Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

At Alder, Minn., fire Thursday burned fourteen stores, a church, a newspaper office and several other buildings. Martin Hay ken, of the Chicago furniture firm of A. H. Andrews & Co., has been indicted at Salt Cake City for bribing three selectmen. Milton H. Barr, Edward .7. Clifford and Cliff B. R.uhmer, members of Company G, First Regiment, N. G. C., of San Francisco, started out from Oakland, Cal., on. n. trip across the cou.ti-. nent, their destination being Atlanta. They are going to make the tour in a .wagon. „ Specials to the Detroit, Mich., Evening News tell of a cyclone that passed over a portion of the State Tuesday night. At Charlevoix a house was demolished and fences, trees and outhouses scattered promiscuously in the path of the wind, which covered but a small area. No one was hurt. The steamer schooner Sunohl, which left San Fraucisco for Oregon ports, returned for repairs. After leaving port she collided with a sixty-foot whale. The leviathan’s tail got tangled up with the propeller, breaking the blades and leaving the vessel in an almost, disabled condition.' Since Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hartman, of Scribner, Neb., had been missing and an investigation resulted in the. discovery of Mrs. Hartman dead in the lower room of their residence with a bul-let-hole in her neck, and Mr. Hartman hanging to a rope in an upper room. The entire matter is u mystery. „ At Portland, Ore., McNeil, receiver of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, has begun suit in the United States Court against the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company to recover the sum of $86,500 insurance on the property destroyed in the big elevator fire on Sept. 23, 1894. Tuesday morning at daybreak G. M. Singer, postmaster at Dunfee, Ind., was found murdered in bed. The postoffice was robbed and the grocery store plundered. Deceased was an old soldier and a widower and lived alone in the old frame postoffice. The Fort Wayne police and the Sheriff are in pursuit of the murderers. Passenger train No. 2, on the Wisconsin Central Road, Conductor Whitney and Engineer Blaine, was held up by armed men at 9:15 Thursday night in a swamp three miles west of Waupaca, Wis. The engine and baggage car were ditched by pulling spikes. Ties were piled on the track. The passenkers were not moisted by the robbers, only terrified by bullets which were fired through the coaches. Twelve sticks of dynamite were exploded on the safe without getting any booty. Conductor Whitney says there were ten or a dozen men in the gang. Twelve attempts were made to blow open the safest least that number of sticks of dynamite was exploded, and the passengers occupying two sleeping cars were in a demoralized state. The cannonading in the express car made a frightful noise. Alarmed at the recent startling discovery of crookedness in three trusted employes of the National Hank- of Illinois and the Merchants’ Loqn and Trust Company, most of the other Chicago banks are examining their, books to see if their own clerk? have beey led astray. The news of the shortnge‘in the accounts of Tellers} Van Bokkeleu, Jones and Wilson has caused much excitement among bankers and their first im)tulse has been to look for similar discrepancies among their own men. It is said that the recent wheat (lurry bn the Board of Trade tended to muke the bank employes cast longing eyes on the gold that passes through their huuds and it was this temptation that caused the downfall of the three tellers who have been found guilty of embezzlement. 1 With a maximum temperature of 91 degrees at 3 o’clock p. in., joined to baleful and persistent excess of humidity, the rift*' ' •*-•» •» ’’" ; i- *•» .-v* i J ", v-v'. ' ....

weather Thursday was, perhaps, the most extraordinary that has beefi Inflicted upon the city of Chicago this season. It was deadly weather, but the list of deaths and prostrations gives no adequate idea of its effects. The health department’s reports of child mortality will also be a factor. The list of victims Thursday numbers six. One of the paradoxical features of the continental weather report was —nr tele- - gram announcing that two inches of snow fell at Calgary, in the British Northwest Territory. It was the first snowstorm of the season, and yet small consolation to the baked citizens of this country, weary of paying tribute to a bandit atmospheric “low” that seems to hang continually over the uninhabited region around Montana, occasionally coming a little farther east, and sucking all the hot air of the tropica into its yawningmaw, letting it sizzle and broil mankind as it rushes on its way. Close on the heels of Receiving Teller Tan Bokkelen’s $35,000 defalcation from the Merchants’ Loan and Trust Company of Chicago, comes the discovery that two trusted employes of the National Bank of Illinois have disappeared, leaving a shortage variously estimated from $20,000 to $40,000. Who the guilty men are President George Schneider and cashier Carl, Moil refuse to disclose. All they will say concerning the identity of the abscoitdors is that one was receiving teller, the other a paying teller, and that the amount they have stolen is $19,000. They entered the bank’s service at the foot of the ladder and reached their positions step by step, as their merit warranted. The receiving teller had been with the. hank, seventeen yars. The other had worked there twelve years. The other had worked there twelve when the shortage was discovered. Whether he intended to return or not is not known. He was trusted implicitly by his superiors, and it was only when glaring irregularities were discovered in his accounts during his absence that the officials of the bank grew suspicious. Half a million dollars in buildings and merchandise went up in flames and smoke Wednesday morning as the result of one of the most disastrous and stubborn fires in the history of Indianapolis, and parts '6fs"efrerar"bT6cEs,includingßbmebftfie finest buildings in the city, aie in ruins, or badly damaged. Valuable stocks had to be flooded with water, to an enormous loss, to prevent their total destruction and a wider spread of the fire. Two million dollars in cash stored in the vaults of the Indiana National Bank, whose building was totally destroyed. was in danger, but the vaults withstood the flames intact. The fire started at 6 o’clock on the third floor of the five-story stone and brick building on Washington street, between Meridian and Pennsylvania streets, owned by A. B. Pettis and occupied by Eastman, Schleicher & Co. It soon had great headway, and all the resources of the city fire department were at once called into play to combat what was certain to prove a disastrous blaze. In spite of the quick work and hard fighting of the firemen the flames spread rapidly, and it was several hours before they were sufficiently under control to qhiet fears that the entire business district might be burned.