Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1897 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Mrs. Nancy Allison McKinley, mother of President Wm. McKinley, died at her home in Canton, Ohio. Three troops of cavalry have been ordered out to capture Indians -who are on the warpath in Arizona. While hunting near Fallsburg, Ohio, Amos Martin accidentally shot his brother Elmer, injuring him fatally. Frank Hunt, aged 11, died at Akron, 0., of brain fever, the direct result of injuries received in a football game. Jimmie Considine, who stole a tray of diamonds at Kansas City, has been sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. At Toledo, Ohio, Dr. James H. Pooley, dean of the Toledo Medical College, and one of the best-known physicians and surgeons in the State, is dead. John A. Willard, the well-known banker, died suddenly at Mankato, Minn. An operation was performed for strangulated hernia a few days previous. Eight persons in the home of George Gorden in St. Louis were saved from being burned to death at an early hour by the crying of a frightened baby. At Oakland, Cal., two Southern Pacific switch engines came into collision on the Oakland mole, causing the deaths of two men and seriously injuring another. The Seminole Indian commission is at Muskogee, I. T., and has opened negotiations for a treaty between the United States Government and the Seminole nation. Andrew Zorn left Monroeville, 0., the other day, ostensibly for home, since which time all trace of him has been lost. It is claimed many persons had lent him money. J. J. Miller, editor of the Santa Fe Monitor, will test in the courts the rights of passengers on railroad trains who are kept awake by the snoring of fellow passengers. The Ohio State Federation of Labor has passed resolutions indorsing the proposed postal savings plan and opposing the extension of time to put safety brakes on cars. A man named Kinsman was held up and robbed at Gulfton, Mo., and then tied to the rails to meet death under the wheels of a train, but was discovered and released.

At Toledo, Ohio, Dan Robb was shot and instantly killed by William Downey. Robb is alleged to have made threats that he would kill Downey, with whom he had some difficulty. It is announced that St. Louis will soon have a new hotel that will cost $2,000,000, and that several Chicagoans and a well-known hotel man of Indianapolis will furnish the necessary capital. At St. Paul, Minn., an elevator in the wholesale millinery establishment of Robinson & Strauss fell six stories, instantly killing E. J. Munn, a traveling salesman, and fatally injuring William Schaller. John Winslow, who sued the Knights of Maccabees for $25,000 for dislocating one of his kidneys, while initiating him, was awarded SIO,OOO by a jury in Judge Bates’ division of the Circuit Court at Kansas City, Mo. The land suit of the Des Moines Valley Railroad Company against James O. West and Sylvester M. Fairchild has been decided in favor of the plaintiff by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Louis. At St. Paul, Minn., William F. Bickel, vice-president and cashier of the Minnesota Savings Bank, which went down in the financial flurry of one year ago, was found not guilty of the charge of making away with funds belonging to the bank. Uranium, worth $1,500 per ton, has been discovered near Black Hawk, C 010.,, and the agents of a French syndicate have announced that they will buy all that can be produced, as it is much desired by the French Government for hardening and solidifying gun metal and armor plate. “Mike” Dwyer and John Laughlin, of the Soldiers’ Home, Dayton, Ohio, quarreled. Laughlin struck Dwyer on the neck with his fist, knocking him down. Dwyer’s head struck a stone step and his skull was fractured. He soon died. Laughlin was arrested on a charge of murder. ' ' Byron Gilbert, the 7-year-old son of Judge W. D. Gilbert of Atchison, Kan., has been granted a conditional license to practice law before the Supreme Court of Kansas* the license to take effect when

the lad shall become 21 years of age. The boy is a wonder. He is well versed on all law points, and the examination which he passed would have been a creditable one to any applicant. He is the youngest practitioner ever admitted in the history of jurisprudence. Charles Birnbaum, aged 55 years, once a wealthy mine owner, shot and killed himself at his home in Kansas City, despondent over business reverses and illhealth. Mrs. Birnbaum, who is blind, was the first to discover her husband after he had shot himself. She had entered his room, and failing to receive a reply to a question, placed her hand on his head. One of her fingers touched the spot where the bullet had entered Birnbaum’s forehead, and she screamed and fainted. The north-bound passenger on the Chicago division of the Panhandle collided with a south-bound freight just south of Royal Center at 5 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. A. Cottner, aged 26, of Royal Center, was instantly killed. Cottner and William Menthon, also of Royal Center, were riding on the blind baggage, and when the accident occurred Menthon jumped, escaping with a bad cut on the hand. Cottner, however, was caught between the car and engine and crushed. Two small children of Mrs. Hardesty of Kewanee were painfully bruised- None of the train men or other passengers was hurt.