Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Mrs. J. J. Corbett, wife of the pugilist, has joined the Fargo, N. D., divorce eol--tmy. —— —- ——: At Seattle, Wash., three boys were drowned in the bay while playing on a boom of logs. The alleged lynchers of ex-County Treasurer- Barrett Scott have been acquitted by the jury at Butte, Neb. “Rainmaker” Frank Melbourne has confessed so a Cleveland reporter that his performance in the West several years ago was a humbug. Charles Taylor, a colored burglar, was caught in the residence of T. M. Hydock, a South Omaha, Neb., citizen, at midnight, Saturday, and after a desperate struggle was shot and killed by Hydock. At Greeley, Colo., Deputy United States Marshal Lovell arrested John P. King, of Box Elder, charged with having fenced in a portion of the public domain embracing about ten thousand acres. King claims that he either owns or leases all the land which he has fenced. The steamer Chilcat from Juneau to Port Townsend, Wash., brings news of the disappearance of the steamer Chehalls. She sailed out of Juneau headed south, but inquiries at the ports on the way down failed to bring to light any news of the vessel. Much anxiety exists concerning her whereabouts. -==— At Idaho Springs, Colo., George B. McClelland has resigned as cashier and director of the First National Bank and has turned over to his bondsmen all his property. His brother has also deposited collateral sufficient to protect the bank. Mr. McClelland had borrowed money largely to carry on mining deals in which he had paid options to the amount of SIOO,OOO. L. A. Condlee, a constable and detective for the Ritzville, Wash., Cattlemen’s Association, was found dead in the road with three bullet wounds in his body. Condlee arrested Alfred Simes and started for Ritzville with him on horseback. Simes, who is known as “Jesse James,” is-supposed to-have overpowered Coudlee and taken his pistols, as signs of a strugg’e were visible in the road. Indian Agent Beck, at Pender, Neb., notified the reservation settlers that they must come before him and make new leases secured by bond or cash or vacate their farms and los4 their crops. As every one of the renters has already given notes for rent to the Flournoy company, it is not likely they will make new leases or yield peaceable possession without an order from the courts.

On petition _of stockholders in the B. and M. Packing Company of Denver, Judge Butler has appointed George W. Ballantyne receiver of the company. The assets fire valued at $93,000; liabilities, $98,000. It is alleged that Andrew J. Campion, Henry IL Mills and Barnabas Huber gave their notes to the company for $137,000 worth of stock and have paid only $20,000 of the-amount; also that they have converted to their own use large sums of the company’s money. At the conference between the iron manufacturers and the Amalgamated Association conference committee at Youngstown, Ohio, it was finally agreed that the scale adopted at the recent Cleveland convention should be accepted. This includes a $4 a ton rate for puddling on a card rate of 11-10 cents, the increase to be 25 cents for each one-tenth increase in the card rate up to l'/a on the present minimum, which would make the rate $5 a ton at a 1% card rate on selling price per pound. It has developed that Harry T. Hayward, now in jail at Minneapolis under sentence of death for the murder of Catherine Ging, has made format application to the New York Life and Travelers’ Accident Insurance Companies for the SIO,OOO insurance on the life of his victim. He is supposed to have taken this action to bear out his claim to innocence. The executors of Miss Giug’s estate will bring action to have the assignment of the policies to Hayward set aside as fraudulent.

Volcanic disturbances are again reported in the Cocopah country of Lower California. George Neal, a mining man, has just returned to San Diego, Cal., from, that region aud says that on Sunday he saw smoke ascending from the central peak of three mountains that rise several hundred feet above the desert. The smoke ascended high in the air and was accompanied by sounds like distant cannonading. The Indians told Neal that mud volcanoes, gas fissures, hot springs and fire volcanoes were at work more actively than ever. Six firemen dead and others seriously injured, with a property loss of SIOO,OOO, are the results of a fire at Minneapolis, Minn.. Thursday night. The dead are; Joseph Ilay. Walter Richardson, Frank Rulaine, John Horner, Bert Thomas and an unidentified mnn. Several others were seriously injured. The property loss consisted of the entire destruction of the building -occupied by McDonald Bros., dealers in crockery, chinnwnre, glassware, silverware and gas fixtures. The total loss will aggregate over $100,000; insurance unknown. Secretary John E. Moon, of the Kansas Life Insurance Association, has been iu Kansas City in conference with the officials of other companies interested con-

cerninf information that has come to them to the effect that Dr. Fraker, for whose supposed death the companies are under obligation to pay $41,000 next August, is alive. The person who furnished the information says that Fraker is under surveillance and will be delivered up on assurance that the $20,000 reward which has been offered will be forthcoming. Mr. Moon declines to say where Fraker is supposed to be. William Murray, who has a mine at the junction of Kosh creek and Pitt river, about sixty miles northeast of Redding, Cal., brings news of having discovered the richest mine in the country, and says it is the original “Lost Cabin” mine, which has been searched for during the last thirty years. He has discovered a lode 800 feet wide and 400 feet high, impregnated with iron ore, which bears gold and silver to the value of from $75 to $l5O per ton. The range where this mine was discovered is a continuation of that upon which is Lost Confidence mine, or what is generally known as the Iron Mountain. It was recently sold to an English syndicate for $300,000. A big fire at San Francisco, Cal., was got under control at 9:45 o’clock Thursday night, after consuming $2,-000,000 worth of property,-including many large manufacturing plants and the little homes of scores of families. The fire threatened the entire city and was replete with sensational and exciting episodes, including a powder explosion which scattered embers far and wide. Mrs. Gilroy was killed by the explosion of a lamp in her house while she was trying to save her household goods from destruction. Help from neighboring . cities assisted in subduing the flames. The fire ate its way to the high brick wall of the deserted Southern Pacific offices, which acted as a barrier over which the flames could not work. Under the head of revenue legislation a bill will be introduced in the Illinois Senate within a few days, which will cost the business men of Chicago who occupy the docks, whafres and slips along the lake shore between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000 annually. This aims to transfer the management and control of all submerged lands between the Indiana and Wisconsin State lines to a board of commissioners provided for in the act, who shall lease such property on behalf of the State. The plan revolutionizes the method of holding such lands which has been followed in Chicago ever since the incorporation of the city, and will no doubt raise a mighty roar of protest from the interests affected.

Almost the entire police force of Denver was employed Thursday night in guarding the houses of eight aldermen who feared violence from their constituents. A bill for an ordinance granting a reduction of only 15 per cent on the schedule of water rates now in force passed the Council by a vote of 8 to G, and this aroused the anger of the people, _who attended the Council meeting in force. The measure which caused so much indignation has a clause which makes the rates thus fixed a burden on the people (or fifteen years. Besides, it is claimed that the reduction of 15 per cent is not one-half what the public is entitled to under the company’s contract, Which calls for a reduction this year to the average rates charged in Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati. Discouraged by her failure to pass the examination given her class, heart-broken because her father’s mild chidiugs and unable to dispel the intense belief that the teachers of her school were conspiring to defeat her plans for a high scholarship, 19-year-old Minnie Lynch, of Chicago, drank carbolic acid Friday morning and ended her life. She had sppnt the night in tears, sobbing her keenly felt misery and moaning over her father’s insinuations that perhaps her failure to pass the final examination was due to her lack of diligence and perseverance. The thought that she had combated against a conspiracy to defraud her of her examination mark preyed heavily upon the young girl, but she appears to have grieved over the parental reproof her sorrow grew into a suicidal melancholia. R. C. Taudy, occupant of the Bellefontaine farm, on the Bite of old Fort Bellefentaine, six miles from the mouth of the Missouri river, has found a beer bottle containing a rather sensational note written in lead pencil in a good hand. The bottle was picked up on the river bank by his son. I&te..aote, which was turned over to Chief Harrigan of St. Louis, is as follows: “G-12, ’95 —To whoever fiuds this bottle: We have been kidnaped by a gang of cut-throats and thieves and are held on an island in the Platte river, near Omaha, Neb. They are not only thieves, but counterfeiters, and have their headquarters in Omaha, near the Douglas street bridge. Come to our rescue and you will be liberally rewnrded. Go to the mouth of the Elkhorn river and stop at the third island down stream. For God’s sake, come quick.” The note is signed A. I\ Pilford and Johtl Buckmasler. The Omaha authorities will be notified to investigate. The authorities at Spokane have arrested two of the most daring car thieves operating in the West. Their plan was to spot a freight ear they desired to pillage, spring the door at a station and board the train, and when it was i>i motion throw off what they wanted. When the train slowed up they would drop off and go back and pick up their plunder. A short time ago two men went into a second-hand store ana offered to dispose of a lot of goods they had concealed a few miles east of Spokane. The second-hand dealer communicated with Chief of Police Mertz, and was directed to go ahead and buy the goods. The thieves went to the place' with a wagon and secured S3OO worth of dry goods, boots and shoes and started back to town. Officers were stationed on the roud and placed them under arrest. The thieves have also been operating on the Great Northern. It Is thought they are a part of an organized band, as a telegram found on them bore the information that a car loaded with silks was coming.