Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1896 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The American Society of Civil Engineers held its twenty-eighth annual session in San Francisco. Delegates were present from nearly every State in the Union.

A very earliest effort is being macle by the suffrage women of Los Angeles for the relief of Miss Phoebe W. Cousins Of St. Louis, who is in the city helpless and penniless. Standing on the vinfe-shrouded porch of his home at Canton, 0., William McKinley, at 12:10 Monday afternoon, listened to the formal notification of the fact that he had been nominated for the presidency by the Republican national convention of St. Louis.'• The actual ceremony consumed only about half an hour, and consisted in the speech of notification by Senator Thurston, chairman of the convention, and a response by Gov. McKinley. Then followed The presentation of the Abraham Lincoln giivel by Harry Smith, and following this- a lunch served in a large tent behind the house. Over one hundred shots were, exchanged by deputy sheriffs and strikers at the Berea stone quarries, near West View, Ohio. No one was killed so far as known. One striker had his leg broken in two places and many have sore heads as the result of hand-to-hand conflict. The strikers approached the quarry through a woods with the avowed intention of driving out the iron-union men at work. ’They were met by the sheriff and • forty deputies, who commanded them to stop. For an answer the strikers began firing and the tight soon became general. In a few moments the strikers were repulsed and fell back to the woods. The men in the quarrier are quitting through fear and because of the importunities of their wives. Commencing Wednesday the execution of the death penally by banging in Ohio becomes a thing of the past, and the Buckeye State, following the lead of New York, will substitute electrocution, excepting so far as relates to persons’ tilready under sentence of death by the noose. The change has been brought about by a bill introduced in the upper, house by Senator Jones and chtimpionbd jn the Assembly by Representative Reed. It provides that all murderers convicted after July 1 and sentenced to the deal*., penalty shall b ■ electrocuted, and infliction of the penalty must take place liefore sunt'ise on the day set by the sentence in court. The death chamber must be in the penitentiary. 'There is no other change in the provisions of the present law relating to deg th. sen fences. Officials of the Chicago and Alton Railroad have just discovered th.it a gang of employes, among whom are passenger train eondwetors and= station agents, working with Pullman'cat porters, have rubbed the- railway company of $15,0Q0. The steal was accomplished through cooperation of ", station agent with passenger conductors on railroad tickets from Springfield. II!., to jChicago. On nti average, sti far ns can be estimated by Auditor Kelsey’s reports. S4O a day was stolen, and the larceny was in progress fully a year—probably a little longer. In a nutshell the scheme of robbery wns for the conductor of the train which leaves Springfield for Chicagb. at noon ,to take ifp but not punch the tickets sold at the'Springfield office on the noon train. The tickets would then be sent back that day to be sold over again. A pitched battle occurred Tuesday bc-

tween eighty Cleveland. Ohio, policemen and a targe forchl'iof strikers from the Brown Hoisting hind Conveying Machine Company. The trouble started when the non-union employes of the company were dismissed for the day. The 171 new employes marched to the street cars .within a hollow square of pol’cemen. The strikcrsiiersttaded the street ear employes? ■not to stop for the new men, and a stone was thrown bj* some one in the crowd of 2,000 strikers, sympathizers and spectators. The police were ordered to charge. They made eight" sallies on the crowd. One of the patrolmen named Kadel was struck on the head with a stone, and so badly disabled that he is ntfw lying at a hospital. When the police.saw that one of their number had been injured they started in to kill. As a result four of the strikers are in jail and 100 others are suffering with wounds inflicted by the clubs .of the policemen. ”