Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1898 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

George B. Hollister, aged 78. a prominent member of the Cincinnati bar, is dead at his home in Mount Auburn. At San Francisco, the Shipowners’ Association has ordered a reduction of $5 a month in wages for all classes of seamen. ~ Mrs. Lumsden, charged witli having murdered her husband in order to secure the $2,000 insurance on his life, has been acquitted in Milan, Mo. Grant C. Gillett, the cattle plunger of Woodbine, Kan., who disappeared owing nearly $2,000,000, is under arrest at Chihuahua. in Old Mexico. A. A. Ferris of Cincinnati has been appointed receiver for the National Fraternal Union, his duties being limited to the seven-year certificates. Nearly the whole business portion of Eufaula, I. T„ on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $150,000. The home of Hiram Biggs, a farmer living seven miles soutbicist of Perry, O. T„ caught fire and Biggs, his wife and three small children were burned to death. Link Thayer, the last of.the six men to be tried at Fergus Falls, Minn., on the charge of holding up the Great Northern express train Nov, 10, was sentenced to twenty years in State’s prison. Roscoe Huntington. aged 57, who claimed to be a nephew of Collis P. Huntington. killed himself with morphine in a Los Angeles, Cal., lodging bouse because he could not secure employment. Another lynching has occurred at New Madrid. Mo., the victim being the second of the two negroes who killed Alexander Loin in Madrid Bend, Ky. The negro was caught at Dyersburg, Tenn. Ralph A. Obleness died at Athens, O._ from injuries received in playing football two weeks before. He was the quarter back on the eleven of Ohio University. He suffered from a head collision. At Cleveland, an unknown man. about 45 years of age. suddenly dropped dead while in a restaurant in St. Clair street. It is B thought he was W. N. Page of 86 Reynolds-street. Rochester. N. Y. The dry goods store of H. N. Bradley & Co. of Denver, Colo., has been closed on a writ of attachment secured by the Merchants’ National Bank of New York. Liabilities are placed at SIIO,OOO. The grand jury of Macoupin County, 111., returned indictments against fifty-

font men connected in different ways with the late riots at Virden. Among those indicted is John R. Tanner. Governor of the State. At Cincinnati, the jury acquitted W. J. Haldeman of the murder of ex-State Senator J. C. Richardson Sept. 23 last. The men were business associates, and the killing was in the office of their mills at Lockland, Ohio. Fire totally destroyed the main building of the Lincoln, Neb., Normal University, three miles from that city. It was a fourstory structure, costing slightly over SIOO,OOO. Insurance, $25,000. The origin of the fire is unknown. Aubrey C. Taylor, a well-known newspaper writer of Zanesville. Ohio, had a premonition of his death, and the day that he was taken ill went to an undertaking establishment and •selected the coffin in which he wanted to be buried. Joseph P. Gross, an assistant foreman of the San Francisco fire department, was shot and almost instantly killed by Joseph Clark, an upholsterer. The murderer accused his victim of having caused an estrangement between his wife nnd himself. It is reported at St. Louis that Armour, Swift and Nelson Morris, the big Chicago packers, are interested in a scheme to build and operate an independent telegraph and telephone line to connect all their packing houses in the West with their Chicago headquarters. Tiie Lincoln Theater, on North Clark street, Chicago, was discovered to be on fire the other evening ten minutes after an audience of 70Q had left the building, and before the flames were checked the building had been gutted, and $73,000 damage done. The fire is supposed to have originated accidentally. The quadrennial general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church will be held in Chicago in May. 1900. A decision to that effect by the committee which has the location of the conference in charge was obtained by the Chicago Methodist Social Union subcommittee, in session at the Palmer House in that city. The winter wheat crop of Kansas is 59,674,190 bushels, worth $32,431,772; spring wheat. 1,116.556 bushels, worth $505,260; corn, 126,999.132 bushels, worth $30,298,098; oats, 21,702,537 bushels, worth $4,268.861. The combined home values of the wheat, corn and oats amount to $67,504,001, or $735,211 more than in 1597. Mrs. Abbie L. Marble, the aged sister-in-law of the late James G. Blaine, met with a tragic death at San Leandro, Cal. She was driving in a light buggy when the horse took fright and ran away, going through an open gate into an orchard. A low-hanging limb struck Mrs. Marble in the breast, throwing her from the buggy and killing her instantly. James 11. Southall, the swindler and Government time check forger, was sentenced at St. Paul to the State’s prison for ten years at hard labor. Southall swindled various banking firms gnd individuals in the principal cities of the country out of sums aggregating $750,000. He was convicted of grand larceny-r-bnly one of six or more indictments. 'The formation of the school furniture combine is now completed. All the big Grand Rapids companies, and. in fact, all the companies making school furniture, are represented in this newest pool, which j,s to have a capitalization of $8,500,000. A Grand Rapids furniture manufacturer is to be made the president and the headquarters will be in Chicago. C. M. Mantel), said to be a solicitor for the Medical Record, was shot dead at his home in Alameda, Cal., by a young woman who claims to he his wife. Two bullets were fired, one passing through Mantell’s heart, the other penetrating the brain. The murderess then turned the revolver upon herself, inflicting a wound which, it is thought, will not prove fatal. A month ago Michael Voelkaer of Rockport, Ohio, abused his wife. Their son ,Henry, 19 years old. tried to protect bis mother and the father turned on him. He pursued the young man into the woodshed and raised an ax to strike, when Henry shot him. The young man was arrested. Voelkner was jbadly wounded, but is. recovering. The grand jury refused to indict the son. but returned a bill against his father for assault with intent to kill. Robert Findley & Co., of Sterling, ami C. R. Lee, of Lincoln, Neb., have purchased all the available broomcorn brush in Kansas and Oklahoma, comprising the principal growing districts of the United Spates, and pushed the price up sls per ton. They paid S4O to S6O per ton for the product, but have refused $75 per ton. Broommakers know that Kansas and Oklahoma are the principal brush-growing districts in this country and the shortage of the crop enabled these men to run the corner.

The Ohio State crop bulletin shows that the condition of the growing wheat crop in Ohio has fallen off 2 points since Nov, 1, dun to the ravages of the fly and the grubworm. Still its condition is 100 per cent of a full average. The corn area in Ohio for the year 1898 crops is given as 2.954,564 acres, producing 111.354,701 bushels, or 38 bushels per acre, the largest crop except that of 1896 in the history of the State. The potato area Was 117.341 acres, producing 8,254.121 bushels. The cattle being fed for spring market is 82 per cent average number and sheep 82 per cent.