Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1895 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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The report of the Denver and Rio Grande lioad shows an increase in earnings of $445,090. ■ . —- The Farmers’ Bank at Ladonia, Mo., is again open and ready for business. The attorney general, bank examiner, receiver and attorneys met in Mexico and the matter was settled. The directors of the bank have fully complied with the law. Judge Henry F. Fluedy, who w*ent to Arizona with the first set of territorial officers in 1803, died at Prescott Monday night of nervous disease. Judge Fleudy served as secretary of the territory and also as acting governor during the early history of Arizona. Fire Tuesday morning broke out in Fleming’s livery stable at Petersburg, Ind., and it was soon completely destroyed. Twenty-five horses were cremated and many vehicles burned The opera house building and the Read Hotel turd contents were atso turned into ashes; Losses aggregate $50,000; partially insured. Plilem Humphrey, ex-county commissioner and ex-manager of the Prairie CatWest, has given himself up to the sheriff at Clayton, N. M., to answer for the killing of James H. Burgess, a stockman, formerly of Omaha. Humphrey says Burgess met him at Kenton and threatened to kill him. A scuffle ensued in which Humphrey drew a revolver and fired one shot with fatal effect. William H, Grant, of Trenton, N, J„ has written to a lawyer in Oakland, Cal., to secure information about an old deed to the tract of land upon which Itahway, N. J.. is now situated, which was found in a pile of waste paper in* Oakland two mouths ago. The document is dated April, 1753, and purports to convey from William Morris to William.. Grant the land mentioned. Grant writes that he believes that the grantee was his grandfather, from the fact that his family was the only one of that name in New Jersey at that time. Miss Lydia Rixa, of Chicago, whose mother was opposed to her marrying Marco Heinmanu. ran away with him Thursday night. Her grandmother, Mrs. Loretto Biddorbeck, who is 04 years of age, accompanied the pair to Milwaukee. The old lady seemed to enjoy the escapade. The girl gave her age as 18 and thetnan as 24. He is a clerk. They could not wait until the justice shop was open, but insisted that the justice should get up out of bed and perform the ceremony at once. The couple, with the accommodating grandma, returned to Chicago. With terrific force the wind and electric 6torm that held Chicago at its mercy Tuesday night swept over a large section of country, leaving destruction in its wake. Throughout Illinois, Missouri and Indiana the fury of the storm was greatest, and in some places had all the elements of a hurricane. Much damage to property and to the crops is reported. The rain that deluged Chicago and vicinity turned to hail in the central part of the State. Telegraph and telephone poles in the line of the storm were broken and the wires snapped and strewn over the country. The will of Joseph A. Ford, of the wholesale dry goods firm of Murphy, Grant & Co;, was filed at San Francisco, Cal. The second clause of the will is as folios: “As my wife has in all cases aettu entirely of her own free will and against what she knew to be my wishes, and has asserted that the only reason she did not ask for u divorce was the living she received from me, I expressly desire she shall not receive one dollar of my estate or what wilt come to me from the estate of my mother.” The bulk of the estate is left to his 15-year-old son. Mrs. Ford is a stepdaughter of E. J. Baldwin, the millionaire turfman. The estate is valued at upwards of $1,000,000. T. D. Hughes, It. F. Davis, R. L. Mann and Pete Ctirismunn, of Gonzales, and H. N. Mohrman and P. Jennings, of Gilroy, sailed from Santa Cruz, Cal., for a lone island in the Pacific Ocean about eight hundred miles welt of Peru in seurcli of buried treasure. Forty-thpae years ago Mr. Jennings was a strflor in the south seas, and he Is said to have been one of six who buried on the island three large jnrs of Spanish doubloons vnlued at between $300,000 and $1,000,000. Mr. Jennings ts the only man alive that knows the location of the money, ns the other five died in his presence on the Peruvian coast. He has a chart of the island and

claims il is volcanic and uninhabited. Three months will be required to make the trip. Passengers aboard the translake steamof Louisville, St. Joseph to Chicago, spent an hour of horror Tuesday night m midlake. A gale vpas blowing from the southeast and the waves were rolling almost to the deck. The engines had stopped and the stanch littlg steamer was rocking at the mercy of (he waves for a little more than an hour, while Gant. Simons and Engineer Brown repaired an accident to the engine’s eccentric. Capt. Simons assured all that the steamer would withstand the struggle and weather the : storm in spite of the aceident to her machinery. As a result of the accident the steamer, whieh is due at her docks at Chicago at lO o’ciock. did not reach the landing until after midnight. Then about 150 persons poured forth from the gangway, all suffering from sea sickness such as they had never before experienced. Lemont, on the Chicago drainage can&l, said to be the toughest town in America, was raided Friday. The Civic Federation of that town and the Chicago Tribune instigated the raid. Constables armed with warrants sworn out in Chicago fear-, ried it out. The raid was ostensibly in the interests of municipal reform, suppression of gambling-houses and of resorts where evil women collect. Mayor McCarthy and twenty-nine others were arrested. Those accused are all connected, either as proprietors or financial factors, with the conduct of the most notorious dens of iniquity in Lemont;,most of those arrested were the unfortunates whose crimes fatten the pockets of the proprietors. Murder has been committed in Peterson’s Park, in the Standard Theater, when the fights were turned out, and a helpless Swede left to battle with his assailants and be thrown into the State canal still alive; in the Big Casino, where one woman shot down another;.in the Little Casino, and wherever lust of money earned by the drainage channel employes -has- prompted- negroes and whites to attack them. The town officials, led by Mayor McCarthy, have been singularly ignorant of these crimes. They are now charged by the Civic Federation of their town and by the Tribune with having knowingly permitted these places to exist, and of having received from them “hush”/ money. ’ r