Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1896 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Fifty Osage Indians are taking the Keeley cure in Oklahoma. The four leading theaters of Denver' gave performances for the benefit of the Cripple Creek sufferers. About SI,OOO was netted. Indiana Republicans declare for McKinley and the delegates-nt-large from the State to the St. Louis convention are Instructed to “cast their votes for William McKinley as frequently and continuously as there is any hope of his nomination.” -The- instruction resolution is - the last plank of a strong platform, which declares for protection and reciprocity, and for honest money, favoring the-use of silver only under-regulations that will maintain its parity with gold. A sensation was created in Sturgeon Bay, Wls., Monday evening by the announcement that F. X. Sailer, the wife of a business man, had drowned hgr two children and then committed suicide, by the same method. The woman had gone down the bay shore a distance of three miles and had evidently walked out Into the bay with her children and held' them under the water until life was extinct, after which she lay. down and deliberately suffered herself to drowns A fisherman coming from his nets discovered the bodies floating in the water and immediately reported the matter to the city authorities, who went to the scene. They found the .children, aged 4 And 2 years, upon the shore, while the mother’s body was out about sixty feet. Mrs. Sailer was about 25 years of age and was the fourth wife of her husband, and from all reports the couple ha,d not been living happily for n year or so; past. Mr. Sailer owns a business block' and had until recently been engaged in the furniture business. At Thursday’s session of the Methodist conference at Cleveland Dr. W. J. Kynett, chairman of the committee on eligibility, presented the report of the committee. The committee is agreed that the eligibility of women to vote in this convention is a constitutional hue and that the general conference has the power to interpret the constitution. The committee recommends the modification of the constitution, changing the qualifications of a delegate to the general conference by using the words “lay delegate” instead, of “laymen,” thereby mating the admission of women legal, and adds: “We report further that this proposed amendment be referred to the annual, conferences of the following year, and that a two-thirds vote, of . the general conference and a three-fourths vote of tlie annual conference be required to enact this recommendation into a law.” The report says that inasmuch as the question hgs not been judicially passed upon, those having seats

on the floox£an retjnn.-them witl)QUt pr<‘iudiee. As soon as the report was read Dr. Kynett said that neither party, neither majority nor minority, surrendered- The views were the same, but it was a concession by both parties. Dr. Kynett said there was a rumor that great pressure had been brought to bear on the women to retire. The committee believed no pressure should be brought to bear on then* w hich would conflict with their duty to their constituents. ■Don Jose Carlos Alexia died at Chicago Tuesday. He was a man of varied experience and much usefulness. For the last- three, years lie had been a resident of Chicago, living quietly, and occupying'his leisure in literary pursuits. He came of $ famous military family, in the Mexican republic, and had always been considered an authority on Mexican law. having ehosen that profession while his father and hts brother devoted themselves to the army. Don Jose Carlos Mexia was born at Vera Cruz in 1837. At 22 he was admitted to tlie bar in the City of Mexico, and in 1861 was made judge of the district of Elvia. After the triumph of the Republican party in that country he was made chief justice of the supreme court in the first district of the Republic at Mexico. After the expiration of the term for which he had been elected he was appointed by the government to be secretary of the Mexican war claims commission sitting in Washington. Here he served his country tilj 1877, when he was elected to the Mexican congress, but declined to qualify, as he had little taste for legislative duties. He was sent as consul at San Francisco, and after three years received appointment to the still more important post at Liverpool. He retired from active service ten years ago, and accepted from the Mexican Government a position as official interpreter at the World’s Fair, more for the opportunities the residence in Chicago gavu him than because he considered it active service. He had remained in Chicago, ever since. Don Jose Carlos was profoundly learned in the la,w. He was the author of the Mexican treatise on the constitution of the'United States and was also the translator into Mexican of Kent's treatise on law.