Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1897 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Vandals in San Jose, Cal., desecrated the vault containing the remains of Mrs. Spanger, once a resident of Chicago. Chicago saloon statistics for the last license period show the issuance of 6,264 licenses, with receipts of $T,044,020. This is a decrease of 354 saloons. Mrs. Thomas Coker and 9-year-old son were struck and instantly killed by a Santa- Fe train while crossing a bridge one mile cast of Cedar Junction. Fred McConnell, cashier of the State Bank of Ambia, Ind., is missing, together with funds of the bank estimated at any amount between SIO,OOO and $50,000. E. C. Little of Kansas, formerly consul general at Cairo, has received from the Khedive of Egypt the grand cordon of the Imperial Order of Mejidieh of the Ottoman Empire. According to the forty-third annual report of the Chicago Board of Education, just issued, 190,471 pupils attended the city schools in 1897, an increase of 50 per cent in five years. Guards on duty to prevent a jail delivery at Lidgerwood, N. IX,and a number of tramps armed with revolvers had a lively fight Monday night, which resulted in two,of the tramps and one of the guards being wounded. Fred Horton, a young flour miller of Los Angeles, Cal., has fallen heir to a fortune left by his father at Guaymas, Mexico, said to be worth $2,000,000. Philip Horton, the lad’s father, was divorced from his wife nineteen years ago. The body of E. W. Stump Was found at the Golden Fleece mine in Tombstone, the head split open with a blow from an ax. He had been missing several days. He was undoubtedly murdered, but by whom or for what motive no conjecture can tell. Mrs. Annie Kirk and her husband, W, S. Kirk, have sued W. A. Atwood, a dentist at San Francisco, for $250 damages alleged to have been sustained because he positively refused to examine the woman's teeth because she came to his oflice on her bicycle and wore bloomers. A boom is under way in the Kansas City hog market. Friday’s prices were the highest reached within nearly two years, going up 10 cents to 15 cents a hundred weight, on top of a similar advance Thursday. Prices advanced 70 cents since Aug. 1, and near a dollar higher than in the middle of July. At Wichita, Kan., the expert accountant employed to investigate the books of the late County Treasurer John A. Doran during his two terms’ incumbency of that office made his report for the first term Tuesday, showing a shortage of $32,178.79. The shortage for 1892 was $lO,118.98 and for 1893 $22,059.87. Miss Marie Henrotin of Chicago, after four days of terrible suffering, died at Montreal as the result of a partially successful attempt to cremate herself. She died at the Hotel Dieu Hospital, and there is no doubt that the attempt at self-de-struction was made while the lady, who is 46 years of age, was temporarily insane. Judge J. J. Sullivan, Democrat, was nominated for Supreme Judge by the Nebraska fusionists. Judge Sullivan was the second choice of the Democrats. After they had agreed upon him the silver Republicans also took him up. Thereupon the Populists dropped Judge Neville and Sullivan was declared the fusion candidate. George W. Adams of Cripple Creek pied in Denver from the gold fields of

South America. Fourteen months ago Adams left to try his fortunes In South American mines. He went to the gold fields, 300 miles from Georgetown, in company with eight Americans, remaining there eleven months." Of the e(ntire party of nine he alone escaped death from the fatal fever. " At Portsmouth, Ohio, a forty-ton flywheel at the Burgess Steel and Iron Works was burst by a 4,800-pound ingot stopping a roll. The mill was crowded With workmen, including day and night crews. . John Murphy was hurled thirty feet and badly bruised. The roof was riddled. Beams two feet square were cut in two like straws." The mill was set on fire and the furnace was destroyed. How the great crowd in the mill escaped is a -mystery. Mrs. Agatha Tosch, to whom Adolph Luetgert was wont to confide his business and marital troubles, took the-stand for the prosecution when the famous murder case was resumed in Chicago Tuesday, and gave damaging testimony against the prisoner. According to her evidence, the day after Mrs. Luetgert disappeared Mrs. Tosch had a long conversation with the sausagemaker, who, she asserts, was pale and laboring under excitement he vainly endeavored to suppress. In the course of their talk she boldly told him she believed him guilty of making away with his wife and that he thereupon manifested much excitement and begged her to help him, as he was in great trouble. Mrs. Tosch dilated on Luetgert’s disturbed condition of mind as much as the rules of evidence would permit and finally swore that the man, in the extremity of his distress, declared he was tempted to shoot himself and escape the trouble that hung over his head. Before she left the stand Mrs. Tosch also testified to the hatred felt by Luetgert for his wife and his significant threats to crush her.