Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1896 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Frank J. Cannon and Arthur Brown -have -been elected to the Utiitrd States" Senate by the Utah Legislature. Bertram E. Atwater, the Chicago artist and designer, was shot and killed byhigh WHyntenTrUa'St. Louis suburb. The Westliclie. Post, of St. Louis, the leading German Republican paper of the central west, carnq, out strong Wednesday morning in favor of McKinley for presidential nomination. Lord Sholto Douglas, son of the Marquis of Queensberry. found fault with the orchestra leader of Lady Douglas’ troupe at Orville, Cal., and as a result was thrashed by the musician. Charles M. Henderson,"senior, member of the large shoe firm of C. M. Henderson & Co,, one of the best known business men of Chicago, died Thursday morning at the age of U 2 years, of brain trouble. Children and grandchildren of James Rogers, of Pomona, Cal., have been amazed by the information that "he married on Sunday last Miss Ida Nelson at the home of the bride’s parents near Prescott, A. T. The groom-is 77 years old and the bride will be 15 next May. The mammoth gas pumping station of the Ohio and Indiana Pipe Line Company, located one mile south of ltedkoy, !nd„ exploded and caught fire Tuesday evening at 7 o’clock. The shock of the explosion caused buildings to shake uud sway as by an earthquake. Two men were killed and four injured. An explosion of chemicals in the laboratory of the Swanson Rhe'flniatic Cure Company, lit room 21!) of the old Stock Exchange Building at Chicago, caused a fire that wrecked all the offices on the second floor, frightened into pauic or hysterics the occupants of the building and resulted iu the severe injury of two persons. „ •*" The secretary of the Oakland, Cal., branch of the American Railway Union has received a letter from the private secretary of E. V. Debs in which the statement telegraphed from the East that Debs is to resign the presidency of the union is denied. He says Ih'bs will win the fight In which he ia now engaged o»i behalf of organized labor of die in the attempt. Mine. Modjeska, who was taken ill at Cincinnati Mtihfftry, is suffering from the same disease of which Lawrence Barrett died. The glands of the throat are badly swollen and the trouble extends down into the lungs and,’by sympathy, the physicians say, to the shoulders amt arms. What the nature of the disease is no one pretends to define precisely, but it is certain there is reason for alarm. The engine of the New York and St. Louis .express on the Little Miami Railroad exploded Wednesday morning forty miles from Columbus, Ohio, killing Clark A. Trimble, engineer, and George Waters, fireman, both of Columbus. No other persons were killed or injured. The t’-aqk was all torn up, requiring transfer of passengers temporarily at that poiut. All of the ears were wrecked except the sleepers. That not a pupil was injured in a blaze which started.. Thursday morning on the first floor of the Dodge Street school at Omaha, Neb.', 'Was due to Ossie Downs, a IG-yenr-old boy. Ossie is the head drummer in the tire drill. He handles the drum, to keep the children in marching order. As soon as the alarm was given he harried I down to the principal’s offll-e, got his drum 1 and, stationing himself near the doot\ ! pounded out the times while the children i marched out of the building. , , As the result of a tire iu the building at No. 415 Broadway, St. Louis, Mo., j Tuesday night live firemen were buried in : the rains. Owuey Hines, foreman of truck ! No. 0, who was taken from the burning : building soon after the fire started, badly suffocated and cut, died while being taken ! to Mercy Hospital iu an.ambulance. The dead are: MUton Curly, Capt. Glanville, Owner Hines, James Rlioddy, - Staunton. The total loss caused by fire and water is estimated at $200,060, fairly insured. Webster Grove, the St. Louis suburb, was wildly excited Over the tragedy, when Bertram A. Atwaleiy the young Chicago artist who had gone to vijit his betrothed, was waylaid by highwaymen. One of robbers,*John Schmidt, wounded

to death by the plucky Chicagoan, will Idle. The other thug, Sam Foster, a colored ex-convict, whofired the fatal shots, apd Peter Schmidt, who arranged the tt*np Into which Mr. Atwater was unsuspectingly lured and then slain, are In custody. At their examination they tried to escape, and only ‘determined action by ’ the officers prevented a mob from lynching them. ♦T did the deed. 1 killed George Wells and don’t want anyone else to suffer for the crime but myself,” said Henry C. Foster, as he stood upon the scaffold at the Cook County jail at Chica'go Friday noon. Three: minutes later the murder for which the young colored man had been tried ..wa* aventjeo. The "Black Bear” died with the exemplification of the nerve that he has so often declared he would . display u|>on the gallows.—Not-once didlic betray weakness durjnjg the ordeal which preceded the adjusting of the noose and the paraphernalia oK death. There was an absence of the bravado manner that the young inan'k varied life migbf have instilled'in him.