Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1895 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Judge Baker, of Chicago, sharply and vigorously criticised a jury in his court for returning a verdict which he considered i n direct opposition to - the evidence, and wound up his sarcastic remarks by summarily discharging the members of the jury from further service. Mark W. Harrington, late chief of the wcathbr bureau at Washington, and professor of astronomy at the University of Michigan, has been elected and installed president of the University of Washington in Seattle, Wash. The university is In a flourishing condition and will open with 500 students. Theodore B. Gillum, of Indianapolis, supreme organizer of the Oriental League, was stabbed in the neck and instantly killed by James Burnett at Louisville. The man who committed the murder attempted to gain admission to an entertainment without a ticket and had been ejected by Mr. Gillum. The murderer escaped. Deputy marshals from Perry, O. T., made a raid on a counterfeiters’ den in a cave in - the Kaw country and capturedeight of a gang of fifteen, who were at work making counterfeits. Officers have been on the lookout for the gang for six: months, spurious coin having been in circulation during that time. The officers are in pursuit of the seven who escaped. Goroae»-Gftsb>F r of Marten- Gonaty.-I-n----diana, is in possession of the premises where the bones Of young Howard Pitzel were found at Irvington. An examination of the bones by the coroner showed that the large ones, which could not at first be classified, are parts of the pelvis. Holmes will be indicted in Marion County for murder, but no effort will be made to take him there, as evidence against him elsewhere is thought to be sufficient to convict him.

When the Painesville, Ohio, Savings Bank collapsed four years ago among the assets found was $250,000 worth of stock in a Western mine. At that time the mine was thought to be worthless, but it now appears to be valuable. The mine is paying a fdir dividerul, and the stock is nearly at par. The indication’s are that the depositors in the wrecked bank will be paid a good dividend, with the prospects that ultimately they may' receive their deposits back in full. A large number of prominent residents of cities along the projected route of the canal from Michigan City to Toledo were in Cincinnati for the purpose of effecting a permanent organization. The principal plan so far mooted contemplates a ship canal from Toledo to Lake Michigan by way of Laporte, South Bend. Elkhart and Goshen. There is another projected route through., the Michigan peninsula, but it is contended by geological experts that this would be impracticable. Joseph N. Dubois, arrested in Cleburne, Texas, charged with swindling Goetz <& Luening, of Milwaukee, out of SB,OOO in 1882, has a long record as a swindler. His operations extend over -a period of years, and were always carried on under the guise of a successful business man. His principal headquarters at one time were in Kansas City, Mo. In the fall of 1882 he suddenly disappeared, and then it was discovered that his defalcations in various parts of the country footed up very close to $75,000. Among his victims are firms in Chicago, New York and Boston.

Word comes from Butte, Mont., of a triple killing at Sweet Grass, on the international boundary. William Ixsng, cowboy for the “F” outfit, who is also said to be a whisky smuggler, killed a mounted policeman named Richardson. The two men met near the middle butte of Sweet Grass, had several drinks, got into n row and the killing resulted. After the shooting of Richardson Ixmg went to C. B. Toole’s ranch, where he is alleged to have killed Ira Brown, the foreman. Tha latter, before dying, shot Long, killing him almost instantly. Long’s mother lives in Los Angeles, Cal. Three little children of a Sullivan, Mo., widow named Jenkins went to a place near the barn to gather eggs. The place was rather out of the way and dangerous, owing to snakes, which are numerous in that region. Oue child thrust ita hand into what it supposed was the hen’s nest and quickly withdrew it. exclaiming that the hen pecked it. The other two children put in their hands with the same result. The mother ran to the assistance of the three children, who had been bitten by a rattlesnake. During the excitement her little babe fell into the well and ryns drowned, and the three other children also died. Harry Brown, the well-known comic opera comedian, whose home is in Portland, Ore., after years of ill-luck has obtained n fortune in a peculiar manner. While filling an unprofitable engagement In Cleveland he cured a hitherto incurable

melancholia patient, the young son of wealthy parents. The boy was afflicted with suicidal mania and accidentally saw Brown and laughed for the first time in his life. Brown became young KeL logg’s physician and cured him. When Mrs. Kellogg died recently she bequeathed a comfortable fortune to Brown. Brown will go to San Francisco and to the south of France, where he will spend ■ the winter. —w—^ —- ; ■ Thirteen miners in the Sleepy Hollow mine, Central City, Colo., were working Thursday afternoon in the drifts, when suddenly a torrent of water came streaming down the shaft, and, sweeping debris before it, choked up the entries and passageways, intombing the workmen. Two Italians working above were caught in the mighty rush of the flood, and they, the, were sacrificed; The season has been The hills have been soaked to repletion, and the giant pumps of. the big mines have had a difficult task to perform in beating down the wafers. • The disaster is due solely to greed of the operators. The danger was not unforeseen, but the mine is in litigation, and the operators would not spend money enough to properly equip the plant with pumping apparatus. The Illinois State Board of Live Stock Commissioners issued the -following report of cattle inspection at , the Union Stockyards, Chicago, during the last week: Number cattle inspected .175 Passed in the yards. . .102 Held for post-mortem examination. . 76 Passed on post-mortem examination. 20 Condemned as being unlit for food

and ordered tanked. .... 47 Thq board reports that,an official inspection of the outbreak of Texas feyer at Mount Sterling, Brown County, shows the disease to have been hroiighfttrtffTHinois by cattle shipped from the stockyards at St. Louis, the cattle coming from the southern portion of Missouri. Those sent to Chicago were thoroughly examined and five head of cattle were condemned with the fever upon them. The disease is under cohfroTaf'BroVtTCounty and no further fear is felt. At Cleveland James Beckmeister fell five stories, from the toj> of the World building to the sidewalk, and was instanty killed. The body of the falling man struck John Nickson: who was walking along the sidewalk, with terrific force, breaking the hack and l>oth legs of the latter, and he is dying. Beckmeister was engaged with a number of other men in placing a large sign on the building. The accident was caused by the slipping of ropes supporting a swinging scaffold. Two-other men named Lewis and Cormier, who were on the scaffold with Beckmeister, had a desperate struggle for their lives, which was witnessed by horrified Spectators in the street. Lewis was thrown from the scaffold and caught with his hands the narrow coping under the windows. He managed to work along till he reached the fire escape and was then easily rescued. Cormier clung to the rope for some time and was finally rescued by a man in the building, who stepped on the window ledge and swung him into the room with one hand.

More peaches came into Chicago Wednesday by boat than on any previous day „tliis year, and it is claimed that the reeorcTbf any previous day in the history of the-fruit, trade was also , broken* Shipments were not confined to any one particular point on the east shore of Lake Michigan, but every peach orchard from the Indiana State line to the pine regions of the north seemed to be represented. St. Joseph and Benton Harbor were', as usual, the heaviest contributors, the City ■of. Chibhgd^briSphg--in an immense lead, while the Puritan was well filled. By shipping points the receipts were as follows: Place— Fifth bu. Half bn. feu. St. Joseph 24,400 23,000 1,300 South Haven. .15,000 550 400 Saugatuck ....12,000 100 .150 Glenn 5,200 150 500 Total ......50,600 23,800 2.350 This makes a grand total of 82,750 baskets. or 25,010 bushels. It is doubtful if receipts of peaches will exceed these figures again this season.

The charred remains of Howard Pitzel were pulled out of a chimney in a house in Irvington, the college suburb of Indianapolis, Ind., Tuesday evening. 11. H. Holmes occupied the house two or three days last October. The chain of circumstantial evidence connecting Holmes with this find is even more complete than that which was turned up in Toronto, where the bodies of the two Pitzel girls were dug up. There are several witnesses who saw Holmes and the little Pitzel boy at the house, and the child was never seen afterwards. The entire body, or what was left of it, Was crowded into the stovehole. The body was evidently burned in the stove, and then the stove was cleaned out, the remains being thrown into the chimney. There were a great many cobs about the place, and it is evident that the fire that burned the child was made from cobs. Such a fire is one of the very hottest. Buttons from the clothing were identified.