Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1895 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Charles Doh shot and killed Joseph Boetcher in Richter Brothers’ tailoring shop at Columbus, Ohio. Doh fired at Boetcher four times, three bullets striking the breast. Sheriff Hancock, of Ava. Mo.,. .captured the robbers who "held up A. It. Turney, storekeeper at Rome. They were captured near Lead Hill, Ark. One of the bold thieves, and the One who appeared to be the leader of the gang, turned out to be a woman. Her name is Lydia Briston. Gen. Asa S. Bushuell, of Springfield, was nominated for Governor at Zanesville, Ohio, Monday night by the State Republican convention. Though his name was not formally presented, he received 58 votes on the first ballot and gained steadily until the sixth, when he received 95 votes more than were needed to nominate. At Duluth, Judge Edson has decided that there is sufficient cause to hold Mrs. S. D. Smith to the September grand jury on the charge of conspiring with her husband to defraud Mrs. Mary Cameron of $2,600 through a forgery of an indorsement on a certificate of deposit. Smith, the husband, is said to have played a similar game two years ago At Kokomo, lud., a distributer of circus dodgers attempted to throw a poster into a passing wagon Monday. The paper fell under the horses’ feet, causing them to run away. James L. Straughn, wife and daughter, of Alto, were thrown out and terribly crushed. Mrs. Straughn and daughter are believed to be fatally injured. Mr. Straughn will recover. John Welsh, sent from Morgan County, Ind., to the central hospital for the insane, made his escape by letting himself down from a fourth-story window by a rope and is terrorizing the country neighborhoods west of the institution. He escaped in an almost nude condition, and appeared at several farm houses and frightened the women nearly to death. Efforts were made to capture him, but he fought like a demon and succeeded in making his escape. He is 50 years of age and became demented over religion. The authorities are fearful that he will commit murder before he can be taken.

R. S. Schwerin, superintendent at San Francisco of the Pacific Mail Company, Monday night received word that the Colima had been .wrecked. Nineteen of those on board were saved. The Colima carried about forty first cabin passengers and the same number in the crew. The Colima was commanded by Captain J. P. Taylor and was an iron vessel of 2,90 G tons. She was built in 1873 by Roach A Sons, of Philadelphia, and was owned §y the Pacific Mail Company. The wreck occurred between Manzanilla and Acapulco. The Colima carried a very heavy cargo of general merchandise. The ship’s boat containing five of the crew and fourteen of the passengers arrived at Manzanilla Tuesday. Assistant Superintendent Avery of the Pacific. Mail stated that the Colima carried 102 people and only nineteen were saved. Most of the cabin passengers were bound through to New York. One of the most remarkable military reunions in the histqry_of the world occurred at Chicago Wednesday, when the most famous surviving generals of the Confederacy met the most famous surviving generals of the Union arpjies at a banquet tendered by the Citizens’ Committee of Chicago Two hundred and fifty men, many of them prominent in the nation’s history, sat down to the feast. Opposite Mayor Swift and Gen. Fitzhugh Lee sat Lieut Gen. James Longstreet, the famous ex-Confederate chieftain. Gen. Wade Hampton chatted with Gen. John M. Palmer, and Geu. Butler, es South Carolina, pledged the health of Illinois’ favor-

ite soldier, Gen. John C. Black. When the band played “Sherman’# March to the Sea” the ex-Confederates led the applause, and when the inspiring strains of “Dixie” filled the hail the veterans of-the Union responded with a hearty good will. With flags at half-mast throughout the city, with most impressive civic and military pomp, Chicago has interred the nation’s dead. The remains of Walter Q. Gresham rest in a vault at Oakwoods cemetery, there to remain until a final burial place is chosen. All along the route from Washington the funeral train was greeted by sorrowing No stop was made except for fuel ancHtfater. The train was met by an infantry regiment from Fort Sheridan and the various representative bodies and organizations. In a hearse drawn by six horses the body was conveyed to Oakwoods. A salute of thirteen guns signalized the approach of the cortege to the cemetery gates, and, wrapped in a United States flag, with the President of the nation and his advisers, with the representatives of foreign nations, and with the high officials of State and city at the tomb, the body was laid at rest.