Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1895 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

■Secretary Lamont. and party visited Spokane on their way to Portland. A consignment of 1,000 tons of steel billets has been shipped from Youngstown, Ohio, on an order from England. Jenkins Stewart, aged 4 years, son of the United States Judge in the Indian Territory, was struck by a base-ball and Instantly Owing to the prevalence of rain through, out the grazing districts of Colorado, the has been a heavy increase in the numuer of cases of anthrak among cattle. The Supreme Court at Jefferson City. Mo., rendered an important decision to railroads. The decision in effect is that cars in transit between States can be attached. Wesley Davis, the Rossville, Ivan., grain dealer, who disappeared after an unsuccessful attempt to bull the grain market of Kansas City, owed about $40,000. John Cunningham, an aeronaut, was instantly killed at Winigan, Mo. He had made three successful ascensions during the day, but the fourth time, when about 1,200 feet high, the parachute failed to open and he fell to the ground. His body was mashed to a pulp. Tedro Lobate, father of one of the two sheepherders found murdered near Albuquerque, N, M„ is missing, and it is feared that he was also foully dealt with. Officers are leaving nothing undone to Secure the capture of the murderer, supposed to be thfe outlaw' Garcia. Congressman Joy, of Missouri, and his bride had a narrow escape from death near Casadro, Col. While driving w ith a coaching party of twelve on a steep mountain road with a precipice on one side the coach overturned. Fortunately it fell toward the mountain instead of over the edge of the road. James Foxwell, a carpenter of Plattsmouth, Neb., went to England last winter to establish his rights as a claimant to a one-third share of his decea'sed uncle’s estate, the old gentleman having died intestate. The case was tried two weeks ago, and a letter brings the news to Foxwell’s family that he was victorious. The estate is valued at $3,000,000. John Meyer, Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, prominent Republican politician and well-known lawyer of Chicago, died Wednesday at Freeport. For some time the Speaker had been in poor health, but it was not known that the end was near. Death came sudwhile the patient was seeking rest and proved a great shock to his political colleagues and associates at the bar. The Southern Pacific “overland” was stopped Monday night by three highwaymen near Riddles, Oregon, and robbed. Sticks of dynamite were placed on the rails. Nothing was obtained from the express-car, for there was no treasure on board. In the mnilcar better success was met, and Portland, Tacoma, Seattle and Victoria, B. C., registered sacks were rifled. Passengers were also searched pretty thoroughly, but just what success was met with is not known.

Ansel Oppenheim, of St. Paul, a prominent capitalist, railroad and real estate man of the Northwest, is at New York. He says that business is improving in Minnesota. “Give us ten days or two weeks more of good weather,’’ he said, “and there will be one of the most bountiful wheat crops in the Northwest that has eer been seen. It s a wonderful outlook. If the crop comes to harvest in accordance with present indications it wiH tend to start business wonderfully. There is less talk of hard times. Firms that were shaky or ruined during the worst of the trouble are building themselves up again.’’ The eleventh census is practically completed. Superintendent White said that only one table and the deductions therefrom remain uncompleted. The printing is well under way and will be completed by the close of the present year. If this promise is made good the eleventh census will beat the record of *ts predecessor by two and a,half years. The table yet to be lijrepared relates to occupations, and it has been necessary to delay it until the present time. The report will contain tjventy-five volumes, and Mr. Wright expresses the opinion that it will be the most complete of its kind ever published by the Government. The total cost will be about $11,500,000, or about double the cost of the census of 1880. For five years “Whistling” Davis, of Long Bench, Cal., has kept the corpse of his dead child in n little cotfiu in his house. The neighbors have remonstrated nnd threatened without avail. He has stubbornly refused to bury the body or permit anyone to have it interred. Lately the neighbors became excited about the affair, the coroner was notified and is about to commence an investigation, it being held that there is a law making it

A family of six persons, consisting of Frederick Heilman, his wife and four children, were asphyxiated by gas in their home at 601 Cornelia street, Chicago, Thursday pight The gas which brought death to the family escaped from a jet near the head of the bed occupied by Hellman and three of -the children. ~ This was found' partly open when the neighbors crowded into the little sleeping apartment. The whole family slept in one small room only 6 by 8 feet in dimensions. The window was closed and the gas soon filled the lungs of the sleeping family and ended their lives. The discovery of the tragedy was not made till rather late Friday morning. About 9:30 o’clock Mrs. Heilman, mother of Frederick, called at her son’s house, but to her great surprise found the doors closed and the windowshades still drawn. She went to the rear of the house and the kitchen door yielded to her push. SHe entered the house, met a strong odor of gas and suspected at once that something was wrong. She went immediately to the family sleeping-room, where she found her son and his family dead in their beds, .while the fatal fluid stiH poured into the room from the half-opened gas jet. Except the father, the family seemed to have died easily and without suffering. All but Hellman lay in natural positions, just as though their slumbers were one from which they could be awakened. In the bed with the father were the two boys, Fritz and Willie, and the girl. 'lo>, The baby of the family, little 4-year-old Hedwig, was with its mother in the other bed. The coroner's jury found that Hellman had deliberately planned and committed the crime.