Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1895 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

William Palmer, traveling manager of the Trilby Company, committed suicide in a room of the Southern ' Hotel, St. Louis. A little girl was run over and killed by a trolley car in Toledo, and a furious crowd made an attempt to lynch Motorman Lecklider. Twenty-five Milwaukee mail carriers have been notified to show cause why "they should not be removed or suspended. They are charged with various offenses. It. C. MCade, the Atchison, Ivan., insurance agent who absconded a few years ago with about $30,000 which had been intrusted to him, has been located in New York, and a telegram has been sent ordering his arrest. "Meade wdsa prominent church member. A big reward was ..offered for Mrs. Hiram Tlaoe and Mrs. A. C. Anderson, of Santa Cruz, Cal., are among the heirs to the Leake estate of New York, valued at $200,000,000. Claimnnts have been trying to obtain possession of the estate for forty years. After Leake's death the property escheated to the State of New York. The heirs reside in Kentucky, Missouri and on the Pacific coast. William Rose, an undertaker’s assistant, at Denver, shot and mortally wounded Mrs. Thilip Kuhn at her home. He shot her four times iu the back. He ran away, and although closely pursued by a crowd managed to reload his revolver and shoot himself, inflicting a mortal wound. Jealousy was the cause of the crime. The man and the woman are each 35 years old. M. O. Daxon, an Omaha bicycle dealer, was arrested on a warrant. The complainant is an attorney engaged for Gormully & Jeffery, of Chicago. The complainant charges that Daxon embezzled in the neighborhood of $1,200 to $1,300. In addition to this the company alleges that Daxon is indebted to it in the sum of $0,500 or $0,700. Antlrae & Son, of Milwaukee, also hold a mortgage for $2,700 and Rector & Williehuy, of Omaha, one for $1,500. At Sacramento the forty-fifth anniversary of the admission of California into the Union was celebrated on Tuesday by the order of the Native Sons of the Golden West with a parade iu which over four thousand participated. Literary exercises were held iu the open air on the Plaza, a regatta was held on the river, and a reception at the historical Sutter's Fort. Monday evening there was an electric carnival, the chief feature of which was the parade. Passenger boats from Michigan all had tempestuous voyages Thursday night. All of them passed through the ordeal without serious mishap, however, and were not over an hour or so late on arriving. Had it been any other time of the year than the,height of the fruit season, it is likely that some of the steamers would not have started out, but to hare remained in port made such an immense loss on their fruit cargoes that they put out regardless of the furious norther. The City of Kalamazoo took in to Chicago from South Haven the biggest cargo of peaches ever shipped from that place. It consisted of 41,100 baskets. With this immense load, which filled all the freight room and crowded the passenger cabin, the steamer wftlt through all right, without damaging any of the fruit. Mrs. wife of a section foreman, saved the west-bound fast mail train on the Union Pacific, consisting of two mail cars, a day coach and a Pullman sleeper, from a probable frightful wreck near Wolcott station, six miles from Rawlins, Wyo. While alone at the section house she discovered flint a wooden bridge spanning n small gully crossed by the track was burning. The fust mail, nearly an hour late, was approaching at a high rate of speed, eudeavoriug to make up lost time. Mrs. Olstroni ran down the track and flagged the train, which was stopped within thirty feet of the burning bridge. The timbers were burned to suteh an extent that the train woukl have carried down

- l the bridge. The overland flyer and fast freights following the fast mall were delayed five hours. The passengers ’on the fast mail made up a purse of SOO for the ’Voman. At Fort Wayne, Ind., after receiving a ten years’ sentence to the Northern penitentiary foeshbetSgDepuTyUheflff Harfod, John C. Stone astonished Judge O’Rourke, the jury and the audience by rising: in the prisoner’s box and confess-Tng-thafTie andWallrath, his pal, who was killed in the battle withtlie police, were members of the gang of train robbers which a few months ago held ,up a Lake Shore train near Wasepi, Miclr. He gave the Sheriff two gold watches and three railroad switch keys that he took from the trainmen that night. The railroad people have been after the switch keys without success ever since the train was held up. Stone, it is supposed, belonged to a band of train robbers, as they fought like tigers when arrested at Fort Wavne three months ago. They opened fire .as soon as the officers approached tliera. Wallrath was shot dead in his tracks and Deputy Sheriff Harrod was wounded in three different places.