Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Fire wiped out the business portion of Hunnewell, Kan. Ten buildings, with their contents, were burned. Advices from Northern Nehraska indicate that the winter wheat crop has been badly damaged by the recent cold snap. At Toledo, Ohio, Mrs. George R. Lucas, aged 22 years, died from the effects of strychnine poisoning. Her husband says it was an accident. At Kansas City, U. G. Gibson, 28 years old, was instantly killed nt the Rex mills by n large icicle falling upon him from the cornice of the building. The initial production of Max O’Rell’s new play, “The Price of Wealth,” was successfully giveu in the Detroit Opera House, with Olga Nethersole as star. Rev. Alfred Lee Brewer, a prominent Episcopal clergyman and founder of St. Matthew’s school for boys, died at San Mateo, Cal., of pneumonia. He was (]f> years of age. Gov. Lind of Minnesota vetoed the bill appropriating $20,000 to pay bounties on beet sugar, in accordance with the county law passed two years ago. He announced himself as opposed to bounties on principle. J. A. Aoklen, of Los Angeles, Cal., has been granted the privilege of maintaining a waterworks at Dawson City by the Canadian Government. Ho will tap the Klondike river spur miles above Dawson.

The Emmn furnace, the only one now owned by the Union Roiling Mill Company of Cleveland, Ohio, has been absorbed by the American Steel and Wire Company. The consideration is not made public. Lueien M. Chipley, aged 55 years, for years one of the best-known financiers of St. Louis, is dead from cancer of the liver. His son, Dean, recently died of fever contracted while iu the army at Chickam&uga.

11. H. Johnson, general manager of the Columbus and Hocking Coal and Iron Company, died suddenly at his residence in Columbus, Ohio, from apoplexy. The deceased was one of the most prominent coal men in Ohio. W. H. Gresham, a nephew of the late Walter Q. Gresham, and who is a clerk in the St. Peter, Minn., postoffice, captured a burglar who was in the act of breaking into the postofflee and marched him to a police station.

At Joplin, Mo., a deal was closed involving $2,000,000. By it all of the Lanyon zinc smelters in the Kansas coal belt and natural gas belt pass into the hands of exGov. Flower and other New York capitalists and become a part of the smelter trust.

The St. Louis County Circuit Court assessed a fine of SI,OOO each against Charles Masom Richard Burke, Edward Fitzgerald, Isaac Cohen, Joseph Cohen, Charlie Brett, Fred Khel and Howard Ellis, poolroom operators. They claimed to be doing a legitimate telegraph business.

A Salina, Kan., man, whose is withheld, has enfered into an agreement with the Kansas Wesleyan University to' endow that institution with SIOO,OOO. He offers to give the money in 1000, providing that at that time the university is free from debt aud that it adds $25,000 to the endowment. A. L. Jennings, graduate of the law school of West Virginia University and former prosecuting attorney of Canadian County, Oklahoma, was convicted of train robbery in the Federal Court ’at Oklahoma City and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Federal penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio. Jennings was convicted of the robbery of a Rock Island express train at Chickasha, I. T. The train was robbed at midday and >a trainman was

mortally injured by the robber*. The gang of which Jennings waa the leader has been charged with numerous hold-up* and robberies. Gow-Ah-Sbenka, a leading member of the wealthy Osage tribe of Indiana, was found deffd at Salt Creek, Ok. He fonght with several young Indians in the Indian dance house the evening before, nnd they beat him over the head, let him lie where he fell and he froze to death. The Oaages have no fixed punishment for murder, and the compensation to be received by the family of the dead warrior from his slayers will be fixed by arbitration. Susie Moore, a young girl at HutchinKan., has been arrested and held to the grand jury ns an accessory to a murderous assault on John Gallup by Charles Cook. Cook and Gallup were rival suitors for the girl’s hand and she refused to choose between them. She declared that she liked them both equally well and that they must fight it out between themselves. They met one night and fought it out in Miss Moore’s presence. Gallup’s skull was fractured. Cook was arresked at once and Miss Moore was arrested later.

Thomas O’Neil, a butcher, employed at Swift's packing house in South St. Joseph, Mo., was literally cut to pieces fey his two younger brothers, Edward and Jack. The men lived together, Thomas being married. They had a dispute over money matters, when Edward and Jack attacked Thomas with butcher knives. The dead man was stabbed twice in the heart. His head was badly cut and his body is covered with knife wounds. Edward was badly cut in the head. Jack O’Neil is a one-legged man, and has no fingers on one hand. He says he did the killing in self-defense. Cracksmen gained an entrance to the vault of the Oberlin, Ohio, Banking Company between midnight and 3 o’clock the other morning. The robbers connected the trolley wire of the Cleveland, Berea, Elyria and Ohio Electric road, which runs directly past the bank, to a drill machine to operate on the outside door of the vault. After forcing this door they inserted a big charge of powder nnd blew the interior of the vault into a thousand pieces. The walls on all sides were badly shattered, plaster was torn off and the vault doors were blown over twenty feet out Of their settings. However, no money was secured, ns the robbers failed to get intq the big safe, evidently for lack of time. The papers and books inside .the vault were damaged beyond redemption.