Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

C. 11. Gordon of Chicago has been elected superintendent of Lincoln, Neb., schools. Itev. Arthur L. Williams of Chicago has been elected coadjutor to Bishop Worthington at Omaha. A county seat election in Grant County, Oklahoma, resulted in favor of Pond Creek, the present county seat. At Guthrie, O. T., Henry Towner and George Bress were fined SSOO each for failing to put war revenue stamps on two notes. Nouh IT. Swayne, indorsed by the Toledo Republicans as a candidate for Governor, has declined to have his name considered. Dr. Esmond, member of a posse seeking Bill Watson, a notorious horse thief, was shot and killed by the latter northwest of Shawnee, Okla. The gang escaped. The Ohio Water Works Association has organized a memorial association, having for its object the promotion of patriotic feeling between the North and South. F. A. Etsner’s ice plant at Clinton, Mo., was destroyed by fire. The plant cost SBO,OOO, and had a capacity of sixty tons a day. The fire was of incendiary origin. At Kansas City, Charles E. Tinsley, an engineer, who had been exposed to smallpox, locked himself in Sis house and defied the officers. He was guarded in his home. L. J. Rose, formerly a State Senator and Democratic candidate for Congress and due of the best-kuOwu race horse breeders and wine growers in California, committed suicide. Lewis Slack, an itinerant tailor, was killed about two miles east of Avery, Ohio, on the Nickel Pinto bridge over the Huron river. He was instantly killed. His home was in Chicago. Judge J. B. Johnson, Topeka, Kan., is dead. He was mnster in chancery in the Santa Fe receivership case and was many years the law partner of George R. Peck, formerly of Topeka. Fireman Fred Parker was killed and Engineer H. E. Walter severely injured in a wreck on the Iron Mountain ,and Southern Texas road uear Tip Top, Mo., on Hogan Mountain. Two alleged cattle thieves, John Washtub and Joseph Starr, have been publicly flogged with 100 lashes each at San Bots. Ind. T. Several hundred Indians watched a deputy sheriff apply the lash. llaberer & Co.’s factory of carriage bodies, a five-story building at the west end of Eighth street, Cincinnati, bnrnetj. Loss over SOO,OOO. The street railway power house was badly damaged. A nitroglycerin tank at the Aetna powder works, Aetna, Ind., exploded the other night, blowing the building in whieh it was located to pieces and killing three men. No trace of the bodies could be found. Robert Gillhatu, general manager of the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad, died at Kansas City from typhoid malaria. Mr. Giltham superintended the construction of the Pittsburg and Gulf system. James E. Dubois, secretary of the Colorado State Board of Agriculture, committed suicide at Fort Collins by taking poison. No cause is known for the act except grief at the death of his wife, which occurred recently. An attempt to'burn the Christian denominational college at Cotner, Neb., was frustrated by His* Lethe E. Watson, elocution teacher In the institution. She overheard two strangers plotting the destruction of the building. Bala fell almost continuously throughout Nebraska for a week, and aa a result

considerable damage has been done to property and crops. Cera is reported to be rotting, while small grain has in many places been washed oat. j Mnj. John A. Logan, who resigned from the army, has returned to Yonnpstown, Ohio, and will leave shortly for Cubs, where he will represent a large party of capitalists in developing the sugar and mineral resources of the island. Levi Moore, a clerk in the Kansas City market, shot and perhaps fatally wounded Mrs. Jennie Campbell, Mrs. Emma Landis and Mrs. Anna Meek, while in a fit of jealous rage. Mrs. Campbell and Moore had been "lovers, bat the woman deserted. Smallpox has spread to the Kansas City city hospital, and it has been decided not to admit any other patients to the place until the disease is stamped out. The infection gained a footing by the admission of a patient supposed to have another affliction. A St, -Louis policeman found • 9-year-old boy crying and wandering around on the street and took him to the station. The boy said his name is Willie Manters, and that he was kidnaped from his home in Hamilton, Ont., by a strange man, who took him to Chicago and later to East St. Louis, where the boy escaped. A vein of ore carrying $19,090 in free gold has been discovered on a ranch near Custer City, S. D. The vein is fourteen inches wide and has been uncovered for a distance of thirty-five feet, but no sinking has been done yet. It is the first quartz that has been found in that vicinity, although rich placers have been worked. A negro cake walk in the opera house in Enid, Okla., broke up in a riot between whites and blacks, started by the negroes shooting into a crowd of white men. Three white men were wounded, when the whites returned the fire, fatally wounding four negroes and slightly wounding sev-eral-others. More than fifty shots were tired before the trouble was quelled. David I. Field, a retired capitalist, shot and killed Robert W. Stratford, bis negro man of all wort, in the vestibule of his handsome residence, 5345 Vernon avenue, St. Lonis. The shooting was the result of Stratford attempting to assault his em ployer, who had just discharged him for neglecting his work. He ordered the negro away, but the latter grew angry and advanced on his employer, who shot him dead. Mr. Field at once surrendered himself to the police and was taken into custody. Fire almost completely wiped out the mining town of Jerome, Ariz. Building after building succumbed, with a population almost powerless to prevent the destruction, for the town has no water supply of consequence and practically no fire department. Dynamite was used in blowing up buildings to check and prevent further spread of the flames. Tho postofflee, Masonic Hall and the company stores and hospital were saved by special effort. Many persons were injured. There is comparatively little insurance and a majority of the losses are total. At Cincinnati, James Weaver, colored, aged 11 years, confessed to having poisoned his father, Woodson Weaver, and his half brother. John Weaver. John Weaver died in a few hours, and W'oodson Weaver has but slight chance for recovery. The lad simply said that he found a box of “rough ou rats” on the stove and didn't know what it was. He put it in the coffee pot. The father and two sons were living together and prepared their own meals. Both the men were taken ill soon after drinking the coffee. -A neighbor saw the boy throw away the can which contained the poison, and this led to the confession.