Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1898 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Lnte raina in Ivansns have greatly benefited the growing wheat. St. Joseph, Mo., will remain in the Western Base-ball Association. Western railroads are embroiled in the bitterest kind of a passenger rate war. Miss Nancy Fix of Delaware, Ohio, aged 79, was beaten and robbed of $15,000. Frank ladles has confessed thnt he killed his brother and sister by poison nt Suisun, Cal. Edwin P. Harmon Jr. accidentally shot himself at Kansas City, and died twenty minutes later. Lead and zinc in paying quantities have been discovered in the new Kaw reservation, Oklahoma. The Wiremakors’ Association of California is making strong efforts to prevent a further cut in the price of wire. Howard Kemp committed suicide at Ada, Ohio, because Miss Bannister, his fiancee, eloped with Ifarry Young. Three men were burned to death and another received fatal injuries in a fire which burned the Victor (Colo.) jail. The California Board of Trade has taken steps to arrange a first-class exhibit from that State ut the Omaha exhibition. The deal whereby a syndicate of New York capitalists hope to secure control of all the breweries iu Cleveland still hangs fire. Joseph Leiter of Chicago is to build the largest elevator in the world at Kansas City, according to a dispatch from that 'city. Mrs. Maude Ely, who murdered her little daughter at Pnlncsville, Ohio, last August, committed suicide in jail iu that city Adam Rubblns, of Hudson, Ohio, was found dead in the woods. His nx had glanced while he was chopping wood, klllj lug him. The regents of .the University of California have decided to establish a college of commerce os one of the departments nt the University, Judge Haxen, In the State District Court at Topeka, Ivan., in a decision holds that a bicycle is a tool ami essential to a man’s profession or occupation, and that as such 1b exempt from execution. A party of scientists has just returned to Sau Francisco from the south aeas with many vuluablo specimens, sonic of which have never liefore boon secured. The specimens will go to enlarge Baron Rothschild's, collection. Guilty of murder, with the penalty of imprisonment for life, was the verdict rendered by the twelve jurors against Adolph lamia Luotgert at Chicago—seven and one-half hours after Judge Gary had completed reading his Instructions. George Ixinf, the oldest Mason in the United Stntes and probably iu the wcrld, and also the oldest Odd Fellow iu this country, Is dead nt Han Bernardino,-Cal., a Victim of n paralytic stroke* He wan born in Netv York City, June 27, 18(d). A report comes from Cincinnati that the Standard Oil Company is about to

reorganize, the plan contemplating issuing stock dividends to the extent of four shares for each one share or certificate of stock held by present holders of stock. Dr, S. H. Sampson, or Samson, was removed from the village jail at Lnurelville, 0., to the Hocking County jail at Logan as a precaution against lynching pending the coroner’s investigation of the death of Bessie Neff, found dead in the doctor’s oflice. The damage suit at San Francisco by Peter D, Peterson, against F. F. O’Connor, general ticket agent of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, resulted in a verdict for plaintiff. The suit grew out of Peterson’s arrest for forgery in signing another’s name to a ticket purchased from a scalper.