Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1898 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Robbers blew open tlie postoffice safe at Tyndall, S. D., and secured SBOO in stamps and cash. At Olierlin, Ivan., Miss Jennie Barnard was burned by the explosion of a coffee pot. TMJJd was tight. The Comptroller of the Currency has appointed Thomas Kelley receiver of the National Bank of Padln, Kan. , There are more than 3,000 eases of measles in Dayton, (J. It is feared that all schools will have to be closed. J. A. Swett, superintendent of the Haskell Institute, the Indian industrial school at Lawrence, Ivan., has resigned. Seven prisoners escaped from the Buchanan County jail at St. Joseph, Mo. A parden hose which hod been left in the jail was used by the prisoners in cleuritffe the roof.

At Leavenworth, Kan., Prof. F. Hawn, uged 00 years, wus found dead in bed. He waß one of the incorporators of Leavenworth, and as a civil engineer aided in the survey of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railway. Judge Elliott of the District Court at Minneapolis, declined to grant a new trial to Aid. George A. Durnam, convicted of soliciting a bribe. Unless the Supreme Court overrules this decision Durnam will have to serve a term in the penitentiary. Spreading rails wrecked a fast freight on the Pittsburg and Western road at Monroe Falls, O. Engineer George Huffmnnn of Chicago Junction was crushed to death under the locomotive. Fireman W. Gildow of Chicago Junction was badly injured. State Insurance Commissioner Clunie of California has declared invalid and insufficient the hoods of all tire and marine insurance companies doiug business in California and not incorporated under the laws of the State. The order affects eighty-two couipauies. At Fargo, N, D., Judge Pollock denied a decree in the divorce ease of George W. llugg vs. Amelia Hugg. Hugg asked for a decree ou the ground of cruelty uud his wife appealed and fought the ense. The plaintiff is secretary of a marble company in Baltimore, Md. In the case of the Minneapolis Tribune Company against the Associated Press the United Stutes Court of Appeals in St. Louis denied the motion of the Tribune Company that the final,decree be uinended so us to leave them free to bring an action at law for damages. The St. Paul (Miun.) Globe has changed hands. The purchaser of the paper is George F. Spinney of New York. It is understood Spinney represents a number of capitalists, including William C.-Whit-ney of New York, president James J, Hill of the Great Northern Railway and Crawford Livingston of St. rani. An epidemic of typhoid fever, pneumonia and intestinal troubles is raging in the Ohio valley, and its cause, so physicians claim, is the suddeu rise of the river after the extreme dry period es Inst fall, lu many places the effect of the bad water is very noticeable. There are scores of cases of typhoid fever and pneumonia.

C. G. Hoyt, of the Fort Hall (Idaho) Indian commission, has practically concluded n treaty with the Bannock and Shoshone Indians for the sule of the Fort Hull reservation for the lump sum of $525,000. The trenty carries a provision for the puymeut of $75,t100 to the Indians for tlie relinquishment of their hunting rights iu Jackson's Hole. Charles Robinson, nlins ''Rlnokeye,” who v;as charged with robbing hanks and postotfiees in Missouri, and who was recently captured at Fort Scott, Kan., broke jail with George W. Fincbe, under a life sentence for the murder of Frank Swafford, and six other prisoners. They assaulted the jailer and keys and gun. Robinson is accused of ' robbing banks nt Hume and Richards, Mo., and the poet office at Nevada. Two masked men broke into the residence of Louis A. Stanwood, a reeliijse, near Harvey, Okln., and tortured him by

■ticking a knife into his limbs and burning off his bair and whiskers until he gave up all the money be had, amounting to but a few dollars. They uext visited the homp of John Hensley and robbed him, stopped J. C. McGarlan road, robbed him of his money, and were going to a fourth place when scared off. Luther Weaver and Will Henderson, sons of prominent fanners, were arrested later, charged with the crime, which in that territory is punishable by imprisonment for life.