Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1898 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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At Hillsboro, Ohio, two girls have died from trichinosis, Contracted by eating pork. A receiver has been appointed at Butte for the Boston and Montana Mining Company. At their home near Jasper, Mo., William Lowenstein, a wealthy farmer, killed bis wife and himself. T. M, Wells, of Areola. 111., was killed and pleVen others badly injured at Guion, Ind., in an accident on the Indiana, Decatur and Western Railway. News has reached Durango, Colo., that three men have been killed in the Columbia mine, located in the La Plata district. It is not known what caused their death. At St. Louis James Nettles, colored, has been convicted of murder in the first degree of Samuel W. Mann, a suburban street car conductor on July 4 last. A new trial has been asked for, A successful test of wireless telegraphy hns been made at San Francisco, where Professor Albert Van dcr Nailen has invented an apparatus by which messages can be sent through solid brick walla without the use of wires. i At a mass meeting of citixens in Omaha the Greater America and Colonial Exposition Company was organized. More funds than the promoters desired before starting the organization was subscribed and paid up. The exposition will open in J uly. ~ A romantic wedding took place in the county jail at Milan, Mo. John Green, aged 19 years, under penitentiary sentence for burglary and larceny, married his 17-year-old stepmother, whose 50-year-old husband is in the penitentiary for horse-stealing. Thomas V. Beckwith, the self-confessed embezzler of $15,000 from Niles Brothers, meat dealers, who surrendered to the police of Chicago, was arraigned in court in Boston. He pleaded guilty and the court sentenced him to the reformatory for an indefinite period. John D. McCrellis, a retired business man, and for thirty years a leading citizen of Carthage, Mo., shot and mortally wounded W. J. Gilfillnn at the latter's home. Gilfillnn is charged by McCrellis with ruining his home. McCrellis gave himself up and was released on bond. t At Cincinnati Judge Taft issued an order for the sale of tbe Wheeling and Lake Eric Railroad on the claim of the Metropolitan Financial and Industrial Company. The sale will be for $1,096,000, subject to mortgages Of $0,000,000, and most be made within three months. Fire destroyed the large department Store of ,G. Ilartstein Sons at Milwaukee, entailing a loss of $70,000, of which $50,000 was on building and. $20,000 on stock. J«uei to adjoining property will make

- »■———————' i ii- ™ ■!■'' Che total Imb teat op in the neighborhood of sloo,ool*. partly wwtrf by insurance. Wittes McDonald. manager of the Old Front Fora ia Howell County, Mo„ and formerly a booker o Kansas City and former owner of the Kansas City Times, has filed a pet it 100 of bonkroptcy. He alleges that most of his assets are worthless. and places Ms liabilities at $168,158. At Chillirothe. Ohio, two boys, Elmer and George Bat ler. aged, respectively, 20 and 13, were foftrd goilty at manslaughter and will serve a term in the penitentiary for the killing of Daisy Browser. In the trial it was proved that the girl had Uea shot down from amfaash for no cause whatever. The car famine became so serious that the entire grain trade of St Louis was crippled, and exporters found it almost impossible to obtain cars to carry their grain to the seaboard. Every railroad running into the city suffers from the shortage of equipment. At one time the roads were I,'WJ cars behind on orders. The flour trust scheme is dead so far as Minneapolis is concerned, and without Minneapolis it is futile. At a meeting of representatives of the big milling concerns of the city it was unanimously agreed that none of the~Miniieapo>lis properties should go into the scheme. The mills in Milwaukee and Duluth will be obliged to follow the lead of the Minneapolis millers. At Stillwater. Minn, an attempt is being made to break the will of Isaac Staples, who died last May. leaving an estate valued at more than SI.<KKMMKX. To two of his sous, who were alleged to be spendthrifts, he gave one-half his estate, and the other half was equally divided among three others, leaving the descendants of two of Ms daughters but a few thousand dollars each. The death of Edward Johnson occurred at Zanesville. Ohio, alter a protracted illness incident to a stroke of paralysis sustained several months ago. The deceased came from Syracuse, X. Y_. and embarked in the pearl barley and oatmeal business and shortly afterward patented a ptopcss for pearling the barley, which enabled him to control the market of the United States, and he became known as the barley king. The Kansas State canvassing board decided a tie between A. E. Scott. Republican. and L M. Marks. Populist, candidates foo the Legislature from Jefferson County, by ordering the drawing of lots. Mr. Scott won, but did not demand his certificate, going home with the expectation that It would follow in the maiL The next morning the mid-PacifiC ocean vote cast by the Twentieth Kansas, en route to Manila, was received. Upon examination one vote was found for Mr. Marks. Accordingly the State canvassing board reversed its deeisaoa and issued a certificate to Mr. Marks. James Poster of Cleveland, detective for the Panhandle Railroad. caught two men robbing a freight car at Columbus, and was shot twice. He returned the fire, but fell from loss of blood. An hour later Fred Dec-ring, a special policeman, went to August BrokavrskFs home, suffering from a pistol shot which passed through bis stomach. He was taken to a hospital. where be died without making a statement. A revolver with three empty chambers was found on him. Bnokawski was afterward arrested, a lot of stolen goods being found in his house. Deering was 45 years ohl and previously bore a good reputation.