Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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At Canton, Ohio, the jury in the Mrs. George ease returned a verdict of acquittal. The Buckeye stave works at Continental, Ohio, burned. Loss $15,000, insurance $5,000. Jacob Brown, pioneer resident of South Dakota and civil engineer for the Chicago and Northwestern road, died in Huron, aged 77. J. W. Breed, president of the Central Credit Company of Cincinnati, was killed instantly in that city by an electric car. He was 00 years old. A prairie fire, swept by a cyclone, devastated farms in a path twenty-five miles long and a mile wide uear Coleridge, Neb. Two lives were lost. Henry Gannaway, a well-known sawmill man, was stabbed to death near Ardmore, I. T., by William Wathen. Wathen surrendered and claims self-de-fense. Charles McCullough, a farm laborer, was shot and killed by Mrs. Euniee Brown at her farm, south of Canton, S. D. The woman claims that she shot him in self-defense. ‘All tonnage records were broken on the Lake Shore Railway the other day. An east-bound coal train of sixty-five cars out of Ashtabula, Ohio, hauled by one engine, carried 3,000 tons. High water in the Missouri river at Bt. Joseph and Beverly washed out the tracks of the Rock Island and the Burlington. Bottom lands opposite Leavenworth, Kan., were inundated. The hospital building of the State Asylum for the Feeble Minded at Glenwood, lowa, was destroyed by fire. The origin of the fire is unknown. No lives were lost. Loss $25,000, no insurance. According to the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, the administration has information that arms and ammunition of war have been sent from American manufactories to the Philippine insurgents. The Ohio Centeunial Company and the representatives of the railroads entering Toledo met and made arrangements to allow all roads to enter the exposition grounds by means of a loop, the railroads all using one depot. An explosion of n can of oil paint at Tiffin, Ohio, caused the death of Paul Hoffman, aged 14, and seriously burned Frank Bundage. aged 12. The boys were playing with the paint and touched a match to see it burn. Seventeen farmers of Pemiscot County, in southeast Missouri, have beeu lodged in the city jail at St. Louis by United States Marshal Louis C. Boble on a Federal indictment. charging them with cutting the levee. No denial is made by the Nearly 100 survivors of the Sultana disaster gathered in annual convention at Cleveland, the occasion being the thirtyfifth anniversary of the event. The Sultana was a Mississippi river boat, sunk April 27, 1804, with a loss of hundreds of lives. Two desperadoes held up several men near Brigham City, Utah. Captain Brown of the Ogden police force joined a posse in pursuit. A battle took place, in which Captain Browu and one of the robbers were killed. The other robber was captured. Nebraska eiti*ens have cabled $2,350 to the surgeon of the First Nebraska Regiment, Manila, to be used as a hospital fund for the sick aud wounded Nebraska soldiers, the regiment having suffered more thnu any other during the campaign. More than 250 persona were left homeless by a fire in Chicago which started in the Polish district from a gasoline explosion, was swept onward by the high wind then prevailing and destroyed fifty tenement houses. The property loss is about $50,000. • At Minneapolis, a portion of the retaining wall at the west side of St. Anthony fails, 150 feet in length, was carried sway, causing damage of several thousand dollars, and for a time depriving the flour mills on that side of the river of the use of water power. But the mills are preJWmd for sttch an emergency and can run with steam. At least sixty persons killed, over 1,000 injured, residences and business buildings to the number of 200 demolished and the

same Btorm. j The twenty-eighth annual meeting of aions of the Northwest closed at ChAar Rapids, lowa. The following officers were elected; President, Mrs. H. H. Forsyth, Chicago. III.; recording 'secretary, Mrs. W. B. Jacobs, Chicago, Ill.; treasurer. Mrs. C. B. Farwell. Chicago, 111. L. M. Pitkin, president of the Variety Iron Works Company and oaf of the best known business men of Cleveland* was struck and instantly killed by the westbound Lake Bbo re flyer at Colts, a suburb. The body was thrown forty feet into the air and was crushed aad mangled fit a terrible manner. Mr. Pitkin was 70 years of age. G. F. Swift, the Chicago millionaire beef packer, baa been iu Oklahoma making arrangements to purchase several large tracts of (and for cattle grazing. He has already bought several thousand acres in the Kiowa and Comanche country, where Mr. Bwift has had nearly 15,000 dattle brought In already for grazing this summer. Mrs. Samuel Blair of Edgar, Ok., recently sold a farm near Coffeyville, Kan., for $3,000 and with her husband went to Oklahoma, settling near Edgar. The family was accompanied by a hired man and his wife, who had worked for them for several years. A few nights ago Blair and the hired man’s wife disappeared and with 1 hem went Mrs. Blair’s-money, a fine saddle horse and saddle and some of her clothing. s’ A prairie fire which started fifteen miles south of Mitchell, 8. D., burned over about 35,000 acres of farm land, destroying a great quantity of hay. Two men, Frank Howard and Allie Smith, went over to a neighbor’s to help fight the fire, and tied thgir horses in a clump of trees. The fire got into the tree claim, and in their attempt to save their horses they were caught in the flames and. with the horses, were burned to death. Harry J. Fiammger, a St. Louis policeman, committed suicide because his wife did not give him a clean suit of underwear when he asked for it. Fiammger went home at 4 o'clock in the morning after working all night. He proposed to his wife that they go out early and return, so that he could sleep late in the day. * Then he , asked her for the underwear. Upon her telling him that she did not have it just then he walked into the next room ami shot himself. Fiammger was 35 years old and had been on the force a year. A fire which broke ont from incendiary causes in the big lumber yard of the A. Gebhart Lumber Company at Dayton. €>., resulted in the death of Thomas Lawler, a lineman, and the severe injury of six other firemen. A high wind carried blazing sparks from the burning lumber to the roof oil St. John’s Lutheran Church on Eaat Third street, setting that building on tire. Lawler was standing in the church vestibule when the belfry timbers fell on him. The other men were hurt by the flames and by falling. The material loss aggregates $75,000.