Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1898 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Rev. J. 11. Brown, residing at Evenly, Mo., was killed by a fast mail train. He was deaf and did not hear the train approaching. Bloomville, Ohio, was the victim of a SIO,OOO fire, and one entire business block in the village is in ruins. The fire started from a defective chimney. Mayor Colwell at Granville, Ohio, discharged six Denison University students arrested for damaging the cemetery in a fraternity initiation proceeding. Two ships were lost on Lake Michigan during the recent sever# storm. The schooner S. Thai foundered off Glencoe, 111., and four sailors lost their lives. A fire which originated in the Elkhorn Hotel at Canyon City, Ore., within two hours destroyed the entire business portion of the town and a number of residences. The loss will exceed SIOO,OOO. Tenor Francisco Collenz became so imbued with his part in “I Pagliacci” at a performance in St. Louis that he stabbed the prima donna, Miss Nedda Morrison, in the arm. Fishermen from Green Island report at Toledo that Lightkeeper Gibeaut, of the Turtle light, saw a small schooner with a crow of six men and one woman go down during the recent gale. Ockley C. Johnson, the professional golfer, was chloroformed in a hotel on the Natural Bridge road near St. Louis and robbed of SIOO in cash, a gold watch and chain and other valuables. James J. Hill is to begin work at once on his hew British Columbia railroad from Bonner’s Ferry, Idaho, to Nelson. This will give the Great Northern a second artery into British Columbia. John C. Roth, County Treasurer, and millionaire pork packer, was found on the third floor of his packing-house at Cincinnati dead, with his head crushed between the floor of the room and the freight elevator. The last company of the Fifth Missouri volunteers lias been mustered out and the men have left for their homes. With the exception of a few soldiers, all at the Kansas City hospitals, all of the Third and Fifth are now out. Prairie fires have been burning along the South Canadian river, in the Chickasaw nation, I. T., devastating scores of farms and ranches of crops and buildings. Many cattle perished, but no lives were lost. The loss exceeds $50,000. An extensive body of ore was struck in the Golden Crest mine in Two Bit, S. D. The foreman was reticent about the value •f the ore, but it is the same character of ore that was recently struck in the Union Hill that ran $6,000 per ton. John Nickles shot and killed both his wife and his mother-in-law with a rifle near Shingle Springs, Cal. Afterward he removed the shoe from his right foot and with his toes discharged the rifle at his own breast, killing himself instantly. A report from Perry, O. T., says that there was a brilliant as well as fatal shower of meteors near that place, causing much consternation among the people. Two children named Henderson are reported as having been killed by a large meteor. John T. Veney, n colored Baptist preacher of Topeka, Kan., has organized a colony of colored people to go to Cuba. They will start in about twenty days, and expect to found a town on the high land above Santiago, which they will call Topeka. Thomas Hagens, 30 years old, a wellknown and eccentric character, who lived about seven miles west of Columbia, Mo., iru found dead by Rippe. He

found Hagens seated at a table dead, with a buUet wotind in the back of the head. It is supposed he’ was murdered. In a quarrel over the delivery of mail at the Lamonte, Mo., postoffice Postmaster JaM. O’Bapnon shot W. H. Hull, agent and operator for the Missouri Pacific Railway, twice. One shot took effect in the groin and the other in the arm, but it is believed Hull will recover. A Great Northern through train was held up and robbed about fifty miles west of Fergus Falls, Minn., by a gang of eight men. The local express safe was blown open and considerable money secured, but the robbers failed to get into the through safe, though they worked two hours over it. Thomas Moore, aged 7 years, died at Sedalia, Mo., of hydrophobia, after having suffered for nearly a week. He was bitten by a dog a month before. He had convulsion after convulsion, during which he barked like a dog and frothed at the mouth, it requiring the efforts of two men to hold him. A shooting affray took place in the Trilby mine, at Prescott, Ariz., in which Supt. Murphy, a man named Bruner and two others participated. Murphy was mortally wounded, Bruner was killed and the two others were slightly wounded. Tie trouble was over the boundary lines of two mining claims. The Kirksville, Mo., Savings Bank was entered by burglars and robbed of $14,000 in Government bonds, belonging to Samuel Reed, president, and SIB,OOO in gold and greenbacks. Two thousand dollars in silver was left, evidently being too heavy, and $2,400 in the vault was overlooked by the robbers. The officers and men of Companies I, G, K and E, Twelfth United States Infantry, who assisted in therassault on El Caney during the Santiago campaign, had a narrow escape from being burned to death by a fire that started in a Pullman coach while they were being transported from St. Louis to Fort Riley, Kan. The steamer Australia has arrived at San Francisco seven days from Honolulu. Among her passengers were thirty soldiers afflicted with malarial fever. The majority of the sick men are members of the cavalry who were detailed on garrison duty in the islands. The voyage improved the condition of most of the men.