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

WESTERN.

The Illinois Legislature has referred to the Court of Claims the bill appropriating $30,000 to Mrs. John A. Logan, W. W. Wiltshire and Isaac R. Hitt for services in getting a refunding of the direct tax to the State of Illinois. Maud Pensera, of Denver, who has for two years suffered from malignant multiple sarcoma that has turned her body into a mass of bone, is at the point of death. An offer of $5,000, it is said, has been made for the body by the Bellevue Hospital, New York, and it has been refused. W. H. Huff, recently removed from the office of secretary and treasurer of the Florence, Colo., Oil Company, has been held in $5,000 bonds for trial on the Charge of secreting valuable papers, mortgages, bonds, money, etc., belonging to the company. Huff claims that he was not legally removed from officeSeventy thousand dollars’ worth of furniture and household goods stored in the Oakland Storage Warehouse Company’s building, Chicago, was burned in an hour in a fire which started shortly before 10 o'eloek Friday night. The building, which is practically a total loss, is valued at SIB,OOO and is insured for $12,000. Contents were insured for about $50,000, onefifth in the London and Liverpool company.

The jury in the Scott case is being impaneled at Butte, Neb. A committee of citizens waited upon the Attorney General and urged him to dismiss the case on the ground that it would unjustly entail a heavy burden of expense upon the taxpayers of Boyd County. Gen. Churchill informed the committee that he was acting under the instructions of the Governor and both branches of tlig Legislature, and had no choice but to go ahead with the case. It is thought that the work of securing a jury will consume several weeks.

An alarming state of affairs exists in the Coeuir d’Alenes, in North Idaho, owing to trouble between the miners’ union and the law and order men, who have organized to protect laborers in their rights to work if they can get employment. A man who incurred the enmity of the miners’ union was killed there recently, and the corouer’s jury returned a verdict of suicide. Gov. McConnell has secured severnl hundred stands of arms, and over 200 volunteers are drilling at Boise, to prepare for coming conflict, which seems imminent. Idaho has no State militia.

Two hundred pupils of the East Side school, at Main street and Forest avenue, Evanston, 111., were driven into a panic Wednesday afternoon by the fall of a section *of ceiling plaster in one of the rooms. Several children barely escaped instant death beneath an avalanche of mortar aud old lath, three were bndly bruised and cut, scores were partially blinded aud choked by the great clouds of lime and dust that filled the rooms and corridors after the crash, and many of the bewildered pupils, stampeded by the foolish cry of fire, would have been trampled tQ death by their more powerful companions but for the heroic efforts of the teachers to restore order.

It now seems probable that there will be war to the knife in the coke regions. W. J. Itainey, of Cleveland, the largest coke operator in the country, has defeated the efforts of the coke operators to combine for the purpose of advancing prices. Mr. Rainey says: “Yes, it is true that I have refused to join the syndicate, whose object is to raise prices. In the first place, Ido not believe in syndicates. I believe in every one standing on his own foundation. I am opposed to the workingmen combining for the purpose of defeating the

operators and am likewise opposed to the operators combining for the purpose of defeating the men and to advance prices. I am a firm believer in fair competition. The other operators have gone ahead in The ppt without me. They can put the price up to where they please, but It will not make much difference to me" „ The Distilling and Cattle Feeding Company, known throughbut the length of the land as the whisky trust, was*Thursday struck dead by the' hand of the Illinois Supreme Court. The court affirms the decision rendered by Judge Gibbons in the quo warranto proceedings instituted against the trust by Attorney General . decbiriiig vL to cbe illegal and void and ousting it of its franchise. A sweeping and emphatic denunciation and condemnation of trusts, monopolies and combines is contained in the decision. Opinions upon the immediate effect of the decision as expressed by the attorneys of the different parties in interest differ widely. All that seems certain is that a cloud of fresh litigation must follow in whlch the,leading features will be a petition for a judicial sale to be filed immediately by the reorganization committee, and actions by the former owners and present lessors of property making up the aggregation of plants in the trust. A small army of deputy marshals went into service to resist any forcible attempt on the part of the lessors to seize plants, but their efforts will be made through the courts. A bill to recover the $504,000 lost in speculation and alleged to have been paid by the trust was filed by Receiver McNulta against Greenhut, Morris and other directors.