Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Almost the entire business portion of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, was destroyed by fire. The loss will be about $20,000. At St. fjouis. Mo, William Shaw, charged with coin sweating, was convicted by the United States District Court. At •Kingman-, Kan., W. C. Morgan, a wealthy resident, was found dead on the prairie, lie is thought to have perished in the storm. Iu Day County, Oklahoma, K. M. Murcheson, aged 70. shot and killed R. 11. Low, aged 20. They quarreled over some fence posts. Di Day County. Oklahoma, It. M. Murcheson, aged 70. shot and killed It. 11. Low, aged 20. They quarreled over some fence posts. At Fostoria, Ohio, Mrs. Charles F. Krugman poured gasoline into the stove. Au explosion followed and Mrs. Krugman was burned to death. James Gray of Cleveland, a brakeman on the Lake Shore Bailroad. has fallen heir to $350,000, being his share of his graiidmo thor’s estnte. The United States battleship Wisconsin was successfully launched at San Francisco. The boat was christened by Miss Elizabeth Stephenson. At Columbus. Ohio, Judge Taft of the United State's Circuit Court has ordered the sale of the Zanesville (Ohio) electric railway on Jan. 3, 1809. Private deposit boxes in the State Treasury at Topeka, Kan., have been looted by unknown persons. Governor I.eedy is among the losers. Condo Hamlin, managing editor of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, has been appointed colonel of the new regiment of the Minnesota National Guards. The grand jury at Fergus Falls, Minn., has returned indictments against the six men arrested at Moorhead for holding up the Great Northern train at Carlisle. The vault of the Wrenthain, Mass., National Bank at Wrontham was blown open by burglars and rifled. About $2.(100 and notes valued at $05,000 are missing. The Baldwin Hotel and theater in San Francisco was destroyed by fire. There were 800 persons In the building. Many are supposed to have perished. The loss is about $2,000,000. Elmer Munsell. aged 20, was shot accidentally by bis 18-year-old brother-in-law at charivari festivities twcntyrTour hours after MunseH’s marriage. The tragedy occurred in Dry Grove township, 111. At Milan, Mb., the jury in the trial of W. E. Furaeson for the murder of S. G. Wilson retirrrted a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. Judge Stephens at once sentenced him to hang Fridny, Dec. 30. An attempt to rob the Lincoln County Bank was made .at Ellsherry, Mo. The town watchman was tied to a tree by four robbers, who broke into the bank and attempted to enter the safe. It is not known that they got anything. The powder mill at Lauionte, Mo., blew up, blowing six men to atoms and wounding several others. The explosion took place in the packing louse, and was of such force as to be heard and felt for a distance of twenty-five miles. Prairie fires have played havoc in Oklahoma and Indian territory. Millions of tons of hay in bale and hulk have been and no less than 100 residences have been destroyed. Several lives have been lost in these prairie fires. Fire broke out in the Robert Keith furniture and carpet establishment at Kansas City. The fire was gotten under control at 7 o’clock, with an estimated loss of $210,000 on stock atpi $40,000 On the J>dU4Jng: totaLiqsurnpoj. jfcltJSjOQQ, *

a period of fifteen minutes at the dinner hour. Two thousand dollars in registered bonds and $5,600 In coupon bonds and $5,600 in gold and currency were taken. A terrible windstorm in the oil district of Los Angeles, Cab, caused much damage. Two oil tanks, holding 1,000 gallons of oil, were punctured by failing derricks and the oil ran through the streets. Houses and barns were crushed under the falling derricks. No casualties are reported. A three-coach and baggage passenger train on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern road was wrecked six miles north of Burlington, lowa. One of the ears, containing thirty passengers, rolled down an embankment, turning three times in 150 feet. Two persons were fatally, three seriously and seventeen slightly injured. The fact that Vice-President Mitchell and T. W. Davis of the executive hoard of the United Aline Workers of America should have been in conference with M. D. Itatchford in Massillon, Ohio, at the time when the report that another national strike of miners was shortly to be ordered, seemed significant. But all three deny that anything of the sort is contemplated. W. H. F. Sehroeder of St. Louis was married recently. A few days afterward his wife and $27,000 disappeared. Jefferson I). Storts, a St. Louis lawyer, says that she left upon his advice, and that her seizure of the money was also by liis advice. In fact, he says he told her to “take everything she could lay hands on.” Mr. Sehroeder, according to his wife, though wealthy, is close. He refused to give her enough money to buy necessities. When he offered her 10 cents, and told her it was all she would get for a long time, she called on Mr. Storts. Mrs. Sehroeder is at Washington, Mo. The terrible treatment of Jacob Mominbe and wife, living near Touissant, a French settlement, has been reported in Toledo, Ohio. The old man was ducked into a cistern until he fainted and then the woman was strung up by a halter until ghe revealed tflie hiding place of their money which they had hoarded for years. It is alleged they were robbed by the three masked men of about $11,700. A grandson escaped and aroused the neighbors. who gave chase and shot one of the men in the leg, but lie was helped to escape iu the big marsh.