Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

At Fostorin. Ohio, Charles Stewart, aged 19, was killed by a tailing tree. William Hall Marlancl was consecrated bishop of the diocese of Sacramento, Cal. The Oklahoma Legislature has passed a bill changing the nape of “D” County to Dewey. A receiver has been named for the Cincinnati stork and grain brokerage tirm of W. J. Odell & Co. J. A. Wheeler of Chicago, a traveling man for Kami. McNally & Co., dropped dead at Cincinnati. Patrick Grady and his sister, Mrs. Anaa Clague. were killed by a Big Four train at Cleveland, Ohio. Julius Yortricde, aged 80, editor of the German Express, and probably the oldest newspaper man in Ohio, died at Toledo. In a snowslide, which occurred at Apex, Cok>., Mrs. IV. H. Kudolpli and her two children, aged 2 and 4 years, were killed. At Dayton,. Ohio, William 11. Snyder, aged 19. sent a bullet through his brain because Stella Seibold would not marry him. A valuable mahogany stock belonging to J. Kayner in Chicago was destroyed by fire-. The damage will amount to $200,000. Six prisoners escaped from the county jail at Canton. Ohio. They were aided by a trusty, who left their cell doors unlocked. At Newark. Ohio, Charles Moore, indicted for murder, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to the reformatory. At St. Clairvilic, Ohio, the Crossland building, occupied by a drug store and law offices, was destroyed by tire. Loss $15,000, insurance 910,000. At Canton, Ohio, Mrs. Charles Baum weat to the barn, leaving un 8-year-old girl in the house. When she returned the child was burned to a crisp. Jerome Colton & Co., stock dealers in Cincinnati, have brought suit for $75,000 damages against an association of stock dealers of the city for an alleged boycott. A south-bound fnight on the Valley Railroad was wrecked at Sandyville, 0., by the dropping of a brake beam. Grant Klutz, a brakeman, was crushed to death. Cleveland waiter girls have formed a union ami affiliated with the Knights of Labor. The name of their organization is the “Lady Waiters’ Industrial Association.”

In a quarrel at Ardmore, I. T., over a trivial matter, John Edwards shot and killed Richard McSwain. McSwain had attempted to stab Edwards. Both men are prominent. F. A. Toney entered Kessler’s saloon in West Toledo and shot down Thomas Black, a well-known employe of the Michigan Central Railway. An old grudge appears to have led to the crime. At Wrllsviile. Mo., Arthur Kempenski and George Williams quarreled over the former’s horses trespassing on the latter’s premises, whereupon Williams shot Kempraaki in the head, kilting him instantly. Practically all the apples west of the AHrghaaies. it is announced, are cornered in Indianapolis by J. L. Keach and his associates. The stock is in _cotd storage ddhd is being held for further advance in price. Vi ' The territorial statehood convention at Guthrie, O. T.. resolved for a constitutional convention in June and a State elect km in October on a proposition to go to Congress and demand admission in December. A marvelous strike of almost pure gold kt reported in the Isabella mine at Cripple Check. The vein in sight is said to be six fact wide, twenty feet long and six inches

thick, add tie ore assays nearly $300,000 to the ton. . h At Lon Angeles, Cal., A. C. Bradley, the old soldier who shot Gov. Smith, of the Soldiers’ Home, at Santa Monica, has been found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon, but recommended to the mercy of the court. William Drew (colored) died in a Cincinnati hospital from a pistol shot wound received from Daniel Barnett, a white man, who was Drew’s landlord. Barnett is under arrest charged with murder. A notice to quit caused tbe tragedy. A south-bound'Ohio Southern passenger train was wrecked near Coalton, Ohio. Engineer Wright was kilted, the fireman fatally scalded and six passengers hurt, Mrs. Rapp seriously. The whole train was derailed aild-rollcd down the bank. In Cincinnati, the store of L. M. Prince was robbed, and the proprietor foots up his loss at $3,285. The plunder includes $1,700 worth of opera glasses, a large amount of other merchandise and $25 in cash. In a raid the police took in eleven crooks after a desperate fight. Rev. Myron Winslow Reed, pastor of the Broadway Temple, at Denver, and at different times pastor at Milwaukee, Indianapolis and other cities in the East and South, died at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Denver, after a protracted illness due to a general breaking down of the system. Arthur Brown jumped from a sixthstory window of the building at Ninth and Washington avenue, St. Louis, after cutting his throat with a pocket knife, shortly before noon the other (lay. He died at the city dispensary twenty minutes later. He was married only the previous day.

Willie Nagengast, 11 years old, of Cleveland, died in great agony of lockjaw. Several days ago he was vaccinated. Three or four days before death the arm swelled painfully and symptoms of lockjaw set in. There is smallpox in that city and many people will now be afraid to be vaccinated. Dr. L. B. Tuckerman says the death was caused by letting the boy get dirt and filth in the vaccination sore. When John Connliin, a wealthy merchant of Fort Scott, Kan., died he left a will declaring that Miss Mary Margaret Connliin of Chicago was not his daughter, but the daughter of his divorced wife. In the will he expressed a desire that neither of the two should ever receive a cent of his property. Notwithstanding this, the young woman entered a claim for the entire estate as next of kin, and gets of the estate, city and mining property. The official count of the vote cast throughout the grand dominion of Ohio fdr Pythian grand lodge officers resulted as follows: Grand chancellor, John C. Geyer, Piqua; viee-graml chancellor, Josiah Catrow, Germantown; grand prelate, L. W. Ellenwood, Marietta; grand master of exchequer, George B. Donavin, Delaware; grand master-at-arms, Charles J. Deekmau, Malvern; grand inner gnard, S. N. McCloud, Marysville; grand outer guard, Charles E. Brown, Cincinnati.