Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1901 — BEATEN BY CAR MEN. [ARTICLE]

BEATEN BY CAR MEN.

CRIPPLE'S DEFENDER IS BRUTALLY ASSAULTED. ;Affray in St. Louis in Which a Chicago Traveling Salesman Is Badly In-jured-Strength of the Cereal Market Ebbs. Donald McMillan, traveling manufac- • >turera’ agent of Chicago, stopping at the Planters’ Hotel in St. Louis, was beaten by transit men and so badly hurt that he is confined to Jiis room under a physician’s care. The assault, according to the witness, was entirely unwarranted. A police officer at Broadway and Market street saw it, but made no effort to arrest the offenders. According to Mr. McMillan, an aged cripple tried to leave the car. No. 676, but the conductor did not give the stop signal and the man pulled the register rope by mistake. The conductor threw the cripple into the street, after striking him in the face. Another aged man, standing on the platform, demurred to tlie conductor's brutality, when he was similarly treated. McMillan called the conductor a coward. The latter threw him off, at Walnut street. Then the conductor and motorman jumped on him, as did the crew of car No. 1764. McMillan will take the matter into court. IN THE CEREAL MARKET. Reports from Argentine and the Northwest Rob Prices of Strength. Bradstreet’s says: “It has been a week of ebbing strength in the cereals. Argentine reports have been devoted to stretching estimates of the-export surplus from that country. Northwest wheat receipts have also been heavy, and the socalled Wall street interest has been reported to have been liquidating. Corn receipts are also heavier and prices are lower. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week were 3,336,654 bushels, against 5,961,095 last week and 3,061,000 in the corresponding week of 1900. Corn exports aggregate 5,184,550 bushels, against 4,897,435 last week and 3,199,312 bushels this week a year ago.” MOB BURNS A PESTHOUSE.

Omaha Citizen* Object to the Location of the Structure. At a late hour the other night a mob of 500 citizens burned the peat house, situated in a remote section of Omaha, Neb. The inmates escaped into the adjacent residence district. The fire department responded and laid a line of hose, but the mob leaders, though unmasked, stood their ground aud threatened violence if the water was turned on, and the building was consumed. This is the thin] pest house burned in Omaha, the citizens objecting to the location. Killed by a Gas Stove. Albert Miller aud his friend, George Hose, were found dead in bed at their room at 620 Fifth street, Northwest, Washington. D. C. Death hud been cans ed by inhaling illuminating gas, the young nun evidently having turned on the curiHit to a small heating stove and failed to light the same. ” r Overworked Student Ends Existence, i In New Haven, Conn., Henry Ide Root wAs found lifeless in the snow, his hajids clutelling a bottle of carbolic acid, the contents of which he had swallowed. lie is the third Yale man whose life lias 'been sacrificed in two weeks owing to severe mental strain and insomnia. -4F Bristow, 1. T., Bank Robbed. A dispatch gives meager details of the holding up of the Bank of Bristow, Indian Territory, by outlaws, aud states that the president of the bank was shot five times and mortally wounded. The robbers got away with the bank’s cash. Chaae in n Pari* Asylum. Moses Fowler Chase, 22 years old. and heir to $500,000, is being detained in an asylum in Paris, France, and his father, a prominent lawyer of Lafayette, Ind., is taking steps to have him brought back to the United States. At Hands of Unknown Parties. “George Alexander came to his death by having been burned by a party or parties unknown” was the substance of a verdict rendered by the coroner’s jury iChat sat on the case of the negro lynched iJrecently at Leavenworth, Kan. Object* to Aidermen’s Piety. Because a majority of the city council'tnen refused to leave a revival meeting and attend the regular weekly council meeting, S. Hunter, Mayor of Hiawatha, Kan., tendered his resignation.

Admits Taking $1,300. John Sheridan, who has been in charge of the money order department of the Havana, Cuba, postoffice, was arrested and formally accused of the theft of sl,300. He has confessed his guilt. Carrie Nation Set Free. At Wichita, Kan., the county attqruey has dismissed the charge against Mrs. Carrie Nation. He says: “The mind of the defendant is much impaired and she is irresponsible.” Shot Dead by an Officer. Frank Kester, aged 40 years, was shot •nd killed at his home in Kansas City by Policeman Silas Shumate, whom be attempted to assault. Queen Victoria Stricken. Qneeu Victoria is seriously ill and her early demise is looked for. ***** Coat Find Is Made. The report of a wonderful discovery of “* coal in Randolph County and of an effort m (he part of the Morgan syndicate to buy up all the mines along the more than 200 miles of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, has come to Wheeling, W. Va. Tlia coaf trade is greatly excited. sal«ry Paid After Forty Years. The heirs of the late Samuel J. Harris have just been notified of a claim of S3OO bring due him as unpaid balance on bis salary when postmaster of Columbus, iOliio from Joly 1, 1805. to July L 1800-