Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1895 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Mrs. Biglev, late hospital nurse in Dubuque, is soon to be married at Los Angeles, Cab, to Lord Arthur Hepburn, the possessor of large estates in England and New Zealand. Two prisoners esenped from the penitentiary at Laramie, n-tuiu. nel which they dug. They placed dummies in their cells and thus successfully blinded The guard. A Tacoma, Wash., dispatch says: Facts have come to light which indicate that the late Paul Schultze’s defalcations 'amount to nearly $500,000, making his total embezzlement the largest ever known on the Pacific coast. Twelve inches of snow is reported between Trinidad, Colo'., and Baton, N. M. This is the first snow or rain in that territory for nearly six months, and it is hailed with the greatest delight by the stock growers and others. William Smith, the last of the Battle Creek, Mich,, train wreckers, was arrested at Hotly, Mich. Detectives have followed Smith all over the world. He was the leader of the wreckers, and since last October men have been on his trail day and night. The coroner's jury at Cripple Creek has returned a verdict tiiat the killing of Jack Smith, leader of the Bull Hill miners during the strike last summer, by Marshal ■Kelly, at Altman, Colo., was justifiable homicide. Smith’s companion, George Popst, who was also shot by Kelly, is dying. The right of a man to sit in his buggy while the vehicle is standing in the street and witness a ball game was settled in the negative in an Omaha police cotirt. H. E. Cole was driving past the association grounds and hearing a great hurrah over a home run, stopped his turnout and peeped over the fence. He was arrested and the court fined him for obstructing the streets. He appealed the case. For a radTus""bf fiTtceiTTnTles"Tn“TFfe' neighborhood' of Buckley, Wash., the fir forest,is afire and at Tacoma, thitfy-six miles away, the atmosphere is heavy with smoke. Superintendent J. McCabe, of the Pacific division of the Northern Pacific, says nothing short of a heavy rain will check the 11 nines. A special train was held at Buckley to carry away the inhabitants in case the fire should close in about that town. About 900 persons reside there. At Port Townsend, Wash., unexpected orders have been received for the revenue cutter Grant to immediately prepare.for sea. This movement is thought to have been actuated by the refusal of the British authorities to renew the Bering Sen regulations, nnd the desire of the United States Government to communicate with its cutters now patrolling the sea. Under the present complicated arrangements, should our cutters seize British sealers upon the high seas for violation of the j modore Perry hurried out of port at San I Francisco. She will make nil haste posai I hie in order to reach Bering Sea in time j to prevent the fleet cutters which are now heading for the sealing grounds, from seizing any armed vessels, as is the present intention. Upon the flcctuess of the Perry depeuds the warding off of serious complications with England. The latter Government has practically decreed that any interference with armed sealing vessels flying the British flag will meet with retaliatioti in the shape of claims for heavy damages. Lake Michignu unleashed itself Monday night in one of the worst storms known for years, nnd only most fortunate circumstances prevented a repetition of the series of wrecks and disasters that occurred

* - May IS, 1594. The lilt of boats lost is a large one. and in all thirteen lives arc known to have been sacrificed. The shipping list follows: Quickstip, wrecked off Racine; Willard, from Alpena; J. B. Kitchen, wrecked at Middle Island; Viking, driven aground with three consorts at Sand Peach, Mich.; Unknown steam barge,- ashore six miles north of Sand Welch; steamer Unique, wrecked at St. jClair; three schooners, wrecked off East -Tawns, Mich.; schooner Reindeer, reported stranded at Black River; unknown schooner, wrecked off Racine; three-mnstr ed schooner, wrecked near Milwaukee. July wheat sold up to 68 cents Thursday on tlie Chicago Board-of-Trader-and-matiy speculators predicted that 75 cents would be reached by the July option in a few days. Some of the more enthusiastic “hulls” declared that wheat will keep on its upward way until the dollar mark is towelled, but only the most sanguine believers in the future of the cereal let their dreams of higher prices climb to such a height. As it was. the market was strong enough to 'Warrant roseate hopes by the friends of wheat. Every one wanted wheat, and the most daring “bear” was ready to sell but little, and that little he bought.back within a few minutes, as he saw his losses piling up with every quarter cent advanced Conservative truders' thought the market very hazardous and moved with caution. The day was entirely in favor of the bulls, and the prospects seemed good for a continuation of their

--success. ... • ' * Win. Naiigle was killed and two others Seriously, perhaps fatally, injured by the falling of a ruined wall at Henry and Brown streets, Chicago, Friday afterNanglo was a man who figured somewhat prominently during the Irish agrarian troubles fifteen years ago, and when lie came to America his attempt to land caused no little excitement. In April, 1880, a decidedly unpopular landlord of County Longford, Ireland, was shot and killed. Xangle was arrested for the crime. He remained in jail in Dublin seven months and was finally tried and sentenced to twenty-one years’ penal servitude. He served twelve years of the sentence. His friends sought a pardon for him and succeeded in getting it. When lie landed here the-doors of the republic were closed to him because he was an ex-convict. As the offense for which he was sentenced to prison was in a Sense political,- it was held that it was no bar to his admission. His brother, Policeman Joseph Nanglo. of Chicago, went to New York at the time to assist him in his efforts to land. Nanglo came on to Chicago when admitted and has been living there since. All doubts concerning the fate of the Kate Kelly were cleared away Wednesday when the tug Jesse Spalding reached Chicago from Kenosha with wreckage of the vessel. The Spalding sighted the tug Charm off Kenosha. The Charm had picked up beams, yawlboat and timbers from the Kelly. On one jiiece of timber was painted the name of the boat. This and portions of the hull of the Kelly furnished conclusive evidence that the vessel had been wrecked. Captain Hatch and the crew of five men are undoubtedly lost. The boat had a history that surpassed that of most craft sailing the great lakes. She was built in Tonawanda, N. Y., in 1807, by Martel. The first owner of the boat was a woman of somewhat wide repute who lived in Buffalo. She was eccentric ~nnd wall off, but she did not belong to Buffalo's “four hundred.” The Kate Kelly was known amoiig marine men as the “Jew peddler,” but she had not traded on Lake Michigan until the last few years. She was a schooner of,the old class fast going out of service. She was of 246 tons, rigged fore and aft. In 1886 she was completely overhauled and rebuilt, so that she has been kept in serviceable condition. She was sold by Edward Gable, of Os,wego, three years ago to Captain Hatch. He had sailed her in these regions for two seasons past and had managed to make money out of her.