Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1897 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Samples of ore from the Robert E. Lee mine in South Dakota assayed $1,966 in gold j>er ton. At Milan, Mo..'BertTlockaday was instantly killed in the Mendota coal mines by falling rock. At Dayton. 0., B. F. Hargrave shot himself in the heart while suffering with rheumatism. He was 62 years of age. James Baker and High Warden, both colored, got into a quarrel over a load of wood at Dunkirk, 0., and Warden killed Baker. Miss Mathilda Anderson, who had been kept alive at the St. Paul city hospital for six weeks by artificial respiration, died Of congestion of the lungs. At Kansas City, Mo.. Mrs. Amanda J. Baird, the Christian science healer, was fined SSO in police court for failing to report to the Board of Health a case of diphtheria she was treating. Ex-State Treasurer Booker of North Dakota, recently indicted for making a fraudulent report of the condition of the Grand Forks National Bank, of which he is president, is missing. The iron manufacturers operating the blast furnaces through the Mahoning valley, Ohio, have decided to advance the wages of furnace employes 10 per cent, to take effect Wednesday, Dec. 1. Miss Grace M. Bliiott, of San Francisco, was a little too premature in the distribution of cash gifts to institutions based upon her inheritance of a $25,000,000 estate. The inheritance has now proven to be a myth. The directors of the Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce have adopted a majority report of the committee on rules, advocating the amendment so as to make No. 1 northern w heat the only grade deliverable upon contract for future delivery. The Campbell family, including John and Alexander Campbell, of ‘Warren, Ohio, Mrs. McKinley, mother of President McKinley, and others have notice of a fortune left them in Scotland by an ancestor. The estate is large and steps will be taken to secure it. At Mankato, Minn.. John A. Willard, a millionaire banker, has made an assignment. Mr. Willard estimates his direct liabilities at about $480,000. All is secured with what was supposed to be ample security. His direct liabilties are perhaps doublp the size of his direct. From-present indications the Grand TruidCTtailway Company has laid its plans very well and with little noise for getting into Toledo and tapping the great coal fields of Ohio. A combination be? tween that read and the Columbus and Lima Northern is thought to be probable. At Carson, Nev., Julian Guinan, aged 16, shot and fatally wounded Charles Jones, United States district attorney. Jones died soon afler the shooting. Guinan surrendered himself at the sheriff’s office and confessed. He claims to have killed Jones thinking he was about to attack Guinan's father. "T" ~'

Two weeks ago Lynn Taylor went to Cincinnati instead of appearing at the side of Miss Mary Burns, at Cynthiana, Ky., the evening he was to make her his bride. The mortified and heartbroken girl took the matter so seriously as to prefer death by suicide to facing life afterward. , T.iy’or committed suicide from remorse, adopting the same method as did Miss Burns, his affianced bride. He hanged himself. The trustees of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce have adopted a resolution asking the United States government to set aside the money obtained from the payment of the debts of theT'nion, Central and Kansas Pacific railroads, the fund <o be applied io the construction of the Niearaugua Canal. The government was also asked to establish a patrol of the Yukon River, and to station two additional artillery regiments at San Francisco.

The god<J government committee of the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor at San Francisco has taken a hand in the matter of the petition to the President of the United States regarding slav-. ery in Chinatown, and will work for it to the best of its ability, hoping to roll up such a list of signatures that the subject matter will demand immediate attention. Following is an extract from the petition: “The fourteenth amendment of the constitution of the United States expressly forbid* the holding of human beings in

bondage and declares that the barter and sale of such human beings is a felony, yet there is now a Condition of slavery in this city aud State whereby more than 1,000 females are held in bondage, bought and sold as chattels, and kept in a condition of involuntary servitude:- These slaves are scourgtM, beaten, tortured and even killed by their owners in insolent defiance of the laws of the land. The number of these slaves is annually recruited by importations from China in violation of the exclusion act of the Congress of the United States. While there are no records of the illegal landing of Chinese females, or the attempt to illegally land Chinese females other than lhpse<who are held as slaves, the Federal and municipal authorities seem powerless to prevent such illegal landing and traffic in human beings.”