Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1895 — W. W. TAYLOR HOME. [ARTICLE]

W. W. TAYLOR HOME.

GOES BACK TO ANSWER FOR HIS CRIME. Good Times Are Here —Ohio Wins a Bis Railroad Suit—Many Killed and Injured at an Austrian FuneralBig Gold Find. Taylor Gives Himself Up. W. W. Taylor, ex-State Treasurer of South Dakota and fugitive from justice these many months on account of a shortage of $375,000, was in Chicago Saturday and Sunday, but kept so closelv under cover that only his intimate friends saw him. He left for Pierre Sunday night' to surrender himself to the State authorities. One of the reasons ascribed for keeping Taylor concealed was that the State of South Dakota had offered a large reward for his arrest, and it was feared some officer or private detective might attempt to arrest him and lay claim lift the reward. It ft understood that the terms of the settlement are tnat Taj lor return to the State SIOO,OOO, surrender his property to his bondsmen, who will pay the remainder of the deficit, and plead guilty to a charge of embezzlement. There is said to be an arrangement for a short sentence and a pardon before its expiration. Taylor, who is a young man, has a wife, but no children. Good Times Are Here. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “It is no longer a question whether business improves. Net for a long time have our reports from all parts of the country been so uniformly favorable. The daily average of bank clearings in-June is 24.8 per cent larger than last year, though 11.4 per cent less than in 1892. The most potent influence has been receipt of. more favorable advices regarding growing crops. Labor troubles are getting out of the way, wages in many establishments are rising, and with the Iron industry just now leading there is 'general improvement in manufactures. The monetary condition also helps. The time draws near when, with good crops, exports wtll bring gold hither, and 'foreign operations in stocks and bonds have been insignificant, the effect of the previous transactions has not been exhausted. Much diminished receipts of money from the interior indicate better .employment in business, especially at the west, and the volume of commercial loans, steadily rises, and is now fair for this season, even in a good year.”

Flocking; to .Oklahoma Gold Fields. The exeiterfient over the gold find in “G” and Washita Counties, Ok., increases daily, and over 8,000 people are now digging in the new fields. An assay shows that the gold will run S2B to the ton. All the ore found so far has come from the surface gulches, but three mining companies have already been organized to put in plants and mine for the yellow metal. The appearance of the mining camps resembles scenes in the Colorado mineral regions or early California days, The towns of Arapahoe and Cloud Chief are absolutely depopulated, and everybody has joined the rush.

Prize Collie Dog Commits Suicide, J. Pietpont Morgan’s prize collie, Iloslyn Wilkes, deliberately committed suicide at West Point, N. Y. The animal was. bought in England and is reported to have cost SIO,OOO. The dog came over decorated with many prize ribbons. When Bob Armstrong, the kennel keeper, took the dogs out for exercise Roslyn Wilkes went to the pond for a bath, but when the others came out the prize winner wouldn’t. Then Armstrong walked into the water. When-the collie saw him coming the would-be suicide dived and staid under until dead. Gets Property Worth a Million. The Ohio Supreme Court handed down a decision in the case of the State of Ohio against the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway Company. The State lays claim to property in Cincinnati on which are located the passenger depot, the tracks and other terminal facilities of the Pennsylvania Railway Company. The Supreme Court gave judgment of ouster. The property is estimated to be worth over $1,000,000. Frightful Accident in Austria. Seventy people gathered Friday in tho death chamber of a young man at Rovigno, a seaport town of Austria, on the Adriatic. The flooring of the chamber collapsed and all fell to the ground floor. Fourteen of the mourners were killed and thirty injured. The unhappy young woman who had been the dead man’s fiance was found dead in the ruins in a position dose to the coffin.