Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1897 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Star Pointer paced a mile in 2:00% and Joe Patchen a mile in 2:01% at Terre Haute. The Chicago baseball club has dismissed its damage suit for $13,373 against the State of Illinois. Frank Fadellin, a Detroit trunkmaker, shot and killed his son and a neighbor named Joseph Staedelman and shot his wife in the arm. School boys at Eau Claire, Wis., have experimented so successfully with hypnotism that the School Board has forbidden the dangerous practice. James Fountain, aged 75 years, died in the Boone County poorhouse at Columbia, Mo. He was a first cousin of Mrs. John A. Logan of Washington. Fourteen leading Wisconsin maltsters decline to join the ,American Mailing Company, and announce their intention to fight the trust to the bitter end. % President Harper of the Chicago University will personally see that the maroon football players do not become rough ,in games, under penalty of expitlsion. 11. Irwin, owner of the Belcher silver mine at Boulder, Colo., shot and dangerously wounded his wife and then shot himself in the heart, dying instantly. Frank Morgan of Franklin, Ind., was arrested by Sheriff Weddle at Surnmitville, accused of complicity in the Sebree forgery at Greenwood last summer. Henry I. Witbeek of Chicago lias been adjudged incompetent to manage his affairs by a San Francisco court and his wife is appointed his legal guardian. An attempt was made to burn down the business portion of Stockton, Cal., several incendiary fires being started simultaneously. The Pioneer Art Gallery was destroyed. The officers of the hydrographic offices at Cleveland and Chicago have been ordered to attach themselves to the naval reserves in ah official, advisory and inspective capacity. Henry Tolleston of Toledo, Ohio, and Prof. Daniel J. Holmes of Meadville, Pa., College are believed to be held by Swiss bandits. They were last heard from at Martigny, Switzerland. Sept. 8. The Missouri Broom Manufacturing Company, doing business in the penitentiary, made an assignment for the benefit of its creditors, The liabilities are about SII,OOO. The assets are not known. The strike at the American plate glass factory in Elwoed, Ind;, that threatened to close the entire plant, was adjusted by the State labor commissioners and the plant started work again in all departments. Rev. W. A. Hunsberger, Milwaukee’s “marrying parson,” will continue to do business at the old stand for another year, the conference having reappointed him to the charge of the Grand Avenue Church. Farmer John Becker, who lived near Carroll, lowa, killed his wife and five children Monday night and wounded his eldest son| lie then shot himself and is expected to die. The cause for the tragedy is shrouded in mystery. Department Commander Dodge of the Grand Army of the Republic iu Indiana has issued an order in which he asks every member in the State to contribute 5 or 10 cents to care for the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln in Spencer County. Adam Holtzhauer, a baker, stabbed Kobert Reed, a colored waiter, at the Hotel Bookel at Dayton, O. Reed died in a few minutes. Holtzhauer'claims that Reed abused him and tried to strike him on the head with a dish and that he stabbed Reed in self-defense. Report comes from Fuller, in the southern part of Benton County, Mo., of the wrecking of a church and printing office ■et up near there by n sect calling them-

selves “Brethren of the Church of Christ in Love and Union.” A hundred farmers raided the building, destroyed the press, pied the forms and threw the type into the street. . Peter Hudson, a citizen of the Choctaw nation and superintendent of the female academy at Tuskahoma, Ark., says a movement is on foot looking to the sale by the full-blooded Choctaws of all their rights in the Indian Territory, and the removal of the eutire tribe, as far as represented by the full bloods, to a tract of land in old Mexico. Jacob Jackson, the oft-defeated candidate for chief, is to lead the tribe to the new lan^l. Several hundred delegates, each with a limb or some other part of his anatomy missing, are in attendance on the first national convention of cripples. The promoter of the unique gathering is William It. Trower, a crippled employe of the Iron Mountain Railroad, and the purposes are to discuss a variety of subjects of common interest to the deformed, crippled and maimed, such as employment to which they are best suited, the subject of artificial limbs and the question of institutions and homes for their maintenance. The Modern Woodmen war between Fulton and Rock Island ended in a sensational manner. The records of the head office were moved to the former place after Judge Gest had dissolved the latest injunction. Lieut. Gov. Xorthcott and Adjutant General Reece, who were actively engaged in the removal, were mnhbed by a crowd of Fulton pnplo and locked up in a depot, and five companies of State militia were ordered out to rescue them, hut they were released before any of the troops arrived on the scene. Two companies of United States cavalry from the Boise barracks passed through Pocatello, Idaho, eu route to the Fort Hall agency to assist Agent Irwin in placing Indian girls in school. About a bundled of the young bucks, encouraged by the old squaws, have formed a conspiracy to keep the girls out of school and have defied the authority of the agent. The trouble began a few weeks ago, when a 14-year-old girl, who had been married during the summer, was gathered in by the Indian police in their search for school children. Her husband and his friends set upon the police, and after a sharp fight took the girl away from them.