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

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* Reuben Lloyd, of San Francisco, attorney for two of the heirs of the Fair estate, is authority for the Statement that Special Administrator Goodfellow had been offered $250,000 to withdraw from the case. Mr. Goodfellow declined the offer. He refuses to tell who tried to induce him to resign his position. George A. Holzer will serve four years and Frederick Storms two years in the penitentiary for aiding and abetting a conspiracy to deprive voters. of their rights at the polls. This is the outcome of the West Pullman, 111., election fraud case, and the verdict is a complete victory for the Civic Federation, which prosecuted the case. Heavy damage was caused by fire Friday in the Deering Harvesting works, at Chicago. The fire started in the fiberroom and was soon spreading itself all over the building in which this room is located. Two volunteers who attempted to fight the fire had a narrow escape from death, while many others were more or less injured by the smoke? Wheat went sparing in price on the Chh cago Board of Trade Wednesday, the advance being caused by higher figures abroad and remarkable falling off in the receipts at winter wheat receiving points. It is thought by many operators that the trend of the market from now on will be upward until the SO-cent mark shall have been reached and passed again. After listening to the testimony of C. B. Shedd, E. A. Shedd and J. H. Williams, the grand jury at Chicago unanimously voted this indictment: W. D. Miller, for attempted extortion by threats. Miller is the man who, it is said, acted as gp-be-tween for the Aidermen, Finkler and Martin, who were indicted by the recent special grand jury for soliciting bribes from different ice companies. The penalty for the offense of which Miller is accused is a fine not exceeding SSOO and imprisonment not exceeding six months. A strange and bloody murder was committed Thursday night on the farm of Ernest Lange, seventeen miles west of Minneapolis. The body of Maggie Craigie, the 14-year-old daughter of Captain Charles Craigie, of the Minneapolis fire department, was found with the top of her head blown off by a charge from a shotgun. Futile efforts had been made to remove the traces of blood in the upstairs room where the murder was committed and on the stairs where the body had been dragged down. The Lange shotgun was found with one recently tired shell in it. Mrs. Lange claimed to have been away from the house at the time, and later her 8-year-old son, Freddy, confessed that lie had killed the girl by accident. Myrtle Nelson, a child, was found wandering about the streets of Chicago. She said her father had taken her downtown and intentionally lost her. Mrs. Christina Nelson, 1254 Dunning street, whose child, Myrtle Nelson, had been taken from home by her father and had not returned, went to the station to claim her daughter. When the woman and child faced each other the one exclaimed, “This is not my child?" and the other, “This is not my mother!" There are two Myrtle Nelsons, each 12 years old, blonde, of Norwegian ■parentage; the parents of each have qtmrreled, each taken from her home by her father, and with him each has visited Norway and been sent Into the country to five on the return to America. One was then told her father was dend and one thnTlier mother was dead. One is searching for a father and the other for a mother. Lake Shore nnd Michigan Southern train N0.\27 going west, was held up and robbed at Reese, Ohio, at 12:40 Wednesday morning. It had pulled into a blind siding to aHow a special to pass, when six masked men shot out the head and train lights and compelled the express messenger to unlock the safe and deliver the money. The amount taken from the car Is not known, but It is estimated by the

express officials at SB,OOO. Supt. Blodgett and Manager Caniff, who were in Toledo at the time, left at once on a special train for the scene of the robbery, notifying the police officials at all, adjacent towns to be on the lookout for the robbers. The officials think the robbery was committed by persons in close touch with the employes of the road, as they had positive information as to the trains meeting on the siding, and also of the unusually heavy express run. Almost an entire skeleton was found Wednesday by the crew of men working in the cellar of the Holmes building, Chicago. Shovels and picks were dropped when suddenly Detectives Fitzpatrick and Norton ordered every man to stand back while bones which had been unearthed from the wet slime and quicklime in one corner of the wall were taken out. Several ribs protruded from the earth after about two feet of dirt had been dug away at the corner of the east and south walls. Upon digging carefully around with their hands the detectives took out seven ribs, and several sections of the vertebrae were found and a piece of bone which appeared to be a fractured upper jaw, to which two teeth were still attached. Upon digging further several more ribs were found and apportion of a woman's jacket, with a large sleeve, upon which was a bunch of matted hair, too much discolored to ascertain its original hue. William Fredericks, who murdered Cashier William A. Herrick in an attempt to rob the San Francisco Savings Union Bank in March, 1994, was hanged at San Quentin Friday. Fredericks was one of the most notorious desperadoes in California. As an associate of Evans and Sontag. the train robbers, he took part in some of the most sensational crimes that were ever committed in the State. He is known to have murdered three men. While serving a term in the penitentiary at Folsom he conspired with a number of other desperadoes to lead a jail break. At the expiration of his sentence Fredericks smuggled a number of weapons into the prison, and in the outbreak that followed three convicts were killed. A few months later Fredericks killed a brakeman in Nevada County who attempted to put him off a freight train, and when Sheriff Pasco tried to rapture him Fredericks killed him. After he was convicted and sentenced to be hanged for the murder of Cashier Herrick, Fredericks feigned insanity.

Smoke from forest fires in Michigan, which has interfered so seriously with navigation at the lower end of the lake for two weeks past, was driven southward by the brisk north wind of Monday, and at noon Tuesday one could not see over a mile out on the lake’s surface from Chicago. The smoke rolled in over the city. Many people living near the shore were frightened Monday night by the mysterious smell of smoke which, pervaded their rooms, and many a hunt for “flie source of tire smoke was made ’through basements. Captains of.incoming boats reported that the smoke extended all over this end of the lake. As a general thing it is not quite so dense as at Chicago harbor, and they could generally see two o? three miles through it. Reports from Mackinaw and the lower end of the lake indicate that the norther has cleared up the atmosphere through that region, something for which vessel captains are deeply thankful, for navigation for a fortnight past had been attended with considerable danger, and they were kept on duty throughout the entire run from the Manitou Islands to Lake Huron.. .