Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1897 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The Chickasaw Nation has rejected the Dawes treaty. The United States steamer Algonquin, which was built for the revenue cutter service on the lakes, was successfully launched at Cleveland, O. Commissioner of Indian Affairs Jones, who is now in the West, says the reports that the Indians have invaded the Wichita mountains are untrue. A delegation from the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian nations in Indian territory is in Washington to look after legislation in the interests of those tribes. The residence of State Senator Leesh, a few miles from North Yakima, Wash., was totally destroyed by fire. Mr. Leesh’s 1-year-old daughter perished in the flames. At Exeter, N. H., Mrs. Annie Fitzsimmons, Edwin W. Quinby and his wife were poisoned by drinking wood alcohol. Mrs. Fitzsimmons and Mrs. Quinby are dead. Seventeen States are represented by their adjutant generals and other military officers at a meeting at St. Louis, Mo., for the purpose of advancing military interests. The Supreme Court dispelled the last hope of W. H. T. Durrant, the murderer of Blanch Lamont and Minnie Williams, by disposing in a summary manner of his two : appeals. ; ;i 0 Dallas Neally, the IG-year-old son of a farmer living four miles north of Hardin, Mo., died from a gunshot wound received at the hands of Henry Evans, a boy friend and playmate of about the same age. Fire broke out in the Lake House, a four-story structure at Milwaukee, the other morning. Sixty people were asleep in the hostelry at that time. One life was lost and five persons were injured in jumping from the building. The motion for new trial in the case of Frank A. Novak, convicted at Vinton. lowa, of murder in the second degree, was overruled and the court passed sentence that he be confined to hard labor in the penitentiary at Anamosa for the period of his natural life. In the Federal court at Seattle, Wash., Judge Hauford awarded Caston Jacobi and Charles Buff, passengers who started to Alaska last September on the steamer Eugeue, SBOO damages each against the owners of the 6teamer for their failure to land them at Dawson. Adam Über, who killed Hans Anderson at Garduerville last week, was taken from the Genoa, Nev., jail at 2 o’clock in the morning, stripped of his clothing and hanged. His body was riddled with bullets by a mob of twenty-five men, supposed to be from Gardnerville. Joe Johnson, the mulatto accused of enticing Kate Neill, a white girl, from her home in Sweet Springs, Mo., has been captured in Missoula, Mont. He admits having taken the girl away from home, but declares he left her in Butte, having persuaded her to go back to her home. The United States steamship Alert at San F'rancisco is being prepared for a trip to the Pacific terminus of the Nicaragua Canal, where she will be at the disposal of the United States commission now investigating the proposed route of the interoceanic canal, and look into its feasibility and probable cost of construction. A Kansas City telegram says: The company digging for the old steamer Arabia, which sank with a cargo of whisky in the Missouri thirty-five years ago, has struck the place. It is now digging for the submerged stuff, which it believes is still in fine condition, and expects to clear SIOO,000. The cargo consisted of 185 barrels. Judge Horace It. Buck, associate justice of the Supreme Court of Montana, shot himself through the right eye at his home in Lenox, a suburb of Helena, Mont. He had spent the evening with a party of friends at a neighbor’s house, seeming very cheerful. After chatting for a .while with his familyhe went to his room and soon afterward the shot that coded hi* life was fired. His wife ran

upstairs and found him lying on the floor dead. The judge had been breaking down in health for some time. He was 44 years of age, a native of Vicksburg, Miss., and a graduate of Yale. He went to Montana in 1879.