Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1898 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

I). L. Snyder, the aged millionaire and philanthropist, is dead at Springfield, O. Ex-Gov. Charles 11. Sheldon died at Deadwood, S. D., of pneumonia, aged 57. George Clark, the St. Helena fratricide, died on the gallows at San Quentin prison, California. Three men were killed by an explosion of dynamite on the Government canal at Duluth, Minn. W. 11. P. Lee, a highly esteemed pioneer of Mexico, Mo., drowned himself in a creek near town. John B. Corliss has been renominated for Congress by the Republicans of the First Michigan district. The First National Bank of Lisbon, 0., has closed its doors and the cashier has left for parts unknown. The Mathias & Michael Planing Mill Company at Dayton, Ohio, has assigned for the benefit of creditors. Assets, $6,000; liabilities, $14,000. Michael Timlin and Philip Vergallito, fillers at the furnace of the Youngstown, Ohio, Steel Company, were suffocated by gas. Both leave families. D. C. Bowers & Co., a big dry goods firm of Lisbon, Ohio, has assigned, as a result of the suspension of the First National Bank of that city. By an explosion in the mixing room of the Judson dynamite and powder works, North Berkeley, Cal., two mbn were killed and the building totally wrecked. The case of yellow fever in Paris township, Ohio resulted in the death of the victim, Miss Blanche Beck, aged 28. Miss Beck recently fled from Mississippi. John Melchert, an expert photographer, blew out the brains of bis sweetheart, Lillian Morris, while the two were posing before a camera. Jealousy caused the deed. Excitement following the discovery of gold at Malvern, Ohio, and tfie extensive plans made for mining it continue unabated. The gold quartz vein has been probed for ninety feet. Alpbeus Arter, one of the heaviest depositors of the failed First National Bank of Lisbon, Ohio has been forced to close bis harness manufacturing establishment as a result of his losses. Frederick Furth, secretary of the Vulcan works at Seattle, Wash., dropped dead in the street from heart disease, aged 00. He was a brother of Leopold and Solomon Furth of Richardson, 111. The big tug L. P. Smith was sunk in the harbor entrance at Cleveland, as a result of a collision with the steamer Olympiu. C. McCarthy, the fireman, went down with the tug and was drowwed. Chat Roberts’ hotel in Clairville, Cal., burned, and these lost their lives: P. Pedrina, Carson Barney, Mrs. Coraado, Florence Roberts, 7 years old, and a woman whose name has not been ascertained. A disagreement which has existed for some time between the proprietors of the breweries of Denver aud their employes has culminated in a lockout in which about 250 workmen are thrown out of work. The charred remains of Samuel Alexander and portions of another body, believed to be that of the son of Superintendent Parks, were found in the ruins of the recently burned Union elevator in Toledo, Ohio. ' The torpedo boat Davis, in its preliminary trial of three-quarters of an hour, under the supervision of the naval board at Portland, Ore., averaged twenty-four knqts, one and one-half knots above the required speed. J. Franklin Brown, a hypnotist, died at San Francisco from blood poisoning contracted several months ago when he attempted to put a cub lion under the spell of his power. The cub rebelled and bit Brown’s hand. , ' ' While walkiug on the tracks of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad on their way home from church, Mrs. Cornelius Shea and her daughter Margaret were struck by a passenger train at Leadville, Colo. Both were killed. Billy Walker, the pugilist who Was knocked out by Andy Dupont, died at fen I *!til Omaha \ph after hsTiiiff lippii

wa eon scions fifty-six hours. The charge against Dupont will be ehanged (com prise fighting to murder. John Stewart of Bosworth, Mo., left (or a short trip several days ago and did not return. He was found dead by a small stream seventy miles south of there. .The Supposition is he became lost in the severe storn and froze to death. By a unanimous vote at a meeting of the striking wire-drawers, held in Cleveland, the strike was declared off. Superintendent Nye announced that all the old employes who desired to return to work could do so as far as there were vacancies. The Comptroller of the Currency was advised that the First National Bank of Lisbon, Ohio, capital $50,000, had closed the doors. The dispatch from the bank examiner said the failure of the bank appeared to have been caused by mismanagement. A south-bound passenger train on the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf road was thrown from the track by a broken rail near Maryville, Mo. B. F. Frye of Pittsburg, Kan., was fatally hurt. Brakeman Callicut of Stanberry, Mo., sustained a broken arm. Joe Ott, who pleaded guilty to killing his wife, was hanged iu the jail yard at Granite Falls, Minn. Ott made u statement from the gallows expressing sorrow' for the crime. He killed his wife on the evening of May 18, 1898. by beating her brains out with a "billy.” W. R. Ilearst, proprietor of the New York Journal and San Francisco Examiner, is under bail at San Francisco to answer to a charge of criminal libel brought by Claus Spreckels. Spreckels lias also brought two civil suits against Ilearst for $1,000,000 damages each. No freight trains ran on the east division of the Colorado Midland Railroad a few (lays ago iu consequence of a strike. The trouble originated when a crew was called Upon to take out a three-engine train. The men claimed that the company made an agreement some time ago not to run threeengine trains and no crew would respond to the call.