Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Elmer Hosner committed suicide by hanging himself at Relue, Ohio. James N. Holmes, a prospector, has been found frozen to death on Pike’s Peak, Col. The Cherokee-Dawes treaty has been ratified by the Oherokees by a majority of more than 1,500. An extension of the Great Northern Railway from Huron, S. D., to the Black Hills is practically assured. At Tekoa, Wash., Earl Bruner, aged 7, was frozen to death while going to school a mile and a half in the country. The Wellsville, Mo., flour mills were destroyed by fire, the origin of which is not known. The loss is placed at SIB,OOO, insurance SIO,OOO. At Wichita, Kan., Lewis A. Trexlcra, a fanner,dropped deud just as he was übout to place his signature to a mortgage covering his homestead. A. Myer of Cleveland, Ohio, jumped from a third-story window of the Cannon Hotel in Atlanta, Ga. Nearly every bone in bis body was broken. Frank Blair shot and instantly killed Edward Brevard and Mary Anderson at Westminster, Ohio, and immediately afterward committed suicide. At Los Angeles/ Cal., A. G. Branley, the old soldier who shot Gov. Smith of the Soldiers’ Home at Santa Monica, was sentenced to two years in San Quentin prison. The new brick poorhouse at Hastings, Minn., burned, with Its contents: The twenty inmates were removed to places of safety* The loss is estimated at $20,000, insurance $5,000. Three erfses of smallpox were discovered in the Vendome Hotel at Omaha, and the place was placed under strict quarantine by the health department. Several guests escaped through skylights. W. S. Pardee, assistant secretary of the Pacific States Mutual Savings Bank, was shot and probably fatally wounded at San Francisco by Christian Ileis, Jr. The shooting took place in Pardee’s office. The plant of the Clough & Warren Piano Company at Detroit was partially destroyed by fire. One workman was badly hurt by a fall from the fourth story of the building. The loss will reach $75,000.

Fire which broke out on the top floor of the four-story Gaenesslcn block at Cleveland gutted that structure and badly damaged the Mayer & Bingham building adjoining. The total loss is estimated at $75,000. The Moultou Hill winery at Cloverdale, Cal., the property of I. Laudsberger, of San Francisco, has been destroyed by fire, together with 200,000 gallons of wine. The loss is estimated at between $75,000 and SIOO,OOO. Two buildings and their contents were entirely consumed by fire at Bolckow, Mo. Floyd, Wood &r Dysart, who occupied a double store, sustained a loss of $35,000. The loss to W. L. Chambers, hardware and buggies, will be $12,000. Fred Hess, Jr., who sued the San Francisco Typographical Union to recover $25,000 damages for having been forced out of employment by the union, he being a non-union man, has been awarded sl,200 by a jury In. the Superior Court. Six ministers of the gospel suffered the degradation of public ejectment from the Colorado House o' Representatives. They had gone there under the leadership of Presiding Blder Canine of the ministerial alliance to lobby against the Engley local option bill to license Sunday amusements. A local freight train west-bound and the pay car special passing east collided near Shn -Simon, Aria., while going through a sandstorm. Fireman Albert Favey was instantly willed, Engineer Ralph Fetterly badly injured and Engineer James Leavitt received injuries which caused his death a few hoars later. Indian Agent Walker, at Perry, Ok., has issued an order prohibiting persons entering the country of the tribes under filg cire tile Comanche, Kiowft and

Apache Indiana. Thi spread of smallpox caused the stringent order. John Johnson of Spring Grove, Minn,, died of obesity. Ht 1 weighed at his deat& 438 pounds. FiTe yean ago he weighed 200 pounds. His increase in flesh was attributed to his enormous appetite and the use of intoxicating beverages. Chicago & Grand Trunk passenger train No. 1, west-bound, plunged, full speed, into passenger train No. 6, east-bound, while the latter was standing at the fetation at Imlay City, Mich. The results of the crash were fatal and otherwise disastrous. Three ineu were killed and four seriously injured. Both trains were {ast mail trains. The east bound was standing near the station, waiting for the coming train to pass it, according to custom. The latter, instead of slackening and stopping, crashed into No. 0. The locomotives were, both badly wrecked and the mail cars are jammed across the tracks. The surety that oil in paying quantities has been struck at Scio, Ohio, has turned that little hamlet into a hustling oil camp of 3,200 persons, mostly men. As fast as derricks can be raised they are being erected and wells sunk. The Gibson well is showing at the rate of over one hundred barrels per day. More than 100 drills and pumps are now at work in the valley. A few weeks ago Scio was the center of an agricultural district. Now all the furms have been leased for oil purposes, and the craze has penetrated the village and every lot-owner either has already sunk a well or is preparing -to begin drilling. Wherever the eye turns are seen signs of oil.