Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Twenty thousand persons attended a reception in honor of Admiral Schley in Denver. Near Guthrie, O. T„ Daniel For, a hermit who had $5,500 buried near his house, was found murdered and his money sane. Judge Howe of Toledo was stricken with apoplexy while en route to Sandusky with a party of excursionists. He had two severe strokes. Q. C. Weaver, a wealthy merchant aad stock owner of Opelis, Kan., was shot aad killed by Charles Baker, a prosperous farmer, the result of family troubles. Seven persons were killed in a wreck oa the Burlington, Cedar Rapids aad Northern Railroad four miles southeast of Waterloo, lowa. Thirty-nine others were injured. The official count of votes cast by the Creek natiou of Indians at the February ! election shows that the treaty proposed by the Dawes commission is ratified by a majority of 455. * At Gallup, N. M.. the Santa Fe westbound passenger train No. 1 ran into same coal cars, overturning an engine aad smashing the tender and mail ear. No lives were lost. Cyclones in South Dakota, lowa aad Nebraska cansed serious loss of life aad destroyed buildings by the score. Growing crops were ruined and fruit trees stripped of their foliage. James Weaver, the 11-year-old colored boy who confessed that he poisoned his father and his brother, was arraigned ia the police court in Cincinnati and held to answer to the grand jury. At St. Joseph. Mo. Prof. Frederick William Plato, whose title ia Germany was Baron von Dolnitx, a musical composer, ia dead from injuries received by Jbeiug struck by a wagon. In a Coronado, Cal. lodging house. Benedict Bergmann, infuriated at Miss Elizabeth Berkeley's refusal to marry him. stabbed the woman and theacut his own throat. Both were fatally wounded. The application of Mrs. Nettie R. Craven for a family allowance out of the estate of James G. Fair, as the widow of the late Senator, was called ia Judge Troutt’s court in San Francisco, tat went over until Aug. 13. The Wisconsin Central freight sheds ia' Chicago were destroyed by fire. The loss to the building and its contents, consisting for the most part of freight awaiting delivery, is estimated at about 100,000, covered by insurance. Louis E. Bert, a fanner of Oxford township, Ohio,was killed by lightning at a barn-wanning near his home. About thirty persons were in the bam and all were prostrated, several of them being more or less injured by the shock. Mayor Campbell of Bowling Orttm, 0„ who once fined himself for a misdemeanor, has just given a novel sentence to a youthful culprit. The boy is sentenced to attend church and Sunday school gar eight weeks or go to jail for twenty day*. The Akron, Ohio, Traction and Electric to be consolidated at once. The new company will be known as the Northern Ohio I OOft,* 1 -A, * c'' .» • jr ' 1 The Standard Oil Company m making

and straightening craven. " The line will bo MMy*eufmhte ST* When it has bran completed the tiara between Omaha aad Shit Lake wfli he shortened tea to twelve Last year s wheat crop stored in Kansan granaries aad elevators ia fast being bought fey New Yack and Ragfivh capitalists. la two days «MW° taehrls were -eutatives of these firms are ia the wheat belt contracting far every has he I of old wheat it can get. The Soax City. O’Neill aad Western Railroad was sold by Special Master'ia Chancery K. 8. Dandy of Omaha ta Robert E. aad WOfism 8. Tad of the firm of J. Kennedy Tod A Co. of New York, which balds SLMO.OOO of fast mortgage sL7sflS«r*Tlte mod extends City to O'Neill. Neb. 129 miles. Jadge Traatl of the Superior Coart at Francisco baa denied Me right of Mrs. Nettie & Craven Fair to intervene ia the contest of the wiD of the late James G. Fair, filed by las son Charles. Ia other words, she will have ao chance to prove her claim to be the widow of the late James G. Fair unless the Supreme Court reverses Judge- Troon's ruling. William F. Hackney, architect to the Kansas City Board of Education and one of the city's fore mart men of his profesbgmt his brains. He left a note’to the newspapers,, stating that he was hope lew ly ia debt, and that his income was not satirirat to maintain his family an they should be kept. Mr. Hackney caara Cram Da Moines. J. M. Allen, a member of the Hoaae of Representatives from Athens County. O-, has oaed the State fra fflOQ, the amount of Ms salary for a year. The Auditor of State aad Speaker Mason, who refused to sign the voucher, are made defendants. The Auditor re fared to issue the warrant place of rrafidentinl deck to his fntheria4aw. the Columbus pension agent, at a salary of 81.000 a year. of Staples, Mol, if in ashes. The honed district comprises over twenty-five buildings. The fire started from an overturned team m Henry Srknterte tailor shop. The Iran rapidly agreed to adjoining buildings. With buckets, one stream of water from the Northern Pattern Verndale the lames were finally got under contraL The total loos is estimated at s3ft,flW. corned by about $201.000 in-