Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1895 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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have thus far been recovered of the victims of last week's cloudburst near Adelaide, Colo. William Meila, aged 7, and Jesse Melia, aged 3, have been found guilty of. horsestealing at liockport, Ind. The ninth annual convention of the United Typothetae of America, an organization of employing printers, opened at the State Capitol in St. Paul with a large attendance. The Detroit Dry Dock Company has closed a contract with the Russian Government to build three car ferry boats for wtafer traffic on Lake Batkul, Siberia. Each boat is to cost SBOO,OOO. “Commodore” Inglis, owner of the mythical yacht Sunbeam, who was recently entertained by Chicago yachtsmen, is said to have served terms in Manitoba prisons for swindling and stealing. As a result of a drunken orgy at Joe Campbell’s roadside station at Turkey Creek, Ari.. Ernest Arnez, a mining man, lies dead; Joe Campbell, the station keeper, lies at the point of death, and Ed Fayne, a young cowboy, has a bullet in his right leg. Thomas Phelan, who at o~>e time was one of the leading attorneys pf Albuquerque, N. M., has been held to the grand jury on a charge of perjury. His arrest was made upon complaint of his brother, James Phelan, of Fargo. S. D., who alleges that he made oath that their father left no wilt, the oatlTßeiTig received before Thomas’ appointment as administrator of the estate. The three skeletons found west of Waukomis, O. T., three weeks ago, have proved to be the remains of two Fowler boys and their brotlier-in-lnw, who were killed by the Indians in 1873. The remains were identified by an ankle brace which was found near the remains. Relatives of the Fowlers are wealthy residents of Canton, Ohio, to- which place the remains will be taken for burial. Within the next few days Chicago time warrants drawn in anticipation of the tax levy of 1895 will be placed on the financial market in Chicago and in New York. The first issue will be for $500,000 and is expected to sell at par. If the result is satisfactory and in conformity with the financial policy of the adminstration warrants to the amount of more than $2,000,000 will be advertised from time to time and sold to the highest bidder. The officers of the Spanish men-of-wnr Sanchez Barcaiztequi and Maria Christnnin report at Havana that near the Colorado reefs they met a monstrous fish of great length. The Maria Christania collided with some unknown substance, injuring her bottom plates. After a thorough search they found the monster, which was followed by others of the same species, but smaller. The officers declare that the fish was almost the size of the bruiser. The report of L. W. Bryan, United

States mine inspector for the Indian Territory, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1895, has been received at the Interior Department. Mr. Bryan says that he. found a general disposition on the part of mine owners to comply with the law nndsaggestions as to the improvements wppi ifirnfiv required hv law have been as a rule adopted. The ventilation in nearly all the mines has been' increased and the air-courses have-all been well timbered and cleaned. Friday evening Thomas Barnes, a prominent and wealthy farmer near Muncie, Ind., retired enjoying his usual good health, and when he was £ wakened next morning he was totally blind. Numbers of physicians have examined him, but are unable to account for the sudden blindness.—Although an aged man, his eyes have never required the use of glasses when he was reading. The 'balls and pupils still retain their action and are natural, but everything remains dark to Barnes. Prominent opticians have examined his eyes and are puzzled. Following is the ticket nominated by the lowa Democratic convention at Marshalltown, Wednesday: Governor. .7..... .W. I. Babb, of Henry Lieutenant Governor . : 777777 777. .. . .8. L7”Bestow, of Lucas Superintendent of Public Instruction.. ........... L. B. Parshall, of Jackson Railway Commissioner G. L. Jenkins, of Dubuque Judge of the Supreme Court., T. G. Harper, of Des Moines The platform advocates license for the liquor trade, reform in State charities, and opposes silver. A boom in lake shipbuilding is on the cards for the faH and winter. pany closed a contract with a Cleveland syndicate for the construction of a stool schooner of the G,OOO-ton class. The new boat will be an exact duplicate cf>rhe twet stoelschooners which will be built at the Calumet shipyards for the Minnesota Steamship Company, the lake branch of the Great Minnesota Iron Company. The schooner will be 352 feet keeel, 365 feet over all, 44 feet beam and 2G feet depth of hold. Her cost will be about $175,000, and the new boat will be ready for business at the opening of navigation next spring. “There wjj| be no whalebaek nor straight-back, nor any other kind of Mr. Brown said, in speaking of the new boats, “but it will be a common everyday ship built on the old lines, after the models, with no newfangled ideas, except modern improvements in the way of towing engines, electric lights and that sort of thing. The channel construction will be followed, of course.”