Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1895 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Charles E. Brown, the first schoolmaster that ever taught in Chicago, died Tuesday. - - Margaret Mather, the actress, horsewhipped and beat .her husband, Col. Gustav Pabst, in full view of many pedestrians at Milwaukee Wednesday. Joseph Tiernan, of St. Louis, Mo., who died Sept. 1, has been discovered to have been short $33,000 in his accounts with the Security Building and Loan Association. Another case of a dual life has come to light by the death of D. A. Martin, a prominent grain dealer of Chicago and Milwaukee, who, it has developed, left a family in each city. At Cleveland, Ohio, Peter Crawford, 22 years old, has been asleep for the last eight months with the exception of a few hours. He fell from a wagon a year ago and received injuries to his spine. The North Nebraska Methodist conference, by unanimous vote, enacted the Hamilton amendment and declared in favor of the admission of women to the general conference on an equal footing with men. The National Woman's Protective As.-, sociation lias concluded its second annual convention in Denver. The sessions were secret, but it is understood the principal busiuess was the adoption of amendments to the constitution and by-laws. The mother of Maud Steidel, of St. Joseph, Mo., lias consented to her daughter’s marriage to Father Dominick Wagnqr, who confessed to abducting the girl. The priest has agreed to settle all Ins property, amounting to SIO,OOO, og the bride. William Henry, the Wabash engineer who fatally shot his wife at Springfield, 111., and eseai>ed, was found dead in a cornfield southeast of the city. He had cut the artery in his left wrist and shot himself through the left temple* and then through the heart. The Red Cloud, Neb., roller mill, elevator and warehouse, one of the largest plants in the State, were destroyed by fire. The loss will amount to $40,000, with $20,000 insurance ou building and machinery. The mill has been idle since the high water in June took part of the dam out, but the steam plant was used to generate electricity for the city lights, and the city will be in darkness for some time. About 3,000 bushels of wheat in the elevator also burned. Letters aud telegrams continue to pour into the telegraph* and postofliee at San Jose, Cal., addressed to Hip Sing Lee, the mythical Chinese merchant prince, in whose name an advertisement recently appeared in a San Francisco paper offering flattering inducements to any respectable white map who would marry his daughter, Moi Lee. There are at present nearly five hundred letters in the postofliee addressed to the mysterious Hip Siug Lee. all presumably in answer to the ad vertisement referred to. The Bank of Mouett and the Bank of Purdy, both Barry County, Mo., institutions, have been closed by Secretary of State Lesucur upon notification by the State bank examiner of their insolvent condition, and are in the hands of receivers. This makes thirteen banks closed by the Secretary of State since the execution of the new bank law began on .Inly 1, besides some half dozen others that anticipated the exnmiuation by making assignments. An unknown burglar wbo has rifled regularly homes in Ferubank, Delhi, and Home City, Ohio, every Saturday night for two months made a rather unusual “haul” Saturday night He entered a residence where two young women were sleeping alone. He stoO through the house, ransacking drawers, and found in a dresser a jewel case containing a fat roll of bills. The burglar left-scape valuable silverware lying in plain sight and fled. There was SBOO in the roll, but it was Confederate money. si'irst Lieutenant Samuel S. Pague,' .Company F, Fifteenth Infantry, tried to kill Col. Crofton Thursday afternoon at Fort Sheridan, Chicago. He shot at him three times. Two bullets pierced the Colour's overcoat, the other went into the ground. Pagoe was disarmed by hi's wife, Col. Crofton, and officers, and was placed in the guard house. By some Lieut. Pague's attack is attributed to alcoholic dementia. Others intimate there are personal differences between the two m<>n - „ .... ■ The Furmers and Merchants’ Bank of Creighton, Mo., has made an assignment. The statement filed shows assets to the

amount of $124,000 and liabilities of $60,000, mostly in real estate paper. The officers of the institution say that the suspension Is only temporary, and that the depositors will be paid in full. The cashier of the bank, D. B. Wallis, iS assignee. The State Bank of Hemingford, Neb., was taken charge of by the State Bank Examiner. No report of the institution’s condition is made, but the cashier asserts that the bank will reopen soon. Reports of Chicago public school principals of the enrollment of pupils for September gives gratifying evidence of the : substantial growth of Chicago and evidence not so gratifying of the inability of the Board of Education to provide suitable school accommodations for the large number of new pupils. The total enrollment is 183,749, an increase of 11,092 overt he enrollment for September, 1894. To accommodate the rapid and steady growth in school attendance about twenty new buildings are erected annually and .forty have been built since Jan. 1, 1894. But in spite of this activity the reports for the last month show that the schools are so crowded that although sittings are rentedin othcrbuildings for 11,606 pupils, there are 20,124 who are unable to get more than half a day’s schooling daily.