Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1898 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

John Howard of lowa was fatally shot while resisting footpads near Emporia, Kan. The meeting of the American Historical Society at Cleveland promises to be well attended. At Rapid City, S. D., .Judge George Clark attempted to commit suicide. He ran a poeket knife into his throat. He may not live. Dr. J. D. Goddard, under sentence of sixteen years for the murder of F. J. Jackson at Kansas Oy, has been released on $13,500 bail. The Comptroller of the Currency has authorized the Nevada National Bank of San Francisco to begin business, with a capital of $3,000,000. P. D. Armour has notified his local representative at Youngstown, 0., to subscribe SIOO to the Reuben McMillan free library fund of that city. A w_reck took place at the Memphis road’s depot at Liberal, Mo. Local train No. 46 broke in two on the down grade going into town, and the two sections came together in front of the station. Five persons were injured, two seriously. An unusual suicide was that of L. W. Kampel, a Cincinnati tailor, who was found by his daughter dead on his work bench. He had attached a rubber tube to the gas jet and from it inhaled the gas until he was overcome. He was at one time quite wealthy and had divided his property among his children, whose ingratitude weighed on his mind. Mrs. John Van Schaack, who for the last three months has interested New York and Chicago through her suit against her father-in-law, Peter Van Schaack, the Chicago millionaire druggist, on the grounds of alienating her husband’s affections, caused a commotion in St. Louis by declaring that she had been robbed of papers of importance in connection with the litigation. Gen. Roy Stone, acting president of the National League for Good Roads, believes he has found a way to make postal savings banks and good roads promote each other. His plan is that postal savings banks shall be established, and that the Postoffice Department shall invest the deposits in county bonds for the building of good roods. The League of American Wheelmen favors the scheme. As a sequel to the sensational litigation growing out of the shortage of exStnte Treasurer Bartley, of Nebraska, the Attorney General has brought suit to recover $261,884 from the Omaha National Bank. The suit grows out of the fact that the Omaha bank noted as agent in disposing of a State warrant for that amount to the (jhemlcnl National Bank of New York Cr(y, and when the warrant was paid by Bltrt ley he drew a check on funds deposited in the local bank. Indirectly the Chemical National Bank is affect cd.