Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1896 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

C. B. Pauly-, cashier of the Standard Oil Company, was held up on a street in broad daylight and robbed of $345. A young Michigan farmer secured a wife in a novel manner. He gave the girl’s father half a hog weighing 165 pounds for her. Dr. Dexter V. Dean, of St. Louis, is confined iu the insane asylum at his own request, his diagnosis that he was suffering from paresis proving upon examination to be correct. The St. Louis Court, of Appeals has affirmed the judgment of $2,500 awarded Sarah M. Bierce and James E. Pierce against A. B. Carpenter, at Clayton, Mo., recently, because the latter kissed Mrs. Bierce. ' Ex-Gov. Lewelling. of Wichita, authorized his friends to announce that he will' not be a candidate for Governor at the coming election. It has been supposed that ho would be a candidate before the -Pupulistcouvoation,— - - Joe Friedmann. 24 years old, fatally shot his former sweetheart, Julia Oelker, wounded his rival and killed himself at St. Paul Monday evening about 11 o'clock. The girl had recently thrown Friedmann over for a young man named Hoffman. The shooting was done in a fit of jealousy, Friedmann having followed the young couple as they left the theater and shot them down with hardly a warning. Hungarians and Poles of Whiting, Ind., engaged in a riot at Joseph Maovitik’s saloon Thursday afternoon, in which three men were shot and killed and two seriously wounded. Many more were injured in the melee, but not serious enough to require medical attendance. The trouble was the culmination of a race war of long standing between the rival races em-. ployed by the Standard Oil Company. An attempt was made to burglarize ifbgers & Sons’ bank in Bedford, a Cleveland suburb. Thursday morning. The" front doors of the bank were forced open by tools stolen from the Cleveland and Canton power-house. The safe was drilled and a charge of dynamite put in. The explosion blew off the front door of the safe. A second charge was put into the middle door. ThgJ>xpJ©sion failed to force it off, but wrecked the eiftire safe. The burglars escaped. The Santa Fe Company, pursuing its policy of retrenchment, discharged 300 men employed iu its Topeka, Kan., shops. T)f these 150 were employed in the repair shops, where a large force has been busy for some mouths getting rolling stock in order to move the big corn crop. The heads of the various departments in the Santa Fe shops at Kansas City""received notice of a cut of 10 per cent, in their wages. So far ase known no men are to be dismissed from the shops. Joseph It. Dunlop, publisher of the Chicago Dispatch, was convicted Tuesday of sending an obscene publication through the United States mails by a jury in Judge Grosscup’s court. This verdict, arrived at by a jury after four hours of deliberation covering every technical phase of the law and the evidence, elicited no demonstration in court. Motion was made for a new trial. Five counts comprised the indiclmept. Penalty is one month'to ten years’ imprisonment, and $25 to SI,OOO fine upon eacji count. Nine hundred people cheered Mayor Hazep S. Pingree of Detroit, Mieli., to the echo Thursday night in Central Music Hall, Chicago, when he declared boodling aldermen and grabbing corporations were' Worse than thieves in the night. Tbo subject of the lecture was “Municipal Re>form.” The greater part of the audience consisted of law students, for the lecture was given under the auspices of the Chicago Law Students’ and Alumni Association. The rest of! tlie audience included many who are workers for reform in city politics. William J. Custer, of Kansas City. Mo., a near relative of Gen. George A. 'Custer. who was killed in the Little Big Horn massacre, received a letter from his sister, Amanda Custer, of Slocum, Pa., whom he batOiot heard from for twentyone years. In 1874 Custer was a member of a Wilkesbarre, Pa., volunteer company raised to put down the Molly Maguires. After the Mollies were dispersed, he feared death at their hands and secretly left

the State. Since then he has been unable to find trace of his relative#. Custer was the victim of a highway robbery recently, and the publication of the affair led to his good fortune. " l-j ' -y.. Scott Jackson, accused of the murder of Pearl of Greenc-astle, Ind., has confessed his guilt and implicates Alonzo M. Walling. Walling has also confessed so a personal knowledge of the murser of the girl, whose headless corpse wasfouud near'“Fort Thonaas Friday night. Wall* ing tries to*lay {he Whole'blame on Jacksou. Jackson, on the contrary, while h,e admits his own guift, takes pains to implicate Walling. The sachel which the mirrdemt woman took to Cincinnatr on Jan. 23 was shown to JaekSon. He would not admit that the head had been in the satchel, but said it looked as if it had been there. Jackson made his confession by small statements. He is obstinate and made it because he saw clouds of evidence gathering around him. When he admits the girl was-murdered he does' it as if a third person hhd committed the crime. Chloroform and a revolver were the agents with which Richard Klattke, a carpenter of Chicago, slew his entire family of six; then, turning the'revolver upon himself, he committed suicide. When residents ip the vicinity burst into the home early Wednesday morning they found seven corpses, and a superficial examination showed that each of Klattke’s victims had been shot through the brain, and that he himself had died in a similar manner. No evidence of struggle existed, and an empty chloroform bottle would indicate use"of that anee t IfetiiTbef ore the shooting. Klattke was despondent. The members of his family were cold and hungry. Since Christmas he had been out of work and* -he' 'ended his troubles jaBT"aS~ relief was in sight. Wednesday morning his next-door neighbor, Adolph Schmidt, called at the cottage with the joyful news that he had found a job for Klattke. At the same time Mr. Brown arrived on a similar errand. They came too late, just how much no one knows, for the bodies were cold when discovered. Chicago is to be invaded by the soldier boys of Dixie lai.fd, nearly 5,000 strong, next August. Unless plans miscarry, each of thirteen Southern States will send a train load of its crack military organizations to take part in the opening of the Chicago-Southern States Exposition. The present plans for military features of the celebration will rival in grandeur all other attempts in this line, with the possible exception of the dedicatory ceremony of the World’s Fair. Military authorities of Illinois have 'been at work for some weeks making tjie preliminary arrangements.- Gov. Altgeld and Hen. Wheeler of the I. N. G. have approved the plan and (he Governors and military men of the Southern States are .enthusiastic over it. Mayor Swift has invited the Governors of thirteen Southern States to send five delegates each to a convention Feb. 19 to pass upon the plans already laid and to arrange further details: It is proposed to make the military features the most noted element of the celebration, and, from private advices already received there seems to be no question of its success. Several States have agreed to send their quota of troops.