Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1896 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Charles H. Race, of Chicago, ex-c-uhier of the Burlington i Kan.l National Bank, IsoiTtrial At Fort .Scott, Kail., .charged with embezzling $73,000 of the bank's funds. The safe in the Bank of Richards, Vernon County, Md, v yWned by the Conkling Bros., of Nevada, was blown open Tuesday morning and robbed of S9OO. The robbers made their escape. Deputy United Sta te s Marshal H ilLamLse vera Loflicers are in pursuit. - V A dispatch from Oakland, Cals says Perri ue’s comet is ml vanring t oward the barth at the rate of 1,*>00,000 miles a day and is now only 3t5.800.000 miles away. In other words, it the comet does not change its course it will strike us softie time during Saturday. March 14. A steam kettle used in the manufacture of candy exploded at the bandy factory of G. W. Chase & Son at St. Joseph, Mo., and as a result one man was fatally and two other men seriously injured. The cause of the explosion is a mystery, as the steam gauge registered but ten at the time of the accident. The assets of the old firm of Crippen, Lawrence & Co., Denver, with a face value of $1,500.00(1,. Jia Y.e,.bfignjsshl by, the assignee. S. JI. Stofldart, to the New Hampshire Real Estate Company, com-, posed of the creditors residing in New England. J. .L Vrippen. a member of the former company, will represent them. A occurretOif Bed- ; ford, a suburb of Cleveland, Tuesday morning, While Alfred Whittaker, until recently .chairman of the Democratic County Central Committee, and a veryprominent business man of Cleveland,, and his two step-sons, Dana and Don Cannon, were driving in the village, a Cleveland, Canton and Southern fast mail train struck their cutter, "hurling Mr. Whittaker a distance of fifty feet and killing him instantly and inflicting probably fatal injuries on DaCannon and serious injuries on the driver, John Rich. Mr. Whittaker was the proprietor and jnanager of the Brooks Oil Compan y *> f Cleveland. - . All within sixteen hours Alfred Fields committed one of the most brutal murders iu Chicago police history, was arrested and confessed to the commission of a crime at which the most degraded of human beings must shudder. Mrs. Eilen Randolph was found slaughtered in her bed in the fiat at 2438 Dearbetn street Thursday, just before noon.

fourteen distinct wounds about her headand body, made by the blunt end of a hatchet, and the bed and other bloody evidences of the crime to have been set on tire by the murderer. Fields confesses he murdered the woman to secure $75 which she had, but says he wai hired by Ed Mclntosh, who is under arrest'. James Fitzgerald was hanged at St. Louis for the murder of his sweetheart, Annie Naessens. on the night of Nov. 24, 1893. The trap was sprung ahd the culprit, shot down six feet, but ncX to deaths The rope broke and the victim lay struggling on the ground beneath tl’e gallows. The black cap was instantly Amoved by the doctors, who found Fitzgerald' still conscious. Stimulants were given, and he revived and was t:\ken into the morgue a few feet away, where he was further eared for by the doctors. A new rope was sent for afionce. and ithe sick and trembling but nervy victim was again taken to the scaffold. The trap was again sprung, and this time the condemned man went to death. John AV. Smith, a young farmer of Princeton. Mo., is under arrest at St. Joseph on charges of counterfeiting. Mrs. Lama Liuoti. a swetheart of Smith's, informed the officers. She claims Smith offered her counterfeit dollars to pass on merchants, aud she was arrested and placed in jail. She wrote letters To John and Abe Brumm?!!. of Princeton, threatening to exjx>se them as members of the same gang of counterfeiters if they did not secure bond fog, her release. They eaaily secured the bond. Meantime the Federal officers got possession of the letters and other evidence against the Brummells. They have not yet been arrested. A Urge amount of counterfeit coin was found at Smith’s house. It was decided at Chicago to hold the Southern States and Chichgo Exposition in Chicago, beginning Aug. 1 next. Mayor Swift has named a com mtttee of forty to manage the Chicago

end. The Southern States wjll advertise the scheme throughout the South, will collect the exhibits, bring them to Chi-, cago and install- them, all at their own expense! When the fair is over they will remove their exhibits within fifteen days after the closing. Chicago will provide a home soy the exposition with not less than 100,000 square feet of flopr space, and as much additional room within doors nnd without as may tn? deemed advisable; .will conduct the whole financial end of the enterprise, pay all the cost of maintaining the exposition, including police and fire protectiwi, but will not be responsible for losses by theft or fire! That, in brief,-is the position; The Chicago Garment Cutters’ and Trimmers' Union decided early Thursday morning to strike, and by their action 20,000 persons will be thrown out of empioymeut. Some of the clothing manufacturers are exempt from the decision of the tin ion', "'because they have acceded to the terms of the cutters; But of'the !MM) members of the union about 750 decided to quit work. -This decision-will, of course, affect the tailors,' bidders and sweatshop workers who do not belong to any union. -The manufacturers declare they can hold out against the cutters because the spring trade-fa*over. But the cutters assert that the clothing - houses are full of heavy-weight goods for the fall and winter trade, which must be got out pf the way in a few weeks. Conseqiiently a bitter tight is expected, and the runion is prepared foruLloug siege because it has got the savings of two years to keep up the struggle. The union demands a minimum rate of S2O a week for cutting . the. maximum amnunLnL four.teen„suite.a., day. The manufacturers' association declared that this is a 'discrimination against tile good worknlen, who'are worth s£2 a week, while the poor e.ntters are assessed in value at from sll to sl6 a week.