Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1897 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The body of the man who was found dead in the Central Hotel, New York, from asphyxiation was identified as the remains of William Stack, formerly of St. Louis. The New York Chamber of Commerce has passed resolutions urging the President and Congress to take immediate steps to strengthen the defense of Gotham's harbqr. J. M. Hobart, who entered a plea of guilty in the United States District Court in St. Louis, was fined $25 by Judge Adams. He wrote a letter containing improper language to Miss E. L. Fritch. Miss Anna Blythe Ilollywell, a comely member of the class of 1901 of the University of California, whose home is in Redlands, committed suicide in her room at Berkeley by means of a dose of morphine. John Davis, colored, was brought to the Cincinnati jail by officers from Brown County to escape lynching. His crime was shooting and fatally wounding Judge John M. Markley of Brown County Common Pleas Court in Georgetown. A slight earthquake shock was felt at Helena, Mont., rocking buildings. It was of seven seconds’ duration. The shock was also felt in Butte and Anaconda. Many people were shaken out of bed, chimneys fell and plate glass was broken. John Shafer, a Covington shoemaker, 24 years old, was killed while celebrating Democratic victory at Cincinnati. He had been blowing a huge tin horn. He waved it in the air, it came in contact withan electric light wire, and Shafer fell dead. At Kansas City, Mo., Allen M. Bishop, who had been employed as an undertaker's assistant, was found unconscious in the rear of the store. He was removed to police headquarters, where he died in ten minutes. He had committed suicide by drinking embalming fluid. Five men were injured by the bursting of a blast furnace at the Illinois Steel Company plant in Milwaukee. Two cannot live. The iron worked through the furnace into the water jacket, causing an explosion which let all of the iron in the furnace cut in a molten mass. At Tiffin, 0., James Reed went home, drew a revolver and with the words, “I have decided to kill you,” shot his wife three times. He then turned the weapon to his own head and fired, but stumbled and the shot went wild. He was captured by the police and lodged in the county jail. Jealousy. The schooner Volvaho, only seventeen tons burden, has arrived at San Francisco after riding out a storm in midocean, in which her compass was lost. Capt. William Kissel succeeded in making port after a voyage of 1,100 miles with no other guide than the aun, stars and the trend of the currents. At St. Louis, while sixty-five workmen were on a large scaffold extending the

whole length of the Wabash building, which was recently partially destroyed by fire, a cection of the platform gave way, falling to the floor below. /It carried eight men into the mass of debris. Two were fatally injured and four others were seriously hurt. A mixed passenger and freight train rolled down a forty-foot embankment on the Sedalia, Warsaw and Southwestern Road three miles north of Warsaw, Mo. Engineer John Minnier was instantly killed. Fireman Charles McConas had a leg broken, and Brakeman William Price, Conductor W. L. Bass and Fred Schwettmann, a passenger, were badly hurt. Major John S. Mellon of St. Louis will appear in Washington this winter with a bill against the United States Government for services rendered humanity as original discoverer of the germ theory. According to the grizzled veteran it was he who laid the foundation stones to the elaborate structure of bacteriology. Pasteur, he claims, caught his first glimmering of the germ idea from an article which appeared in the old St. Louis Times in the year 1866. It stated that Major Mellon had made the discovery that cholera and diphtheria were caused by what he termed a parasite. In order to cure the disease it was necessary to kill the parasite. Major Mellon offered a recipe which he claimed would accomplish that result. A St. Paul, Minn., special says: “When the early crop of wheat once gets out of the farmers’ hands, after the holidays, it’s likely to bring a decidedly better price. Yes, that price would be more than a dollar a bushel. And never has there been a better outlook at this time of the yea.- for high prices during the following season. Next year will be a year of high-priced wheat.” The foregoing estimate was made by Oliver Dalrymple, the bonanza fanner of the Red River valley. “There is certainly a shortage in wheat supplies at the present time,” continued Mr. Dalrymple, “and the consensus of opinion is that winter wheat will turn out less than an average crop next spring. All the farmers up in Dakota are naturally feeling good in spite of the small crop. We have high prices at last. I’m just on my way to Casselton to pay off my men, and, let me tell you, I do it with a good deal more satisfaction than I have experienced for a number of years.”