Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

At Silverdale, Wash., David Williams, ex-surveyor of Kitsap Couuty, -shirt and killed his wife and then committed -suicide. The family of John Peterson, twelve jn number, at Ohiowa, Neb., arc victims of trichinosis poisoning. Mary, the detent daughter, is dead. At Stockton, Cal., n man giving his name as Laurence Pulliam, wanted in Asheville, N. C., as a defaulter, -surrendered to the police. It is given out that the Ohio Steel Company of Youngstown is to l»e sold to the American Tin Plate Company and operated by that concern. The postoffice and other buildings occupying an entire block in the town of Davis, I. T., were destroyed by tire. The loss is estimated at $75,000. Three children of John and ’Susan E. Shear were drowned in the reservoir itt Ravenna, Ohio. They had been playing on the ice and broke through. After an absence of nine months Maj. Gen. Shafter, U, S. A., returned to Suu Francisco. The general was formal^ 7 received by the military and civil authorities. Mrs. Anna E. George was taken into court at Canton, Ohio, for arraignment on an indictment for the murder of George D. Saxton. A continuance was grunted, no date being set. It is announced that the Catlin Tobacco Company's plant at 'St. Louis has been sold to the American Tobacco Company. The price paid is said to be not far from $2,500,000. It is announced in Wallace, Idaho, on what is seemingly good authority, that there will be a line built from there to connect the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company with the Burlington road. Mrs. Mary Tyson Williams of Denver claims to be a niece of James Tyson, the Australian who recently died leaving -a fortune estimated to be worth over $25,000,000, and she expects to receiver share of the estate. Fire broke out in the seventh story iff the building at 701 and 703 Lucus avenue, St. Louis, in the hut and cap factory of Gram & Glass. The contents were destroyed and the seventh story of ihetbuiiding was badly damaged. At Fort Ancient, Ohio, while protyiecting on a prehistoric mound-builders’ village site, Clifford Anderson, a farmer, found some portions of human skeletons, stone hatchets, arrowheads and pottery and other relics of the past. The Moon-Anchor mine at 0(15110 Creek, Colo., has been sold to an English company. The old company receives IWI,000 shares of £1 each in the new company (one-seventh of its capitalization) and a minimum iff SOOO,OOO in cash. Frank M. Dorsey, formerly cashier off the failed First National Bank off Ponca, Neb., was found guilty on thirteen counts charging making false reports to the Comptroller, misappropriation of the bank’s funds and other irregularities. Burglars forced open the roar door off the postoffice at Napoleon, Ohio, drove in the combination spindle on the safe with a sledge hammer and punch stolen from a shop near by, then blow open the inner safe and money chest with dynamite. The postmaster admit s that the loss is a large one. . 5 Right Rev. Bishop Rademacher of the Catholic diocese of Fort Wayne, Ind., has been taken to St. Louis and placed in the Atexian Brothers’ hospital for treatment for insanity. The bishop has charge <ef g great deal of property belonging w the church, and the management of it -has caused him so much worry that his mind gave way. . . . . Two brothers known as the “Burton

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