Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

A bad wreck is said to have occurred on the- Baltimore .and Ohio -Southwestern Road, about sixty miles from Jeffersonville, Ind., Monday morning. Four passengers and the engineer are reported killed. The number of bodies so tar found in the ruins of the Guuirv Hotel at Denver is twenty-two. Two of these have not been fully identified.' The last one re : covered may be the body of William D. Dodds, of Albany, N. Y., some of whose personal effects were found’in the ruins. Charles It. Bishop, first vice president >f the Bank of California, in San Franlisco, has contributed SBOO,OOO to schools ind societies in the Hawaiian Islands. The money is to be used to promote the nterosts of a number of institutions sus:ained by the late Mrs. Bishop during her ifetime. Thomas Wiekersham, a young Salina, [van,, business man, has brought suit for {5,000 damages against A iss Cora Ahart lor breach of promise. Wickersliam al-leges-that Miss Aliart, in February, 1894, promised to marry him, but later spurned lis attentions. She has, the petition furIher alleges, given him up for “a liausome Jtranger, supposed to be a ranchowner from Colorado.”'

A troop of cavalry Las been sen't to the [lorn Basin country, Arizona Territory, in pursuit of a band of Indian outlaws who have been committing depredations in that region for several mouths. A squaw arrived at Wilcqx who says she was captured by the band, who murdered her mother, and forced her and her papoose to accompany them. She finally escaped, and rode day until she arrived to report the matter to the authorities. Several other murders are said to have been committed by the outlaws. Union Pacific No. S overland flyer, due n Omaha Wednesday morning at 10:25, vas held up by 'highwaymen at some toiut between Brady Island and Gotheuturg, Neb. The train left North Platte .t 11 o’clock Monday night. The engine vas cut off by the bandits and sent forward while they looted the train. The iugine went on to Gothenburg for assistince. The robbers blew up the express :ar with dynamite. While they were ising the engineer to get the express car ►pen the fireman ran off with the eugine •o Gothenburg for assistance. The coun;ry in the vicinity of the holdup is fairly well settled. All were heavily armed and a conflict is probable. Two boys, a young girl and a man were drowned in Lake at Chicago Monday. They were: Arthur H. Butler, 11) years old; Walter Butler, 17 years old; Florence Millard, 13 years old; Thos. Walsh, 35 years old. The Butler brothers went in swimming and Walter was carried beyond his depth by the undertow. Arthur tried to save him and both were lost. Florence Millard, daughter of William Millard, went in bathing with Grace Mihill, 17 yenrs old, and a sister of Miss Mihill, aged 0. The waves carried them beyond their depth. George Brown and Ilnrry Duck managed to rescue the Mihill girls. Thomas Walsh was drowned while bathing.

Fallowing is the ticket nominated by the Ohio State Democratic convention at Springfield Wednesday: Governor... James E. Campbell Lieutenant Governor... .John B. Penslee State Auditor James W. Knott State Treasurer William B. Sholer Supreme Judge William T. Mooney Attorney General. .George A. Fairbanks Member of the Board of Public Works Harry B. Keefer Clerk of the Supreme Court. ■ J. W. Cruiksliank The convention, by n vote of 525 to 270, reaffirmed the financial plank of the Democratic national convention of 1802 and in dorsed the administration of Prcßidcut Cleveland and the course iu the Senate of Calvin S. Brice.

Milton C. Merrill, night ynrdnnuster of the Chicugo, Burlington and Quincy Uuilroad at Chicago, by his own desiierute act Monday night dissolved the injunction that Judge Chctlain granted his wife restraining him from marrying auy other woman or pretending to do so. He turned on the gas in his room and died by asphyxiation. Most novel, indeed, was the prayer of the petitioner, Mrs. Minnie Merrill, ao Id valid, who asked the court to

enjoin Mr. Merrill from making good his threat to marry Mary Beeticb, and the gossips of the corridors of the County Building had scarcely ceased discussing the court’s temporary restraining order granted on the petition when the news of therdefendant’s effective plan to escape service was brought to theip. Fire burned over a dozen blocks in Milwaukee Thursday and destroyed property worth $382,000. It started on the river -front at the Water street bridge and before it was stopped it had burned a swath front one to three blocks wide to Sixth street. A stiff breeze served to fan the flames and sent them traveling west over the yards of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad G om l’ an > r with startling rapidity, destroying in their path the - freight warehouses of railroad and steamship companies, valuable freight in' storage and railway cars. For four hours al) the fire apparatus, firemen and employes of the railroad company in the city fought the progress of the flames before they were under control. When the fighters .finished work at night two companies of firemen were left to guard half a square mile of glowing embers. During the exciting scenes incident to fire-fighting a boy was run oyer by a fire engine and killed.

A peculiar will contest which revealed the mysterious life of Morris Goldberg, a capitalist,-who led a hermit-like life in hills of East Oakland, Cal., has been abandoned. Goldberg became afflicted with a throat disease a year ago and on account of his inability to swallow was threatened with death by starvation. As his condition became more serious the old man’s desire to live became more intense, and he offered his physician $225- for every day they should keep him alive. A tube was inserted into Goldberg's stomach, through which nourishment was forced, and by this means he was kept alive forty days, incurring a doctor’s bill in the meantime of $9,000. When his will was filed for probate, in which an estate valued at $200,000 was disposed of, Miss Gutte Simsen,. a niece, of Philadelphia, filed a protest. Miss Simsen has at last consented to compromise the case for SB,OOO, and will return to Philadelphia in a few days.