Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1895 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Ex-Congressman Jehu Baker is reported to be dying at his home in Belleville. 111. Comedian W. IL Crane and his wife celebrated their silver wedding at“lndianapolis. At Omaha, Neb., the case of the Central Loan and Trust Company of New York -City against the St. Joseph and Grand Island Railroad for a decree of foreclosure for $7,000,000 mortgage bonds was decided by Judge Sanborn and the decree granted. The Speed Home for Friendless Children, Cleveland, Ohio, was destroyed by an incendiary fire. The inmates all escaped. Since Saturday eight attempts have been made to burn the building. The police have been at work on the case night and day, but failed to find the slightest clew to the incendiary. At San Francisco Judge Troutt has annulled the marriage of C. W. Saunders and Mrs. Sadie Saunders, of East Boston, Mass., on the ground that Saunders was a minor when the ceremony was performed. Saunders, who is a son of Oliver H. Saunders, of Boston, testified that he married the woman against bis will, and has not seen her since. The four great mills of the C. Nelson and Cloquet Lumber Companies have finished their Season’s run at Cloquet, Minn. The present season has been one of the best in the history of Cloquet mills, and they have sawed. 95,000,000 feet. AH firms at Cloquet are carrying larger stocks of lumber than ever before, amounting to 120,000,000 feet. Plans have been completed and $20,000 raised for the ice palace to be built in Leadville, Colo. The main building will occupy ground 300 feet square, exclusiye„.of dancing halls, toboggan slides and other auxiliaries, and will be 100 fe 4 high. The toboggan slide will be two miles long. C. E. Jay, of St. Paul, has been engaged to -supervise the work The remains of nine mere victims of the explosion With IUM*U ffillii Ind I'UiHH at Detroit Thursday, swelling the list of dead to twenty-six. There were yet twenty missing, making the probable number of dead forty or forty-five. Besides these nineteen persobs were more or less seriously injured, two of them fatally. The cause of the disaster has been- definitely ascertained as a, boiler explosion, but what caused the explosion is still a mystery.

Sanlt Ste. Marie, Mich., dispatch: The long overdue steamship Missoula foundered fifteen miles northeast of Caribou Island" Shortly after 9 o’clock Saturday night. The crew of sixteen men and one passenger are safe. The steamer Missoula left Fort William, Out.,, Oct. 31 with a load of wheat for Buffalo. From the hour it left no tidings were received. The Missoula was a representative wooden lake steamer and when it came out was one of the finest on fresh water. It was valued at $95,000. Vesselmen wonder much at its loss, as it was deemed fit to ride out any ordinary lake storm. The cause of the disaster was a broken shaft. The hundred or more employes of the Detroit. Mich., Journal were busy early Wednesday morning preparing for an extra edition, when suddenly' tt part of the building was wrecked by the explosion of boilers in the basement. Seventeen bodies were recovered from the ruins by night, some thirty tenants and employes in the building were yet missing, mid there can be no doubt that most of these are lying dead under the debris. The work of rescue was rushed to the utmost all day and night, but progress was very slow. The debris and brick were dumped into an almost solid mass, upon which quantities of water were poured and into which comparatively little headway could be made. Twenty-two were rescued in a helpless condition. Of these several will die. John Muller', an aged German from the West, on his way to Germany to spend the remainder of his days, was held up on a through Chicago and Erie passenger train at Archer avenue, Chicago, Wednesday night by four unknown but desperate thieves, who dragged him from the ear to the platform, Where they searched his olothes and then left him. So quick were they that the thieves got ■way from the train before file passengers really knew what had occurred. They secured nothing from Muller. Muir ler was a passenger on the Erie train that leaves the Monon depot at Polk street at

8 o’clock. Before getting on the train, and, in fact, early in the day, he had been Avarued of the .dagger of carrying any' sum of money in big clothes, and taktogthntadyice he had his money converted into' bills of exchange and carried only a few cents dh his person. Chicago went calling Friday nightcalling on Atlanta, Ga. It Avas Sunday morning before visitors and guests got a chance to shake each other's hands and say “howdy.'G. lt took five trains of ten cars each to carry the excursionists to the land of the magnolia and the mockingbird. They had on board as representative a body of men as ever journeyed together in this country. Mayor Swift and the majority of his cabinet represented.. the city; Gov. Altgeld and his staff the State; 200 business men —who go under the~ auspices nf the Southern States Association—the bone and sinew of Chieago s commercial greatness, and, as an escort and guard of honor, the entire First Regiment, I. N, G., jinder command of Col. Turner. They reached NasfiyiU? at 8 o'clock SaturdnyTnomtng.- The+e the-tlwy-was passed in sightseeing nndmilitary maneuvers, and nt night a big concert Avas given by the First Regiment Band. From Nashville a straight run was made to Atlanta.