Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1895 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Judge Sloan! one of the most prominent farmers and stockmen of Carthage. Mo., committed suicide by taking strychnine. Sloan had been suffering, from insomnia and feared lie would be 'sent to tlig asylum. The- two upper stories of the Hogan P-riniing Company's extensive establishment; St, Louis, Mo., burned. Loss, $40,000; fully insured. Private Watchman Neuman "fs missing and eight men wore' considerably in j ured. Gov'.. Alt geld issued a requisition for James Kimbrough,* wanted at Yandalia for robbery and under arrest at St. Louis. The Governor honored a requisition for •..liniTy—iLineoln. wanted «<■ d-owlft-nd for stealing a S3OO diamond stud from Samuel Hunkin and under arrest in Chicago. - ."■■ - Over IQO brokers - from Colorado Springs, Cripple Creek, and Victor went to Denver to attend-'t-ho opening of the mining department of the Denver Real -Estate. and - Stuck Exclinline-. The first call of mining stm-ks on the exchange was a noisy demonstration, and an un-qualified-success in every way. Thomas Tobin, who was a conductor |fcn the Grand Trunk excursion train which was wrecked with jfl’ea t loss of life *at Battle Creek; Miyli.. during the world's fair, died at the asylum in Toledo, Ohio. Tobin wits not in any way responsible for the. accident, but liis ■mind gave vay gradually under the intense' mental strain. William Byrd, 'soil of Rev. S. W. Byrd, pastor of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, was shot and fatally wounded by Charles Kelton at a social of ihe Christian Endeavor Society in the chur.-h at Deim r. Both men. are. negroes. The shooting was tin- result of a quarrel about a sandwich which Kelton ate but refused to-pay soy. Safeblowers plied Miltonville, Kan., systematically 'l'lmrsday night, blowing open the safes of the Santa IV and FnioiT Pacific Railways'-attd (lav- Alliance Exchange. They got: nothing from the'tw o latter, hut secured everything eontajned in that of tjje Santa Ee. Tiro extent of their haul, however, is not known. Tp'ore is no clew to the robbers.

Sidney Clarke, of Oklahoma. presided over a large and enthusiastic convention at Shawnee, in furtherance of the movement for promoting statehood for Oklahoma. The gathering will elect a delegation to -visit Washington in the interest of a bill to that end, the effort's of which will bt> reinforced by a delegation from the Chickasaw Nation. TlHjpSan Francisco Examiner says the collateral heirs of the estate of the late Senator Fair have sold their interest to the children for .Sh-Mt.ooo, ami agree to abandon all ut the rights guaranteed under the trust clause of the will. The compromise is said to have been effected to give the direct heirs an important ad-, vantage in a trial before a jury: The A. 11. Andrews Company, Chicago, manufacturer of line furniture and office fixtures, and one of the oldest and most extensive in its line in the West, confessed judgment Thursday in the Circuit Court in favor id' the Globe National Bank on two notes, aggregating $26,774. The total indebtedness of the corporation is said to be ahold sllOO.l K 111. of which '526,1)00 is owing to the Globe National Bank. $40,000 to (he Union Na-tional-Bank and the remainder is distributed among the stockholders of the ebm-y puny, who have loaned money to. the t Of * poraLlon, and Various merchants-in Wife lines of business with which the company was concerned. It is estimated that the company's assets will largely exceed the liabilities and that after all the tights arc liquidated t hr* stockholders will still have something left out of Lhc company's property. Scvei; ut the largest .wholesale establishments in Indianapolis, Ind., were destroyed by the lire Tuesday. The Joss is $600,000. Two firemen, Frank Sloan and Patrick Murphy, were taught by falling walls, and the last-named will probably die from his injuries. Tile firms burned

out are Sqhnull A fW, wholesale grocers; Ward Bros., wholesale druggists; Fairbanks, Morse & Co:, scales; Eokhdnse Bros., wholesale liquors; Woodford & Pohlmau, wholesale liquors; Hildebra n d H a rdw a re.. C’o mpan y, w holesale hardware; Indiana Coffee CompanyThe seven buildings destroyed were mostly four slories higln and- were filled with goods. Tlie estimated value of the buildings destroyed is $113,000. The estimated total value of stocks destroyed is *5372,000. The insurance companies will have to bear about $350,000 of the Toss. The losses are distributed among more than 100 companies. . > Adelia. Crant. of .Chicago, wants to~ kill herself. That is, Adejia will cm short her sojourn upon earth provided some one'will pay the funeral expenses.» •Up to the present time she has not sue-| Cf.e.ded in limiing ativ one desirous oO doing Tills” Just r wliii AileluHs~no one seems to know. She wants to be- known, however, and is willing to pay a big price in order to attract public attention. She has written a 1 1 ■Iter to Siegel, Cooper &.-C6. lelling them all about If. Adelia says she,will create a sensation by killing herself in the big store jf it should meet with the approval of the house. In return, all she desires is that the firm pay such expenses .as.might be itieurredhy the funeral. For this s,lie will krlF Jierself-in -any iii;innei" Siegel. Cooper -Co. may direct. .She will jump from thot<>i> floor-, shoot herself., or swallow poison, all for the price Of a few (lowers, slow music, a coffin,. one sermon, and , a hole—in the ground. Adelia fails to say why she desires to quit. Xo one knows whether she is homely or handsome, tall or short, fat or lean, new woman or old, or whether she ever wore bloomers or voted. Adelia must be crazy. F. 11. Cooper thinks so. lie believes the woman lias read, of the recent suicides in the store and has a desire to go and do - likewise. An effort will be .made by the police to locate Adelia so as to save her from herself. •