Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

J. L. Bard well, a retired merchant of San Francisco, was found dead in his bed. At Garretson. S. D., J. B. Dischner committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. Frederick Silberg, one of the most famous Knights of Pythias in the country, is dead at Cleveland. A deal has been completed for the consolidation of the Cleveland and Michigan telephone companies. At Visalia. Cal., a brick wall of a building collapsed and buried five men in the ruins. Harry Hughes was fatally injured. At Sidney, Ohio, the residence of W. H. C. Goode was damaged by tire. It cost $150,000. The loss on building and furniture was $50,000. Mr. and Mrs. E. Mithoff celebrated their golden wedding. Mr. Mithoff is one of the foremost business men and capitalists of Columbus, Ohio. Martin and Hillery Nicbolls, boys, were killed in a gravel pit at Fullerton, Colo., by a cave-in. They were taking out gravel when the slide occurred. At Ada, Ohio, llomer Weleker was shot and Instantly killed by his brother, Bird, the outcome of a quarrel over the settlement of their father’s estate. Physicians in St. Louis agree that the grip is epidemic in that city and that in the form in which the disease prevails there it is infectious but not contagious. Mrs. Florence Ritchie, a member of Frank Daniels’ company, plhying at the Broadway, fainted while taking a bath at the Albert Hotel and was drowned. With his train thundering along at fifty miles an hour, Horace Webber, a veteran Lake Shore engineer, fell dead in his cab from an attack of heart disease near South Bend, Ind. J. L. Bardwell, a retired merchant of San Francisco, was found dead in his bed. He had apparently expired from heart disease. He was a native of Springfield, Mass., aged 67 years.

At Lima, Ohio, the Lima paper mills were almost totally destroyed by fire. The plsnt was the property of the American Strawboard Company. The loss is $125,000, insurance $70,000. At Akron, Ohio, Rev. N. J. Myers an** Rev. W. H. Brightmire were assaulted and thrown into the snow while going home from church. They had led a crusade agaiust Sunday saloons. A Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis passenger train was wrecked near Thayer, Mo. None of the passengers was injured. The wreck was caused by the engine striking a spike placed on the rail. The Ohio mine workers elected officers at Columbus as follows: President, William H. Haskins, Murray City; vice-presi-dent, D. H. Sullivan, Coshocton; secretary and treasurer, Thomas L. Lewis, Bridgeport. While the fire department at Climax, llinn., was steaming np for practice a

■mall boiler used to keep the water warm in the main boiler exploded, wrecking the inside of the building and injuring four men. • At Astoria, Ore., the attempt to arrest Charles Willard on suspicion of being the man who set fire to the Fulton cottage at Seaside resulted in a desperate fight, in which Willard and two officers were killed. Both branches of the Kansas Legislature have passed the bill reducing telegraph rates. The bill reduces the charge for day commercial messages of ten words from 25 to 15 cents, and other tolls in proportion. Dispatches from Vermiliob, S. D., say Prof. Droppers, recently returned from a nine years’ sojourn in the Orient, has been chosen by the regents to succeed John W. Mauek, resigned, as president of the State University. Gov. Leedy has commuted the sentence of J. It. Colenn, who while cashier of the State Bank at Fort Seott, Kan., in 1895 stole $52,000 of its funds, wrecking the bank. His sentence of five years was reduced to four. Henry Church, alias Wilson, who was arrested at Columbus, Ohio, on suspicion of being Dunham, the California murderer, was sentenced to three years in the Milwaukee house of correction for swindling Milwaukee people. An amusing blunder was made by the Cincinnati police in the arrest of United States District Attorney William E. Bundy. The city has been infested with crooks, and Col. Bundy was pointed out to the officer as a “bad man.” A Great Northern train struck n broken rail at Hatton, N. D., throwing three cars from the track, one catching tire. Conductor Walter O’Kane, Ole Bolster of Moorehead, J. M. Johnson of Northwood and Mrs. P. M. IVnniser of Maryville were seriously hurt and two others slightly injured. The Rock Island depot at Peabody, Kan., was robbed early the other morning by unknown persons. The thieves cut the wires, shutting off all communication, although no one was in the depot. The safe was successfully blown and all of the contents secured. The exact amount is said to be SI,BOO. The first accident to the Union Pacific fast mail occurred when the train was running at a high rate of speed, thirty miles west of Laramie, Wyo. The side rod of the engine broke, tearing away the cab and tearing up the track for a considerable distance before the train came to a stop. Engineer Mark Wright of Laramie was struck by the rod and instantly killed. The East Liverpool-Wellsville.O., street railway was completely tied up the other day. Trouble had been brewing for several days between the employes of the road and the management. It originated in/he discharge of Motorman John Stodghifl, one of the oldest men on the road. The rrten claim that he was discharged on account of his association with union affairs.

At Cincinnati, William Kennedy murdered Ida Price in a peculiarly horrifying manner. They lived together in a flat on West Sixth street. Having quarreled with the woman, and desiring to be rid of her, Kennedy poured coal oil over Miss Price’s clothing, set fire to it and left the room, locking the door behind him. The victim’s screams brought help, but too late to save her life. A passenger train on the Illinois Central Railroad Company's St. Louis branch was derailed fifteen miles north of Metropolis, 111. Conductor William Mertz was seriously hf rt. Fifteen passengers were injured, but no one was killed. Among those injured were: John Riddle, Creal Springs, Ill.; Conductor William Mertz; Nellie Yarns, Clinton, 111.; J. E. Bylatt; It. M. Hogan, Alton, Ill.; Nellie Wheeler, Great Bend, Kan. Every ear was overturned, but the engine was not derailed. A disastrous freight wreck was caused on the Wabash at Belleville, Mich., by freight No. 60 running into the rear end of an extra freight that was lying on the main track near Harvey Johnson’s bean storehouse. The engineer and fireman saved themselves by jumping. An overturned stove fired the wreck and fire freight cars, the caboose and the bean storehouse were burned and the wrecked engine badly damaged by the fire. The loss on rolling stock is estimated at from $25,000 to $30,000, with $3,000 loss on the storehouse.