Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1898 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

A receiver hns been appointed for the Denver (Colo.) Paper Company. Its assets are $1,000,000; liabilities, $580,000. An explosion of the Coney mine, near Skykomish, Wash., killed two men, Chas. Walters and R. W. Robinson, and wounded two others. JjL Mrs. William MeCully of Dayton, Ohio, wife of a former lending manufacturer, attempted suicide by sending a bullet through her brain. Howard Fish and Miss Ada Clemmons, young society people of Monroe, 111., were drowned in the lake at Sandusky, Ohio, by the copsising of a rowboat. At East Greenville, Ohio, fire destroyed the business houses of Benjamin Edwards, John Boyd and John Howells and the residence of John McGinnis. Loss, $15,000. Herbert Fickinger of Mount Washington, Ind., was arrested at St. Louis, Mo., charged with kidnaping 14-year-old Birdie Scharfhauser, daughter of a neighboring farmer. The property of the Kiowa Coal Company at Kiowa, I. T., was attached by order of the United States Court at South McAlester. Liabilities, $23,000; assets, nominal. W. A. Bissell says that the contract for the proposed steamship line between San Diego, Cal., and Japan has been signed, and the steamers will begin their trips about Dec. 1. At Findlay, Ohio, Gustave Wagner, aged 16, tried to dive from a ladder ninety feet high into a stone quarry filled with water. He received injuries which will result in his death. At Ashtabula, Ohio, Jacob Pruning entered the room of Eric Lehto to rob him, and being discovered he thrust a dirk into side. Lehto died and Pruning was bound over for manslaughter. Heavy wind and rain storms are reported from all over Missouri aud eastern Kansas. Several buildings were unroof* ed at Kuobnoster, Mo. A tornado did $50,000 damage near St. Joseph, Mo., and several persons were injured. At Newton, Kan., J. A. Patterson of Chicago, representing the Niagara Ring Company of that city, was robbed of a grip containing 250 rings valued at SI,OOO. He ia a traveling salesman and left his grip on a hotel table, missing it when he returned. > . \ A spark from a railroad engine.in Rush County, Kan., started a conflagration that swept over a wide area, destroying thousands of dollars’ worth of wheat in stacks

I ■ r cj L• • . ; and many fields of oats ready for the bar-’ vezt. Fanners were powerless to check ihe’fire. i ... vhirl Five young women and one young man were drowned near Humansville, Mo., while attempting to ford Pomme de Terre river in a wagon. The stream was swob lea from recent rains. They were members of a party of .. seven who were oh their way to attend a picnic. Thirty thousand acres of crops were destroyed or greatly damaged by a hailstorm in Codington County, 8. Dj Thf scope of the storm was six Ini lea Wide had about twenty-five miles long. Many farmers lost every acre of grain. The same storm reached Clark nnd Grant counties. The yield will be nearly 600,000 bnsbela less than expected. George Thompson, colored, was hangOd at Bt. Louis, Mo. He was cut down about eight minutes later, death having resulted from strangulation. The condemned man died game, protesting his innocence to the last. The crime for which Tbampson died was the poisoning of Joseph Cunningham, the white sexton of St-. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Sept. 29, 1884.

J, McKeegan’s famous bunch of shorthorned cattle, numbering 300 bead, was pasturing in the reservation near Bancroft, Neb., on a high bluff overlooking the Missouri river. The cattle were suddenly attacked by several swarms of wild bees. In their terror and pain the whole herd jumped over the bluffs into the river and were either dashed to pieces or drowned. The town of Beckwith, Cal., having a imputation of about 500 aud situated on the Sierra Valley Railroad, has been almost wiped out by fire, which started in the depot. Owing to lack of water and fire-fighting apparatus, the flames spread rapidly, until every building in the town was destroyed, except.a church, a, school house and two dwellings. The loss'is estimated at $40,000. Judge Swan of the United States District Court at Detroit, Mich., handed down a decision that will have a tendency to startle railroad companies. Ephraim Lumley was injured in the Wabash yards. He made a settlement for $75 and signed a release. Afterward he brought suit to have the release set aside and Judge Swan in setting it aside said: “I cannot doubt that complainant’s injuries were much greater than supposed at the time of the settlement and the execution of the release." During the Hobson day celebration at Milan, Mo., there was an accident in which several men were badly injured. Two ships, mounted on wagons, representing the American nnd Spanish forces, were engaging in a battle in the public square, when the American ship caught fire. The horses began to run and bombs to fly and the crowds lining the street became panic stricken. Mnuy people, in addition to those mentioned above, were more or less bruised in the rush for safety. According to dispatches received at St. Louis, Mo., the Pope at Rome has decided the appeal of Father John T. Tuoby from Archbishop Kain’s order of removal from St. Patrick's parish in the priest’s favor. Positive information to this effect has been received by Father Walsh of Nashville, Tenn., and by the deposed priest, Father Tuoby, who is now in Hastings, Minn. The former says that the treatise containing the deductions concerning the pleadings is on the way here from Rome. Archbishop Kain sought to remove Father Tuohy from the pastorate of St. Patrick’s parish. A large number of his parishioners stood by Father Tuohy, while others were against him. A church trial resulted iu an order of removal. Father TuoEy declined to obey. Father Hayes was appointed in his place, but Father Tuohy retained possession of the parochial residence. Archbishop Kain sought to oust him by resort to civil process and gained his suit before Justice Haughton, but Father Tuohy appealed the case to the Circuit Court. He also appealed from the decision of the church court to Rome. Mose Miller’s gang of cattle and bank thieves, town raiders and murderers, which has terrorized the Indian territory, was destroyed in two butties with the regulators. Three members are dead, two fatally wounded and three are in jail. The first battle took place cast of Checotah. Word reached Deputy United States Marshal Ledbetter that the gang contemplated a raid on the bank of Checotah, and gathering a posse of citizens and ranchmen who had been in battles with outlawß before they went to the edge of the town ard lay in ambush for the gang. They had.net long to wait. Mounted on horses, the pick of that section of the territory, the bandits came riding, rapidly toward the town. Their first Intimation of the ambush was a storm of bullets. The baudita replied and the tight became furious, ending in the death of Miller and “Piccolo Bill.” The others wheeled their horses around and then begau a race across the prairie. The marshal’s men were compelled to change horses at a ranch, and then they pushed on again, finally overtaking the gang, when the second and conclusive battle was fought. No member of the posse was injured.