Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1897 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Secretary of the Treasury has ■■arrived in Colorado. Kankakee marsh land, near New* Carlisle, Ind., is afire and farm buildings are in danger. Chief of Police Thomas Colbert of Indianapolis has been suspended for alleged intoxication. Cincinnati defeated Dayton in an exhibition game of base-ball, 3to 2. It was no easy victory. Rev. B. L. Morris of Greencastle, Ind., was stricken with paralysis while in the pulpit at Brazil, Ind. Natural gas exploded in a colored church in Indianapolis, and four persons were dangerously injured. Mamie O'Brien, 13 years old, was abducted from St. James’ Convent, Chicago, by an unidentified woman. A kinetoscope exploded in Belview, Minn., ant] caught fire, causing a panic in which several persons were injured. Judge Ryan of the Indiana? Superior Court has decided that loan associations can collect only the legal rate of interest. General 'D. B. Ainger of Lansing has been appointed receiver of the defunct First National Bank of Benton Harbor, Mich. The color line has. boot! drawn in Alton,. 111., and negro children are now taught in schools separate from those for white children.

W. F. Karron. now imprisoned in the county jail at San Francisco, charged with embezzlement, has fallen heir to $250,000. The coroner’s jury in the inquest on the Santa Fe wreck near Emporia, Kam, has placed the blame on Train Dispatcher King of Topeka. Authentic information is at hand that there is a great discovery Of free milling gold ore in the Chocolate mountains of Yuma County, Arizona. Shoshone and Bannock Indians in Idaho are slaughtering elk and deer and the settlers are preparing to drive the redskins away by force. The John Gund brewing■ and malting plant burned at LaCrosse. Loss is $300,000, half of which is covered by insurance in old-line companies. A human skeleton, probably buried twenty-five years, was unearthed by -laborers digging sand at 57th street and South Park avenue, Chicago. Richard and John McGriff, twins, have just celebrated the ninety-fifth anniversary of their birth. One lives in Geneva, Ind., and the other in Ohio. Colored citizens of Alton, 111.,, took their children back to the old schools and placed them in seats. The principal refused to let the colored children recite. 1

Ed wal'd Bellamy, the economical writer, has gone to Denver to recover his health, which is said to haveobroken down while he was writing his latest book, “Equality.” A Rock Island passenger train and Union Pacifice stock train collided near Muncie, Kan., and Engineers J. W. Scarf Of Kansas City and Charles Goodall of Chicago were badly injured. William Trift, employed on the government tug-boat Alpha, from Cairo, 111., was taken to the Marine hospital in St. Louis as a yellow fever suspect. The Alpha had been employed in taking yellow fever patients to Cairo. The question of whether the authorities in the Roman Catholic Church have the right to remove priests at their will was decided in the affirmative Jby Judge Dick, sitting at Waukesha, The decision was rendered in the celebrated Barton case. The notorious Staffleback house, near Galena, Kan., was burned by a mob at midnight on Wednesday and every vestige of the old structure, where murders and crimes of the most diabolical nature were said to have been committed, was destroyed. After firing the place the mob withdrew and watched the old structure burn. No fire alarm was turned in until the building was nearly consumed and then no efforts were made by the fire department to extinguish the flames. The search for the remains of the Staffleback family victims still goes on.

Suit has been commenced in the Federal Court at Omaha to declare the South Omaha Live Stock Exchange a trust, and a perpetual injunction is asked to restrain its members from further acting as an organization. The suit is Ijegtin by United States District Attorney Sawyer, acting under instructions from Attorney General McKenna. Similar suits, it is said, will be begun against every live stock exchange in the country. The attorney general’s office at Washington declares its belief that it has a good ease against the South Omaha exchange, and that it can prove that it is operating in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. The United States engineers in charge of the fortifications of San Francisco have directed that a survey *be made on the shore line on the south side of the bay and Golden Gate from Black Point to Point

Lobos. The purpose of the survey, which has just been begun and will be completed a week hence, is to accurately locate the forts for the information of the War Department. Army and navy officers think that the harbor defenses are now sufficiently well advanced to stand off any fleet that Spain or Japan could put into action there, and they are strong enough, with the assistance of floating batteries of the Monterey and Monadnock type and with the aid of torpedoes, to make a splendid fight against the best fleet England would be likely to send.