOO damages, the petition reciting-that- plaintiff has been made a physical wrqck because of the gold cure. Judge Myers, in granting the petitioner's request, rules that Dr. Keeleymust make known the ingredients of this bichloride of gold coin,pound. The court holds tnat the cure is not a property right nor a trade secret; it is tiuprotected by a patent, has been in use. more than two years ami there is nothing to prevent Dr. Keeley testifying, and that he must fell what it is. ~Attofi aifff'cxpTvss“tnjin -No—3-wa»-hold up about half a mile north of Carlin ville,' 111., at mid night. W ednesday by a gang of five men. The train had just stopped for the crossing when the then began firing and jumped ints&he cab and commanded the engineer and fireman to hold up-their tente. TFtey-were-«esFed=awuy-by the train crew, but not before they had killed the engineer. The gang ran in all directions, but three of them were captured and are now in jail. The sheriff and posse, armed with shotguns,, have started, on the trail of the rest of the men and hope to have them soon. The dead, engineer was Frank Holmes, one of the oldest and best engineers on the Alton road. The decision of Judge Smith in the _famo u s suit o f the Stockt on, C a 1.. Co m - bined Harvester and Agricultural Works against the Glens Falls and seventy-two other insurance companies to reeovers9o,000 as insurance on property of the plaintiff burned several years ago, was rendered Tuesday-in favor of the harvester company for the full amount. When the property was burned the harvester company and- the insurance people submitted the - matter to arbitration and an award . of $90,000 was mqde. The harvester people.AtcceptetLthis,ta±_b£foreJt_Ka&4iaid.. matters were brought to the attention of the insurance companies that caused them to refuse to pay any such sum. Suit was then brought on the award. The case has been to the Supreme Court and this Was the second trial and the second decision in favor of the plaintiff. The insurance companies alleged that fraud had been committed and that the burned property though insured for $127,000 was worth scarcely anything.