Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

E. C. Babb, former Mayor of Minneapolis, died, aged 65. Mrs. J. Warren Keifer, wife of Maj. Gen. Keifer, died at Springfield, Ohio. Charles C. Kiefer, a distinguished Free Mason of Ohio, is dead at Urbana, aged 73. Fire in Wymore, Neb., did damage to the amount of S2O,(MM) in the business section. Insurance, about SIO,OOO. The American National Bank, Lima, Ohio, which was robbed of SIB,OOO Christmas night, 1808, has decided to go into liquidation. An explosion of several hundred pounds of powder in tunnel No. 3 of the Commodore mine, at Creede, Colo., killed “Scotty” Watson, Frank Heas, John Sarner and one other. The United States land office in Colorado has decided against the Hosanna Gold Mining Company in its attempts to patent mineral land claimed by the Isabella Mining Company. Citizens of Tacoma, Wash., indignant at the many recent robberies and holdups. held a public meeting in the Chamber of Commerce rooms and decided to form a vigilance committee. Officials of the National Metal Polishers, Platers and Brass Workers’ Union, with headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio, state that they will demand an advance of from 15 to 20 per cent, within a short time. John Barton, a member of the North Dakota Legislature, dropped dead on the street in St. Joseph, Mo., of hemorrhage of the lungs. He lived at Devil's Lake, N. D., and was on his way home from La Salle, 111. A blinding storm of snow and wind was the cause of a collision on the Burlington road two miles west of Lincoln, Neb., resulting in the death of three trainmen and the injury of four others. The injured men will recover. Madison Copus, aged 45. a farmer residing near Lucas, Ohio, shot and killed his wife as she lay sleeping on a lounge in the sitting-room. She died instantly. Copus then shot himself. Family troubles, it is supposed, caused the deed. Thomas Officer, of the banking firm of Officer & Pusey, of Council Bluffs, lost a roll of bills on the streets of Omaha. The roll contained $5,000, which he had just drawn from the First National Bank and placed in an overcoat pocket. The money dipped through a hole in his pocket. ft is announced that the Santa Fe Railroad will run its first train into Stockton, Cal., on July 1 next over the Tehachapi section of the Southern Pacific. From that time on a regular service will be maintained between Stockton and all eastern points until the company's entrance into Point Richmond nnd San Francisco is perfected. , ,

At Boidlers, Ohio, John Saif as was constructing a pigeon box and made several holes in the structure by means of a hot poker. A spark from the burning wood ignited powder in a can and a terrific explosion occurred, fatally burning Salsas, throwing bis wife a distance of fifty feet, injuring two spectators of the work and wrecking the house. F. W. Reeder shot and killed “Buff” Shine at the Haigs mission, at Columbus, Ohio, where small-pox suspects have been detained. The men, the former of whom ia clerk at the mission and the latter a

•aspect, got into an altercation, when Shine threatened Reeder, who pulled a gun and shot Shine in the abdomen. Shine died almost immediately. A co-operative colony hns been established in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. There are 1,000 members. J. M. Powell is president of the association and Dr. Dean is secretary. The constitution provides for the division of labor, the holding of all property by the association, the setting aside of a plat of land for each family for the building of a home, and the issuing of scrip to the members for value of their produce. The colony is to lie known as the Oklahoma Co-operative Industrial Association. The Illinois Central is at work running a survey through Clay County, S. D., with the intention of extending its line to the Black Hills. Its first objective point is Wheeler, Charles Mix County, via Yankton, Tabor and Tyndall. At Wheeler the line w’ill cross the Missouri river and extend in ns nearly an air line as possible clear to the Black Hills. The grounds for a station at Vermillion have already been surveyed and staked out and the right of way is now’ being secured. Positive assurances have been received that the line will be built this season.