Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1897 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Chief justice F, C. Truesdale of the Arizona Supreme Court is dying at Phoenix. Thomas Y. Reynolds, the St. Louis reporter who killed James J. Kirby in the course of a quarrel, was justified by the coroner's jury. Students of the Baptist university of Sioux Falls,. S, D., went on strike against the president, who suspended two boys for a minor offense. Jacob Weil, a Cincinnati merchant, who was injured in the collapse of Robinson’s Opera House, is dead,making the fifth victim of that accident. Gov. Tanner has asked Gov. Drake to investigate the report that lowa troops invaded Illinois at the time of the Woodmen trouble in Fulton, 111. Judge Hanford of the Federal Court in Washington State has decided that wives and children of Chinese merchants in America do trot need certificates. George M. Pullman, the head of the great palace car company which bears his mime, died suddenly at his home in Chicago Tuesday morning, of heart failure. After sixty-six hours of fruitless deliberation, the Luetgert jury walked into court in Chicago and reported a hopeless disagreement and was then discharged by Judge Tuthill. A mob of 100 masked men at templed to enter the county jail at Liberty, Mo., for the supposed purpose of lynching William Foley and Frank Wade, two murderers held for trial. The sheriff assembled a few deputies and with a show of arms compelled the mob to disperse. The case of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, plaintiff hi error, vs. Charles Haber, which involves the constitutionality of the Kansas law prohibiting the importation of diseased cattle into the State, has been reassigned by the Supreme Court for the first Monday in Janwjy. The treaty between the Dawes and Creek commissions, which was concluded at Muskogee last month, was rejected by the Creek council at Okmulgee, I. T. The house of warriors, the lower house of the Creek council, was unanimously against it, and only eight members of the house of kings voted for it. The great telescope in the Yerkes observatory at Williams Bay, Wis„ has already given promise of the important astronomical discoveries which are confidently predicted with it as a medium. Prof. Barnard has announced that lie has already discovered a third companion star to Vega. He found it solely because the Yerkes telescope is more searching than any other in the woild. Charles T. Yerkes’ splendid gift is now in the possession of the University of Chicago. Mr. Yerkes- has formally presented to President William R. Harper the keys of the observatory at Williams Bay, Wis., which contains the Yerkes i telescope. The ceremonies covered two ' hoursj“aiid the" greatest retracting teUW scope in the world? having a forty-inch lens, is dedicated and ready to be used by astronomers from every part of the globe. * United States Senator Nelson of Minnesota and J. 11. Berry of Arkansas have been in St. Paul as part of the senatorial committee appointed at the last session to investigate the sources of the Mississippi river in conjunction the United States army engineers for the purpose of devising means to prevent the annual floods and for the general improvement of the up-river country. The entire party has gone to the upper Mississippi river country to commence their investigations and explorations. The investigations will develop the advisability of constructing canals to divert the overflow, extending the reservoirs and using the surplus, for general irrigation purposes as well as for improving the navigation of the river. The new river steamer built last summer for the Government took the party through the chains of i<*pervoirs.