Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1896 — EASTERNS WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERNS

WESTERN.

Little Rock municipal authorities refuse to allow Col. Ingersoll to lecture in that city on Sunday. United Stales Senator Calvin S. Brice has been renominated by the Ohio Democratic legislative caucus. Judge Shiras, in the Federal Court at Omaha, has decided that the Flournoy coni pa ny's lea ses of l tid ian la nds are void. At Hennessey. O. T.. Mrs. Delose Nelson’s clothing took tire while she was washing, and before the flames could he -exttagiiisliefl-she-tt-as faially burttedr—Her husband in attempting to rescue her had his hands burned to a crisp. Great excitement prevails at Boulder. Colo., over the new gold fields situated between South Boulder creek find Magnolia. and there are rumors of riches beiug uneovered-by prwpeetors ill holes-not over five feet. deep. this? strike is alleged to'be worth SIOO,OOO, and an offer jofjthis amount is said to have been made and refusiai. Fight masked men. dynamited the safe Of the Eiiritters’ Bank.at .Ygyima, Mu., ami escaped with $9,000 in ’Cash, all it contained. The robbers are supposed to In 1 pyojessionals. They entered the city mu horseback, secured Night- Wttteh man - Hoover and bound him to a tree across the street. They’ then easily forced the front doors of the bank and in a. short, time literally ble vault atiiUssafe to nieces with dynamite. Tin bafH'r Francisco, will soon be ready for sea. The last of the armor plates for the turrits have been shipped from the Bethlehem works and, according to the contract, the vessel is to be completed within ninety, days after the receipt of the plates. Nearly, all that reniAins to be done is to complete one turret. The engines and other machinery have been tested and found to be perfect and the big battleship cam be maje ready for service in a few days. A terrible accident occurred on the Akron, Bedford and (.'leveland electric railroad. near Cleveland, Ohio. A'heaiy” motor car and a eoal car plunged through the trestto-owe Tisfeev’s creek, swrwKy--five feet into the ehagm beneath. Two

men were instantly killeil and-one seriously injured. \Vh«n about half way aergs/ the trestle the trainmen felt a swaying motion. moment th<> light steel structure collapsed, and the ears with their human l<»ad went with a crash to the cii.k bi’-iw. Tfie ears were eompletely wrecked. It is generally believed now tlqtt the cars jumped the track and that the jar caused the iron girders of the bridge to snap. There were no on the motor ear—only the crew of three men. The bridge that collapsed was a frail trestle structure and was built on an incline, one end being considerably higher than the other. The span across the creek was about one hundred and seventy-five feet long and the train was in the center when the structure opened up as though it were cardboard and allowed the train with its human freight to plunge to the ravine below. The statehood convention opened at Oklahoma City, O. T., Wednesday morning. more largely attended than any of its predecessors. An influential committee was appointed to open headquarters in Washington for the purpose of securing an enabling act during tbe present session of the Fifty-fourth Congress. The committee was instructed to use every possible effort tp that end, on the ground that unless action is taken at the. present session it tmjy be at least three years before the people of Oklahoma can enjoy the great boon of statehood. A* draft of the memorial to Congress, which was submitted to the convention, contains, among others, the following arguments:- “We •have a popnrlatinn 'of nesrriy thre» WtG" dred thousand people. We hare wealth sufficient to meet the necessary expenses of a State government We are an intelligent. industrious, progressive, patriotic people. We have better homes, a better ay stem of public schools and in many other respects are far in advance Of many of the States that write admitted into this Union more than a s'ore of years ago. We have reduced the fertile acres of Qk-

laboma from the state of nature to a high stat? of civilization. We have laid out and constructed, highways.We have builded cities and towns, school houses and churches. That we have accomplished all this in spite of the, wrong-doihgs and numberless privations which because of unfriendly legislation we have been forced to undergo proyes beyond question our capacity