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

SMASHED HIS BONES.

CRUEL DEATH OF AN INSANE PATIENT. Encouraging Reports of Business— Goad Showing rs Fall River Mills— Wilmington Flooded with Spurious Coins—Taylor’s Light Sentence. Insane Asylum Horror. With his body racked and torn, his breast bone broken in two places, eight ribs fractured, three of them in two places, his skin black and blue, a gash 6n his forehead and the cavities of his chest and abdomen filled with blood from internal hemorrhages, George Pueik, or Buditick as he was entered on the books, died at the Dunning, 1111., insane asylum. Before reaching, there he had been a patient in the Alexian Brothers’ Hospital, was sent by the physicians there to the detention hospital for the insane, where he waa taken into court and committed to Dunning. All this time, covering a period of four duvfl. not & single plivsicißQ at any,'of the institutions discovered his condition. When he was dead an examination of his body was made, and then the fearful bruises and broken bones were seen. Attendants George Goff and Anderson, of the Dunning asylum, after repeated denials, admitted to Supt. Morgan that they had beaten Pueik in order to control him. They are alleged to have said that they did it to save their oWW lives, the patient first attacking them. President Healy, of the County Board, will call the attention of the Grand Jury to the charge. Business Still Booms. R, G. Dun & Co. ip their weekly review of trade say: Business continues unusually active for midsummer, and though there is perceptible relaxation there are no signs of reaction. The one change of great importance which the last week has brought is eminently helpful—the amicable settlement between coal miners and employers in Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. -It is said that about 100,000 men will have their wages increased after Oct. 1 by this adjustment, and while the enlargement of purchasing power Js of consequence it seems even"more important that a chronic cause of controversy lias been removed by the new agreement as to company stores. There is no important change in crop prospects and at this time no news is eminently good news. Fall River Mills Prosper. The report of the Fall River, Mass., mill returns for the July quarter shows it has been prosperous. Thirty corporations representing $19,170,000 in capital paid regular dividends amounting to $358,475, an average of 1.87 per cent. The average for the April quarter was 1.72 per cent. The Border City mills paid nn extra dividend of 10 per cent., SIOO,OOO, and the Sagamore mills an extra dividend of 3 per cent., $72,000, from the surplus funds. The Anna wan Manufacturing Company, Bnrnaby Manufacturing Company, and Stevens 'Manufacturing Company passed their dividends. The Bourne mill paid dividends amounting to 4 per cent. The Troy paid 6 per cent., the Union 3 per cent., and ten corporations paid 2 per cent. each. Taylor Gets Two Tears. The statute on which it was thought Taylor, the defaulting South _ Dakota Treasurer, would be sentenced for twenty years, is found defective and two years will be the maximum. His bondsmen and himself turned over to the State Treasurer SIOO,OOO in checks and -drafts as agreed upon, and also a list of properties in which the defaulter held equities or owned prior to his skipping to South America. The value of the properties will be assessed by the State Board, and the amount agreed by them and the SIOO,OOO v.-ill be credited to the deficit. The bondsmen will make up the balance. Flood of Counterfeit Dollars. Wilmington, Del., is fairly flooded with counterfeit silver dollars. About ten days ago one Was presentetLat the Farmers’ Bank by a depositor and detected. Since then the banks have been on the lookout and dozens have been found and turned down. They were presented by innocent depositors, who hud accepted them in the course of business. The spurious coins are thicker than the genuine dollars, but ,„of lighter weight. The composition of which they are made is soft and can be readily cut with a knife. # Two Disastrous Vires. At Lockport, 111., the postoffice, opera house, newspaper, jail, school house, K. I*. Hall, and several residences were destroyed by lire Saturday. It was caused by a careless tinner upsetting his charcoal stove upon the roof of Mayor McDonald’s building. Joliet and Chicago sent aid, which saved the town. The total loss was $200,000; insurance light. Fire in the plant of the General Stamping Company at Newark, N. J., Sunday, caused a loss of $530,000. Insurance, $200,000.