Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1898 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Farmers in the vicinity of Crary. N. D., are alarmed over the prevalence of hydrophobia among stock. James Ilarlin, living near Scotch Ridge, Ohio, was killed iu a runaway. His wife and daughter were fatally injured. The social democracy of America has selected a body of land in western Washington and will establish its first colony within thirty days. N. L. Sylvester and John Krause, who live twenty miles from Alliance, Neb., quarreled over boundary *liueß, and Krause killed Sylvester. Mrs. Nellie Labile and her 13-year-old daughter were drowned iu Brush creek, near Clinton, Mo. They were driving to their home in Camden County. Chevalier Maximilian de Proskowetz, consul general of Austria-Hungary in Chicago, lost his life in Fort Wayne, while en route to New York.

At Akron, Ohio, the hank of the hydraulic canal was washed out by a heavy rain and a freight train was thrown to the foot of the bluff. No one was hurt. One hundred and twenty-five weavers and printers employed by Stinson Bros., carpet manufacturers iu Philadelphia, struck on account of a threatened reduction of wages. An curthqunke of unusunl strength and duration aroused the people at Hurley, S. D. It caused houses to tremble and dishes to rattle on the shelves for about thirty seconds. It seemed to travel eastward. George E. Cheney, a well-known banker of Crete, Neb., walked into the elevator shaft at the Drexel Hotel at Omaha and was killed by the fall. The elevator conductor had gone up, neglecting to close the door. A special train of an engine and four cars on the Chicago and Northwestern Railway has established a new record between Chicago anti Omaha, making the run of 493 miles in nine hours and twentynine minutes. The single tux congress, held at Omaha under the auspices of the Transmississippi exposition, opened with addresses by Franklin H. Wentworth and John Z. White of Chicago and Frank Stevens of Philadelphia. The Michigan conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church ndopted without debate a resolution declaring for a constitutional amendment providing equal lay and ministerial representation in the general conference. The vote was 199 to 9. The Boston bark Lapland. 524 tons, on her way home from 4he west const of Africa, was wrecked on St. Vincent during the hurricane. Captain Cates and crew had a miraculous escape, landing in their own boats during the height of the storm. Isaac Fitz and James McClellan, farmers near Y'ale, lowa, quarreled over a line fence. As McClellan mounted his horse to return home, Fitz shot him with 9 shotgun and killed him instantly. Fitz was arrested and spirited away to avoid lynching. An accident occurred at Rockland, Cal., to the oYerland train. Three cars from a freight tram broke loose and ran down grade, crashing into the overland, which was being pulled up the grade by two engines. No one was killed, but five persons were seriously injured. The following appointments have been announced by the President: George H. Pickerell of Ohio, to be consul in St. Nicholas; Fred Page Tustin of Oregon, to be commissioner for the district of Alaska, to reside in Wrangel; Thomas Ling, interpreter to the United States consulate in Fuchnn, China. The dead body of Fred Langsdorff, aged 40 years, a bookbinder and spiritualist, was found on the bank of the Haw at a point near Armourdale. Ka». He had committed suicide after takings, dram of morphine and a dram of pjussie aaid, in small quantities, covering & period hf four days, then opening the vqius of his arm. Deputy United States Matshpl Morrb son created Pug Ouary Koihing and Shabon Dash King, at the Level}

to* Walker, Minn., they were rescued by their baud. The Indian* refused to give up the criminals and are much excited. Dispatches from Chicago .state that P. D. Armour, Marshall Field and Norman B. Ream have secured control of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Ten million dollars is said to be the price paid. They have gained for Chicago and tfie Northwest practically a trunk line from ocean to ocean by way of the Great Northern, and it will be cojtrolled by Chicago capital. A communication from Supia, Arizopa, asking for aid for the destitute Indians there has been received by Mrs. John Merrill, president of the Red Cross Society of San' Francisco. It was immediately forwarded to the Secretary of the Interior. A recent storm destroyed all the crops at Supia, and left the Indians to face starvation in the winter. Supplies to the amount of from $3,000 to $5,000 are asked for. As the result of an attempt of a party of twenty-two non-union men to enter the works of the American Wire Company at Cleveland, where a strike has been on for some time past, a pitched battle took place between the strikers and the non-union workmen. Clubs, stones and slungshots were freely used, and while no one was seriously hurt, a number of men were severely bruised or cut. C. C. Cunningham of Milton, Ore., shot and killed O. Young and seriously wounded Mrs. Jniins J. Worcester at the 0., It. & N. at Pendleton. Cunningham. with a' cocked revolver, chased Miss Elbe Worcester for a block, firing three shots at her, but the young woman ran into a saloon and eluded the murderer. He ran "through the saloon into the Great Eastern Hotel, where he snapped his revolver twice at Mrs. Johnson, the proprietor’s wife. Cunningham was crazed by drink. Striking plasterers precipitated a riot at De Hodiamont, at the western limits of St. Louis, in which William Kane, a non-union worker, was fatally wounded and three others seriously hurt. Mounted police responded to a riot call and were met by a fusillade of ballets from the strikers. The police replied with a number of shots and a charge ou the crowds, dispersing them and resulting in the arrest of Nat Brown and Joe Lee, who are thought to be the ringleaders. For some time there has been n strike on among the plasterers of that city and vicinity for higher wages, but no serious trouble had resulted. About 1 a. m. strikers gathered in considerable force near Geri.v’s saloon in De Hodiamont to prevent nin-union men from going to work on some buildings near by. Derisive and abusive words led to the throwing of missiles, and finally one of the strikers drew his revolver and fired into the crowd of non-union men. This was followed immediately by a volley from the strikers and Kane fell, mortally wounded. When the mounted police appeared on the scene they were met, in their efforts to disperse the rioters, by a volley of bullets. The strikers fled, and Capt. McNamee at once called out all the policemen available to chase and capture them. The chase developed into a running fight between the police and some of the strikers, in which several were reported to have been injured. , ■