Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1897 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Morgan & Gorrell. coal operators at Bellaire, 0., have failed. Mrs. W. K. Miller, a cousin of President McKinley, is dead at Canton, Ohio. Antone Perme was murdered by Frank Permitz, alias Zogar, at Ely, Minn. The Travelers' Insurance Company has withdrawn all its business from Kansas. A. S. Wamsley of Rome, 0., was burned to death by the explosion of a gasoline stove. The Mermod & Jaccard Jewelry Company at St. Louis was burned out. Loss, $500,000. William Broad, 69 years old, a native of Holland, committed suicide at San Francisco. / The Howr Manufacturing Company’s plant at Akron, Ohio, was almost destroyed by fire. The Oakland, Cal., Board of Trade has adopted in faTor of the Hawaiian annexation treaty. The Coshocton National Bank of Coshocton, 0,, has been authorized to begin business. Capital, $50,000. j Frank Conners was probably fatally burned by ao explosion of crude oil vapor while making gas at Kansas City. At Lima, 0., Gustave Einerick was burned to death by an explosion of kerosene; with which he was starting a fire. An Omaha jury has given a verdict in favor of the city against the bondsmen of ex-City Treasurer Henry Bolton for $71,000. Louis Yura, of Warren, Ohio, on trial for killing Isaac Hill, of Farmington, was found guilty of murder in the first degree. Jack MeCune, a gambler, who killed William A. Albin Aug. 6, committed suicide in the St. Joseph, Mo., jail by taking morphine. . ' Hon. Washington Hesing, editor of the Illinois Staats Zeitung, and ex-post-master of Chicago, Aied at his home in that city. George J. Fritch, president of the Fritch Furniture Company of St. Louis, committed suicide by hanging himself in an elevator shaft. At Lima, 0., highwaymen assaulted Frank Brants and after beating him in-

sensible fobbed him of $750. He will probably die. Rev. T. S. Hooks and 15-year-old Mary Johnson, of Bteelburg, Kaij., from which place they eloped, have been arrested at Pueblo, Colo. Charles Robinson, now in jail at Fort Scott, Kan., has been identified as a noted postofflee robber wanted for many crimes in Missouri. Gov. Leedy of Kansas will present a scheme to the Nebraska irrigation congress to construct a 1,700-mile canal from Montana to Texas. The Indianapolis City Council has passed a curfew ordinance prohibiting children from using the streets after 9 p. m. in the summer and 8 p. m. in the winter. Rev. -Dr. Salter, -State chaplain of the G. A. It. of Minnesota, and founder of Pilgrim Congregational Church and of the Bethel of Duluth, died at Duluth, aged 66 years. While Timothy Carroll, a prominent citizen of Kilkenny, Minn., was driving home his team ran into a rut, his wagon was overturned and his neck was broken, causing instant death. John Gillespie, territorial auditor of Ne-. braska, and a member of the commission which founded the eity < of Lincoln and made it the seat of the State Government, died at Lincoln, aged 05. The fire which destroyed the immense establishment of the Mermod & Jaccard Jewelry Company at St. Louis failed to damage $250,000 worth of jewelry contained in the fireproof vault. The Attorney General of Nebraska has filed suit against ex-Treasurer Bartley and his bondsmen for $335,000, the amount Bartley is charged with embezzling from the public school fund. Michael Hicks, alias C. Cole, after attempting to rob Andrew Young in West Yan Buren street, Chicago, was shot by a police officer and died about thirty minutes later in the county jail hospital. At Milwaukee, grain rates to the East have taken an astonishing drop. Fifteen cents on 100 pounds of grain and flour in carlots frSm Milwaukee to New York, 13 cents to Philadelphia and 12 cents to Baltimore are the new figures. Fire destroyed the big Auditorium building, Ninth and Holmes streets, which contains the biggest theater in Kansas City and one of the big hotels. The Auditorium building cost about $225,000, and is owned by Alexander Fraser, who also owns the hotel and theater furnishings. H. W. Strauss & Co. and other produce dealers of Cleveland are about to institute proceedings before the interstate commerce commission, charging the Cleveland •Car Service Association with discriminating in favor of the Standard Oil Company and the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company.