Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1898 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

A. L. Conwell of Higbee, Mo., was killed by a Wabush engine. Horace C. Alger has been nominated for Governor by the Democrats of W yoming. At Dayton, Wash., six warehouses, containing 40,(XKj bushels of grain, were destroyed by fire. Mayor Black of Columbus, Ohio was elected president of the League of American Municipalities. The Japanese of San Francisco are organized into a society similar to the Chinese highbinder tong. The Oliver Mining Company has secured possession of the Pioneer irou mine at Ely, north of Duluth, Minn. At San Francisco, Cal., the national bureau of education is making an inquiry into the life of Theodore Durrant. Judge F. O. Phillips of Medina, Ohio, was nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Twentieth Ohio district. The will of Ephraim Sells, tiled in the probate court at Columbus, Ohio, shows that he left property worth half a million dollars to his widow, Hester Seils. While Henry Auhl of Put-in-Bny and Joseph Martin of Sandusky, Ohio,, were out on the luke in a small boat the craft capsized and both men were drowned. William Schaffer of Chicago, first mate of the steamer Escanaba, fell thirty-two feet down the hatchway of his vessel at Toledo, Ohio, receiving fatal injuries. The large plant of the Ilobinson Basket Company at Paiuesvtlle, Ohio, the largest grape basket factory in the United States, was destroyed by tire. Loss, about SIOO,000; insurance, $55,000. A head-on collision occurred at Willoughby, Ohio, between a special car on the Painesville and Eastern Suburban Line and a regular motor. Misunderstanding of orders caused the accident. Eleven persona were injured. The passenger steamer Mauitou of the Lake Michigan and Lake Superior Line was disabled by the breaking of the engine while abreast of Manistee, Mich. The disabled boat was picked up by the steamer Alcona and towed to Chicago. The plant of the St. Louis Dressed Beef and Provision Company at St. Louis, Mo., was damaged by fire. The cattle sheds, hidehouse, sausage room, pork cooler and fertilizer building were destroyed, the total damage l*eing $50,000. Charles Clyburn and Coleman, alias Fluke, Fleming were hanged in Arkansas. The execution of Clyburn, who killed Deputy Sheriff Rollins March 27, 1897, while the latter was attempting to arrest him for burglary, took place at Prescott.

It is stated at Springfield, Ohio, on good authority that Senafor Brice or his agents will buy the Ohio Southern Railway when it ia offered for sale Aug. 20. It is added that this will be in pursuance of the resolution formed by Brice several years ago to build up a big railway system. Contracts for one of the largest paper and pulp mills in the United States were awarded at Duluth, Minn., by officials of the Northwest Paper Company. It will

be located at Cloquet, and will have a daily capacity of fifty to sixty tons a day. Tbe W’eyerhausers are interested in the project. Maryville, Mo., young people were shocked when a telephone message announced that Miss Grace Woifers, youngest daughter of E. C. Woifers of Hopkins, had been drowned while at a picnic near Corning, lowa. Miss Grace was formerly a student at St. Mary’s Seminary, Galesburg, 111. She was about 2i years old.. An accident which caused the death of two persons and seriously mangled and maimed seven others occurred twelve miles west of Cass laike, Minn. A construction train With 100 bridgemea and laborers engaged in the extension line of the Great Northern Railway tA.Fosston struck an obstruction on the tracks. Four flat cars with their loads of human freight were derailed. Mrs. Jane Fish of Georgetown, Colo., who was, in a preliminary examination at Silver Plume, charged with poiaoning her husband, Gaylord Fish, on Dec. 6 last, was discharged. Mrs. Fish was formerly Miss Jane Ambrust of Kansas City, and married Gaylord Fish there while she was a member of the Salvation army. Mrs. Fish was arrested at the instance of the Woodmen of the World, In which order her husband held insurance in her favor. The fast mail train on the Santa Fe road was partially wrecked about three and one-half* miles west of Emporia, Kan., when the driving rod on the right side of the engine broke, and the sudden jerk snapped off the driving rod on the other side. In a moment the flying rods had made kindling wood of the cah. Fireman Charles Foley of Topeka was crushed to a pulp, hardly an unbroken bone remaining in his body. Engineer James Itolo remained at his post and succeeded in turning off the steam, and thus saving the train.