Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1895 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The National Library Association decided to hold its next convention at Cleveland, Ohio, Sept.' 1, 181X5. The Strauss harness-shop, belonging to the Jefferson City, Mo., penitentiary, was destroyed by fire, with most of its contents, Wednesday forenoon Loss, $55,000. At Berlin Heights, near Elyria, Ohio, the business houses of Lippus & Fowler, Butts & Peck, and Mrs. J. Elson were burned. The loss is $25,000; insurance, $15,000. James Garrett & Sons, hardware dealers at Mexico, Mo., assigned with liabilities of $2,000 and assets $6,000. Slow collections -and importunate creditorsforced the failure. Floods in the Agua Fria and Gila Rivers hare mused serious breaks in the bridges of the Santa Fe and Maricopa and Phoenix Railways, and for two days cut off Phoenix's rail communication. W. H. Gehorn, editor of the Willows, Cal., Journal, fired three shots at and killed J. E. Putman, druggist and president of the municipal board of trustees, Tuesday morning, in an altercation over a disputed account amounting to a few "dollars. James Stinaman, —a— farmer residing fourteen miles east of Greenville, Ohio, died Tuesday. His house and outbuildings caught fire and were consumed, and tl?e exertion in trying to save the contents resulted in heart failure. Loss $6,500; no insurance. A four-story tenement house at Cincinnati, Ohio, burned at midnight Tuesday. Mrs. Mary Holmes was killed. Five were fatally, and several less seriously hurt. Thomas’ 0* Flaherty jumjied from the fourth story window into a net held by the police without injury to limb. It is expected at the Indian office that Agent Beck, at the Omaha and Winnebago reservation in Nebraska, will take steps at once to remove settlers on the lands leased from the Flournoy Company. Acting Commissioner Smith says that the men occupying the lands are not entitled to sympathy on account of their crops, as they were notified to get o'ff or make new leases before the crops were planted. It is possible they will be given an opportunity to make now leases now in cases where the lands have not been leased, to other parties. Mrs. Susie Rogers, wife of Philip Rogers, has disappeared from Francisco. Her husband lias been searching for her for three weeks, and pow believes that lie has located her in Wisconsin. Mr. Rogers is certain that the Durrant case had something to do with the wreck of his home. Mrs. Rogers was very much interested in the cuse, and compelled her husband to sit down every morning and read to her the full report of the trial. Rogers finally went on strike, there was a disagreement and his wife left home. He says that if she wants to return she can do so, and can spend her whole time in reading the report of the Durrant trial if she desires.

The steamer Africa, of Owen Sound, With its consort, the barge Severn, of Toronto, left Owen Sound Monday loaded with coni for Sault Ste. Marie. When twenty miles southwest of Cove Island in Lake Huron the Africa let go of the Severn's tow line. Both boats were making bad weather and the Africa was rolling heavily. The crew of the Severn think the Africa went down with her crew of eleven. The Severn ran before the gaits with bare poles until Loyai Island was reached, and its canvas being all gone it was beached five miles northeast of Loyal Island. The Severn is a total loss. The crew were saved by some fishermen after being in the rigging for twenty hours. The Africa’s Lifeboat and preservers were found on Loyal Island. A novel ‘‘accident”i Insurance ease was decided in court at Detroit, Mich., Friday. E. L. La Bossiere held a $.‘1,000 policy of the Amerienn Employers’ Liability Insurance Company. In Mnrch, 1803, he was in Toledo. One of his teeth commenced aching in a vicious way, and March 21 he had it drawn by a Toledo dentist. In the operation La Bossiere’s jaw was broken, and be died March 31 iof blood-poisoning. The heirs brought

suit against the company for the amount Of his insurance policy, tbe contention being that his death was caused by the told the jury that toothpulling and the resultant evils are not accidents within the meaning and liability of insurance companies, and directed a verdict for the defendants. Deductions drawn from data collected panv of Chicago and embodied.in the annual report of that company* show that hog cholera is so widespread as to amount almost to an epidemic. The annual reports of this concern are considered by the trade as the best of authority; and the "Subject of this year’s report is of unusual interest. Commenting on the advices received the report says: “Farmers in lowa and Illinois feel panicky on the situation, and are selling their droves of pigs before the cholera reaches them in order to get something out of them. This is one of the principal causes for the liberal receipts of hogs at the principal markets. The continued - shipment of these pigs to market can but result in a shortage-of hogs for the late winter aud spring months. Every car load of pigs that goes to market now means a shortage of throe cars of hogs later, and with the unprecedented crop of corn in the farmers’ hands the prospects for them look anything but encouraging. The advices show that the greatest amount of cholera reports come from the two largest hog-produeing States. Illinois and lowa. This fact is significant.”