Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Judge William H. Clark, aged 39, is dead at Los Angelts, Cal. Colorado is to .be represented at the Paris exposition by a gold statue of a girl to cost $1,000,000. Jesse Spalding of Chicago has been elected president of the Chicago Union Traction Company. A Mecca lubricating oil well worth SIOO a day was struck ou Richard King's farm, near Warren, Ohio. An agreement has been reached by Cleveland street car men and the company by which the strike is called off. A strike of 3,000 men in the large packing houses at the Chicago stock yards caused the suspension of hog killing operations, and but little canning is being done. At Hartville, Mo., a desperate attempt was made to break jail by the Mac Comb train robbers, but it was frustrated by the guards. AH the prisoners were then bandenffed. James F. Walton of the Walton Architectural Company, Cincinnati, has filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy in the United States Court. Liabilities $46,489, assets none. Frank Neal, the St. Louis boxer, known as “Dutch" Neal, who succumbed during a bout with Harry Peppers of San Francisco at the Adelphi Theater in Chicago, is dead of blood elot. Miss Cora. Rosebrook, aged 38 year*, died in St. Luke's hospital in St. Paul from iujnries received in the tornado at New Richmond. Wis., making a total of 114 known dead so far. A passenger train on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern road was wrecked on a ten-foot embankment two miles beyond the city limits of Muscatine, lowa, by a broken engine truck, the engine rolling down the bank and both

coaches leaving the rails. Three persons were injured. The Music Teachers’ National Association convention at Cincinnati adjourned after electing A. J. Gantvoort of that city president. Next year’s meeting will be held at Des Moines, lowa. f . At Lima, Ohio, two men called at the city transfer barns and wanted Frank Harris, night manager, to give them money for beer. When he refused they shot him in the groin, making a fatal wound. >. Miss Lena Falk of Chicago was drowned at Put-in-Bay while rowing with a male companion. The sea was rough and the boat capsized, drowning, the woman before help could arrive. The man was rescued after some difficulty. Gov. Stephens of Missouri announces that he will call a special election in the Eighth congressional district of Missouri about the first of September to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Richard P. Bland. At Leavenworth, Ivan., twenty-two suits, the aggregate amount being for #212,000, were filed in the District Court against the Leavenworth and Home Riverside coal companies, to compel payment of royalties. A heavy storm swept over Tine Bluff, Ark., and did great damage to telephone and telegraph wires. Lightning struck in several places, doing great damage. On the James Trulock place William Patterson and Jim Jackson were killed. Frederick Sehatz of Gray town, Ohio, who died at the home of his wife, was not killed, but died of heart disease. Wm. H. Sehatz stated that the dispatches sent out to the effect that his father was murdered by the wife are absolutely false. Bartley, Neb., and adjacent territory was visited by a destructive hail and rain storm. For miles to the northeast not a stalk of corn or spear of wheat was left standing. Little hail insurance is carried by the farmers, and the loss will be heavy. O. H. Hillis, clerk of the United States Circuit Court at Omaha, is dead. He had been in apparently perfect health and entered the bath room, and, not reappearing, an investigation was made. He was found dead in the bath tub, heart failure being the cause.

Jennings, one of the train robbers at Hartville, Mo., on trial for complicity in the Macomb hold-up in January last, for which robbery “Jack” Kennedy was given seventeen years in the penitentiary, was found guilty and sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary. Private Wesley Kirby of Company H, Twenty-fourth infantry, was shot through the leg by Private Frank Wigfall of the saipe company at the headquarters at the Presidio, San Francisco. The wound is serious, and no cause is assigned for the attempt to commit murder. At Shell Mound, Cal., J. E. Gorman of the Golden Gate Pistol and Rifle Club tied the world’s fifty-yard pistol shooting record, which has been held for a long time by E. E. Partridge of the Massachusetts Rifle Association. His ten shot scores on the standard ammunition target were 93, 9G, 02, 95, 89; total, 405. At Toledo, Judge Millard set aside the verdict of the jury in the case of the Manufacturers’ railroad, which desires to occupy certain streets of the city as a right of way. The jury granted the petition of the railroad, but awarded the city a damage of $50,000. A motion has been made for a new trial by the road and Judge Millard of the probate court set aside the verdict and granted the motion. Fire broke out In some unexplained manner in the freight house of the Michigan Central at Toledo. In a few minutes the whole structure, including the freight offices, was a solid mass of flame. One freight house of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton fell a prey. One hundred freight cars, nearly all loaded, were destroyed. The loss is estimated nt $500,000.

Miles McDonald, aged 20, employed by the F. M. Long Sirup Company, as the result of a wager with some fellow-em-ployes, dived from the center span of'(he Eads bridge at St. Louis, badly injuring himself and narrowly escaping death. The distance from the bridge to the water is 115 feet. McDonald alighted on his shoulders and the upper part of his buck, and but for the prompt assistance of a boat and crew in readiness he would have drowned.

Word has been received at Saa Diego, Cal., that a party of twenty miners, bound for the Sierra Pintada placers, lost their way in the desert and wandered around a long time, finally dying of thirst. The information came in a letter received by J. P. Cantlin, one of the charterers of the schooner Thomas S. Negus, which took a party of sixty prospectors to San Roque lauding, from L. J. Allen, purser of the Negus. The corpses of the lost miners were accidentally discovered in the desert by another party, hound in the same direction.