Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1896 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

George E. Frost had his leg broken in a collision on the Pasadena and .Pacific, electric road. Mayor Edward T. Burke, of Rawlins, Wyo., hhs been arrested, charged with passing a bogus cheek. Fire which originated from a lamp explosion, destroyed the works No, 2 of the Variety Iron Companyht Cleveland. The loss will be between $40,000 and $50,0Q0. Burglars entered the National Bank of Belleville, Kan., and blew ‘off the heavy front door of the' vault with dynamite, but failed to get into the money safe. Quite a sum of money and diamonds valued at $350, belonging to private parties, were taken from outside drawers. John Tod, of Cleveland, of the-firm of Tod, Co:, son of ex-Gdv. Tod of Ohio, and recently appointed a member of the state bouse improvement board, dropped dead in the Chittenden Hotel at Columbus - Thursday morning. Death is believed to have been caused by apoplexy. The Missouri National Bank at Kansas City, Mo., closed its doors Monday morning, owing to the heavy withdrawals of one of its principal depositors,, The deposits are $1,500,000, but a statement of the bank's assets and liabilities is not yet obtainable. The bank, was classed one of the.strongest in the Southwest. . The fight Wednesday night between Sharkey and Fitzsimmons at ‘San Francisco, Cal.; was given to the former in the eighth round. Fitzsimmons in this round landed a left hook on the chin and the sailor went down and out. The referee. Wyatt Earp, claimed that while Sharkey was falling Fitzsimmons struck Sharkey in the groin with his knee. Sharkey was carried out unconscious.

Mrs. Mary J. Sweringen, of St. Louis, has won her famous suits against the city and the St. Louis, Keokuk and Northwestern Railway Company. They involved possession of $85,000 worth of real estate on the river front near Dock street. She claimed title on the ground that the property was accretions from the river to land she owned which had been left high and dry by the deposits of years. Four masked robbers, supposed to be headed by ‘.‘Dynamite Dick,” held up Storekeeper Ernest Powell at Ingram, 0. T., and made him deliver S3OO. After .securing the money and while leavipg the store the outlaws were fired on by Powell. The fire was returned and a farmer nantod Ellis, who was in the store, was shot. The robbers are supposed to be the same who held up the postmaster at Floyd Tuesday night and secured $1,264. Tuesday Secretary Carr, of the Chicago health department, set fire to the old smallpox hospital at 26th street and Sacramento avenue.—An hour later the old ruin Was burned to the ground and the possibility of its spreading disease germs Was past. The hospital had not been in use for several months and had been a source of much annoyance to health department officials, and the children residing, in the neighborhood insisted upon making daily visits-to the wreck for the. purpose of-carrying away firewood.

Two hundred people, led by a screaming washerwoman who had just been fobbed of the only dollar she possessed in the world, chased Edward Rogers, a pickpocket. in Wes't Madison street, Chicago, Thursday night and took part in a battle between the thief and the police in a dark illey near by. Finally. after one policeaan lay on the ground badly yonnded by i bullet from the robber's revolver, after •i street car conductor had been shot through the hand, ami after the face of mother policeman had been filled full of Obyder and bis. Clothes pierced with bullets, the crowd, the policemen, and the screaming washerwoman closed in on the thief and the policemen stretched him on the ground with a blow. 1 There were other minor casualties.

The Chicago Evening Post says: “An eight-round prize-fight between Eddie Santry and Jimmy Carroll, of Omaha, was ‘pulled off’ in the County Hospital in the small hours of Tuesday morning, and was witnessed by about twenty-five >f the employes -and young doctors, .who ire on duty in the hospital and in the pay if Cook County. There was a purse made up by those present and the occasioii was the closing number on the program for the farewell reception given to Chief Clerk M. R. Mandelbaum, who is to become chief deputy coroner, and who leaves the hospital Monday. From the reception and ball given in Mandelbaum’s honor in Columbia Hall the favored ones who were ‘on.’ retired to the large room in the tower over the'front driveway in the main hospital building and proceeded to business shortly after midnight. The room is on the fourth floor and the ‘ring’ was a square for this" fight, and a brussels carpet, paid for by the taxpayers of the county, was the turf from which the two fighters sprang at each other.”