Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1898 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Fire at McPherson, ICnn., destroyed the First National Bank Ruiiding. Loss, $75,000. At Abilene, Ivan., Thomas J. Kirby's bank, a private institution and the oldest in the county, was taken in charge by State Bank Commissioner Breidenthnl. It has $218,000 on deposit and $70,000 cash on hand. Elijah T. Bennett, aged 85 years, a veteran of the Mexican and Florida wars, was run over nnd instantly killed at Centralis, Mo., by the Columbia branch train. He was hard of hearing aud did not hear the train, although walking toward it. Robert H. Day, a young lawyer of Massillon, Ohio, brother of Secretary of State William R. Day, and Mrs. Mary H. Corns, a wealthy young widow, were married recently. Score:ary and Mrs. Day were guests at the wedding, which was private. A severe north wind did considerable damage to grain and fruit in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys, Cal. The greatest loss wiil fall upon the growers of wheat. Some conservative farmers estimate that 40 per cent, of the wheat has been thrashed out by the storm in certain localities.

The wheat c-rop of Kansas is not nearly ns large ns it promised a few days ago to be. Nearly every county in the eastern section of the State, and many in the central part, report serious damage from rust and excessive rain. In most of the counties in the western section wheat has escaped damage and some of the big wheat counties will have large yields. Miss Anna Forrester, a charming young lady 23 years of age, living in Cleveland, selected a horrible method of ending her earthly existence. She vikited a pleasure resort near town, and, entering the barn near by, saturated her clothing with coal oil and set herself afire, kneeling in the midst of the flames, apparently praying that her life might be taken away. Farmers and their wives witnessed the awful deed, but could not rescue her. Only a mass of charred flesh and hones was found in the smoldering ruins. A bridge crossing the Mohican river at Shelby, Ohio, fell with 1,000 people. Four were killed outright and 100 injured, some of them seriously. A public wedding was being celebrated on the bridge ns one of the features of the Fourth of July celebration. Just as the ceremony hnd been completed the bridge went down with a crash, precipitating the people a distance of eighteen feet. The panic which ensued after the bridge fell was Indescribable, and it was impossible to get anything like a correct list of the wounded.

The hoard of directors of the I’ullipan Palace Car Company has adopted resolutions for a quarterly dividend of $2 per \hare, payable on and after Aug. 15, and also a. special dividend of S2O per share. The board recommends that the surplus assets of the company to the extent oC $18,000,009 existing at the end of th * .-m----reut fiscal year should he distributed to the stockholders of the company, and that for such purpose the capital stock should be increased to tlie sum of $34,000,000, and that increase on stosk should be issued to shareholders in the ratio of one share for each two held By them. The Kansas City Stock Yards Company, which has heretofore handled the live stock business at Kansas City, Mo., went out of business, and nil its property was turned over to two new corporations. This transfer simply means that the capitalists interested in the concern have found a way to defeat the purposes of the law passed at the last session of the Kansas Legislature relating to feeding and commission charges and dockage at the stock yards. The plan is to withdraw most of the stock business from the Kansas side of the State line and turn it over to the Kansas City Stock Yards Company of Missouri, to which all the property lit Missoori has been deeded. The property on the Kansas side of the line has been deeded to the United States Quarantine Stock Yards Company, and it is said to be the intention to handle only the quarantined cattle front the southwest In these yards. The stock yards are controlled by Bostou capitalists. ;