Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1898 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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At Perry, O. T., Mrs. James Snyder was so frightened by a report that the Seminoles were planning a massacre that her hair turned from auburn to white. With its capital stock placed at $136,000,000, it cost the re-organized Union Pacific Railway just $20,402.50 to incorporate at Denver under the laws of Colorado. William Hepburn, suspected of being a counterfeiter, has been arrested in California, the paraphernalia necessary for counterfeiting being found in bis possession. , Ulrich Steiner, one of the wealthiest men in Lima, 0., was taken to the nsylum insane over new Christian alliance religion. He killed all his cattle, fowls, etc., because the devil was in them. A well-dressed young man attempted to hold up Judge Madili, president of the Union Trust Co., in his office at St. Louis. The judge’s presence of mind balked the robber, and he was taken to jail. Charles Hoffendorfer’s residence in Dayton, Ohio, was set on fire by incendiaries and burned. Loss, $3,000. Kohle & Pflaul’s foundry was badly damaged by tiro; also the Aetna Paper Company. Eli Blake, postmaster nt Tongnwn, O. T„ was waylaid and beaten to death, presumably by a gang of local toughs, because lie bail been a leader in nn attempt to drive the saloons out of Tongnwa. Michael Hoffman, a pioneer wholesale liquor merchant in Kansas City, has assigned. The liabilities nre stated nt SIOO,000 and' the assets and stock worth $40,000, and real estate valued at $40,000. Mrs. Grace Higgins of St. Louis, Mo., was compelled by her husband to rise from a sick bed and dance a hoochi-oooohi dance for a party of maudlin friends. Feeling her disgrace keenly, she attempted suicide with carbolic acid. The steamer Oregon sailed from Portland, Ore., for Alaska with 450 passengers and 1,230 tons of merchandise aud baggage. Three hundred persons who applied for passage, with hundreds of tons of freight, had to be refused. Dr. W. C. Nllder shot and instantly killed himself nt Newton, Kan., presumably because of fear of the decision of the coroner's jury Investigating the death of Mary Jatike. The verdict, which was rendered after the doctor's suicide, did not directly involve him. Rev. O. O. Brown, who was suspended by the Bay conference two years ago for conduct unbecoming a minister and who afterward was <|>nstor of a Chicago church, confessed at Kan Francisco that he was guilty of some of the things of which he was accused. . \Vhll4 crossing a railroad trestle, uear St. Louis, Mrs. Liscie King and Frank Carey, aged 12, were run down by nn express trnin. The womnn jumped from the bridge, but the boy was ground to death under the wheels. The woman is so badly hurt she cannot recover.. Bunin. MaJsn Ilougo, now Miss Katherine Agues Uullck, the daughter of the Japanese count who married Miss Emma

Tyler of Philadelphia, has made her debut on the stage at Cincinnati. She was adopted in infancy by missionaries and made a desperate struggle for a musical education. Fifty or more lives have been lost by a fire which broke-out at Spokane, Wash. The flames were in the Great Eastern blofck In Riverside avenue. It was a vast six-story structure, the upper floors of which were occupied by about a hundred roomers. The loss will amount to $225,000 or more. Representatives of the striking miners and the operators of the northern Colorado coal district have decided to submit their grievances to the Styite Board of Arbitration. Four mines ih the northern district resume work, the miners who will report for duty having become dissatisfied with the Way the strike is being handled. Gov. Clough of Minnesota has appointed H. W. Lamberton, C. D. Giltillan, Hudson Wilson, W. D. Klrke, Theodore L. Schurmeirer, W. J. Footner, J. Newton.Nind, F. G. Winston, E. L. Danforth, F. B. Daugherty and Elmer E. Adams to the State exhibit at the transMississippi and international exposition to be held in Omaha. At Clay Center, Kan., train 53 on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad had a rear-end collision, in which Conductor Edwards and Brakeman Griffith were badly injured. Griffith died later. W. S. Broughton of Clay Center had his skull fractured, his leg and jaw broken and will die. Rod Sceinkonig also had his skull broken and doctors say he will die. - George H. Dobbs and Mrs. Amelia New, recently convicted at Eureka, Kan., of the murder of Mrs. New’s husband, have been sentenced to life imprisonment. When arraigned for sentence Dobbs stoutly protested his innocence. Mrs. New made no statement. At the conclusion of the trial and while the jury was deliberating upon the case she broke down and acknowledged the murder of her husband by herself and Dobbs. Later she denied this alleged confession. Joseph New was mysteriously murdered last October. A few days later Dobbs went to live with Mrs. New. At McVlcker’s Chicago theater the eminent character actor, James A. Herne, is playing a three -weeks’ engagement, appearing in his artistic portrayal of Nathaniel Berry in liis charming comedydrama, “Shore Acres.” The supporting company includes all the old favorites and they were all heartily welcomed. Miss Julie A. Herne, the actor-dramatist’s eldest (laughter, made her first appearance as Helen Berry and gave a finely finished portrayal. When James A. Herne grows tired of writing and acting he turns his attention to mechanics, and lately invented a very clever process for turning salt water to fresh water. Mr. Herne’s attention was called to this during a yachting, cruise. A heavy storm came tip and for nearly two days they were unable to make a landing, and in consequence they ran short of fresh water. Mr. Herne set his wits to work anil in a short time rigged up a quaint ’distilling machine and behold they had fresh water. A friend of his connected with the Companie Generate Transatlantique thought so well of it that he arranged for Its purchase, and it is now used on the steamers La Touraine and Burgoyne nnd will also be used on the new line of fleet steamers that this company is building at Havre. Mr. Herne is the owner of at least a dozen valuable patents.