Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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TJib furnishing store of Grail Brothers, Delaware. Ohio, burned. Causing a loss of about SIO,OOO. At Massillon. Ohio,. .Joseph Ford shot at a dog, the bullet striking Valentine Eckert, killing hi in. In n snowslfde nt Silver Plume twentyfonr lives were lost. The dead are Italian miners with their families. The Goodrich liner lowa reached Milwaukee after battling for nearly three days with the ice in Lake Michigan. The business portion of the village of Pleasant Mills. Ind., was almost totally destroyed by Ore. The loss is about $lO,000. Seventeen women were burned to death in one of the cottages at the hospital for the insane, three miles north of Yankton, S. D. By an explosion nt an iron furnace in Youngstown, Ohio, Patrick Moore was instantly killed and five other employes badly hurt. The fine residence of M. O. Noil at Akron. Ohio, was'burned, entailing a loss of Fill 1.0(H). One of the firemen, named Scott, was badly frozen and may not recover. Six hundred and fifty miners employed by the Choctaw Coal Company, Indian territory, have gone out on strike. The* mines of the company are practically shut down. Mrs. Pamphilia Wolcott died at Akron, Ohio, aged 72 years. She was the widow of C. I*. Wolcott and sister of Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War in Lincoln’s cabinet. At Deer Lodge, Mont., a colored convict named George Young, in the State penitentiary, made an assault upon a guard and was shot and killed by Guard Charles MeCollom. The Flint and Pore Marquette car ferry broke all winter navigation records by crossing Lake Michigan from Manitowoc to Ludiugton in twelve hours, through n field of unbroken ice. John L. Russell and E. L. Wright ■were killed by black damp in the Diamoudville mine, at Diainondville, W.vo. Ten others were overcome, but were rescued in time to save their lives. At Denver, Ilenry P. Rhodes, ex-assist-ant United States district attorney, died from wounds inflicted by himself with a razor. He was 31 years old. His reason for committing suicide is unknown. “Aunt Dicy” Bibbs* aged SO years, was fouud frozen to death in her home at Shawnee, Kan., where she had lived alone for years. She had apparently hurt herself by a fall and was unable to call for help.' Mr*. Genevra Johnstonc-Bishop, the well-known soprano, has. m Marion, Ohio, been granted a divorce from her husband, Dr. Bishop of Chicago, There was no defense, the petition of Mrs. Bishop alleging non-support. Engineer Jnmes C. Cowper was killed and Charles Truesdale and Jerry Crowley severely hurt in a head-end collision that occurred on the Chicago, jililwnukee nnd St. Paul road nonr Beaver Dam, Wis. Both engines were wrecked and eighteen loaded cars smashed. George Searles of' Chicago has found his wife at WicUita, Ivan., after three years of searching for her. She has lived there as the wife of I. B. Nichols, a local optician, who persunded her to run away with him while he was visiting the Searleu home in Chicago in Jauuary> 1805. The reservoir of the Big Dipper gravel mine, near Colfax, Cab, bnrst. The water rushed down the narrow canyon, swapping everything in its path. Joseph Ferfiet, jui emplo.Ce Of the mine, and five Chinese, who weiri working the Jrarel in the canyogs were drowned. The property loss.jg abAnt $20,000. An explosion in the Japanning depart-

SIOO,OOO, with only a fraction aa much Insurance. Within an hour nothing except the walla remained. f 7. In Webster Grove, a suburb of Et. Louis, the Allen building, containing lie opera house, S. Strauss’ bakery, Bredell & Coukling's meat market and F. W. Farrington's general store, burned. Loss is estimated at $33,000. The National Steel Company, which is to control the rolliug mills of Ohio, Pcnn--1 syivauia and West Virginia, has been in- | corporator! in Jersey City, it is not the : $400,000,000 trust which it was rumored j was about to absorb tbe Federal Steel ; Company. The People's Railway (Fourth street cable) of St. Louis, which has been in the hands of a rl-eclver the past two years, was sold at public auction by the sheriff. : Third mortgage bondholders hid $500,000 and secured the property, which will be | reorganized; .('buries Schultz, a Toledo machinist, aged 01. quarreled with his wife and a few i hours later he was found dead on a com- | mons with the top of his skull crushed in. The coroner says the man was murdered, as no trace's of Wood arc found beyond whore In- lay. | llenr.t I*. Rhodes, a prominent young i attorney of Ib-nver, Colo., died as the reI suit of wounds indicted by himself. Up- ; eii hearing of his death Mrs. Olga Lnvrenius, a .voting Russian widow, ttaderj stood to have been Rhodes' fiancee, shot | and Instantly killed her 10-year-old sou l and, then sent a bullet through Iter own I brain. The cause of Rhodes' act is not j known. ! John Visoeke, a Slav, was shot and | almost instantly killed in a saloon and j dance hall at the corner of Hill and Cross streets, Cleveland, by the saloonkeeper, John Skintyck. The killing was the result of a quarrel over a liquor bill, which it is alleged Visoeke owed the saloonkeeper. , Skintyck disappeared front the place before the arival of the police, but was captured. The other night burglars gained an entrance to the farm residence of M. L. Runsey, north of Tiffin, Ohio. They bound Rniisoy and his wife and threatened to burn them if they did not reveal where their money was concealed. Itanscy gave them SSO, but this did not satisfy them and they were about to set fire to his bed, when lie priKhteed a bank book showing the deposit of his money. Ransey had sold a large tract of land tbe day before and the burglars supposed he had the money in the house. One robber was captured.