Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Keokuk. chief of the Sac and Fox In dians. is dead. Joseph A. Hackman, a well-known contractor of Cleveland, died in agony as the result of a cat bite. Three prisoners—Walter I-a lie, Miles Riggin and Seibert Mosby—eacaped from the county jail at Mexico. Mo. A tire in 1. Fleisig’s clothing store, Santa Crux, Cal., caused a loss of about $50,000, covered by insurance. Mrs. W. T. Heinemann, formerly of Chicago, was injured by a street ear at Los Angeles. Cal., causing death an hour later. The Ute reservation in Colorado was opened for settlement the other day by proclamation of the President. Hundreds joined in a wild rush for lands. The Dawes Indian commission. composed of Thomas B. Needles, A. 8. McKcanon and Tama Bixby, has gone to lake the census of the Choctaw nation. At Telluride. Col., E. W. Richardson, a lawyer, formerly of Philadelphia, and Arthur Powell, a miner, quarreled and began shooting. Richardson was killed. Cullison, a boom town of Pratt County, Kan., paid off all indebtedness and made a bonfire of the canceled bonds. The taxpayers raised the cash and bought up the bonds. The first train over the South Park into Dillon, Colo., for four months ran through solid walls of snow and steamed into the town amid the blowing of whistles and the ringing of bells. Isaac Newlinger. formerly a tobacco manufacturer of Bt. Ixmis. Mo., has filed a petition in bankruptcy in the United States court. Liabilities $50,224, al) secured except SI,OOO. William R. Bowen, the best known Mason in Nebraska, shot and killed himself at Omaha. Financial trouble wgs the cause. He had been secretary of the Nebraska grand lodge for twenty-six years. Rich gold specimens and a diary dated in 1862 have been found in a cache- in the Inyo desert, showing that William Bates, of St. Louis, discovered a ri<-h mine, but probably la-risbed on the desert. Six United States prisoners confined in the county jail at Toledo. 0., made ibeir escape by climbing through the chimney at the rear end of the jail. One was recaptured on the roof and returned to his cell. By the capsizing of a boat off Belvidere Point. Cal.. Frank J. Grimm and Herbert G. Edwards were drowned. Dr. Allen aud*H. O. Haydefelt. who were also in the boat at the time of the accident, were saved. Because she would not marry him. John Blorick of St. Louis shot and mortally wounded Lizzie Diedrich and then fatally shot himself. Blorick was infatuated with the woman, who did not reciprocate his affections. Gold in paying quantities has been I found in Ashtabula County, Ohio, by Pittsburg men. who have quietly leased 2,000 acres before saying anything. Assays made tend t<» show that extensive mining will be profitable. Young Gee, said to be a highbinder from San Francisco, was shot dead at Sebastopol. CaU -by his brother. Gang Gee, a merchant,'whom he had attempted to murder afte£*beiug refused tr- sum of money for*which' be asked. A cyclone which swept over the Chickasaw Indian Nation and Southern Oklahoma the other night killed five persons aud injured about thirty. Slightly injured number about twenty. It is thought all the wounded will survive. Gov. Stephens of Missouri has signed the Farris beer inspection bill. It prose ■

I vide, for the ass afl tear a* !ia the Stase. Aa aavnrtw fae 1 «■* i «a each gaflaa aat 2 aeata Nor iahdßas «*ch paefcase wiH he chnSM. : Maty Vlavh. the l&ywwMl Naachfewtf i a Taiasti vroifiac arar SeeMMt. Xdh_ ' roanaitxed aawade while deogMaNaat aaar | the death «f her soldier no i iah«art. Grw Hoar, who MJ before Chlaai on wMBe fighting with the Fira Vibrio A a L. G. Wilkins and anocher naan killed in an aqdooMa al the Chfifania powder works ai ISnofe- WOkiaß flßaaerly lived at Cowai il Btaffs. Inara, ohw han pareats naw reside. He was foaaaan off the sbeUboaw and was aged 2* jwarw j Gov. StephcoH of Wioowaii haa aopaod the bill prohibrtiag the «BptayaHat of non-rrsidents a* depnty shesriEa. constables or as pefice aHoam. The imp are is intended To prohibit the aa*oaM*iaa of Pinkerton detectives into the Shane. At Xewa. Ohia. the Hu via « AJhaoa Cordage Owapaay has aaaaonced aa hp-j crease of M per eewt in the wageo of dec' employer. This affects two of the laxgrK mills ia the cwuauy. both these. Ahaat s* Mt operatives will receive the increase. J«An C. Wagoert. who had earned a bniiel in his head since the Omnrr aamsacre is 1X76. cmnmirred xaicide nd* morphine al a bot« 4 ia StiUonaer. Minn. ' Wagoner served ia both the Coati Nt rate 1 and I'aioa armies during the civil war. Mrs. Catherine Scimhx. 62 years eML of I Chi<-ago, ia a fc of anger told her grand- . daughter. Belle Styles. K years «*Jd_ that | her birth was disgra«-efuL ‘The girl nM her mother, Mrs. Augusta Styles, arhat her grandmother had said. A few han later Mrs. Styles abut her own mother upon the step* of a public hall, kiliiag her instantly. Striking street car men and i j lopathaers at Duluth made a fierce attack «m the property of the company, la the fight hetween the strikers and the company woafcmen five men were mjared. «er irrubably fatally. Foor cars were derailed. Gne-sf the cars was practically deaoafidwd iff the at;ackiug party and the tethers were* seriously damaged. The king wtetden railroad bridge spam- ; ning the Nemadji River faehra Sooth Su jierior. Wise, by which the threat Northern reaches Allonez Ray. MJ while a heavy train was anemjitm” the passage. Engineer Thomas Quinn was caught underneath his engine and killed and Fireman Harry Miller was crushed betumen the cab and engine, receiving injuries, which may prove fatal. Fin* swept Russell A C«'s mammoth thrasher and engine plant at Maasalian. (thio, destroying property valued at tally <$5(«l.(«Ml. The blase started in the wavehouse. and gained steadily <m the barmen. In this stnuture 3»«t’ finished nachines were consumed. The mathmesteops were saved. Albert Randerper. a volunteer fireman, was killed lev a fail iug wall. In the same <-at>- uuphi Christian 1.. Baalz. a workman, wws probably fatally injured.