Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1895 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Cincinnati press feeders have struck for an advance (ft $1.75 a week in wages. A Cincinnati man claims to have invented a bicycle that goes a mile a minute. A Cincinnati church janitor who was

caught roNbing/TlisJngcntribuiion plate commit ted suieide. < The NI ichigan j 'en tra 1 Ra i 1 road is pl a m ning to build a $44)00.0(10 bridge across Tite De tro it R iver at Het roit. ■ Evaporated .potatoes is the latest Minneapolis in’djiktry, and it bids fair to solve the problem kif overproduction. Hans 11. wine dealer at San Frrii[cisco, has failedT" «TlieTiabi $3.9,827. His assets consist of one suit of clothes. -.An assigii > has been appointed f-w the Norwood Park Company at Cincinnati. The assets are at $200,000 and the liabilities $9,4701 The body ofySlexander Kreil, whose pianp factory was burned at Cincinnati with <a ioshrWlßff^f~~sltTtTjHXU r was found in-f!re cejhrr'o^g ir- ruins. President Maver. of the Baltimore and Ohio. ha's resigned and bis- resignation has been-aeeepted, but-lie wilLretain tire office Until his successor shall Tie elei-teiß - Judge Cartwright. Republican, has been Elected to the vacancy on the Illinois Supreme bench from the Si,xth Judicial District to succeed The late Judge Bailey.

Sylvester Johnson has been awarded a verdict for SSJ)OO damages against the eity-o f As hla nib’YV of-ain. ear. sustained while driving on a defec-« tyve highway. The German National 'Bank at -Lincoln. Nep:, has failed. The liabilities, ineluding stock, are $180,090; nominal assets,,. deposits. $49,000. The failure started a run on the Lincoln Savings Bank, which lias availed itself of the sixty days' notification law against withdrawals. Following is a list of those most serious, ly injured in a railway wreck at Milton, (Ihio, Monday night: Joel Borscht r, Lima, Ohio; Miss Rosa Barough, Custer, Ohio; Mrs. B. -G. Doty, Unstek Ohio; Miss M;u:J.''...Lan.ce,.Cjisler.. 44n+mor,-Cttstei*;-(->hiiTtMrtHltew-da -usi-my-Custer, Ohio; John Bruch, Custer.' Ohio-; Charles Blausius. Custer. Ojiio; Charles Seafnan, Custer, Ohio: John 'Bolton, Custer, Ohio; Engineer Clark Hoyt, Lima; Fireman Osman. Lima. No one was Killed. T\yenty-fivY persons injured less svridfusly than those named above Were tible to. go'to' their homes. Fireman Jas. Osman is very seriously in-jttred-aml it-js-fea’red that Engineer Hoyt’s injuries will prove fatal. About forty yeai’s ago a. wagon-train loshlod with valuable goods'and atout SS(J,O9O in gold and silver, en roiH’o from the City of Mexieo-40 the I'nited States, was attacked near Rincon, .'t'.e.xico, py a band of brigands ami all the members of" Idle wagon train wore killed and the booty The robbers were overtaken a few days later by a detachment of soldiers and all were killed. The money Tl-tid stores had been secreted hy the outlaws and could not be found. Wednesday Rafael X’illegas was prospecting for mineral ten miles south of Rincon, when he game iipunibe-emranco to ..a. cave. He explored the cave, ami found severaT sacks filled with the money taken by the exterminated band; of robbers.

Never in the , history of Chicago has such a storm descended upon the, city as that which raged from Tuesday to Friday night. From Winnetka to East Chicago, and from the lake to the Desplaines River, the land was a vast swamp, interspersed here and there with miniature lakes, stime of them a dozen feet or more deep. Steadily failing rain, amounting to over seven iiiches, on the level, flooded the city all d sufrou 11ding conlllry,' until she sewers became imapabfe of carrying (iff Hie water. Hardly an electric car line was' running, the tracks being .under from one to five feet of water everywhere; people in the suburbs Were driven front the first floors of their dwellings io the upper Tories; the furnace fires of hotels, residences and big manufactories were extinguished by the waters which penetrated fp the cellars;, and the tracks of the strain railroads were in such a condition instructions were given to each engineer to make his way_ carefully through the IoW-lying country ivherc the water is high over the rails. In the downtown district bt the • city jcellars*' were flooded, and at many establishments~ViTluable goods were in such flanger of dnmagemen were kept working niglit-s removing them out of reach of the water.