Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1898 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

An explosion of dust or gas in a mine near Chicopee, Kan., caused the death of six men. * At Mound City, Kan., Mrs. Susan B. Wattles, one of the oldest settlers of the State, is dead. Judge Scott of the District Court at Cmaha, Neb., handed down an opinion holding unconstitutional the law under which the Omaha police commission is appointed. The insurance grain business of Paddock, Hodge & Co. will hereafter be conducted by Justice H. Bowman, of Toledo, Ohio, alone, he having purchased the interests of his partners for upward of a quarter of a million. The employes of the “Budweiser department” of the Anheuser-Busch Brewery Association at St. Louis were remembered with a special gift. The reason for the celebration was the filling of the five hundred millionth bottle of “Budweiser.” Aaron Pardee, the oldest practicing attorney in the United States, died in Wadsworth, Ohio, aged 90 years. He was a member of Gen. Garfield's regiment in the war. He was father of Gen. Don Pardee, United States judge at New Orleans. An unknown tramp, who at the point of a revolver robbed W. E. Ayers, station agent on the Kansas Pacific Railroad at Weskan, and subsequently set fire to the snow sheds near Sharon Springs, was killed by Section Foreman Forseberg at Cheyenne, 'Wyo. Four assignments were filed In the probate court at Dayton, Ohio. Welsh & Collins filed three separate deeds to Phares Binkley. Assets and liabilities, $3,500 each. James H. Sounder, liquor dealer, assigned to W. E. Donson; assets, $3,500; liabilities, $3,300. The Port of Chalmette below New Orleans, with its hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in cotton compresses, wharves, etc., has gone into the hands of a receiver on account of its inability to meet SIOO,OOO interest on bonds due July 1, 1897, and Jan. 1, 1898. A cold storm has swept California. Snow has fallen in many counties, the aemitropicnl belt not being exempt, and rain, which was badly needed, has come In sufficient quantities to gratify all growers of cereals. Fruit growers are confident that no injury will At Minneapolis, Minn., Miss Julia Ging, twin sister of Catherine Ging, the victim of Murderer Harry Hayward, has lost her suit against the Travelers' Accident Insurance Company to recover the face of an accident policy on her sister's life. Judge McGee held that the murder was not an accident. Patrick A. I.argcy, president of the State savings bank nt Butte, Mont., and a wealthy mine owner, was shot and killed by Thomas Riley. Riley wns injured in a big explosion Jan. 15, 1895, and has since been making threats against Messrs. Connell, Kenyon, Clark, Largey and others who were supposed to own an interest in the buildings in which the giant powder was stored. Representatives of the Adams Express Company opened an ill-smelling box at Chariton, lowa, having become alarmed at the strong odors emitted therefrom, and found the remains of a human body cut into bits. The box stood krxreral days in the express office and the officers becoming suspicious, pried off the lid. They were nearly knocked down by the stench. Detectives were at once put to work on the case. The Seminole Indians nt Muscogee, I. T„ went on the warpath and left n trail and ashes. Two hundred and fifty braves went to Maud, O. T„ just over the line, and massacred twenty-five men, women nnd children of the homesteaders. After killing every white person they could find they fired the town nnd it Is in ashes. Mnny of the victims were scalped by the savages, nnd other bodies were otherwise mutilated according to Indinn traditions. Judge Charles C. Blnld, prcsidhnMwer the Court of Appeals in Bt. Louis, NuL has given a general opinion which is or greater interest to the commercial world than nny other ruling of the court which has been made for n number of years. The suit wns an action for damages because the Kelly-Goodfellow Company of BL Louis refused to ratify n salt of goods

to a Texas house at the price at which the salesman sold them. The company offered to fill the order at a higher price, 'but the Texas firm refused to Accept the proposition. The trial began in the Circuit Court and at the conclusion of the testimony of the plaintiffs the court instructed for a nonsqit. The plaintiffs appealed from the decision of the court. The Court of Appeals overruled the Circuit Court and ordered that the motion to set aside the nonsuit be sustained and the case Be given a new trial. The steamer City of Seattle sailed from Tacoma, Wash., for Alaska with 600 passengers, and the City of Topeka with 250 passengers. Both steamers had all the freight they could carry and refused many hundred tons. Freight space for the north is in such demand that it is impossible to get accommodation for southeastern Alaska. The steamer AlKi carried 200 passengers, every berth being’ taken. The government relief expedition will start for the Klondike on the steamer Oregon, from Portland, Ore. The advance party consists of sixty men from the Fourteenth Infantry and takes 100 mules and 250 tons of supplies. Captain Ruhtgn of Fort Riley has charge of transportation. A $400,000 contract for mining machinery was awarded the Fraser & Chalmers Company of Chicago, by Captain' Thomas Main of the Alaska Treadwell group of mines, calling for 520 stamps, compressors, engines, etc. When 520 stamps are in operation the Alaska Treadwell Company will have 880 stamps, the largest number on a single ledge in the world.