Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1899 — WESTERN [ARTICLE]

WESTERN

The twelve Filipinos who arrived at San Francisco a few days ago on the City of Peking have been ordered to be deported. The schooner Nelson, deeply laden with a cargo of coal, foundered in Lake Superior, off Grand Marais, and carried down all hands except the captain. Nine lives were lost. H. N. Halladay, president of the Williamsville, Greenville and St. Louis Raftway, was shot and killed at Williamsville, Mo- by Monroe Johnson, a prominent lumberman. The Manitou Park Hotel and Casino, near Colorado Springs, which were to have been opened for the season June 1, have been destroyed by tire. The loss is estimated at $50,000. A controversy of ten years’ standing was settled by the Catholic Knights of America at Kansas City when the delegatee meeting in annual convention voted to admit women to the order. The street ear strike at Duluth became serious the other night when dynamite was placed upon the track and a car partially wrecked. Six revolver shots were fired into the vestibule of another car, but no one was hurt. A collision occurred three miles below Marine City. Mich., between the steamer Vanderbilt, bound down, and the steamer White Star, bound up, which resulted in the sinking of the latter. No lives were lest on either boat. Orders have been received at Omaha for the Sixteenth infantry to leave that department in time to sail from San Francisco May 29. One battalion is at Fort Crook, one at Fort Leavenworth, and the other at Jefferson Barracks. The national executive board of the United Mine Workers of America has ordered a strike at the mines of all the companies in the Weir City, Kan., district that also operate in Arkansas. Three of the eight mines are idle, GOO men being out. In accordance with a decision rendered by Judge Dale, adjudging the street cars at Wichita. Kan- to be a public nuisance, the cats quit running. The lease of the present company expired some time ago, bat they cpntjnned to run, despite the city's protest. Kenoyer's bank, at Leon, Kan., was visited by burglars and about $2,000 secured. The robbery was evidently the work of amateurs, the tools having been stolen from a blacksmith shop. The safe was blown to fragments and the building was wrecked. Quarrels over petty matters by J. E. De Gette and Ms wife of David City, Neb., canted the bridegroom to attempt suicide

by shooting in the sick room of his bride in the Victoria Hotel in Chicago. Wounded, probably fatally, a ballet having pierced his left lung. Seven convicts in a bolt shop at the Ohio penitentiary struck at Columbus, on the ground that their daily task had been increased. The insurrectionists were escorted to the cellar, paddled and reduced in grade and placed in solitary confinement for five to ten days. At Kansas City, Mo., Cornelius Linehan has begun suit for >2,20Q damages against the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad Company, on account of the death of his son. The son was one of Torrey’s “rough riders,’’ and was killed in the wreck of a military train. John Kerr, who killed his father-in-law, John Reid, at Valley, Neb., a year ago, was convicted of murder in the second degree. The murder grew out of an attempt of Kerr to secure a reconciliation with his divorced .wife, during which the young man was severely beaten by Reid. As a result of a competition between McConnellsville and Zanesville river packets, the Valley Gem and Zanetta, in racing for Taylorsville locks on the Muskingum, collided, and the whole side of the Zanetta was crushed in. By heroic efforts of the crew the boat was kept afloat and no lives were lost. A panic occurred on the St. Louis levee among the crowds striving to board ferryboats in order to go out on the river and inspect the gunboat Nashville, which was anchored off the foot of Market street, and half a dozen persons were tumbled into the river. Fortunately the water was not deep and no one was drowned. The California coast seal herds are to be reduced without interference by the Government. Instructions have beep issued to Commander Sebree of the Twelfth lighthouse district to allow the California fish commission to send deputies to the Farallones, Ano Nuevo, Point Reyes and other reservations for the purpose of killing seals. Mrs. Charles U. Martz, wife of a prominent Kirksville, Mo., man, received a beautifully chased silver wine flask, filled with what purported to be sweet wine. No marks other than the address were npon the package. The wine was given to a chemist, who analyzed it, finding enough arsenic in the contents to have killed a dozen persons. A poultry and produce trust is the latest and most unique evolution of modern commerce. J. B. Dean of Wichita, W. B. Hurst & Co. of Fort Scott, Kan., and W. B. Redfearn of Springfield, Mo„ the three largest exclusive poultry and produce shippers of the West, have consolidated the business in a stock company, with headquarters at Springfield. Trafford N. Jayne, a prominent attorney, society man and churchman of Minneapolis, has been missing several days. He left the city presumably on business and when it became necessary to open his desk a letter was found stating that his accounts with several estates in his charge were wrong and intimating that when the letter was found he would be dead by his own hand. » Daniel Mahoney sued his wife Mary for >6OO at Kansas City. They were separated, but were not divorced. Mahoney claimed that his wife had saved the money from his earnings. The case did not get to trial. Mrs. Mahoney’s lawyers simply demurred to the case, saying it had no standing in court, because a husband could not sue a wife, although either one' might sue or be sued by a third party. The judge dismissed the case. For the first time in fifteen years, R. W. Wagner, a prominent citizen of Bucyrus, Ohio, was able the other day to speak. In 1885 he was afflioted with illness which left him mute. Long treatment by skilled physicians failed to restore the power of speech, and he had despaired of ever recovering, but while holding a little child on his lap, he was seized with a sudden desire to speak to her, and to his surprise was able to do so. His voice has an unnatural sound, but aside from this he speaks as well as ever. There was a riot between the prohibitionists and the liquor element at Alva, Ok., and a dozen citizens have been nursing wounds in consequence. The pastor of the First Methodist Church, the Rev. Alexander Ross, entered Gene Hardwick’s saloon and commenced shooting at him. Hardwick quickly returned the fire and both fell mortally wounded. Others, partisans on both sides, quickly gathered, and before the officers could get the crowd under control six others had to be carried away. They were wounded seriously. The prohibitionists have been making every effort to get the saloons closed, but have failed.