Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Edward Galpin, an old soldier, was found dead in the street at Ashtabula, O. A divorce was recently granted in Dawes County, Neb., in exactly 35 minutes from the time proceedings were commenced. The marriage of Miss Edna Maxfield Whited and Fred T. Dubois, ex-United States Senator from Idaho, was celebrated in Chicago. Nearly every member of the Kickapoo tribe in Oklahoma has the smallpox. United States troops are maintaining an armed quarantine. The continuous mill department of the Aetna Standard steel plant at Mingo Junction, near Steubenville, Ohio, burned, with a loss of $50,000. Four children of George Laing of Toledo have died from eating diseased chicken meat. It is supposed the chickens were affected with cholera. Jacob N. Zook of Lawrence, Kan., v.is found dead in a room at the Blossom House at Kansas City, having taken morphine with suicidal intent. The gunboat Yorktown has sailed San Francisco for Manila. She will replenish her coal bunkers at Honolulu and then go to Guam before proceeding to Manila. The Woodman linseed oil mill in Omaha, the largest of the kind in the world, formerly the property of the trust, has been transferred to the reorganized company. In a fight between non-union white miners and negroes in the Springside mining district at Pana, 111., several men o? both sides-are reported to have been badly injured. The fight originated over a white miner taking exceptions to a negro loitering around his house. At Leavenworth, Kan., three hundred miners in the Leavenworth Coal Company's shaft went on a strike. They demand a reduction of the amount of waste deducted, which has been twenty pounds to the 100. The operators refuse to accede to the demand. T. D. Leader, aged 23, a school teacher and prominently connected at McComb, committed suicide at a hotel in Findlay, Ohio. He took a large dose of morphine, wrapped the bed blanket around his body and then shot himself through the head. 11l health was the cause. Four prisoners escaped from the Starke County workhouse at Canton, Ohio. They removed twenty bricks from the wall, making an opening about two feet square. After removing the bricks a sheet was tied to the heating pipes and the prisoners dropped to the ground. Walt£!>J?lade has served two terms in the New \fcxico penitentiary for burglary, but in pis long career he never met with just such experience as awaited him recently at Mrs. Little’s millinery store in Colorado Springs. He found 1 cent in the money drawer. He was so disgusted that he .reported at police headquarters next day and confessed. A bold attempt to steal twenty-one cars of wheat was nipped by clever detective work and prompt and decisive action on the part of officials of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad. The grain was mostly the property of the 8. Y. Hyde Elevator Company and the W. W. Cargill Company of La Crosse, Wis., and

the cars were diverted from their original consignees by the substitution of bogus way bills. Just about the time the deal was nearing consummation the swindlers weakened. By the breaking of an 13-foot flywheel in the engine room of the Deering Harvester Company’s works in Chicago, one man was instantly killed and another narrowly escaped injury. Nels Ecklnnd, the assistant night engineer, was mangled by pieces of flying iron and was dead when picked np. There were several of the employes of the company in the building at the time the wheel broke. The breaking of the flywheel is unaccounted for. The wheel was comparatively new. Considerable excitement has been created by rich gold discoveries twenty-five miles cast of Vernal, Utah., in the Blue mountains, near the Colorado line. The discovery was made by “Doc” McDonald, a veterinary surgeon of the Ninth cavalry. He served in the Spanish war and while at New York recovering from fever met a man named Johnson, who had formerly lived in eastern Utah and who told him that he had found rich float, describing the location. When the Ninth cavalry returned to Fort Duchesne. McDonald commenced to search for the vein.