Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1895 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The court house in Fresno, Cal., was burned. Only the hall of records was saved. The loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO, most of which is covered by insurance.,, A colored campmeeting near Cincinnati came near breaking up in disorder when it was discovered that some one had broken into the provision ttnt and stolen all the watermelons. Sanford Duncan, a prominent citizen of Stillwater, O. T., was found murdered on the Arkansas River bank near the line of the Pawnee reservation.. There is no clew to the murderer. Thousands of bushels? of peaches and apples will be lost in the vicinity of West. Plains, Mo., for tlte want of means to take care of them. There are 157,000 barrels of good apples in sight there. Oklahoma divorcees are left in a disagreeable situation by the decision of the Territorial Supreme Court that Probate Judges do not have jurisdiction in such cases and that their decrees are invalid. Indictments were voted Wednesday by the Grand Jury at Chicago against six election judges charged with fraudulent practices in the First and Second Wards last November. The indictments grow out of the evidence adduced in the investigation of the McGann-Belknap contest. An accumulation of gas caused an explosion in the cupola of the top mill blast furnace at Martin’s Ferry, Ohio, and pieces of irort,coke and cinders were blown 200 feet in the air. Samuel Cashnich, a filler, was - fatally burned and James Carman was badly injured by flying missiles. Augusta Mattland, who was shot at noon Tuesday in the Model Steam Laundry, Omaha, by Peter Volgreen, died Thursday morning. Volgreen confessed that he conceived the crime in 'Minneapolis and determined to execute it if he could not induce the woman to abandon her husband and live with him. Failing in this he shot her three times in the abdomen. The Milwaukee and Lake Winnebago Railroad Company has filed an amendment to its articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State of Wisconsin providing for an additional issue of 000 stock and for the construction of a railway line from Neenah in an easterly direction to Menasha and thence to Manitowoc * A San Francisco paper says that a suit for half a million dollars is to be brought against the city and the Spring Valley Water Company by owners of projierty destroyed during the great fire south of Market street about four weeks ago. The ground for the suit will be based on the inadequacy of the water supply, inconvenient location of hydrants and smallness of mains. Stark Siding, two miles east of Canton, Ohio, on the Fort Wayne, was the scene of a disastrous freight wreck at 2:30 o’clock Friday morning, in which three men lost their lives and eight more are lying in Aultman Hospital, more or less injured. The train, which was an extra, going west, broke in two at the Summit, and the rear portion ran into the front end when it stopped for water at the tank. Eight cars were smashed into kindling wood and traffic was delayed about two hours. The killed and injured were all tramps, riding on an empty boxear. The trainmen escaped without injury. During a knavy gale Tuesday morning the schooner Republic, in tow of the stea charge Swallow, coal laden, became water-logged and sank in forty fee*- of water, two miles off Lorain,' Ohio. The tug Cascade Succeeded in rescuing all of the crew of eight men, who were clinging to the rigging. The schooner and her cargo will probably be a total loss. The cargo of the barge was 618 tons of soft coal for Detroit. The barge was built in 1854 and was so old that the underwriters would not place aiiy insurance on her. A special certificate insurance was granted on the cargo. The Republic is so old and unseawdrthy that it is not

likely any attempt will be made to recover her. The coal may be secured, however. ' The United States cavalry reached Jackson’s Hole, Wyo., Friday. The infantry was stopped en route, as there were no Indians in sight. The scare existed along the route the Indians took in returning to the reservations. Notwithstanding the threats made against the Jife of Agent Teter and his, chief clerk, Ravanel Mcßeth, they went ahead of the troops into Jackson’s Hole to warn the settlers not th attack the redskins and to obtain the names of all the parties concerned in what Agent Teter insists on calling the massaerif 6f the Indians. -Captain Jim, chief of the Shoshones, will ask all the Indians to go back to their reservations without fighting. If they will not go he will assist the soldiers in removing them and will call uporihis tribetohelp. Cloudbursts and floods in New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas and Wyoming did great damage Tuesday night, causing much loss of life and great destruction of property. The dead“ai - CT At Socorro, N. M. , the infant son of E. Baca, and six members of the Duran family. At Caspar, Wyo., two Harrison children and Mrs. S. Newby and child. At Fort Scott, Kas., Waiter Austin and Willie Gould. At Adelaide, Colo., Mrs. Carr, Mrs. Tracey, and an unknown woman. Four men are missing, thought to have been caught in a landslide .near Adelaide, ‘ The greatest damage seems to have been done at Socorro, N. Al., where seven lives are known to be lost. Three small towns near by may have been swept away. The surrounding country is devastated. The property damage is said to be over sl,000,000. At Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., while the steamer Alva, bound down with iron ore, was aground below the dyke Thursday morning, she was run into and sunk by the whaleback barge Hundred and Seventeen, in tow of tlfff steamer E. AL Peck,iroubd' d<sWrc wlth’iron eTe. back took a sheer when near the Alva, which caused the collision. Her nose punched a hole in the Alva at the engineroom gangway, three feet belowlhe main deck, filling the engine-room with water. Steam pumps will be put on board, after temporary repairs have been made, so that she can proceed on her way to Chicago. The whaleback barge is badly -damaged in the-&tem and her ballast tank forward is full of water, but as she can free herself with her own pumps she is still afloat. The Alva’s stern is on the .bottom, and the bow is in four fathoms of water. The San Francisco Chronicle publishes an article in regard to alleged frauds in the railway mail service on the Pacific coast, which, it says, promises to lead to one of the most far-reaching Federal investigations ever held. It is alleged by Railway Postal Clerk E. S. ‘ Colver and others that United States mails were fraudulently stuffed, with the advice and consent of Supt. Samuel Flint, of the eighth division of the railway mail service, during June, 1894, in order that weights carried during that month, which formed the basis for estimating the compensation to be paid the railroads for the next four years, might appear unduly large. Railway postal clerks of long experience say there are great opportunities for stuffing cars in such a way as to rob the Governmentof millions each year. The Chronicle adds that his local scandal opens up a wide field for Congressional investigation.