Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1896 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Nebraska Populists have .renominated Gov. Holcomb. Minnesota Democrats have adopted the plan for fusion with- the Pojmlists and have nominated John Lind for Governor. ,Richard P. Bland has been nominated for Congress by the Eighth district Missouri Democrats. The Populists of the Sixteenth Illinois distijot nominated Jacob D. Hess for Cqjojfrcss, defeating “Buck” Hinrichsen. Nancy Fristow died 'at Wichita, Kan., at the age of 194: She was horn at Bayn’g Cross Roads, Tenn., and was the slave of George Washington Murray. She retained until her death the certificate her master gave her in 1815 so marry Thomas Murray. She was Go years old before l*he saw a railroad, Mrs. Fjjstow had twelve children, eighty-four graiyl children, for-ty-five’ great-grandchildren, and fortythree grea t-greu t-grandchildren. A. Santa Fe train, made up of undamaged cars from trains in collision Monday near Doan Lake, Mo., reached Kansas City late Monday night, bearing the Injured. Some of them wore taken to Topeka and others to Chicago, a physi-cian-accompanying each train. All the Injured, as far as knoitn, are progressing favorably. Engineer Heady went down with his engine and was horribly mangled. He lived only a short time. The schooner yacht Ha\\;thorne, owned by McConnell Bros., was sunk off the Government breakwater at the, entrance to the Chicago harbor Wednesday night by the single JCrew propeller lowa, Of the Goodrieh Transportation Line. Capt. Martin Henderson, of the yacht, and a crew of four were taken off the wreck by the tug Gardner. 'The big steamer, in charge of Capt. John Raleigh, was on her maiden trip, and on her way to Grand Haven. ' '

All of the lands of the Northern Pacific Railroad in the State of Washington, comprising 11,902 sections of patented and an indefinite quantity of unpatented -lands, were sold 1 at public' auction at Seattle by Special Master Alfred L. Carey. The property was bought in by Edwin W. Winter for the Northern Pacific Railway Company, of which he is president, for $1,705,200. A private bidder attempted to purchase one tract of 160 acres, hut Winter hid it up to $15,000 and took it at that figure: There was uo opposition after this. ," Hay.eir. EV Filigree, the famous inven tor of the municipal potato patch, was on the fourth ballot nominated' for Governor of Michigan, by the Republican State convention at Grand Rapids Thursday afternoon. In Wisconsin, the same day, at the Republican State convention at Milwaukee, Maj. Edward Scofield, of Oconto, was rioniinatbiS for Governor'on the sixth ballot, after the most interesting fight over seen in Wisconsin. The present State officers below the office of Governor were then renominated by acclamation in-a hunch. Particulars have been received of the fatal accident to Philip Abbott, assistant solicitor of the Wisconsin Central Railway, while he was attempting the ascent of Mount LefrOy, near Laggan. on the, main line of the Canadian Pacific Railroad. A party consisting of Prof. Fay and Messrs. Little, Abbott and Thompson, all of the Appalachian Club of Boston, started from Laggan Monday to at-’ ascent of Mount Lefroy. When about eight miles from the station Mr Abbott fell over a precipice about 1,000 feet high. His body is lying on, a g acier, and its recovery will be very difficult. A force of railway men, provided with ladders and ropes, is endeavoring to recjtm*.r the body, and when this is dona it will be sent to Boston for burial. Like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky came the announcement from Chicago that the Moore brothers, the giants behind the great Diamond Match and New York Biscuit deals, had failed. The sensation produced in “the street”—that indefinite term used to describe the banks, brokers' offices and the business places of the big men iu finance without regard to their location —was most prjjfound. The Moores have lost their allaftd shey have always been counted by the 1 public as being among Chicago's . millionaires. While the effects of the failure will t>e far-reaching and widespread, there will be no panic. The real business situation of the Diamond Match 'Company is not affected by the failure of the Moores; the foreign negotiations are stiirpeading and it is said there is no reason why the shares of the company should not sell yet at the 300 mark which has been predicted for them upon the closing of some of the foreign contracts. The fit*#! decree from Okmulgee, the capital of the Creek Nation, handed down by Judge Adams, chief justice of the Supreme Churt of the nation, in the citizenship case, strikes from the rolls of citizenship of the nation the names of over seventeen hundred negroes. The decision held - that the action of the Indian council, after the passage of the emancipation act by the United States, in admitting the negroes to tribal relations was unconstitutional and therefore at tb's time invalid. Since the passage of the act these negroes have drawn in annuities $1,000,000 from the Creek government, have held positions of official trust, and have improved their farms and educated their children at the nation's expense for twenty years. From the decision of the court there is no appeal. The Interior Department has held to the same opinion in a similar ease. The Dawes commission, which has been appealed to by the deposed negroes, claims it has no right to interfere with the decision of the Indian court.

The reported settlement of the Cleveland strike was erroneous. At the Brown hoisting works the men are out in as great force as ever, claiming that the company violated its agreement. In addition, nearly 100 employes of the \'an Wagoner & Williams Company quit work. The probability is that it issoleß- a sympathetic ■trike. Workmen iu Kt-fte foundries Xbs. 1 and 2 also express an intention of quitting. In that case half a dozen big shops Will have to close because of inability to get caettagd’ A meeting'the Brown strikers was held Mootkfr Afternoon, at which Master W#»kmah ijafaes O’Connell made a ifl#ech'„ in which bp declared that the agreement between the Brown edrapauy and tbe strraers bad been in is understood; that it was interpreted one wa#* by tbe aimpany And a different' way by tbe if

meti.*'»>Hre"is reported to have laid that the battle now on would; be’ watched by the labor world with interest. “The Mayor, police--and tin; shldiers,” be declared, ‘ihave armed to crush us. We have a duly Jo perform—that of self-pix4erva-o'clock Tuesday fouj; TiYembcrs of the Interstate commerce Commission sat in the United States Circuit Court room at Chicago and aloout fifty railroad met) sat in chairs anything hut. comfortable in front of them. Col, William-R. Morrison, president of the commission, wvhs in the chair, and with him wore Messrs. Yeomans, Knapp and Clements. '‘.The session was a sort of adjourned inpethfg from the one begun two monthVhgo ilt Kansas City, wherein the railroad 'companies,; were charged with having manipulated grain ’east from Missouri river points.' Thdge roads are tft be investigated: Thej'.'Atghison, Topeka and Santa Fe, Chicago' and Alton, Chicago and Northwestern! Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Burlington and Northern. Chicago Great Western, Milwaukee and •St. Pauls Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, Chicago, St. Pant, Minneapolis and Omaha, Hannibal and St; .Tot, Missouri, Kansas and Texas, Missouri Pacific, Illinois Central, Wabash ahd Wisconsin Central lines. There is no question among men or those acquainted With the situation that the several railroads have been taking liberties with interstate commerce'regulations.