Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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The Winton-Wood ward Company, wholesale grocers, Grand Island, Neb_ assigned. While trying to rescue her niece. Oar* Woods, Miss Katherine Williams and the little girl were both drowned in Lake Merced, Cal. Captain Nathaniel W. Parker, the oldest riyennan and pilot in the West, is dead at the residence of his daughter in St. Louis, aged 91 years. Mm. C. M. Howe of Chicago was elected president of the International Young Women’s Christian Association at a reeent session at Milwaukee. Almost half a block of business houses in Cleveland was wiped out by tire, the damage amounting to almost a million dollars. A number of persons were injured. The twenty-sixth annual meeting of the national conference of charities and corrections will be held in Cincinnati May 17 to 23. Fifteen hundred members are expected to be present. The three-story brick building at First and Delaware streets, Kansas City, owned by Peet Brothers and occupied by the National Paper Box Company, burned to the ground, entailing a loss of $25,(400. The jury in the case of the State against Mrs. Ida Ewing, charged with having murdered her sister-in-law, Mrs. Lizzie Ewing, at Hopkins. Mo., the night of Sept. 26, brought a verdict of acquittal. Mayor Thomas A. Marshall of Keithsburg, 111., won the seventh Grand American handicap at Elkwood park. Long Branch, N. .1., for the second lime, after a spirited race against Charles Grimm of lowa. A prairie fire started near Wessington Springs, S. D., and swept across the country, destroying everything before it. Several thousand acres of pasture and much stacked hay were destroyed. Many farmers lost all they had. Hundreds of square miles of grazing land has been burned over by prairie fives south, east and west of Cheyenne Wells, Colo. Thousands of cattle have been driven to other ranges. Still further west on Wild Horse, another fire started. Marble has lieeu discovered on the lauds of McGugin & Co. at Olive Furnace. Ironton, Ohio. There are two veins, one four feet and the other two feet. The marble has been analy cd and will bring in the markets 90 cents a cubic foot delivered. Charlotte Wilhelmina Gertrude Bishop, otherwise known as Mme. Pianeka. the lion tamer, was legally separated from her husband, H. H. Bishop, a resident of New York, in Kansas City. Mme. Finn ek a secured her divorce on a complaint of cruelty. Elevators Nos. 1 and 3 of the Hay Exchange at St. Louis were destroyed by fire, entailing a loss estimated at $60,000. The elevators were used for storing hay. Five cars loaded with hay standing on the side track, together with four empty cars, were burned. Harry Frei, who was abducted sixteen years ago and who was located at Knoxville, Tenn., returned home to Marion. Ohio. His father was waiting for him at the depot and there was a pathetic scene as the father clasped Ma long-fan son in his arms. A fegrful accident has taken place an the Great Northern road in the Cascade mountains. A big avalanche struck the rotary snow engine and hurled it down a canyon 1.000 feet deep. Nothing was left of it bnt small pieces. Six men were fatally injured. A prairie fire which started in the sand hills has been raging northwest and west of Broken Bow, NeK, consuming everything in its path. Thomas Momaoey of Eureka Valley was caught while trying to remove Ms horses from the stable and horned to death with them. John Koch started to return to his house from aoane

haystacks hieh he haft turn f Mam Cora Tanner, thtmvh the medium of a box of tamtams and a bouquet sent her by aa unknown person. waa poisoned at Omaha. Neb. The police are unable to throw any light on the mystery, though they have found the place where the candy was purchased. Hydrocyanic arid was used, both the candy and roses being sprinkled with the poison. While a Cleveland. Csntoa and South era Railroad train was crossing a drawbridge over the Cuyahnga river, near Cleveland, the engine and three cars left the rails and ran on the ties. The engine crashed into the supports of the bridge and was thus saved from toppling over into the river, about thirty feet below. One hundred passengers were on board. Word has reached Cheyenne of a terrible accident at Sheridan. Wym. in which mx persons lost their lives. The melting snow caused both Big and Little Goose crocks to overflow their banks and flood the town. Into the raging torrent a Burlington and Missouri train plunged and six passengers wero drowned before help could roach them. Twenty-three Crow Indians lost their lives in the flood. The private bank of Ball Jfc Son of Coloma. Mich., was rotated the other night of SIJSKI. When Mr. Ball came down to the bank in the morning he found the door standing open and the bank vault wrecked by dynamite. Valuable papers were scattered all over the main floor. The clock had stopp>-d at midnight, which wa» probably the time the explosion occurred, as the entire face of the dock was broken. * Three men killed and tire injured is the result of a boiler explosion in a sawmill located about eight miles east of Chippewa Fails, Wis. The mill was a small one owned by George Straight. Power was furnished by a twenty-horse power engine and boiler. Without any warning the boiler exploded, entirely demolishing the building and hurling eight workmen high in the air. The explosion was due to the weak condition of the boiler, having been in use for a number of years. The three men killed wero residents of Cadot, Wis.