Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Fire destroyed the entire business porf tion of Muskogee, I. T. Loss $500,000. A Michigan syndicate has been form--1 ed to erect a $500,000 hotel in Pasadena, Cal. [ At Columbns, Ohio, Alonzo B. Colt has resigned as colonel of the Fourth regiment. At Newark, Ohio, Miss Ethel Smoke ! sued William Emswiler for SIO,OOO for breach of promise. The California Legislature has passed ■ bill forbidding the publication of cartoons in newspapers. Judge T. A. Hurt!, aged 80 years, died of heart failure while sitting in his chair ■t his residence in Learen worth, Kan. The five-story building in Minneapolis, owned and occupied by the Tribune Publishing Company, was destroyed by fire. Nothing was saved. At Toledo, Ohio, Isaac D. Smead, the furnace manufacturer, who recently failed for $1,500,000, was discharged by the court. None of his creditors got a cent. A woman arrested for drunkenness, who gave her name ns Hattie Allen, committed suicide in the Cincinnati city jail after being sentenced to the workhouse. Mrs. Anna E. George, in Canton, Ohio, pleaded not guilty to the indictment against her for the murder of George D. Saxton, and her trial was set for April 4. Bruno Kirres, charged with killing his 18-year-old daughter with a shotgun, was found guilty of murder in the first degree ; at Dayton, Ohio. This sends Kirves to the electric chair. The monster smokehouse of the Jacob I)oId Packing Company, together with its contents of 00,000 pounds of meat, was destroyed by fire at Wichita, Kan. The loss is heavy. It is announced that the survey of the ; United States ship Topeka has been completed, and that it will cost $25,000 to put her in good trim. Of this amount SIB,OOO will be needed for structural work and SB,OOO for boilers. L. A. Goodman, secretary of the Mis- ’ souri Horticultural Society, has issued a statement in which he says that while the recent cold snap greatly damaged fruit in Missouri, the indications are that there will be a fair crop this year. On application of some of the stockholders of the Union Savings and Trust Company a receiver was appointed for the F. Tuchfarber Company, manufacturers of glass and other signs at Cincinnati. Liabilities $70,000, assets $175,000. The trial of J. M. Wallace, alias Daniel Jones, on the charge of forgery, was begun in the Crimiual Covrt at Cleveland. Wallace was charged with swindling the Citixens' Savings and I.oan Company out as $5,000 on a fraudulent mortgage. The trial was brought to an abrupt termination by Wallace pleading guilty to the chaise. Edwin T. Earl, who is thoroughly familiar with the California fruit trade, says: “The yield of oranges in the suothem part of the State this season is about 3,000,000 boxes. Of this number about four-fifths are being sent to Eastern cities. The financial returns to the orange growers of the crop will be between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000. Got. Stanley has signed the bill through which the State Legislature aims to relieve Kansas from the exactions of the binding twine trust. The measure provides for the manufacture of binding twine by convicts in the State penitentiary, and appropriates $40,000 for installing a plant and $150,000 to be used as a fund to carry on the enterprise. William S. Foley, a 28-year-old farmer, was acquitted of the charge of having murdered his mother at their home near Liberty, Mo., in 1807. He is still under indictment, charged with killing his sister, but will probably never be tried on the charge. Foley’s first trial resulted in a hung jury. On the second he was convicted and sentenced to be hanged, but was granted a.new trial. In the United States Supreme Court an opinion has been handed down by Justice

Peckham in the case of the State of Ohio vs. Gen. J. E. Thomas, Governor of the Soldiers’ Home at Dayton. The case was h prosecution against Gen. Thomas under State laws for failing to post a placard in the eating room of the home stating that olemargarine is used there. The court held that the State law was unconstitutional in its application to the Soldiers’ Home. The transcontinental fast mail known as the Union Pacific cast-bound flyer was wrecked at Wood station, 150 miles west of Cheyenne, Wyo. The accident was caused by a broken rail. The engine and firin' four cars passed over safely, but the rear sleepers left the track while the train was running a mile a minute. One passenger was killed outright, and five passengers and two trainmen were injured. James M. White, the capitalist, is dead at Kenton, Ohio. Some time ago he built nil immense mausoleum aud fitted it up elegantly, and directed that his friends should come there and play cards and enjoy themselves after his death, adding that he could not take a hand, but he would be with them anyway. Mr. White was a thirty-second degree Mason, having been a member of that order for fifty-two years. The members of that fraternity from all parts of the State attended his funeral. He leaves a large estate to two daughters. In an explosion and fire at Hartford City, Ind., four persons perished and $40,000 worth of property was wrecked. A night policeman discovered fire in the rear of the Dick building and hastened to investigate. Just as he turned the corner into the alley there was a terrific explosion, which lifted the third floor of the building several feet nnd dropped it down on the second. Flames enveloped the Dick, th eWilliams and the Mason buildings. Four charred bodies were taken from the ruins. It is supposed the explosion was caused by escaping gas. In one of the most disastrous fires that has visited the union stock yards in Chicago for years one fireman was killed outright, two others were probably fatally hurt, and a fourth sustained severe injuries as a result of falling walls, while property valued at $200,000 was reduced to ashes. The fire started iu the ham and smoke house of Swift & Co., in the veffy center of the packing-house district. The building was totally destroyed, the flames being so furious at times as to get beyond the -control of the fire department, and threatening to consume millions of dollars’ worth of property.