Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

In the pocket of a man who was found lead on the railroad track near Springfield, Mass., was found the .address: “James S. Edwards, 34 Dearborn street, Chicago.” James Rhodes’ steam sawmill in the Adiroudaeks, near Watertown, N. Y., burned to the ground, with a large quantity of lumber. The loss is estimated at $100,000; no insurance. Miss Jennie Lewis, a domestic employed in the family of Rev. George Moar, of Oakland, Cal., was shot and fatally wounded by a man supposed to be Louis F. Muhlner, a jilted lover. Dr. Arthur Hamilton, of Los Angeles, Cal., said to be a colleague of W. H. T. Durrant, the San Francisco murderer, disappeared in Chicago Tuesday night and left his wife penniless in a downtown restaurant. At the time of his disappearance Dr. Hamilton had in his possession $1,200 and jewelry valued at $1,500. According to a San Francisco paper the indictment against C. P. Huntington, the president of the Southern Pacific, for violating the interstate commerce law by issuing a pass, will be dismissed. Judge Morrow will be asked to dismiss the indictment on tXe recent ruling of the New York court in the case.- . A San Francisco paper says the heirs of Jose de Jesus Noe will soon bring suit to recover a vast tract of land near Golden Gate Park, known as the San Miguel rancho, The property involved is estimated to be worth $24,000,000. The suit will be based on the alleged illegality of the transfer of the land by Noe to William J. Horner in 1853. The Colorado Humane Society, through Secretary Thompson, has appealed ,to Gov. Mclntyre to issue a proclamation forbidding the, proposed Mexican bullfight at Gillet, in the Cripple Creek district, on Sept. 24. It is believed the Governor will exercise all the authority of his office, even to the extent of calling out the troops if need be to prevent the exhibition. Edward Clegg, Coleman Nickolds and Henry Cartstensen, British bicycle tourists, were arrested at Chadron, Neb., for fast riding, and were hued $1 and costs, a total of $5.70 each. Although abundantly supplied with money they refused to pay their fines and were committed to hard work on the streets. They would not work, however, but instead sat down under a load of hay. They will claim the protection of the English Government. By the alteration of brands it has been discovered that thousands of head of cattle have been stolen in Wyoming and run north into Montana, where they have been sold. In some cases two-thirds of the herds have disappeared. Small owners are the worst suljferers, and some of them will have to go out of the business. Stealing amounting to S3O,(XX) during the last three months has already been made certain of, and the amount is expected to be greatly increased when all reports are in. J. R. Irwin, vessel-owner and agent of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Fairport, died at his home in Pninesville, Ohio. Apoplexy was the immediate cause of death. Mr. Irwin was a man of great stature, remarkable for his appearance, but had suffered a general breaking down in health since January last. He was interested in tugs, shipchandlery, warehouses, and in fact everything in Fairport, and the growth of the place as a lake port during the past ten years was largely due to his energy and enterprise. Emmett Divers, the negro who assaulted and killed Mrs. Cain near Fulton, Mo., a couplp of weeks ago, was taken from the Slier iff about 1 o’clock Thursday morning by a mob at Fulton nnd hanged to a railroad bridge. Divers was taken from St. Louis by Deputy Sheriff Buchanan, of Calloway County, and arrived nt Fulton some time after midnight. Sheriff Buchanan left the train with his prisoner some distnnee from Fulton nnd was proceeding with him in a carriage when he was intercepted by u mob of more than a hundred men. who forcibly took the negro and hanged him. An explosion and resulting fire Thursday entirely consumed the plant of the Poerless refinery at Findlay, Ohio. With

SOO,OOO loss, half Insured. A benzine tank first exploded from some unknown cause and in an instant the building was wrapped in seething flames. Two still men, William Adams and William Bends, were probably fatally burned. Ten oil stills next caught fire and one after another exploded, seuding flaming oil over the surrounding buildings and ground. Next two tanks of crude oil, containing 12,000 gallons, caught, sending up red columns of flame 200 feet Into the air. A mammoth tank of 30,000 barrels was fired into with a cannon, Jetting-the oil run out, where it caught fire. Minneapolis underselling Duluth at the seaboard by a full ceiit was the report received from the East Thursday by Duluth wheat shippers. The freight war from the Twin Cities has culminated in the greatest slaughter of tariffs that the Northwest has ever known. The Soo Road is said to be carrying wheat to the sealward at the rate of 12 cents per hundred pounds, or only 2 cents more than the lowest all-rail rate ever known to be made from Chicago to the seaboard. If the other Van Home road, the South Shqre arid Atlantic, makes the same comparative rate or a tr i tic lower- from- JAuiuth, wheat will go East by all-rail instead of Jake and rati-. 1 The Pierre, S. D., court-room was crowded Wednesday to hear sentence pronounced on W. W. Taylor, the defaulting c-x-State Treasurer. When asked if he had anything to say why sentence should not he pronounced on him Taylor in a low voied replied: “I have not.” Judge Gaffey then reviewed the case and the different statutes bearing upon the crime. He considered .the mueh-diseussed section 1,005 void, and did not believe a two-year sentence was intended to cover such a case as this. He said that Taylor’s worst crime was iu attempting to force a compromise after gathering together all the State funds he could lay., his hands on. A sentence of five years at hard labor was then pronounced. Frank Sweet's efforts having failed to separate Mrs. Alice Burr from her husband at Chicago Wednesday, Frank Burr, a printer, he shot her and a Mrs. Nichols, and then put two bullets into his own brain, killing himself instantly. Mrs. Burr was fatally injured, it is thought; while Mrs. Nichols received only a flesh wound. Burr and his wife have not lived happily together for some time. Sweet was a brother-in-law of. the two women, fate wife • having "short' time ago. Lately he had been attentive to Mrs. Burr, and it is asserted that he sought every opportunity to persuade her to leave her husband. She was inclined to listen to him, hut was kept from carrying out his wishes by the advice of Mrs. Nichols. Edward Clegg, Coleman Nockolds and Henry Carteuson, the young Englishmen who were arrested at Chadron, Neb., for fast riding and refused to pay their fines, after a couple of days spent in the county bastile, their spare time being employed by sitting on a rock pile with a ball and chain attachment, finally got tired of the affair and paid their fines. They have, however, had prepared a communication to the British Consul stating their version of the affair and asking for redress from the United States. The protest has not arrived at the State Department, and if it should be received it is probable ■ they would he promptly informed that the department vvould take no action in a case where a municipality had punished any one for violating a police regulation. American bicyclists frequently are arrested in England for violation of local police regulations.