Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1897 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

William Compton, a farmer aged 48, of Chambersburg, Ohio, while offering a fine horse for sale, was kicked in the breast and killed almost instantly. Dr. D. R. Jetmings, a prominent dentist of Cleveland, shot himself in his office in the Arcade building. It is supposed that overindulgence in drugs unbalanced his mind. . Gen. Lew Wallace, it is announced, will ask the next Indiana-Republican convention for indorsement as the party candidate for United States Senator to succeed David Turpie, whose term will expire in 1899. In Toledo, Ohio, Prof. Martin Friedburg, Who was principal of German in the Toledo schools for years, committed suicide. He was about 60 years, of age. Omar T. Case killed himself at the St. Charles Hotel. The .Baptist University, at Sioux Falls, S. D., from which institution the pupils dll walked out a few days ago, is in A peculiar position. The trustees refuse to remove the president and the students reflse to return until this is done. .A lighted cigarette' dropped by a thoughtless clerk is'supposed to have caused the fire which destroyed the whitestone building at the corner of 7th and ■Chestnut -streets, :St. Louis, occupied by the general offices .at the Wabash Railroad.

President Calloway .of the Lake Shore Ra i! way says : h is. com pa ny will fight to the end ;the mileage la w recently enacted by the Michigan Legislature. He declares that it is unconstitutional and that the Legislature has transcended its iPow.er®. News has just reached Deliver that ,a stage tavittg ,eighteen .pttssengers, and drawa by six galloping horses, was upset in rounding a curve three miles from the new mining camp of Grand Encampment, IVyo., and as a result throe men were badly injured and several .others had to have medical aid. The special committee of lines interested which was appointed to meet in St. Louis, Mo., and agree upon a basis of rates that should govern on shipments of grain from southwestern Missouri river points to the gulf and to the Mississippi river, after a two days’ session, failed to come to any understanding. Adjournment was taken until Nor. 8, in Chicago. At St. Louis, December wheat bulged again. At the opening it was %c below the price asked at the elose the day before, selling at lied to sl.Ol, was offered at $1.00% to $1.00%, rallied to $1.00% to sl.Ol, fluctuated within a narrow range, finally advancing to $1.03 and closing nt that. May closed at sl.Ol. Drought in the wheat belt had a bullish effect on the market. An expedition to view and photograph the eclipse of the sun in India Jan. 22 has left Oakland, Cal., for Hong Kong on the steamer Belgic. It is headed by Prof. Charles Burckhalter of the Chabot observatory. Prof. Burckhalter has an invention of his own which he expects to give the best results ever obtained in photographing the eclipsed sun. He took it to Japan with him, but a heavy storm prevented it being tested. Since the cruiser Baltimore has been anchored in the harbor at San Francisco preparatory tc going to Honolulu her

I commander has reported to the police the I almost daily desertion of three or Tour of the crew. Already twenty have succeeded in escaping and unless a stricter "Watch | is kept it is believed that another draft I of men w ill have to be sent from the East ito fill her complement. Qne night seven ■ men succeeded in getting ashore by swimming and in small boats. Mrs. Peter Hauptmann, wife of a wealthy St. Louis merchant, was attacked Aug. 3 by someone who cut her throat with a broad knife, killing her instantly. At the inquest it was decided that Louise, the insane daughter, had committed the act. The strongest witness against Louise was her brother Will, whose sanity at that time was unquestioned. The next day an Will went away on a trip, returning a few days later, and it was then stated that Will was insane. Physicians examined him and he was committed to aa'insane asylum. Now Will’s sweetheart, Annie Kline, and his stepsister, Mrs. Windsheimer, say that on the day of the murder they heard a commotion and rushed into the room, where they found Will standing at the door trembling and that he had’ blood on his shirt. They say Louise was sitting calmly atii table •eating, in exactly the same position she was when Mrs. Windsheimer left her a Tew minutes before. The stories of the two women have aroused much attention and a thorough investigation is being ma dip. The initial step toward what may be the final termination of the vexed Indian problem in the Indian Territory has just been taken by Chief Isparcecher in a special message to the Creek council. The plan advocated is supposed to be the result of the recent conference of leaders of the Cherokee, Creek and Seminole tribes, and Chief Mayes of the Cherokee Nation is known to favor the plan. In his message Chief Isparcecher says: “Our effort to treat with the United States Government has proved unsuccessful and we can now have no hope of continuing our government much longer as we now do by the terms of any new treaty. The time has now come, in my opinion, when the citizens of the five nations should get together and agree upon the establishment of a general government by which we may perpetuate the rights of self-government. Should we be attached to Oklahoma as a territory or State this right of self-govern-ment will be taken from us by the superior number of its voting population. None of us wants such a connection with Oklahoma, yet there are strong efforts being made by politicians for single statehood including the five nations. They are yet the sovereigns of their soil and politically free born, with the right to shape for themselves a government that will be for the protection of their lives and property.” In conclusion the chief recommends the holding of a convention of the leading men of the five civilized tribes, to the end that the United States Government may receive definite proposals looking to the esof a government “of the Indians and for the Indians of the fire civilized tribes.”