Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Forty buildings, chiefly business houses, were burned at Madison, Minn. The loss is$150,000; about $45,000. Two brick buildings saved the rest of the town. » The properties of the Raven Tunnel and Mining Company, on Raven Hill, at Cripple Creek, Col,, one of which is the Raven mine, which has produced over $200,000, have been sold to/C,. G. Hathaway, Ebon Smith, and D. 11. Moffatt. The price is understood to be more thttn $40,000. The First National Bank of Wellington, Kan., closed its doors Tuesday morniug by-order of the directors. The bank has been doing business since 1883 with a capital stock of $50,000. A gradual shrinkage of business is responsible for the suspension. The deposits amount to about $31,00(1.* At Alexandria. Ind., a receiver was appointed for the Artificial Ice Company. A* Gothenburg. Neb., the State Bank closed; asset*!, ;$25,000; deposits, SB,OOO. At Cincinnntj George C. Miller & Sons, carriage makers. have arranged with their creditors. At AVinonn, Mina., lthenberger Bros., dealers! in dry goods, assigned. Assets, $27,00Cr, liabilities, $35,000. The city Jl St. Paul must pay §2.700 damages so» the death,of the two little Anna Krueger afid Alice M. Puffe, whdi w»re killed in a sand pit on the West Side last spring. Such wns the verdict of the jury returned. The sand and rocks caved in and completely covered and suffocated the two girls, who were playing in the excavations of the hillside. Two more Wiombert. of Seth Wyatt's Oklahoma band of desperadoes have un-\ swered for their deeds ot lawlessness. They arc Jim Umbra uud “Mexican John," two Mexicans who have been engaged in cattle\ stealing and other lawless enterprises. \ They were lynched by enraged cattleman, who hare suffered greatly at their hands. Tne two men had rtoleu fifty head belonging to B. F. Chapman, and his cowboys gave chape. They closed in oa the desperadoes fifteen miles from Cantonment and after a fusillade of

bullets the bandits surrender'd. Tie cowboys identified the cattle, and taking a rope pulled the two men up to the first tree.- A label wns aitached to their clothing warning other members of the band to quit this work or suffer the same pen - alty. - A bitter- disappointment-was-expert-enced by the 4,605 judges and clerks of election who registered voters all over Chicago and Cook County Tuesday. The last Legislature passed a bill purporting , to increase the pay of these officials fronu s3'to $5 a day. The bill was introduced by Representative McCarthy, and when thlf. news of its passage reached Chicago there was much rejoicing among the simall-fry politicians who act as judges and clerks. They rose up and called McCarthy blessed. But the law is invalid. The pay remains the same, $3, nnd Cook County thereby saves nearly SIO,OOO on one day’s work alone. The bill as amended the law of 1872 instead of th§r later law, enacted in 1885, and hence,Me measure is hot Avorth the paper"!®”which' it is enrolled to the judges an<j clerks whom it sought to benefit, or to anybody else. ' - * ,