Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1896 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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The entire family of\karon Goldsmith, consisting of five persons, was burned to death at New York last night. The explosion of a lamp set their- borne on fire. According to a New York dispatch William Waldorf A»tor, who says that America is not a place for a gentleman to lire, intend* to dispose of his vast holdings of Gotham real estate as fast U possible. t WlHlt is rapidly recovering from the effects Of the stroke of paralysis with which be was afflicted last summer. For some time . Set? --< ■ v

the only'visible result of the stroke was the inability of Mr. Vanderbilt to use his right arm. Recently the potyer to tvve Ms arm. returned, so'that now he is able to lift it to hia head., .Mr. Vanderbilt walks a good deal, rides tuoje and his mental condition is said to be as good in the days when he was active in business. . . " The employes of the Hampton House, at Boston, detected a strong smell of gas lit the corridor early Tuesday morning .and found that it came from a room which, had been assigned to a couple who registered as Donald Donovan and wife. Entrance was gained by the fire escape and they were found lying in bed, the women dead and the man- unconscious. Gas Was escaping from an open burner. The man's” case was pronounced critical. WESTERN. Four thousand unemployed men held a massmeeting at Denver and passed, resolutions demanding that the city authorities set them at work on public improvements for which appropriations have been made. As a result of the suspension of. the Illinois National Bank at Chicago E. S. Dreyer & Co. and Wastnatisdorff, Heine-. Mann & Co., two private banks clearing through the Illinois National,, were forced to make application in court for a receiver. 1 ' Warrants for the arrest of E. S. Drover and Robert Berger, members of the firm of E. S. Dreyer A Co., mortgage bankers, who closed their doors at Chicago Monday morning, were issued Tuesday afternoon on the sworn information of Frank Kennedy, who charged the bankers with receiving deposits when they knew the concern was insolvent. A mining company has been organized at Marlow, O. T„ with $500,000 capital. The gold fever has run high since reliable reports have reached Guthrie of rich finding at the head of Otter Creek on the north side of Wichita Mountains, and there is talk of an organized rush of several thousand men to capture the rich gold "discoveries. Marlow is' the nearest failroadipoint to the mountains, being only nlfdut four hours’ drive to flu* nearest mines, fourteen miles northwest of Fort SifL

Alfred Wilson, aged 70, one of the bestknown residents of Andrew County, Mo., was murdered Monday night by robbers at his home,' ofie mile, northeast of Avenue City. Wilson was a bachelor and was rich. Some time ago he became so embittered against banks that he drew out all his deposits and was supposed to have concealed —the —money about his home. A bloody footprint on {a -newspaper in the room is the only clew the officers have. It is not known whether any valuables were secured by the robbers. Four more Chicago failures were recorded Tuesday as a result of the suspension of the National Bank of Illinois. The American Brewing Company, the George A, W eiss ' Malting and Elevator Company and George A.■ Weiss made assignments in flic County Court. George A. W eiss is president of both corporations, and their business is closely connected. ;Weiss is a son-in-law of George , Selin eider, president of the National Bank of Illinois, and in the schedule of accounts made hv the clearing house is -*hown T .tu-O-vve-the--ba.uESSUU v UO(E The Missouri State Supreme. Court decided, that the section of the charter of Kansas City providing that eadh qualified voter Who. fails to vote at u general election should be taxed $2.50 is invalid. It was a test case, in which' the city brought suit against a voter who had failed to vote to, recover the fax'. The court in .its decision says-: “Who can estimate the money value to the public of a vote? It is degrading to the franchise, to associate -it_w.itk. such, an .ifleji,.. The ballot of . the humblest in the lantf may mold the destiny of the nation for age^” Thomas McLaughlin, the Gutlirio, O. T„ negro- suspiyted of the murder of Ere email Morrow, lias’lieemcmormd'friiiii the Stillwater jafUto-guard against lynching. His presept place of confinement is kept a secret. As a result of evidence developed ijt'the coroners inquest, Howard Clements, a negro schoolteacher, who came near being lynched on.l the day following the murder, has again been taken into custody. Eva Morrow, the mar(jered man’s little girl/ spoka. Monday night for the first fim's siyce the tragedy. While the doctors were dressing the terrible wound in her head she murmured: “lie hit papa with the ax and then hit me.” The physicians now hope that "She may be able to identify the-murderer. •James -Preston, aged. 40, shot Ills wife, Amanda, aged 37. and the latter’s son, William Bryant, aged 19, at the residence of, Mrs. Preston, in Cincinnati, Tuesday morning. Preston is a farmer near New Richmond, Ohio. Ilis wife left him some time ago and went.to Cincinnati, taking quarters with her soil and making a living dressmaking.' Preston followed his Wife and tried to, effect a reconciliation. lie called at the house and, a quarrel followed, during which he began firing. When the neighbors came in they found the three on the floor wounded atid bleeding. Preston had evidently first shot his wife, then his stepson and then himself. The hospital physicians say that Preston and his wife will die. The stepson has a wound in his left elhofU It is evident that Preston was actuated by motives of jealousy; as h" had in his possession a letter written to his wife by another man. « Blue Cut. made through tire, operations -there of the .fames arid lounger bands when they were* pioitfeYjjgKt- I he.

train robbing industry, was tbs- Scene Wednesday night of its fourth holdtip he r.mit *i‘.miAt nVlni'k till- Stt • Louis and Chicago express on the Chicago and Alton Itoad. which left Kansas City lit S: 45, was flagged at Blue Cut ■■ami came to ft standstill, _JLLjs_liu‘ same train that w;is held up two months ago. Masked men immediately covered the engineer and fireman and compelled them to get down from tlieir cab. At tile same time another member of the bandit gang uncoupled the exuyess car from the rest of the train, and before the surprised train men had time to collect their wits the bandit's w > re speeding down the steep grade beyond Blue Cut with tiie engine and/express coach. Express, Messenger A. L- Frier, of St. Louis* was a prisoner in tlit; express car. Kansas City otliyials of tiie l .nitcd States Express Company say the train carried very little cash, but that the cfiv.ytnis tilled with an enormous amount of miscellaneous express of great value. Christnm's boxes made up a con'slHerKble athbuhi - bF‘tTiF’TFe;iS'iife."* Eh : .gineer E. D. Meade and his 1 fireman immediately after the robbery setont in search of their locomotive. They found their engine dead at 1 o’elock Thufisdtiy morning, in a cut a mile cast of IBeiidale, with the express car. but their report said nothing-about the fate o’s the express messenger.