Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

At Columbus, Ohio, J. B. Foraker was Tuesday elected United States Senator to succeed Calvin S. Brice. Col. Holt, of Decatur, 111.,' has been holding a series of temperance meetings in Pierre, K D. They culminated Wednesday evening in many of the prominent women of the city-raiding the saloons and gambling houses A few nights ago n notice signed “White Caps” was posted on the door of William Hertel's factory, near Payne, 0., ordering him to discharge a colored man. He did not do so. and Thursday morning his factory was in ruins. Des Moines, la., on Thursday witnessed the retiring of Gov. Jackson and Lieut. Gov. Dungan to private life and the elevation of Gen. Francis M. Drake to the position of Governor and Matt Parrott to the position of Lieutenant Governor of the State of lowa. At Pierre. S. D., in-a law class which passed an examination, before the Supreme Court, Madison Jackson, a negro porter on- the Northwestern road, was admitted to practice before all State courts. Jackson is the first negro to be admitted to practice law in the State. __ _ General Manager William Craig, of the Duluth water works, has been indicted for manslaughter for the death of Harry W. Smith, who died of typhoid fever, caused, it is alleged, by imp'. rs water. Chief Engineer James -Stewart also indicted for perjury in connection with the same matter. The wife of Joseph Hildebrand, a farmer who lived near Marysville. Kan., poisoned her eight children while in a fit of despondency. The mother and seven of the children are dead and the other child Is not expected to live. Hildebrand, who was in a Kansas City hospital under treatment for cancer, has disappeared. As a result of the Duncan-Lemly commissioner contest all the votes cast at the last Omaha city election have been ordered recounted by the courts. Numerous reports of wholesale frauds in the election have been made public from time to time, and it is asserted by many that this contest will cause startling developments. Thf rivalry at" Cincinnati between Observer Baksh?r and Coin Teller Phil Turpin's poultry over which is the better weather prophet ended in a victory for the observer. Turpin's rooster, erowed on Friday, and on the strength of this his owner prophesied a storm for Saturday contrary to Bassler's prediction,. The rooster's life was wagered against Ba?sler's money on the result. There was no storm on Saturday and Bassler will eat roast rooster. Bassler has eaten Turpin's oracular pig and now gets his rooster. Turpin still has a turkey which has the gift of prophecy and proposes to stay in the fight as long as his stock holds out. It \vas because he was a fugitive front Danish justice, had swindled people in Denmark and led a crooked career that Jens Hausen, known as Peter Hougaard, turned on the gas at his home in Chicago Sunday night and smothered his wife, five children and himself. He had swindled creditors out of $40 ( 000 in his native country* and tied to America. He was .driven to desperation and decided to die7taking his entire family with him. •v letter which has fallen into the hands-of the i»oliee induces them to believe that husband and wife had reached an uhdfitstanding concerning their, final qpd, and had dismissed the method of their tailing off at least a week. " Aiderman Frank Lawler, of Chicago, died Friday at his home, of heart disease. Death came < while he was presumably preparing to go down town to the city hall. He fell lifeless to ths floor before his Wife,’- The deceased wks a unique character in politics, not only of a municipal bitt national order. He served a term in Congress after having officiated in several elective offices in the city. The celebrated fight he made to obtain the office of postmaster, that was secured by Washington Hesing. with his,**iuiles long petition,” made him famous. His recentvictory in his ward over a number of aspirants for the place of aiderman was considered by him to be his greatest political victory. ' -r • 1 The appan*r"hf the new woman is involved in a question presented, to the Chicago city law department. The point

decided was that the police department acted within its authority in threatening - to close Jone of the big down town restaurants and lunch counters in which it is proposed to install a force of female-wait-ers dressed In knickerbockers and tightfitting jackets. It is, expected that the opinion-4111 be contested in court, and that an attempt will be made to establish for all time the rights of the varied and /abbreviated bloomer costumes affected by she modern woman. The backers of the bloomer restaurant enterprise, It is said, threaten to turn the, same authority .against enthusiastic female bicyclists, <f their plans are interfered with by the police. -