Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The Lawrence Reduction Works, Victor, Colo., owned by a company of which ,1. IL lie, Lamar is president, have been burned. Loss. SI 25.000. The works had been very successful, in the treatment of low'gfade Cripple Creel; ores and will be rebuilt. The east-bound Burlington passenger collided -with a west-bound . freight at Seward. Neb. Engineer Heed of the freight was instantly killed. The pas senger engineer was #riously injured. Two,passengers, a little girl ahd ah old man, wire dangerously hurt, the child being frigbt fnlfy burned by'being t hrown under a stove, Other passengers were injured. •* J Three, persons were shot and a whole train-load of*passengers were thrown into a panic by the attempt of Special Detective David Mctjiiaid of tlie Motion Road to arrest John Weinliardt. an alleged lunatic, who. according to McQuaid, started in to Hear ons the Monon express Which left tlie Polk street depot at Chicago Tuesday night. None of- the injured wiii die. The most destructive fire that McLeansboro. Ilk. has ever known broke out Thursday morning about 3 O’clock. The three large general store buildings of Asher & lasi better, .1. E. Robinson and T. G. Herridge & Co., with their eontents, and the residence of .1. Balierger, were burned. The loss will exceed SBO,(100. The largejiriek building occupied by F. W. Robinson, druggist. andF. .1. Chapman, groceries ami notions. was damaged, to jhe extent of $3,000, The insurance is about $33,01X). The heavy rain lias caused great alarm along llu Osage and Moreau Itivcr ( alleys. in Missouri. The already swollen streams are rising, and it is feared that the lrgli water ,>f last week will be greatly augmented. Bottom .farms are swept of fencing, haystacks, corn in shock and many outbuildings. A great amount of stock has bein drowned, and if the rain continues a few hours the river valleys will lie a si vile of wild devastation. -Several lives are reported to he lost along the Osage Valley. Word-from Tuscunihia says that more than loo.tmo bushels of corn within a small radius of bottom Ibiml was nashed away am) thousands o'? railroad ties ,iel bi-hlge timis-rs hate Moated away, I'to- 4twsgc »* m*w higher tban tt was it| IW.’, «bfn'st broke ike record. l». . Tb* \t l* i- * - ,ng.i »;.»iistt high i -.t nr >jraiCjiy iWnss'a tw W U* *ll< ’ . K* ’■ ' V / Tbs »<rSidSst»y. At tOßfcfeei jk. mk* *> Mi: ite-1 fr, ft. T i hsmi tfc •» i. fMr-Hte * y esi om) WBa th'Sl O" * - ( O't M« p. (i T ss- wd. ffl .' sksTwig -.MfijiigM | y«s}|>» s lay SW BsSS «4 i• tSMStMMfc-r M*m . i*in t lifts |hSbi BSs- -toS tils safety sf fi«r ‘ 7'.tBJUBHI-.MBSiW-'■ era, »ho B ?the w .-» t> Mss* hsr iti -. «■ *t ■ ■. § t* - . is * l 1 . • »■*» g • ■*. s gate, iv i sa*e %* * sees si swd 11l hil ,» -wl >lo t* - » . the tl-.rtn .4 he hiS'l** e-t Bsel hssf 'fce Wtrsth net is is tow |«r 4ai • ««*si had * ths <* »d the *slg« f pot thw of t- - fast The htg of the htrstlMM *i* t» Sis a »fv-c* that t* dotu dupi:. tlol to the stint sj*, sunt ttw history. !.•«> ms Vhiutta tht I-’., with It si pa«%< tigers and 4*l elheers ttsl crew, with moderate weath'-r. * speed of ten knots was made tittliDM. 'Jt, wt 7 W in the morning, in latitude I’d. 14 north mid longitude 1tH.27 west, when the ship ex|tt rienetsl a terrific shock, the crash sounding like att of a caution. Tlie shaft hud sunp|H-d short off t lost to, tlie prupeller. whit h dropped char of the vessel and went to the bottom. A strong northern gale was coining on and nil sail was crowded on two small masts without yards, schooner rigged. The accident occurred about 180 miles south of Unnlaska. Slowly the gale carried tlie vessel to the touthcast. and it wa-s two days later before she con Id make any progress toward the east. From that time on under a zigzag course, she sailed slowly toward Capo Flattery.