Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1898 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Co!. W. J. Bryan lias resigned his comma nd. At Croton, Ohio, six-members of M. C. Parson's Ipmily are suffering with trichinosis. At Paola. Kan., John Roberts, charged with the murder of his father, was found guilty of manslaughter. At Dayton, Ohio, Margaret Isabel Wolf, wife of John Wolf, has sued for divorce. He is 80 years old and she is 35. Kansas negroes are pushing a movement for the deportation of 2,000,000 negroes to Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and Africa. At Upper Sandusky, Ohio, fire destroyed the business block owned by Mrs. Van Marter. The origin of the fire is unknown. George Howard and Frank Howard, miners, wandered off the road # in the mountains,'near Ironton, Colo., and froze to death. At Pierre, 8. D., the official count for Governor was completed. The totals are: Lee, fusion, 37,319; Phillips, Republican, 36,949; Lewis. Prohibition, 891. The postoffice at Clifton, Cal., was robbed by two masked men, who held up A. T. Wilkinson, the postmaster, and secured everything of value in the place. Federal Judge Seaman of Milwaukee has upheld the federal bankruptcy law, declaring the State courts are entirely without jurisdiction in such procedure. At Hyannis, Mass., the engine house and carpenter shop of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad were burned, with four locomotives; loss, $75,000. At Seattle, Wash., United States Attorney Gay has filed a libel against the noted Cuban filibustering steamship Laurada, accused of smuggling whisky into Alaska. Miijs Hildegard Poppe, a former school teacher of Burligbton, lowa, has begun a breach of promise suit for $6,000 against F. T. Mills, a wealthy bachelor of Springfield, Mo. The United States transport Newport, bearing Gen. Miller and staff and the First battalion, Twentieth Kansas regiment, with the Wyoming light battery, has reached Manila. The whaling bark Alexander, the last of the Arctic fleet to return this year, has arrived at San Francisco without making a single catch. She came from Plover bay by way of Dutch harbor. Harriet O. Evans, a Cincinnati Christian Scientist, who attended Thomas McDowell, a typhoid fever patient, in his last illness, has been found guilty in the police court of practicing medicine without a license. OU la being thrown at the rata of fifty

barrels an hour from a welt in which ft was struck, one mile above Marietta, Ohio. It is the best well in all the region, and was put down for experiment in new direction. John Tongass has served eight years in the penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, for the murder of Albert Van Riper, who is now alive and working at Kenton, Ohio. He was convicted upon purely circumstantitl evidence. A special from Debequc, Colo., says that 150 hunters assembled there to participate in a grand hunt for mountain lions, bears and other wild beasts that prey upon the live stock of the ranchers in that vicinity. George Perry, a colored school teacher, and his daughter Eunice were struck by a Chicago and Alton train at Higginsville, Mo. The girl’was killed and the man will die. They were crossing the track and did not notice the train coming. The members of the Columbus, Ohio, chapter of the Phi Gamma Delta, who were arrested and later acquitted on a charge of desecrating a cemetery, have preferred charges of blackmail and condoning a crime against the cemetery trustees. A north-fiound extra passenger train and the east-bound overland crashed together on a curve in a canyon two miles from Prescott, Ariz. Engineer W. H. Wade, of the extra, was instantly killed, and Engineer Thomas Gatfield and Fireman George Walker, of the overland, fataly in juried. Ernest Clevenger, of Missouri City, Mo., shot and instantly killed George Allen and fatally wounded his cousin, Della Clevenger, at the Clevenger schoolhouse, four miles east of Missouri City. 'Clevenger was jealous of the attentions Allen had been paying bis cousin. A church meeting had been in progress, and just as the congregation was dismissed Clevenger stepped up behind his cousin and Allen, who was her escort, and fired. Two shots took effect in Allen’s bead, one bullet entering at the base of the brain, causing instant death. After shooting Miss Clevenger the murderer was disarmed. He escaped. .... J. Pierpont Morgan and President Mellen of the Northern Pacific are making the greatest railroad fight ever known in the Northwest to compel the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company to come to terms regarding the division of Idaho territory. Unless the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company agrees soon the Northern Pacific proposes to- build branches paralleling every Oregon Railway and Navigation line through the rich wheat districts of Washington. Idaho and Oregon. The Northern Pacific filed at Olympia its official notice of the location of eleven such branches, having a total mileage of 556. Navigation through the great ice field at the head of Lake Erie in the dense snowstorm led to the stranding of the steamer C. A. Black, wjth wheat from Duluth, below Bar Point. The big barge Aurania, also with wheat from Duluth, went aground within one-quarter of a mile of the Western Transit liner Commodore at Bar Point. While the steamer Aurora was dragging the Aurania through the ice fields, flames broke out on the steamer, and her captain had to scuttle the ship to prevent her total destruction. She went down in eighteen feet of water. Her cargo will be a totaHoss, but it is thought by the underwriters that there will be enough left of the steamer to be worth the raising.