Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1895 — DEATH IN THE STORM. [ARTICLE]

DEATH IN THE STORM.

OHIO AND KENTUCKY REPORT FATALITIES. Decision, Invalidates $50,000,000 In Bonds — Murdered for a Waiter’s “Tip'’—American Petroleum Trade Threatened—lndian War Threatened. . —— Three Lives Lost. Dispatches from different parts of Ohio and Kentucky report severe storms Sunday night. These storms semed to visit certain sections, while adjacent districts are as dry as ever. Other points report cone-shaped bursts like the one near Zanesville which killed Mrs. Clem Wilson and George Deselm in the camp-meeting. At Howard’s Mill, near Mount Sterling, Ky., Green Garrett was struck by a cloud burst while riding along the highway. He and his horse were killed. Throughout the Ohio Valley Monday the heat was intense. Grave Trouble in Wyoming. On July 13 thirty men left Jackson’s Hole, Wyoming, to arrest all Indians breaking the game laws of Wyoming. In Hoback Canon they surprised a camp of seventeen Indians and took them all prisoners and started with them for Jackson’s Hole: In the canon The Indians tried to escape and all the Indians were killed except one papoose. John N. Carnes, a squaw man and the oldest settler in Jackson's Hole, has gone over into Idaho and says every settler in Jackson’s will be but butchered. There were 300 Bannock warriors on Hoback River when Carnes was there, and he says all squaws have been sent away and that the bucks are daily joining the main band. Waiters’ Quarrel Ends in Murder. William Buford shot and instantly killed Gordon Ewing at the Southern Hotel, Chicago. Monday Evening. Both men were employed as waiters at the hotel and are colored. The men had quarreled in the kitchen and coming to blows Buford chased Ewing from .the room. The basis of their quarrel was strife between them as to who should serve a guest of the house known to be liberal with his tips.

Loses His Life in a Bicycle Fall. George Lacy Stranahan, son of Dr. Charles W. Stranahan, a prominent Erie, Pa., Surgeon, died Monday night in consequence of a fall received in a bicycle accident. The young man was in his last year’s studies in the Buffalo Medical College, and had already acquired a reputation ns a surgical operator. He received his fatal blow in a sacrifice fall to avoid a collision with a young woman cycler. Wright Law Not Constitutional. At Los Angeles, Cal., Judge Ross, in the United States District Court, declared the Wright irrigation law unconstitutional. Under the Wright act bonds have been issued to the extent of $50,000,000, and are held all over the United States and Europe. The decision invalidates $50,000,000 of bonds of irrigation districts in which confirmation proceedings have been taken.