Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1898 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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' Col. Champion S. Chase died at Omaha from the effects of injur.es sustained in a fall. The Fifth Ohio volunteer regiment has been mustered out ami paid off at Cleveland. Lawyer Charles Off-.it committed suicide at Omaha because of loiig-continued poor 'hepltli. . , Himes McDowen, of Marblehead, Ohio, shot and killed his wife and then committed suede after a quarrel. William F. Mink, a St. Louis machinist, was fatally injured by a brick which fell from a building he was passing. At Little River, Kan., fire destroyed every building on the west side of Main street, including eighteen houses and a hotel. At Toledo, Ohio, William Beck, a Lake Shore employe, was arrested for systematic stealing from express cars. He confessed. An incendiary fire destroyed several livery barns and the Troy steam laundry and damaged the Reublin flouring mill in Elyria, Ohio. Osa Woodward and John Martin, working at the Chicago Consolidated mine at Joplin, Mo., were instantly killed by falling bowlders. The right of a city or town to assess an occupation tax on a railroad corporation has been sustained by the Supreme Court of Nebraska. Samuel Norrish, with large grain and elevator interests in Minnesota and North Dakota, died suddenly at his home in Hastings, Neb. P. B. O’Reilly, aged 86, the oldest member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in the United States, is dead at his home in Terre Haute, Ind. The First National Bank of Flushing, Ohio, posted notices that it would receive no more deposits as it had been decided to quit business and go into liquidation. The Boston mine, in the northern port of Humboldt County, Cal., comprising 3,000 acres of placer mining ground, has been sold to Charles Foote of Chicago for $145,000. William Beck, a Lake Shore employe, has been arrested in Toledo for systematic stealing from express cars. More than $5,000 worth of goods were found in his house. The officers’ quarters at Fort Russell, near Cheyenne, Wyo., were destroyed by an incendiary fire. Lieut. R. C. Landon, Eighth infantry, lost all of his personal effects. The “Curfew bill,” designed to compel children under the age of 15 to be off the streets after 8 p. m. in winter and 9 p. m. in summer, has passed the St. Louis City Council. The works of the Standard Car Wheel Company, Cleveland, Ohio, together with considerable stock, were totally destroyed by fire. Loss, $90,000, covered by insurance. Thomas B. Rayl, president of the T. B. Rayl Hardware Company of Detroit, Mich., has filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. Liabilities, $1,500,000; assets, $12,000. i The Mayor of Spokans, Wash., has issued a proclamation enrolling all persons over 21 years of age special constables to assist in arresting the robbers who have been active lately. The authorities have found nearly $lO,000 secreted in the hotne of Oscar Osborne, who was murdered near Richfield, Ohio, by robbers while trying to make him tell where his money was hidden. Two masked robbers entered the postoffice at Arago, Oregon, forced Postmaster Schroeder to open' the safe, and secured $1,300 belonging to the Arago Creamery Company and $290 of postal funds. Decrees of foreclosure and sale have I been entered against the Denver Citj

( Cable Railroad Company and the Denver West End Street Railway Company in >,lfavor of the Central Trust Company of New York. The operation of the Shanty Hill mine at Malvern, Ohio, is conducted with the utmost secrecy. Lessee Whartman says he will not divulge the production of the mine. -'3 All the land in the vicinity has been leased. At Pitkin, Colo., all the buildings on both sides of Main street, from Fourth street to Fifth, forty in number, were destroyed by a fire, believed to have been of incendiary origin. The loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO. Another step was taken in the attempt to drive the Standard Oil trust out of Ohio when the Attorney General filed a petition In the State Supreme Court asking the forfeiture of the charter of the Buckeye Pipe Line Company. The works of the National Starch Company at Glen Cove, L. 1., were seriously damaged by fire. The volunteer fire department from Glen Cove and surrounding places were unable to cheek the flames. The loss will amount to about $200,000. A terrific explosion was heard throughout the three counties of Mrfskingum, Morgan and Guernsey, Ohio. The shock rocked buildings like an earthquake. So far, however, all efforts, to discover whence the shock originated have proved futile. Rev. R. E. Howell of Decatur, 111., was found dead in the Avenue Hotel at Olathe, Kan. He had committed suicide because, on going there to meet the woman with whom he e/oped from Warrensburg, Mo., last summer, he found her living with her husband. The roof of the New Wonderland Theater at Detroit collapsed, carrying down the iron galleries of the structure, and a great mass of scaffolding and debris. Some twenty-five men were working under the collapsed parts of the structure. Eleven men were killed. Detective Henry Crouse of tjje Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern ran down a gang of robbers who had stolen thousands of dollars’ worth of goods from the road. He traced seven men to a hut twenty-one miles from Olney, 111., and captured them all. The members of the gang all rode to the scenes of their operations on bicycles.