Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1897 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The public school building at West Unity, Ohio, was destroyed by fire. Mrs. M. A. Dorn of Selma, Cal., laughed so heartily that she ruptured a blood vessel and died. At Newark, €)., Mrs. Mcllissa Yates died from an overdose of morphine taken for rheumatism. H. Compton and his young wife were killed by the cars at Compton, Cal., while crossing the track in a wagon. The Montana Supreme Court has sustained the constitutionality of the inheritance law passed by the last Legislature. Anton Kozlowski, Polish priest of Chicago, has been consecrated a bishop of the Independent Catholics of North America, Lars Olsen, a pioneer of Howard, 8. D., was found dead in bed. He was asphyxiated. Mrs. Olsen was unconscious, but is recovering. Recent fires in the girls’ quarters at the Carlisle Indian school, it has been discovered, were set by girl pupils, who have been arrested. The new owners of the Cincinnati Com-mercial-Tribune say that Murat Halstead will have nothing to do with the management* o's the paper. According to a New York dispatch George Wheeler Hinman is to succeed William Penn Nixon as editor-in-chief of the Chicago Inter Ocean. The Territorial Press Association, in session at Hennessey, O. T., adopted resolutions favoring the creation of a State from Oklahoma Territory. Suit has been begun at Toledo, Ohio, against the Woolson Spice Company for over SIOO,OOO ’back taxes alleged to be due on credits and cash not listed for taxation. The Missouri Supreme Court has affirmed the judgment of the criminal courtin the case of George Thompson, a negro, convicted of murder, and set Jan. 7 as the date of his execution. Chief Justice Corliss of the North Dakota Supreme Court declares that Condot, the half-breed who was lynched by a mob, was innocent of complicity in the murder of the-Spicer family. The Short Line Railway from Colorado Springs to Cripple Creek, a distance of forty miles, will be built by a company composed of Franklin D. Rogers, Woodman S. Eaton and other Eastern men. S. M. Folsom, former president of the Albuquerque National Bank, serving a five years’ sentence for falsifying the published statements of the bank, has been granted a full pardon by the President. Col. Leopard Hein, a Bavarian, died penniless and of a broken heart at St. Louis. For twenty-five years he had been searching for a sweetheart from whom he was parted by his parents in Germany. He was 55 years old. The Ohio Supreme Court has decided that the Clark law passed by the last Legislature, requiring that in filling appointive county and city offices preference should be given to honorably discharged Union soldiers, is invalid. A passenger train on the Cleveland, Canton and Southern Railway was derailed on the approach to a bridge over the Pettibone brook. Two of the passenger coaches rolled over the embankment into the ditch. Sixty persons were aboard, but only three were injured. The little village of Rozel, Kan., has completely disappeared from the face of the earth. The ground sank beneath it

and the whole village sank into a chasm, which the next morning was found filled to within seventy feet of the surface with dark, stagnant-looking water. Dr. Mulholland, a physician at Junction, 0., was held up and robbed on the bridge over the Auglaize river in Pauldjng County. Dr. Mulholland had been called into the country. When returning in a buggy he was stopped by two masked men. He was Wounded in making resistance. An immense claim embracing, 7,000,000 acres of land in the Northwest and including the cities of Minneapolis and St, Paul, has been brought before Commissioner Hermann of the general land office at Washington. The claimants are C. B. Holloway of Holland, Ohio, and A. U. Gunn, of Maumee, Ohio. A panic was caused in St. Xavier school in Cincinnati by the upsetting of a stove. Some of the frightened children jumped from the windows, while others were thrown down by the maddened efforts of the stronger ones to escape. The fire was quickly subdued and the four seriously injured pupils were sent home in patrol wagons. George Seagraves, proprietor of a St. Louis restaurant, reproved his two grown sons for some trivial offense and they made a murderous assault on him. One of the sous drew a revolver and used it to club his father into insensibility. Both then fled, but one was captured and lodged in jail.*. The father’s skull is crushed and he cannot live. The Montana State Trade and Labor Association has adopted resolutions condemning the interference of the United States Court with the Chinese boycott there and other boycotts elsewhere on the ground that the boycott of organized labor is a defensive instrument, an expression of the right to extend patronage to those who, by employing union labor, patronize labor. George M. Hughes of Anadarko, I. T., has arrived in Wichita, Kan., on a trip to secure 20,000 colonists for the Wichita country to settle in and about the Wichita Mountains before Jan. 7 and by sheer persistency and force of numbers compel Congress to open the country to settlement. Hughes is one of twenty men who are now making a systematic canvass in Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas for “boomers” to locate in the new country. The plan is to inaugurate a promiscuous immigration into the Indian country at once and begin to hunt for gold, demanding of Congress, at the same time, the opening of the Wichita reservation. The movement promises to surpass the famous colony expedition into Oklahoma by Captain Payne. A deputy sheriff, a Santa Fe deputy and a policeman, while attempting to arrest a dattle thief in the postoffice at Emporia, Kan., -were all three disarmed by the single man, who escaped. Sheriff Gaughan had received a telegram asking that a man named Kooken be arrested. Deputy Sheriff Fred Wagner, Santa b e Detective Laws and Policeman Al Randolph went to the postoffice and placed Kooken under arrest while he was reading a letter. “All right,” said Kooken, “I’ll go with you in a minute,” and commenced placing his letter in his pocket. Like a flash he pulled a revolver in each hand, shoved one into the face of Wagner ami coolly said: “Cough up your gun,” and almost in the same breath covered the other two officers. In a moment the three men were disarmed. Shoving -the pistols into his overcoat pocket the man rushed for the door and disappeared. A posse of deputy sheriffs and the entire police force are now out hunting him. A decision that is of interest throughout the country to organized labor has been rendered in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Louis. Ac--eevding to the opinions, of Judges Thayer and Sanborn, the boycott is not a legal weapon. Judge Caldwell, however, takes exception to the views of the other two judges, and sets forth his opinion in emphatic terms. In his opinion Judge Caldwell says: “Whether organized labor has just grounds to declare a strike or boycott is not a judicial question. They are labor’s only weapons, and they are lawful and legitimate weapons, and so long as in their use there is no force or threat of violence or trespass upon person or property, their use cannot be restrained. In the case of a strike or boycott, so long as each side is orderly and peaceful, they must be permitted to terminate their struggle in their own way, without extending to one party the adventitious aid of an injunction. All capital seeks to increase its power by combinations, and to that end assumes the form of corporations and trusts. The struggle is constant between the laborers whose labor produces the dividends and those who enjoy them. The'manager is tempted to reduce wages to increase dividends, and the laborer resists the reduction and demand living wages. Sometimes the struggle reaches the point of open rupture. When it does the only weapon of defense the laborers can appeal to is the strike or boycott, or both. These weapons they have an undoubted right to use so long as they use them in peaceable and orderly .manner.”