Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1895 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

H. D. Smith, a condemned murderer confined in the Spokane (Wash.) jail, made an ineffectual attempt to escape, and, being overtaken, committed suicide in sight of his pursuers. Specials from St. Joseph, Benton Harbor and other points in the fruit belt of Western Michigan report a terrific gale early Wednesday morning, reaching a velocity of seventy miles an hour. Many small buildings and forest and fruit trees were blown down, and thousands of barrels of apples, pears and peaches blown from the trees. Within the last two weeks the average of deaths at Chicago from gasoline stove explosions has been three a day, as reported by the health department. Never before has the slaughter been so great, and the only explanation which the coroner has to offer is that it is the beginning of the gasoline season, and that all of the fools are not dead yet. Two masked men held up a faro-bank in Fred Steer’s saloon at Wallace, Idahg. The bank had just closed and the proprietor was cashing up when two men entered the saloon and ordered a4l hands up. The robbers then took all the money, about $400, and walked out Several shots were fired after them, but they disappeared in the darkness. Rev. T. J. Irwin, a clergyman from North Pond Creek, Oklahoma, is in Denver, seeking aid for the drought sufferers of that region. He represents a most deplorable condition of affairs in the territory. A large portion of the people are living on cracked wheat or cornmeal and water, and some of them have no longer money to buy even these. David J. Martin, ex-member of the Denver fire and police board, committed suicide by shooting. He was one of the commissioners whom Gov. Waite attempted to remove and who insisted upon holding their office until a decision had been obtained in the courts sustaining the Governor’s action, thereby precipitating the famous city hall warfare last year. Financial reverses and ill health are supposed to have been the cause of his suicide.

Surveyor of the Port English at San Francisco has appointed an inspector of the local customs house to investigate the charge made by United States District Attorney Foote that imports are undervalued by the Federal inspectors. The District Attorney recently wrote to the Attorney General at Washington informing him that imports were not only being undervalued but large quantities of goods were being smuggled. On account of his failure to make specific charges the Attorney General refused to appoint a special inspector as requested. Potter, Lovell & Co., of Boston, are accused in a bill filed in the United States Circuit Court at Chicago Wednesday of making a fraudulent transfer of securities whose face value is $12,830,000 to John V. Farwell & Co., on the eve of their assignment. The bill is an echo of the one filed by the assignees of Potter, Lovell & Co. to secure a reconveyance of the s' urities or an accounting from John V. Farwell & Co. The disastrous failure of the Boston firm was the sensation of the brief panic of August, 1890, when 200 per cent, was offered for money on call in Wall street. Edward Larue, a barber at Oakland, Cal., was whipped by his angry wife in the presence of u large crowd of people. Larue was sauntering up Broadway and was pursued by his wife and her sister, who supposed that he had a meeting with a woman. Mrs. Larue thought she saw her husband going to speak to a woman, so she drew out a horsewhip from the folds of her dress and made a rush for aim. The sister acted as a second to the wife nnd kept shouting, “Give it to him! Give it to him!” The appenrunee of the police saved Larue from a worse whipping than he received. At Cincinnati, Ohio, two firemen were killed aud fifteen injured in a fire in the extensive feed store of Hennesch ft Co. at Water and Walnut streets. It started from some unknown cause. The aggregate loss of property will not exeeed $150,000. The'fire burned steadily and

fiercely for tw<fbourg without serious accident to any one. It progressed northwardly and at the northeast corner met the walls of the new Simmons & Norris commission house. The firemen were warned but rushed under it to save the property of Nelson Morris & Co. of Chicago. This had been saved aad the firemen were turning to retreat when the wall fell across the street, burying the' men beneath the ruins. For a month a gang has been at work rebuilding a bridge on the Santa Fe at Monument, Colo. Wednesday morning the east-bbund passenger train, heavily loaded, passed over the bridge. The vibrations caused by the train had not ceased when a freight train of twentyfour ears followed. The train passed in safety until within three spans of the end, when suddenly, with lightning swiftness, a trestle gave way and the whole train fell through the opening, piling up in a most frightful manner, grinding the cars into kindling wood and heaping the immense weight on the body of Mrs. Albert Cooper, who had just brought her husband’s luncheon and was sitting under the bridge. J. C. Childers, of Kansas City, and a tramp were also killed. There is a general belief at Butte, that a party of rustlers .capturc-d by the vigilantes Sunday have been lynched. The men captured were: Louis Zouadliind,. a resident of Spencer, Neb.; ..ik C. Claris, C. S. Murphy and C. 11. Jackson, who lived west of Spring View. Nearly one hundred head of cattle were found. But few citizens think the rustlers reached Spring View, as the vigilantes are old ranchers and seldom bring a rustler back when they have a good chance to make away with him. Others believe that because of the publicity given to the affair themen in charge will not dare to make away with thcnl. biit xvill torn them over

to the authorities at Spring View, when other parties will take them from the officers, and they will likely share the usual fate of rustlers. „ Gov. Richards, at Cheyenne, Wyo., received a telegram signed by the justice of the peace and constable of Maryville, in the Jackson Hole district, saying: “Nine Indians arrested; one killed; others escaped. Many Indians reported here threatening lives and property. Settlers are moving miles away. Want protection immediately. Action on your part absolutely necessary.” Gov. Richards forwarded the message to the Secretary of the Interior and asked him to take imffiediate action. The Governor says the entire trouble can be stopped by the Secretary o*f the Interior instructing the In"Ufirf ForFß&ll, out his Indian police to call in all hunting parties of the Indians who arevin Wyoming. If it becomes necessary to send State troops to the region companies will be sent from Evanston and Lander.

Nine imprisoned miners at the Pewabie mine, at Iron Mountain, Mich., were released about midnight Thursday. Not one of them was injured in any manner and none suffered any great inconvenience from the thirty-six hours’ confinement. All heard the crash of the breaking timbers in time to make their way t» a dry drift on the first level. Their miraculous escape is considered one of the most remarkable in the history of mining. It was a most difficult ta'sk for the hysterical wives and children of the imprisoned miners to fully comprehend the joyful shouts of the rescuing party when the last mass of debris and timber had been pulled aside, disclosing the nine miners who had but a few hours previous been given up as lost. For an instant the rescued men were staggered by the influx of fresh air and light, and then their haggard faces were lighted by the smiles that only humanity and love of the dear ones at home can produce. The meeting of the miners and their families renewed the hysterical joy of the women. Children hugged the big, brawny limbs Of their fathers and cried their joy. Miners who had labored all night in the rescuing relays, with pick, shovel and tamping rod, smiled grimly and endeavored to disparage their own heroic work by remarking: “We knowed that the boys was all right in the first »10vcl air chamber, and a blast or two would help us dig ’em out.”