Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1898 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

At Springfield. Ohio, Frank Miller, a contractor, shot himself to death. Stephen Rowland was killed at Lima. Ohio, by Levi Clevenger in a quarrel. Simon Guggenheim'was named for Governor of Colorado by the Wolcott Republicans. Dr. E.,1. Scuggs of Montserrat, Mo., atk eidentnlly poisoned hiuiself by taking aconite instead of quinine. Mrs. M. A. Fowler, of Youngstown, Ohio, while under Niagara Falls, found a diamond valued at #l5O. At St. Joseph, Mo., L. E. Purcell of Bedford, lowa, attempted to commit suicide because his betrothed refused to marry him. t Congressman Norfhway of Ohio is critically ill at his home in Jefferson, Ohio. Mrs. Northway is also thought to be beyond recovery. Dovid It. Rice, aged 48 years, son of Gen. .1. li. Rice, editor of the. Sedaliu (Mo.) Capital, and brother of the United States consul at Vancouver, is dead. A yawl with fifteen men in it, employed on Government Work at Liberty Lauding. Mo., capsized in the Missouri river and William Stockholm was drowned. At Duluth, Minn., one man Mas killed and three others lmdly hurt in a collision between a trolley car and hook and ladder No. 5 while the latter was on its way to a lire. W. 11. Lawrence, of Cleveland. Ohio, was shot and fatally wounded in Denver, Colo., by Miss Florence Richardson, of Denver, wijh whom he had taken rooms in a hotel. The woman then killed herself. The town of Jerome, Am., was completely wiped out by tire, entailing a lossof over $1,000,600 in property. Eleven bodies have been recovered, while a score or more are said to he in the ruins or missing. The St. Louis limited passenger on the Missouri Pacific crashed into the rear end of a freight train near Independence, wrecking the caboose and killing It. J. Thompson, a telegraph lineman, and seriously injuring A. Bechtel, brake man. None of the passengers was hurt. At Indianapolis, William 11. Tucker, of the firm of Tucker & Dorsey, manufacturers, committed suicide at his home by shooting himself. Mr. Tucker had been despondent since the death of his wife two years ago. He had been a prominent citizen for many years, was wealthy and conspicuous in Grand Army circles. At Walla Walla, Wash., the plant of the Hunt Manufacturing Company, which supplies a large portion of the harvesting machinery used in Walla Walla and Pa-, louse valley, together with Roberts' foundry. two dwellings and a warehouse, were completely destroyed hy fire. One hundred men are thrown out of employment.

Miss Ritryl Hope, the loading lady of the Salisbury stock company, which is playing at the Davidson Theater at Milwaukee. assaulted Arthur Weld, the critic of the Journal, in the lobby of the theater. Miss Hope took exception to the criticisms of her work by Mr. Weld and attacked him, using her lists until she was restrained by other members of the company. The cattle and sheep question is becoming a serious problem in northwest Nebraska. John Eekmati. a sheepman of C'hadron, has sacrificed his life before the problem lias been solved. Ho died from the bullet wound inflicted upon him when a band of cattlemen living in Fall River County. South Dakota, called upon him and ordered him to remove his tlock of sheep, which he was inspecting, and met with a refusal. i A warrant issued and served on Benjamin Hardin charges him with having sought and found a fortune left by Louis Bermoud, a hermit, who lived and died in a, hovel near Amity, Mo. Hardin was a section baud', but a few months ago be began.loaning and spending money like a rich man. He is charged with haying searched the hovel after the hermit’s death, finding the money and appropriatb 1 ' ■

jf r t in* ft to hi* own use, Bome attorney* jwiy ba is entitled to the money. The priaecullng attorney contends tlfat it belongs to the Btate. Hardin denies that he got the money frem the miser’s cabin, but says it was left him by a Virginia relative. Mrs. Wilhelmina Liusenback, aged 45 years, with her daughter, aged 6 years, lived at 333 Spitler avenue, Dayton, 'LI. Mrs. Linsenbaek quarreled with Ber husband and he dfd not speak to her for three days. Despondent because of this, it is supposed she barred the doors of ber home, gave the child chloroform, took some of the drug herself and retired. The husband, being angry, 1 * did not look for

them. The following day the neighbors broke the door down and discovered mother and child dead. The woman bad given 25 cents to a neighbor and told her to feed the chickens, for she was going away. The little girl told her playmate that she was going to die, and accordingly gave her little friend her doll, flowers and pet bird. The coroner claims <botb deaths were caused by chloroform.

A Joliet, Chicago and Cleveland steel syndicate, of which John W. Gates, president of the Illinois Steel Company, is said to he the head, has finally closed a contract with the Alabama Steel Ship-build-ing Company to erect at Easley City, near Birmingham. Ala., steel and wire nail and rod mills. The new syndicate is thought to be in control of the Federal Steel Company, and it is believed the output for the Ensley plant will bo shipped abroad. The proposed plants will cost between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000. Another step has been taken by the Illinois Central in its effort to enter the Alabama coal fields. First Vice President John C, Welling, General Manager T. Harahan and Engineer G. B. Fitzhugli of the Illinois Central have been authorized by the Secretary of State to secure-subscriptions to the Canton, Aberdeen and Ashville Railroad.

John Boyd's little granddaughter rau almost fainting into the residence of her uncle four miles east of Cambridge, Ohio, saying that robbers had entered her grandfather’s house near by in the night and killed her grandfather, a prominent and wealthy farmer, aged 70; her aunt, Mrs. Nancy Wyriek, and her father, Orrin Law, aged 30, Investigation showed that only the first two were dead. When the police entered the premises they found Bovd clad in his nightshirt lying dead on the floor of his bedroom, with bullet holes in his head and breast. Six feet away lay his dead daughter, Mrs. Wyriek, partly dressed. Her breast bad been pierced, the bullet being found in the bed. The room was in great confusion, showing evidence of a terrific struggle. Law was found in an adjoining room, apparently drugged, hut he was aroused, and became indignant when arrested. The theory of (lie officers is that Boyd and Law fought; that Boyd was shot, and that his daughter ran into the room to assist him, only to meet a like fate.