Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1898 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Twelve hundred coal miners in northern Colorado have struck for an increase of wages. The jury in the Yillers ‘murder trial at Jamestown, N. IL, returned a verdict of guilty and fixed the penalty at life imprisonment. * An interesting feature of the proposed gigantic bituminous coal trust is a profitsharing plan, in which the miners will be allowed to co-operate. An Indian woman claims to be the lawful wife of John R. Hite, the California millionaire mine owner, who married a Ban Francisco lady last October. The interpartisan convention at Kingfisher, O. T., adopted a resolution asking Congress to pass an enabling act for the admission of Oklahoma as a State. A new traffic arrangement seeks to throw the freight business from Oregon a,nd Washington by Southern lines, instead of exclusively* by the Northern Pacific. At Willmar, Minn., fire, caused by a defective chimney, totally destroyed the Northwestern Elevator Company’s elevator, Together with about (1,000 bushels of wheat. Doctors at the Rebekah Hospital in St. Louis have successfully removed the stomach of a man named Beck, 40 years old. suffering from cancer. They say be will recover. President McKinley has pardoned Clyde Mattox, twice convicted of the murder in Oklahoma, Ok'., in December, 1890, of John Mullins, a negro, and sentenced to hang. At Fostorio, 0., Henry Ivohn, proprietor of Kohn Brothers’ dry' goods nnd clothing store, has assigned to Meyer Friend. The assets are largely in excess o? the liabilities. Edward Killfeather, an Oregon politician, nnd I. 11. Tnffo, have been convicted of jury bribing at Portland, Ore., in connection with the right of way of a proposed boat railway. Ignatius Jlonnelly is at work on a new Baconian cryptogram. He now claims that Bacon not only wrote the Bhakspeare plays nnd ronnots, but that be was probably the author of “Don Quixote." Customs officers nt Port Townsend, Wash., seized 420 quart bottles of whisky on the steamer City of Seattle just before she sailed for Alaska. A small quantity was also found on the City of Topeka.

Richard Pithii*, a bridge contractor, lias discovered a deposit cf natural cement near Bt. Helena, Cal., which he says is much superior to the imported article, nnd which can be procured at a much smaller cost. Paul Metcalf, said to lie a refugee from Montana, with a thirty years’ sentence for murder hanging -over him. was probably fatally wounded in a desperate light with a sheriff’s posse in a dugout near Winchester, Ok. Miss Elizabeth Van Wyck Anderson, n niece of Mayor Van Wyck of New York, while delirious from fever nt Tacoma, eluded her watchers and tried to drown herself in 'Puget Sound. She was rescued by n policeman. At Sun Francisco, Cal., Mrs. James L. Flood, wife of the millionaire mine-own-er, died as the result of nu operation recently performed nt the California Woman's Hospital. She was 34 years of age and a native of Kansas City. In a dwelling house in Chouteau avenue, St. Louis, the eharred remains of a little girl were discovered. The house was ooeupiod by August Hauer, Mrs. Hilda Ersar and her little girl. Hauer was arrested. The police think he killed the child and fired the, building. The Ideiil comedy drama of American ! home life, "Shore Acres," with its talented author, James A. Herne, as Nathaniel Berry, I* playing u short engagement at I McVleker's Chicago theater. This lieautlfnl piny, which was originally produced In the western metropolis in May, 1892, still continues to attract all classes of theater goers nnd its present season promises to lie tlie most successful it has ever had. For the present production of “Shore Acres” dntlre new scenery, the work of 11. L. Held, the New York artist, has been prepared. The supposing company, with bnt few exceptions, is the same that np|>cnrrd in Chicago Lost season, and the same clever children will again appear in their respective roles. Resolution* were adopted by the Nicaraguan canal convention nt Kansas City urgiug, upon Congress the necessity of

legislation to secure construction of the canal. A permanent executive committee was appointed, with 'former Gov. Fishbuck of Arkansas as chairman. The assignee of Lebold, Fisher & Co., proprietors of the Abilepe Bank, in Abilene, ’Kan., who failed in 1889 with liabilities aggregating ( $250,000, has made bis final report. So near worthless was the firm’s assets that the* assignee has paid but a little over 3 per cent of the claims presented. . . John Ritner, who is confined in the*jail at St. Clairsville, 0., although only 10 years of age, confesses to a series of startling crimes. He acknowledges robbing the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling office of S9OO, the postoflice at Wheeling Creek mines of S4OO and wrecking a Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling passenger train for the purpose of robbery, together with a number of minor crimes. As the result of a quarrel at Bellevue, Neb., Mrs. F. A. Langhine went to the residence of Dr. W. C. Buell and fired two shots at him. The doctor drew his revolver and ordored her to throw lip her hands under penalty .of being shot. She did so. A moment later her husband arrived with a shotgun, but the doctor forced him to take a positiou beside his wife. Both were then marched to the police station and arrested. James Murphy, George Woodruff and George Gordon, postoflice burglars, have made thefr escape from the Federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan. The men dropped behind „the other prisoners in coming out to breakfast nnd taking advantage of a heavy fog, sealed a twentyfoot wall by means of a rope laddbr and were gone some time before they were missed., ATI three of them were convicted at Topeka for breaking into postoffices. Murphy and Gordon have two years to serve and Woodruff ten. J. West Goodwin of the Somalia, Mo., Bazoo, secretory of the Eugene Field Monument Association, has received from Hoffman & Brocliazka of New Y’ork the design monument the school children of Missouri propose to erect to the memory of Eugene Field on the Missouri State University campus at Columbia. The base is of rough Missouri granite, ox 7 feet, while the shaft is of polished granite, upon Which rests a bronze figure of the dead poet. The cost of the monument will be about SO,OOO.