Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1896 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Democrats of Idaho and Louisiana have declared for free silver, and in Delaware the stand is for gold. The seventh annual convention of the Medal of Honor Legion was held at If anenil Hall, Boston. Delegates were present from all parts of the country. Gen. Nelson A. Miles was unanimously elected president, and Maj.-Gen. Theodore S. Peck, Adjutant (General of Vermont, was elected senior vice-president. The Rev. Lyman J. Fisher, a retired Baptist minister at Middletown, 0., resigned from the Board of Education, giving as his reason that after a lifelong study of the scriptures he had come to the conclusion that Satdtday, was the Sabbath day. As most of the examinations fall on Saturday, it hurt his conscience to err longer. The resignation was accepted. Sheriff Davis qf Rawlins, Wyo., went to Denver to take charge of Rev. C. M. Thorp, the .evangelist, who is wanted in Wyoming to answer to a charge of bigamy. Thorp, who admits that he has a wife living in lowa, married a young girl at Evanston, Wyo., May 30, and deserted her in three days. , Charges of perjury and. swindling are also made against, him.

An attempt 4 was made at Iron Mountain, Mich., Sunday night to kill Captain Martin Goldsworthy and family, of the Chapin nline. Two sticks of dynamite were exploded under their house, wrecking the structure badly. Nobody was injured. The police are investigating the affair. There, have been no troubles at the Chapin mine and the mon are apparently contented. It is thought tue act was committed by men whom Captain Goldsworthy had refused to employ. Seven companies of State troops, comprising the entire First Regiment Of the Oregon National Guard, left Portland, Ore., at 4 o’clock Tuesday morning for Astoria, for the purpose of suppressing the lawless acts which have marked the course of the fishermen’s strike on the Lower Columbia river for the last two months. There has been little rioting and. open violence, but members of the Fishermen’s Union have intimidated non-union men and several have been shot from ambush. The strike was brought on by the refusal of ca.nnerymen to pay over four cents a pound for fish, while the fishermen demanded five cents. Cannerymen Monday decided to start up and called on the State for protection. -According to reports received by the Postoffice Inspector at Denver, Colo., a deadly running fight occurred Wednesday at Liberty, N. M., a small town 112 miles from Las Vegas, and seventy-five miles from Gallinas Springs, the nearest hamlet. Two desperate characters had been terrorizing the ranchmen and cattlemen for several days. Meeting with no resistance, they were emboldened, and made a raid on the postoffice at Liberty. A posse followed, overtaking the robbers thirty miles from town. The bandits opened fire on them, killing Levi Herz•tein, the postmaster, and Merejillo Gallegos, and mbrtally wounding Placide Gurule. Three horses were shot down. Both men are described as six footers, well armed, and not afraid of fight. A reward of $1,500 has been offered for their capture.