Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1898 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Ernest Marojt, the oldest artist in California, is dead at San Francisco, aged 71 years. * George 11. Russell of Detroit was elected president of the American Bankers' Association. At Los Angeles, Cal., the soap company’s entire plant was destroyed by fire. Loss, .$100,000; partly insured. At Akron, Ohio, fire destroyed the Collins buggy works. Loss on buildings, $5,000; stock, $10,(MM); insurance, $15,000. Judge J. A. Hughes of Miller, 8. D., aged 75 years, is dead. He was prominent in polities, a pioneer and formerly from Rochelle, 111. At San Francisco. Cal., William Head, a young man from Fine Creek, 111., while despondent, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. Eighteen or twenty persons were injured in a collision between a work train and a passenger train on the Panhandle branch of the Santa Fe Railroad near Alva, O. T. The Democrats, Populists and free silver Republicans of the second Nebraska district have named Gilbert M. Hitchcock. publisher of the Omaha World-Her-ald, for Congress. The Fostoria (Ohio) Stone and Lime Company assigned to William Jaeger. The property is bonded for $15,000 and has $3,000 additional indebtedness. Assets are considerably less. Judge Valliant of the St. Louis Circuit Court rendered a decision in the case of Marx & Hass against Watson and others declaring boycotts legal so long as no force or intimidation is resorted to. The Omaha exposition directors have passed resolutions inviting President McKinley and his cabinet, the Prinee of Wales and other dignitaries to be present at the peace celebration in October. After a discussion lasting a week the board of censors of the Topeka. Kan., Federation of Women’s Clubs has excluded the woman's bible from its library on the ground that it is “written in a flippant, coarse and inelegant style.” Laura, the 12-yenr-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James McFarland of Nevada, Ohio, was found dead on the kitchen floor by neighbors while the parents were absent, shot through the mouth. It is not known whether she committed suicide or was murdered. George Englke and Peter Edmiston, who left Riverside, Cal., over a year ago to prospect on the Colorado desert, have not since been heard from. The men went to Santiago, and from there started on their perilous trip. The belief is general that‘both men have perished. A bank at New Richland, Minn., failed, claiming that the cause of their failure was the fact that the Fillmore County Bank had SIO,(MX) of their money to loan for them. The liabilities are increasing all the time, now footing up to SBO,OOO, with but $75 erfsh and $250 in small notes as assets. An electric car, carrying fifty passengers, was wrecked at Indianapolis, Ind,, by the explosion of a dynamite stick which had been placed in the curve groove. No one was injured, but several women fainted. The force of the explosion tore a great hole in the one-eighth-inch sheet-iron bottom of the car. Damage to the extent of $15,000 was caused to the building and machinery of the Simplex Railway-Appliance Company at Hammond, Ind., by a fire which originated from an explosion of benzine in the paint room, where a workman placed ah unguarded torch too near a cask of the fluid. One hundred men are temporarily out of work. The opinion of grain men throughout the Kansas corn belt has been secured as to the late corn, and all agree that 'not more than, half a crop need be expected. Continued dry and hot weather has de-

stroyed thousands of acre*. The corn blade* have rolled up under the scorching heat, and the crop in many localities will not make good forage. The safe in the Rosenthal clothing store at Deadwood, S. D., was cracked the other night and about $220 in cash, between SIO,OOO and $15,000 in notes and warrants, an old watch and valuable jewelry were taken. The entrance to the room was effected by cutting a hole through the floor from the basement. A hole was drilled through the combination of the safe, which opened the doo?. Official returns show that the ChoctawChickasaw agreement was ratified by the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations at the late election by a large majority. A member of the Dawes commission, a representative from the Interior Department, Agent Wisdom and Gov. McCurtain have met at Atoka to count the votes of the two nations on the agreement. Gov. McCurtain was elected by a safe majority on the agreement issue. An exodus of 3,000 Indians from the Creek nation will result from the Government’s action in depriving the nation of self-government. "C. E. Douglass, founder of Creek City, and its governor, will leave for old Mexico iu a few days to arrange for the colonization of the Indians there. They are incensed at the action of the Government and refuse to become United States citizens. They purpose to trade their head-rights for a reservation in Mexico. The Creek nation comprises 3,000,000 acres and 15,000 people. George Lerri, 3% years old, was run over by n Southern Pacific train on the Narrow Gauge road in Oakland, Cal., and escaped without d scratch. The train was moving down the grade at the rate of thirty miles an hour when the little fellow stumbled. He fell just in front of the pilot of the engine, where the section bands had been excavating. His baby form just filled *the excavation and the entire train passed over him. He was unconscious when picked up, but soon recovered and is apparently as well as ever. Put-in-Bay Island, a Lake Erie health resort, is in a condition of panic owing to what threatens to be an epidemic of smallpox. Quarantine has been ordered by the State Board of Health. The big Hotel Victory, where the pest first appeared, has closed, and guests from many parts of the country have fled. Dr. Bohlander, local health officer, reports that there are six well-developed cases, all colored waiters at the Victory. These and three women servants are quarantined in a building on the hotel premises. The harbor is left open to trade. At P.’cston, Minn., M. R. Todd, the cashier who wrecked the Fillmore County Bank, has confessed the theft of all the bank’s deposit funds to M. T. Grattan, one of his bondsmen. Grattan told Todd that a lynching was imminent unless he made a full statement. Overcome by fear, he confessed that just prior to the bank’s assignment he had taken all the money on deposit and delivered it to a former partner. Further developments are expected. It develops that Todd is a forger, a spurious note having turned up in the bank’s paper. A note given by the Presbyterian Church, of which Todd was treasurer, was paid and Todd said he had destroyed it. The note now turns up as collateral in a La Crosse bank. Todd seems to have completely looted the bank and his mother-in-law’s large estate. The feeling against him is bitter, almost to the point of violence.