Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1898 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Three men were killed and another seriously injured by the caving in of the Verde mine at Prescott, Ariz. At Dayton, Ohio, Louis and Herman Nicklas, brothers, aged 14 and 8 years, respectively, were drowned in the river. Fred Fancher, who has been insurance commissioner for two years, has been nominated for Governor by the Republicans of North Dakota. Prince, the largest elephant of the Wallace shows, died of lockjaw at Wabasha, Minn. This is the same animal that recently killed his keeper at Racine, Wis. Nat White and James Yarbough were both kille«l in a duel with knives near El Reno, O. T. They fought over a woman who had become engaged to both of them. Walter Bush, a St. Louis boy, who was visiting bin grandfather in Philadelphia, was instantly killed by grasping a live wire which was hanging above the window. While bathing in the Minnesota river at Morton, Minn., Barbara and Rachel Galle, Martha Lorenz and Alvina Reisall Under 20—were drowned. The bodies were recovered. A strike was declared at the Cleveland Shipbuilding Company’s yards at Lorain, Uhio. Between 200 and 300 laborers who were drawing $1.25 per day went out on strike for $1.50 per day. Ed L. Mcßride of Louisiana, Mo., shot and instantly killed Richard Wilson, a negro from Quincy, 111., who formerly lived in Louisiana. It is said that the negro had insulted Mcßride’s wife. A double tragedy occurred near Thurman, Colo. Henry Beiue, a farmer, shot and stabbed his wife, inflicting wounds from which she died. After fatally wounding his wife, Beinetook his own life with his pistol. Trains in eastern Colorado and western Kansas are delayed by swarms of grass-’ hoppers that settle on the rails. The crushing of their bodies renders the rails so slippery that the driving wheels of the engines simply spin around. J. Cunningham was shot and killed and Daniel Mills was seriously wounded by two masked men in Cunningham’s saloon in Gold Field, Colo. The murderers fled without looking for booty. It is believed that murder, and not robbery, was their object. One man was killed and several were injured while at work on a sewer near Edgewater Park, Cleveland, Ohio. The men were down in the sewer trench, when the trestle on which the car hauls away the dirt fell, crashing down upon the workmen. In the town of New Holland, Ohio, fire destroyed one block, comprising the business houses on the principal streets and a hotel. The only protection against fire was a chemical engine, which became disabled when put to use. The loss will be close to $75,000. Richard Kind, Herman and Arthur Klauser and others are interested in some gold quartz discoveries at Toledo, Ohio. They were made in a deep sewer excavation not long ago. A company is being organized and the promoters declare they hare no stock to sell. Reports from the throngs of thrashers of wheat in Kansas state that the crop will be 15,000,000 bushels short of the estimates of a month ago, which placed the total yield at 70,000,000 bushels. Much of the wheat was prematurely ripened and the grain is badly shriveled. At Zanesville, Ohio, the flint glass workers of the United States and Canada elected the following officers: President, William J. Smith, Pittsburg; secretary, John Kunzler, Pittsburg; assistant secretary, W. J. Clare, Pittsburg; vice-presi-dent, Thomas Smith, Alton, Ill.; agent and organizer, T. W. Roe, Toledo. An American named Reed, a civil engineer from Nashua, N. H., and another American named Wing, Connected with a banking firm in New York, were attacked by rabbets in a plantation house at Tlacotapam, in the State of Vera Cruz, Mexice. The former was killed and the other mortally wounded. They had a large amount of money in the house. The steamer Edward Smith No. 2 was run into and sunk in Lake St. Clair near the Flats, north of Detroit, Mich., by the schooner Auranla, in tow of the propeller Aurora. The Smith was bound up loaded and without a consort, while the Aurora and Aurania were bound down. The crew and a pleasure party on board the Smith were rescued without accident. The Smith is owned by John Mitchell of Cleveland, and valued at $150,000. A tornado struck Minot. N. D., the other night, demolished seventeen buildings and injured a number of people. No one was killed. The county hospital was destroyed and several of the inmates badly injured. Six loaded box cars on the Soo tracks were blown one hundred feet from the rails and demolished. A heavy hailstorm following seriously damaged the crops. A Casselton. N. D„ special says the same storm destroyed 20,009 acres of wheat.

A south-bound Santa Fe passenger train was held up near Saginaw, eight miles north of Fort Worth, Texas, by masked men. Six men did the work. Two boarded the engine at Saginaw and covered the engineer. They made him stop in a deep cut. Engineer Joe Williams was probably fatally wounded. The fireman cannot be found, but is thought to be also wounded. While their companions on the bank were firing the two robbers on the engine jumped off. The whole party escaped. A strike of nearly 300 workmen affiliated with the St. Louis Building Trades’ Council was called against the AnheuserBusch Brewing Association. Nine unions went out. They were the carpenters, gaslitters, stonemasons, stonecutters, laborers, electrical workers, and engineers. The reason stated by the officers of the

combined trades is that the brewery refused In certain cases to pay the onion Seale of wages. The Anheuser-Busch company has been regarded as very friendly to union labor. It employs a host of union brewery workers. The men who quit were employed on many different buildings. Mr. Kauffman of the brewery says the trouble was not caused by the attitude of the firm; the trouble was between the firms that had contracts on new buildings. These firms hired nonunion men and the strike followed. L. Calhoun of Kansas City,? representing a St. Louis detective agency, after twenty days’ traveling through Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri, located Mrs. Edna Beaman, a grass widow, in Sedalia, Mo., and obtained from her a confession that clears up the mysterious murder of Gaylord Fish, son of a banker at Georgetown, Cal., Dec. 6, 1897. Three years ago young Fish, then aged 27 years, left Georgetown and proceeded to Kansas City, where he met Jane Armbrust, a member of the Salvation army, aged 55 years, and married her, to the surprise of all who knew him. Fish carried $2,000 insurance in the Woodmen of the World and was the only son of a wealthy father. A year ago Fish, senior, died and then Mrs. Fish, the son’s wife, began planning to gain possession of the elder Fish’s estate. In Kansas City young Fish was taken suddenly ill and it was believed that an effort was made to poison him, but nothing could be proved. Mrs. Beaman, the witness, knew Mrs. Fish in Kansas City, and when the latter removed to Georgetown she sent Mrs. Beaman the money to join her in the centennial State. On arrival there a proposition was made to Mrs. Beaman to get Fish out of the way, but she declined, and then, Mrs. Beaman alleges, Mrs. Fish did the job herself administering chloroform, the victim being found dead in bed the 1 morning of Dec. 6 last by Mrs. Beaman. Suspicion of foul play was not entertained at the time, but finally the Woodmen of the World began to investigate the case, with the result that it was placed in the hands of the detective agency.