Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1896 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The Northwestern - millers' trust has been reorganised. It came to light that several St. Paul and Minneapolis banks hare been victimized to the extent of some SO,OOO by a clever forger. lie worked under the names of Esch and Charles E. Rhodes, and did the work chiefly by means of 1 a bank cashier's certification stamp. Montana produced in metals about $47,115,000 during the year 1805, taking the value of the silver nt tlie coinage rate and estimating the last two months of the year on a pro rata basis. The production of gold'was $4,100,000; of silver, 4,500,000 ounces; of copper, 212,000 pounds, and of lead, 24,500,< >OO pounds. The output of copper is estiinated as being 05 per cent, of the production of the Fniti-d States. The receipts of bullion at the Helena assay office during 1805 were 10 per cent, greater than last year and 47V. per cent, greater than during 1895. It was learned Thursday that a wellpaying gold mine lias been in full operation almost' within the city limits of Duluth. Minn., for the last few months thousands of dollars’ worth of metftl. The news Ims caused considerable excitement, and the surrounding hills will 1 be* gone over carefully liy prospectors. The men who- are interested in the mine now in operation are S. W. (’lark. M. I.cwK, John Do (Jraw, Dr. Landry and A 1 Miner.' The min/S* down seventy feet. It is located on tse county road, just outside the eif.v limits, and the owners are preserving the-utmost secrecy regarding it. A fire horror -claimed six in Columbus, Ohio, Thursday uiorniirg. At 4 o’clock the residence of John 11. Hibbard was discovered to be on tire, and before tiie Haines could be extinguished six members of the family were suffocated by tiie smoke and their bodies partly cremated. .Mr. Hibbard was secretary of the Central Ohio Natural Gas and Fuel Company and was yonneeted by marriage with the Dcshlers. Huntingtons and others of the wealthiest families of Columbus. l’our sons less than 15 years of age and the colored servant, aged IS, escaped by jumping from the second-story windows. Natural gas Was used in the house, but the tire - evidently originated front some defective construction in the woodwork. Through the treachery of an- officer 'n the San Francisco custom house two eur' loads of Chinese from the Atlanta exposition have slipped through the hands otrn score of United States inspectors and are now somewhere in Chinatown, out of the reach of Federal control or interferon v. The Chinese were landed in that city before daylight and were hurried in carriages into the Chinese quarter. How many there were in the party is not definitely known. Collector of the Port .KlinH.'Wise received what is considered to be reliable information that 104 were coming overland to the, city, but the agents of ths Chinese claim that only forty-three were spirited into the district. In Federal official circles the opinion prevails that over 100 Chinese escaped the officers. ~ » Chicago has the lowest death rate of any city of 200,000 or more population in the world. This is shown by the annual report of the city health department, completed Tuesday. The death rate, based upon the u are vised figures, is 15.11 in a population,of 1.000, as against 15.24 for last year, less than any previous record for the city. The whole report shows the health of the community to be in excellent and the sanitary condition 6f the city to be good. Tiie low deutli rate, however, is the best evidence of the healthful cqtjdition of tlie city. Next in point of interest to the'general public is that part of the report devoted to the crusade made by ho authorities against impure milk, bad ice and the treatment,of diphtheria. All of these, it is shown hi, figures that cannot be dtspufrilT are file sevcral cuuscs tEn*-’ with the general bealthfulness of the Chicago air. have" pulled down the dealt rate until the city stands first in the world in that respect. Chicago will lose 1.000 saloons. The brewers have declined to longer staild good for the fixtures in the small places

1b return for the exclusive handling of one brand of beer. It is also claimed that? the people do not harp the money to stopport t hie vast number of groggeries which have Sprung into existence. In some localities each corner .lias been, takes by a saloon, and the result that many have ' l»een .unable to make payments on the furniture. This has reduced the total issue of license* tor date to a few more than 4,500. There will he settop additions Yo tire lisjt, ho\y<n cr. The association has lifted the price, of beer from $4 a barrel to $5. Tjje ! change in price tv HI affect those ft* the outlying district's nfost. Brewers a re" more discouraged than they hayo bpcji for,many years. They did less business last year, in proportion to capital invested, than for a long time. Milwaukee -makes the sn ni c. xumuUuiib Xlie, tmt-mn-from the city was 87.T08 barrels less last year than for tin* year preceding. Chicago has also shipped less. Chicago is likely to lose about SS(X),OOQ iu revenue from the saloons during the year, although the brewers hope that the abandonment of some places by men of bad paying habits will tempt others to start iji the trade. Many of the breweries are now running at about half their capacity. Some would have closed entirely had not the price been put up a notch.