Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1896 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Mrs. Walter Hunter, of’Chicago, was struck by an electric car at Cleveland and badly hurt. A— Mrs. J.| H. Tolfree. who was Grover Cleveland’s secretary while he was Mayor, of Buffalo, committed suicide at Mojave. Cal., Monday night by drinking carbolic acid. It is supposed that she was temporarily insane. W. H. Hoit, a prominent Sioux City, lowa, photographer, who fired a shotgun Sunday night at six who, were shaking apples from a tree in front of his bouse, Wounding all of them’, Will be proceeded against both civilly and criminally. Hoit deciares that he thought the boys had left‘the tree and shot at a rabbit. Early Thursday-morning six shots-were heard at the residence of William T. Wiley, ladies' tailor and furrier at Cincinnati. When Wiley’s room was entered, Mrs. Wiley was.found bleeding from five bullet .wounds and her husband unconscious. with a bullet hole in the right temple. _The woman died on the way to the hospital? Wiley’s wound was superficial, the ball glancing off the skull. They have had frequent quarrels and were separated, bgt began to live together again about three months ago. Wiley says his wife shot him and he then seized the revolver and tired at her. He came from Louisville about fifteen years ago. Bob Heth, the outlaw, v.;ho, when pursued by a posse of farmers Sunday night, shot one of them, Charles Ford, whose house he had just robbed, and seriously Injured several others by blows from the butt end of a gun. was captured Tuesday night at Joplin. Mo. Ford and his posse brought Heth to bay in a cornfield Sunday night, and, covering him with a gun, ordered him to surrender. lie threw up his hands in token of submission, but when Ford stepped up to him lie reached for his revolver and fired the shot, taking effect -tn - Fordes—face.—-Tlum- he wrenchtaLthe., gun from a farmer, and wielding it as a club, knocked several of the men down and got away. TJie President has commuted to imprisonment for life the death sentences imposed upon three Texans-'-John C. Ball, Thomas 1 Davis, and Taylor Hick7mdn. They were to be hanged Sept. !. In the ease of Ball the I'residoht says that while he has been twice convicted of munler, tbe jmige and d istrict -attorney both urge the commutation on ' the grou'nd of the youth of the convict and for other reasons. Davis and Hickdifin are full-blooded Indian boys of 14 and 13 years, •respectively, without any appreciation of the enormity of the brutal and cold-blooded homicide committed by them, and in their cases also the judge and district attorney strongly urged the commutation. Gen. George W. Jones, the oldest surviving ex-L’nited States Senator, died Wednesday night at Dubuque, lowa, aged 92. He |>drii in Vincennes. Ind., on April 12. 1804. He gave Gov. Dodge valuable assistance in .the "Black Hawk war. In 1833 he was appointed a judge of the territory. He was nominated as congressional delegate for the very extensive Michigan territory, to which position he was almost unanimously reelected in 1837. 1:; 1840 Gen. Jones was appointed surveyor general, from which office he‘was removed by President W. H. Harrison. He was reappointed in 1845, but resigped in 1848 to-take his seat,as Senator for lowa, which place he held two terms. President Buchanan appointed Senator .loio-s nimis:er to. Bogot:i. in South America, whence he was recalled in 1861. Soon after his arrival in America he was placed as a prisoner of state in Fort Lafayette for writing a personal letter to his friend, Jefferson Davis. He remained several months in confinement, and upon being released took up his residence at Dubuque. Since the war he had lived a retired life.