Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

George C. Owens was hanged at San Quentin, Cal. As a result of a highbinder war in Fresno, Cal., three Chinamen were killed. The warehouse of the Kingman Implement Company at Omaha, Neb., was destroyed by fire with all content*. The loss is 1170,000. At San Francisco, ten thousand cigars were seized by the internal revenue o(B-< eers because the internal revenue stamps were found to be counterfeit. At San Francisco, Capt. John Dillon of the United States transport Morgan City has been found guilty of cruelty and sentenced to pay a, fine of $350. Almost the entire $5,000,000 that the citizens of St. Louis have proposed to raise to clinch the proposition of holding a world's fair there is in sight. The Northern Ohio Steel Range Manufacturers’ Association decided to advance the prices of finished products 20 per cent because of the increased cost of raw materials. _ At Pueblo, Colo., Frank Smith, driver of a soda water wagon, shot and killed his wife and himself as an outcome of a divorce suit recently brought by the woman. The recent session of the Legislature passed a law reducing telegraph tolls In Kansas 40 per cent. The companies have ignored the law and announced they will fight it. At Yuba City, Cal., Richard Willis, insane, confined in the court house, managed to set fire to the building and was himself burned to death. The county Jail was also burned. Richard J. Oglesby, former Goverom- of Illinois, died at his home at Ogiehurst, near Elkhart, 111. Concussion of the brain, resulting from a fall, was the direct enuse of his death. Pastor W. H. McCool of the English Lutheran Church in West Point, Neb., committed suicide with a shotgun. He is supposed to have been mentally unbalanced by overwork. Fire broke oat in the west wing of the Hotel Del Monte, the famous resort owned by the Southern Pacific Railway at Monterey, Cal., and $20,000 damage resulted before It was under control. ' At Missouri City, Mo., Miss Della Clevenger, who was shot by her cousin, Ernest Clevenger, on the night of Dec. 8 last, is dead of her wounds. Ernest Clevenger is in jail at Liberty, having been returned there from Vibbard, Mo., where he was recaptured after having escaped a week before. Intense excitement was created at Murphysboro. 111., by the finding of the bodies of two women who were murdered while they slept. Their bodies were frightfully mutilated. Mrs. Mary E. Davie and Miss May Millstead are the victims. The condition of the room indicated that it had been plundered. On the Southern Pacific, east of Gila Rend, Ariz., a west-bound freight train crashed through a burning bridge. AH the cars were piled oa the engine and caught fire. Conductor Dovey and Fireman Courtney were buried in the wreck aud burned to death. Engineer AHnni was badly injured. There was a double drowning at Cincinnati. Joseph Bans and Henry Osterlits, both aged 12 years, who were playing on a sand boat, were the victims. One of them had tossed up a buckeye, and as it dropped both made a. grab for it. Both fell into the water, and before they could be rescued were drowned. A train on the Burlington Railroad was wrecked between Sugar Grove and Big Rock, 111. Bevcral of the cam left the track. The fireman, C.' Flock, was killed and two of the trainmen injured, but bone of the passengers was seriously hurt. All the cars in the train were damaged, but. the loss will not exceed $2,000. Mina Kcssiukey h*s iualdied*e*r Jack fte SkSfVKI 4FJM killed!

Kain is a poor man and he has tad bard Inch. His wife Is a hopeless invalid, being speechless as the result *of paralysis. Unless present plans miscarry the board of education of Cleveland will erect and equip a factory from which will be turned out all the school furniture needed for the school taili&MPUB Cleveland. Ever since the formation of the school furniture trust it is said prices have steadily advanced. N. W. Kendall, a wealthy capitalist of New Haven, has been elected president of the new Maumee Brewing Company of Toledo, Ohio. He will also act as the general manager of the company, which has barn recently reorganised and the capital stock raised from SIOO,OOO to $300,000. Fifty acres of land win be recovered from Lake Erie for tbe Ohio centennial exposition to be held in Toledo ia 1962. The work of grading the grounds and dredging for a harbor 1,000 sees in length win begin at once. It will require nearly a million feet of filling to prepare the park. Two attempts were made to destroy Burlington trains with dynamite near Nodaway, a small station between St. Joseph. Mo- and the lowa line. Btieks of dynamite were laid on the track and the Denver flyer was given a shock that broke all the windows in the coaches. Tbe Omaha express had a similar, bat more severe, shod: ten minutes later. Bnrlington officials went to Nodaway on n special train three hoars later. These was nothing to indicate robbery was the motive. When returning from a dance four young people were ran down by the Chicago and Northwestern fast mail at Crawford's crossing, about a mile from Bsration, Win. Bennie Tolids, Kittie Marshall and Nellie Welch were instantly killed. Frank Donald had his leg broken. The young people stepped from one track to avoid the approaching train, when they were caoght by the fast mail, which was going at foil speed. Nothing was known of the accident until the train reached that city, when Donald was found on the cowcatcher of the engine with one leg broken and several other injuries. Criminal action was recently begun by the United States authorities in the Federal court at St. Paul against D. P. Roussoponlns, proprietor of tbe Northwestern stamp works, for making metal trading checks, the claim bring their likeness and similitude to the gold and silver coin of the Government made their manufacture illegal. The defendant demurred and the court sustains the demurrer, holding that the tokens are not made in lien of lawful money and that these coins are not obligations to pay money, but the obligations expressed is in terms solvable merchandise. There are said to be millions of these checks in use throughout the country.