Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1896 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Two men have been' arrested at San Francisco for alleged complicity Hi the robbery of the State Bank of Savannah, Mo. Gov. Altgeld has restored the rights of citizenship to George Tucker, of Decatur; James It Wyatt, of Cuba, and Shady Wilmoth, of Lincoln. Associate Justice A. W. Newman, of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, has been stricken with aphasia, or paralysis of the vocal organs, and his cqudition is precarious. J. F. Seiberling & Co., proprietors of the Empire Mower and Iteaper Works of Akron. Ohio, have made an assignment. The liabilities will amount to $250,000, while the assets are estimated at something over $300,000. William Allen, of Leavenworth, aged 79, a Kansas pioneer, was at the funeral of Charles Parker and participated in the religious services. He delivered a feeling prayer and just as he said “Amen" he gasped and fell over dead. Chicago and Nebraska are mutually jubilant over the repeated bounteous and even downfall of snow which has covered the great corn State from end to end with aprofecftveblaifket.puffTn'goneffccfTve end to the threatened calamity of a general crop failure in that exteusive section. The wife of J. J. Bowman was burned O. T. She was eudeavoring to extinguish a tire when she fell through the rafters and hung head downward. She was literally roasted alive before the eyes of her husband, who was unable to help her. A little daughter of Frank Rose, a farmer, near Keokuk, was burned to death while with her father. She was burning cornstalks, and played too near the Uames. The plant of the Consolidated Steel and Wire Company, Joliet, 111., was gutted by jire Monday morning, involving a loss of SIOO,OOO and throwing between 350 and 400 men out of employment. The fire originated in a hotbox of the barb-wire fence department, in which there are 250 fence machines. The men were working at the time and used the hose provided by the company, but it was not long enough. When the fire department arrived the flames had gained such headway that the firemen could not get into the building because of the smoke, and turned their attention to saving adjoining buildings. Oue of the warehouses, where considerable stock was stored, was saved, the other oue was badly damaged. The company’s office and books were saved. John Lambert, the manager, censures his men for not using their own tire equipment to suppress the tire in its incipieucy. The works were running night and day, and the Republican recently stated that so far this year the stock was paying 30 per ceut, and that last year it paid a dividend of 27Mi per cent. This is the Lambert & Bishop plant which burned some years ago and was rebuilt. They have three other mills —at Loekport, 111., Beaver Falls, Fa., and Cleveland, O. Mr. Lambert cannot say whether the company will rebuild or not. Gov. Altgeld, in his capacity as trnstee of the University of Illinois, has been indicted by the grand jury of Champaign County. The Governor's colleagues on the board of trustees, including Dr. Julia Holmes Smith and Lucy J. Flower, of‘ Qhicago, have also been indicted. The charge is that they havq failed to comply with the law recently passed by the Legislature requiring the trustees of all public schools in the State to provide for the flying' over' the scEbbTbuiTdtngs the flag of the United States. Testimony was produced before the grand jury to the

effect that of all the flagstaff* on the only one staff has been found to be adorned by the Stars and Stripes. The prevalent opinion of the people of Champaign County is that a humiliating blunder has been made. That such a blunder should 'have beep made by the kind 6t men who constituted' the grand jury is causing all the more surprise. At most, it is generally felt that the breach of the la W?—if failureto fly a flag-otj pvery one of a group school" buildings Instead of on or bpfore the main building 1 alone could be called a violation of, the —is so purely a technical and unintentional one tha't it was splittiqg hairs for the grand jury seriously so- consider the charge At all,• •I Empress, alias Gypsy, one of. the largest ..and most vicious elephants in captivity, added a third-murder to her-reebwP Wednesday afternoon by killing her keeper, Frank Scott, while taking her daily exercise at Chicago. Having sated her rage upon the helpless form of her victim, the huge beast forthwith inaugurated a reign of terror in the vicinity of- Jdokson .hdule-' yard and Robey street, that continued all the irfternooh and” called for the presence of scores of pdlicemen from the Lake street and Warren avcipie stations. Darkness was setting iu before the big brute’s temper calmed down, and she was once more safely confined in her quarters with a chain around her leg. Greater excitement couid rrot have been produced among the residents of the neighborhood had the killing been one that would come within the recognition of the law as a crime. From every window that commanded a view of the alley in which the enraged elephant paraded, the faces of searecj spectators eould.be seen. Small' boys, whose curiosity was stronger than their fears, watched the ponderous animal charge back and forth from the roofs of back sheds and the tops of fences. Women listened-behind closed doors to the shrill trumpeting* qf the great beast, and more than one officer deliberated on the efficiency of bis revolver when he caught sight of the towering form. Empress was a star attraction with the H. Harris Nickel Plate show.