Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1896 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

. Lyman Trumbull died Thursday, morning at his home, 4108 Lake avenue, Chicago, •aged 83 years. He had been ill a long time. He was one of the most famous jurists in the West. At San Francisco George Stutz, a marine engineer, shot and killed Mrs. Cora Borden in a Polk street lodginghouse and then turned the pistol on himself, sending a bullet into his own brain. In the United States Circuit Court at St. Louis, Mo., Judge Adams sustained the motion of Louis Houck to vacate the order of June 5 appointing S. W. Fordyce as receiver of the St. Louis, Kennett and Southern Railroad. Noble Sheparß>.,who was waiting execution in jail at St. Louis for'the murder of Thomas Morton and Lizzie Leahey, escaped from his cell some time between midnight and 4 o'clock Monday morning, crawled some twenty feet through a sewer, climbed to the roof of the gallows on which he Was to hang, thence to the high brick wall surrounding the jailyard, -and their to the street. Therels. no d miht that he was aided by friends on the outside, and the jail authorities and the police are trying to unravel the mystery of the escape. Sunday morning the court house in Hoxie, Sheridan County, Kan., was burned to the ground arid all of the records, of the Registrar of Deeds and County Treasurer destroyed. The safes had been both opened, and the records taken out, opened and piled on the floor in such a

manner that they won 1,1 be sure 16 be destroyed. There was SBOO. in the Treasurer’s safe, which is gone. The County Clerks’ safe was not touched and his records were saved. It will cost Sheridau County about $20,000 to repair the loss and put the records where they were. No clew has been found to the perpetrators of the deed and the excitement is high. After many vicissitudes during the period of growth the State of Kansas has produced an eminently satisfactory crop of wheat. From returns furnished from every county in the State, the total yield is 43,000,000 bushels. That is almost double the quantity produced in the same ‘State the year previous. It alsd‘exceeds the average yield of the last five years, which include the phenomenally heavy crop of 1892. It is 9,000.000 bushels more than the season- of 1894-95 at the four principal winter wheat markets and i 11,000,000 bushels in excess of tbe quantify reported at the same four principal winter wheat markets since last Jujy to the present date. The production of jvhegt in Kansas, as officially estimated in the appended table, was as- Tollows; I$9T, 54,866,000 bu.; 1892. 70.83L000 bu..; 1893, 23.252.000 bu.; 1894. 35,315,000 bu.< 1895, 22,1920,000 bw. ■ Joseph K. C. Forrest is dead. . For a period greater in duration than that of any other man lie had done editorial work on the newspapers of Chicago. Few men were better known than he.- In a city where his employers could have passed unrecognized any time these twenty years, Mr. Forrest’s lyalks on the street had been continuous processions through crowds of friends. Of late years Air. Vorrest had been employed on the Daily News, where his occasional articles over the odd signature of "Now or Never” were the best exponents of that older school of journalism, which he always adorued. The frivolous skipped those articles after a first reading. But the settled older fellow, with strong convictions and a positive love for trjie terms, read them and enjoyed and indorsed them. But he was an old newspaper man before there was any Daily News. It is said Jo Forrest named the Tribune He certainly helped start that paper. And even before that he was a professional, if not a veteran, for he had done much excellent work on the Journal. Ever since 1840 he had been actively engaged iu newspaper work in Chicago.