Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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The satchel containing $120,000 securities of the defunct Fort Scott Bank, lost Jiy__Bnnk Examiner Broidcnthal, of Kansas, was found in a railroad car at DenWCr. " =" AtoUpper Stone Lick-Creek, near Milford, Ohio, a surveyor found a prehistoric cemetery containing thousands of graves. Spearheads and many unusual trinkets were in them. -,-P,ecailiar_m.e.LfiorQlogical-co-nilltions„,.pi 5 e'-“ vailed in the Northwest Friday. In Aorta Dakota the first snow of the season fell, and in South Dakota, and Minnesota higli winds and sand and dust blizzards prevailed. Dan E. Young, an old citizen and prominent politician of Folsom, N. M., was murdered in Oak Canon. He hod been shot from behind and was badly bruised on the head. It is thought the whitecaps, some of whom he had exposed, are connected with the murder. 'Lem Gammon, postmaster and general storekeeper, at Raniah, Colo., was bound and gagged by four masked men, who robbed the store and postoliiee of S2OO in cash, a quantity of stamps and other valuables. The sheriff and posse are trying to track the robbers with blodhounds. Meredith Mahan and Francis M. Chilton, of Shannon County, Mo., were found in their room at the Ridgeway Hotel, St. Louis, the former dead and the latter unconscious and dying from suffocation by gas. The men were well-known stock raisers. It is supposed to be a ease' of blowing out the gas. Developments in the cased f Defaulting Cashier J. It, Colean, of the Fort Scott, Ivan., State Bank, shows his shortage to be $50,000 instead of $23,000, as at first -supposed,—Vice- President Stewart savs ; that Colean literally gutted the reserve fund, realizing on $20,000 of the best Sucurities held by St. Louis, Now Y'ork and Kansas City banks. At Denver Rev. Frauk Hyatt Smith, of Cambridge, Mass., appeared before’ United States Commissioner Capron and gave bonds for his appearance at Boston to answer the charge of sending defamatory letters through the mails to members of his congregation Mr. Smith says "the charge is unfounded. He will return to Boston to face his accusers. Bud ford Overton was to have been hanged Friday for the double murder of Gus l.oed, an old peddler, and his wife. As it was to be the first legal hanging that ever took place in Harlan County the event was looked forward to witli great eagerness by thousands who expected to See the execution. Orders came in fast for reports of the execution, but the event was indefinitely postponed by the escape of Overton. At Ceylon, Ind., the pay ear on the Grand Rapids and Indiuha Railroad was wrecked Friday and three men killed and several badly injured. A gang of bridge workers had pushed their ear on a sw’itch to let the pay car pass; but neglected to close the switch and the train, running fifty miles an hour, dashed into them. The pay car and engine were wrecked. Physicians from Decatur and a wreck traih went to the scene. Two of the dead Fire broke out in the main hoisting slope of the Oregon Improvement Company's mine, at Franklin, Wadi., causing the deatii of John 11. Glover, S'. W. Smalley, John Adams tpid James Stafford. The accident was caused by August Johnson. who dropped his lamp, setting fire to a gas feeder. Instead of throwing a shovelful of dirt to put it out, he ran dawn the slope to get the pit foreman. While he was bringing help the timbers caught fire. Finding that thqfinmes could not be extinguished, the four men named voluntered to go down and close a door between 'the main and auxiliary slopes. It is supposed they never reached t)je bottom alive, but the bodies have not been recovered. Terror pefVnded the ranks of West Side thugs and robbers at Chicago Friday night. All day long Inspector Shea's men had been gathering them in, and when the shades of night had fallen those who escaped the net sought their hiding places and remained there. As one West Side citizen remarked after gazing down Hnlstecl and Madison streets: “A fellow could tire a cannon ball down the sidewalk and not hit a person.’! It was the-quietest night for-years up to 12 o'clock. Thestreets seemed to be almost deserted. From early morning until lute in the evening the Desplatnes street wagon TOTBtOTcI throughout the district, bringing in its load of victims. It was a grand "cleaning up” and one of the most thorough ever ■made in the city. The books of the station showed the names of forty suspects and thirty more whose names were not booked were below. Potatoes are cheaper now than they have been within tlie-memory of the oldest dealers in Chicago’s .South - Water, street. Car lots on track tJ the choicest varieties are selling at 23 to 24 cents a ... . . • - i 'll

• —■ i - . ~• y bushel, and any amount of fair stock is going at 17 to 20 cents a bushel. Even at these low prices there is little demand, and the railway track;} within the Chicago ' —yards- - are- glutted. The Chieagonnd Northwestern has notified its agents at country stations not to receive any more pofatoelTtill “further notice. Minnesota and Wisconsin have more potatoes than they need. In Minnesota many farmers are leaving then) to rot in the ground, nsthey are not worth digging*. On Minnesota farms as choice and fair-skinned potatoes r.s a farmer woulcj care to see are selling at 3to 10 cents a bushel. In Wisconsin thousands of bushels are buried in improvised cellars m thp Fields atoaiting shipment. lowa has a big crop, but the quality is poor. Michigan also lias;a - lccrge .yieM :iff-gOod-:qiialit,v. Chief of Police Badenoch, of Chicago, lias instructed Inspector Schaack to clean out the gang of thugs and burglars that have kept the residents of the North Side and Lake View in continual terror for several months past, “Clean them out if it is necessary to dq gq_at the point of revolvers,” said the Chief, thoroughly-an-gry at the numerous robberies report od from this territory and the apparent inability of the police to cope with the criminals that have practically taken possos- - sion of it: Inspector Sclia aok ret urne d to his bailiwick and immediately laid plans to run fire gang out of the city. He visited Capt. Schuettler, of the Lake View police, and informed him that arrests, not excuses, must, be made to prevent the wholesale raids by the thieves. The fatal shooting of Charles M. Collins, of 112 Xigel street, by a burglar Wednesday night stirred the Chief to determined action. Collins was attacked in his own house by burglars who were searching for valuables, and fell to the floor wounded in three places. The crime was a bold one, planned and executed by desperate thieves, who came armed and ready to commit murder in order to carry out Their attack. But bold as was the raid, it is only one of many within the last few months that have kept the people living north of the river wondering what the robbers will do next. The desperate liold-up of the Evanston trolley-car two weeks ago, was one of the exploits of the band of robbers.