Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1895 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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j-A head-end collision between the passenger train from Olean and a freight train on the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad occurred about one mile from East Smithport, Pa. No one was killed, but many were injured. John S. Collins, the Trenton, N. J , negro who shot and killed Student Frederick Ohl at Princeton last .1 une, and who vi us a few days ago convicted of murder in the second degree, received a sentence of twenty years at hard labor in the State prison. The Y. M. C. A. Build’ng, on New York avenue, Washington, near the Treasury Department was almost destroyed by fire Wednesday morning. C. C. Bryan's fine grocery store adjoins the Y. M. C. A. Building on the west and was badly damaged, while the hardware store of James B. Lamie was also damaged. The total loss is about $35,000. “Every mail, since the Baltimore Sun published that my mother’s family expected to receive $23,000,000,” says Charles W. Gallagher, of Baltimore, “has brought me stacks of letters. lam firmly convinced that all I will have to do will be to go over to Germany and prove the heirship of the descendants of Ludwig Wilhelm von der Schmidt, living in this country, and we can get the money. The revival of interest in the fortune is due to the visit of a German count to a Chicago lady who is one of the heirs.,” Captain Quick, of the Morgan line steamer El Rio, which arrived at New York from New Orleans, reports that while about one. mile south of the Scotland lightship a shot from the United States Government proving ground at Sandy Hook crossed the ship’s bows close aboard, and landed about one-eighth of a mile to the eastward. Another shot fell -aatemuf the ship and immediately in her wake. The weather was somewhat hazy at the time. Captain Quick says that had either shot struck the El Rio the chances are that the ship would have been seriously damaged, if not sunk. Several complaints of a like nature have been previously made. After a battle of three-quarters of an hour Thursday night, during which he stood off three officers who were trying to arrest him, John Spellisey, of Union Hilt,' N. J., was killed in his own house. Spellisey Was 43 years old, and one of the most desperate men in that section. He ended up a carousal by beating his wife, and Roundsman O’Brien, Sergeant Kreuger and Patrolman Ball were sent to arrest him. They found the doors locked, and when they broke down the obstructions they were greeted with three bullets. For half an hour the officers and Spellisey exchanged shots. Then the three rushed in upon the desperate man from different directions.Spellisey started toward one of the officers firing again, but suddenly sank to the floor bleeding from the neck, still clutching his—revolrery-and- died ■ afew minutes afterward.