Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1898 — WESTERN, [ARTICLE]

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The imported negroes' from Alabama were quietly smuggled out of Springfield and sent to St. Louis. At Albuquerque,N, M., a fire on Main street destroyed six buildings, including the Metropolitan Hotel block. The Master Horseshqers' National Protective Association of America began its annual convention at Cincinnati. San Francisco has been determined upon as the place for holding the next biennial council of the Episcopal Church. At St. Louis, John W. Edwards shot' and killed Alexander Charlton, whose divorced wife figures in the tragedy. While crossing the Wheeling and Lake Erie tracks at Irondale, Ohio, Frank Sass and William Schocht of Toledo were killed, Near Glendale. Ohio, James Donovan, aged 22. was murdered by William Cearus, aged 72 years. Drunkenness caused the tragedy. Two little daughters of Frank Lees, near Hebron, Ohio, while playing in the yard, ate jimson weeds. One of the children died. The boiler of a wing of the asylum for dangerous'criminal insane at lonia, Mich., exploded, killing one man and badly injuring three others. Plymouth Church, Chicago, has declared for a new creed, modeled after suggestions made by Dr. F. W. Gunsaulus and Rev. A. J. Haynes. At Kansas City. Mo.. Frank R, Mason, a graduate of West Point, pleaded guilty to burglary and has been sentenced to serve ten years in the penitentiary. At Visalia, Colo., an earthquake rocked bouses on their foundations, broke crockery, and aroused many people. The door Of a heavy safe was closed by the shock. Because of the recent strength in the wheat market and the urgent foreign demand for the grain, wholesale flour dealers of Chicago advanced that article 10 cents per barrel. Alma Seger, a pretty school teacher of Wichita. Kan., was bitten by an ant on the face Thursday. She went insane in a few hours and died of hydrophobia late in the afternoon. Dr. Jefferson D. Goddard, under a six-teen-ycar sentence at Kansas City. Mo., for the murder of Fred Jackson, a laundry ■man. has been granted a new trial by the State Supreme Court. News has reached Phoenix. Ariz., of a remarkably rich fin<r~or gold-bearing quartz near the Garcia iniiie on the Vulture lead. Some of the samples are worth SIO,OOO to the ton. A week ago burglars broke into the office of the -Hardwood Manufacturing Company at Minneapolis, and after breaks ing open a safe escaped with SSO,(HM) worth of United States bonds of the recent issue. A dispatch was received at the War Department from Minnesota, asking for 500 Springfield rifles and 50,000 pounds of ammunition for the use of the people of that State in protecting themselves against hostile Indians. Internal revenue receipts for Chicago for the last quarter wore $4,035,153, as compared with $1,056,014 for the corresponding period last year. The stump tax on documents and proprietary articles has contributed over $1,000,000. Dr. Donmyer of Solomon City, Kan., uses the skin from the abdomen of frogs for grafting purposes. A week ago ho covered a spot ns large as (he palm of a hand on Joe Sullivan’s lower limb caused by a burn, and the wound is healing nicely. J. F. Watson, driver for the International OU Company. Chicago, was assault-

ed by two men in the rear of the company’s office, 500 Wabash avenue. Five hundred dollars that had been paid to him by customers during the day was taken from him. A charge of conspiracy to murder and murder has been brought against the officials of the Chicago-Virden Coal ComIMiny and the guards employed by them. This is the first move on the part of the strikers to take the fight against the mine owners into the courts. President McKinley and party reached St. Louis over the Burlington road shortly after 9 o’clock Friday morning, and met with a rousing reception, in which over 200,000 took part. From the railway station he was escorted to the Southern Hotel, and reviewed the parade from the hotel balcony. The schooner Churchill of Chicago, laden with iron ore from Lake Superior, foundered in the middle of Lake Michigan, off Waukegan, at 1 o’clock Friday afternoon, and the captain and one sailor were carried down with the sinking boat. The mate, three other seamen and the woman cook were rescued. Fifty-seven negroes, intended for the mines at Virden, and who were aboard the train attacked by the miners, were set adrift in St. Louis to get back to Birmingham the best way they could. After the guards were unloaded at the Union station the train was pulled down into the yards, where the negroes were told to get out by the conductor. He marched them back up the tracks and into the general waiting rooms, where he left them. The negroes were perfectly helpless, having no friends and no money.