Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The town of Wagner, I. T., was almost entirely destroyed by fire. Loss SIOO,OOO. Judge Johnson at Milwaukee has signed the order accepting the resignation of William Plankinton as assignee of the Plankinton Bank. The 500 dock laborers at Conneaut harbor, Ohio, who were out on a strike all returned to work, the dock company acceding to every demand of the strikers. George W. Holladay was shot and probably fatally wounded by his wife, Annie,' at their home at St. Louis. Mrs. Holladay declares that she acted in selfdefense. Andrew Carnegie has offered East Liverpool, Ohio, the sum of $50,000 to erect a memorial library bearing his name, provided the town council would furnish a ■ site. The offer was accepted. The Iron Molders’ Union of North America at Indianaimlis took steps to provide for assisting apprentices in foundries to attend technical schools where they may learn the iron molding trade. Schwarzschild & Sulzberger’s Kansas City packing plant was closed by the local management rather than grant a second advance in wages to its 200 butchers and their helpers. One thousand men are out of work. . Frank Cody, Sam Towns and George Suu th were arrested in Evansville, Ind., charged with counterfeiting. They admitted making dimes, quarters and dollars gnd said tfcey threw their molds into Pigeon creek. The body of Captain Browb of the Wrecked steamer Olwell was found by the tug Daisy near where the body of his son had been found earlier. The corpse, which was badly decomposed, was taken to Lorain, Ohio. Leseuer, Minn., was startled by the suicide of M. M. Segelbaum. He shot himself, dying instantly. Worry over business matters is supposed to be the cause, and there is no doubt that the act was premeditated for several days. The Indianapolis News was sold at receiver’s sale for $936,000 to l>elavan Smith of Chicago and Charles R. Williams, who held the controlling interest before Maj. W. J. Richards, the other partner, threw the paper into a receiver’s hands. David Coop and George Black, boys 16 years of age, were arrested at Lawrence, Kan., on a charge of having set fire to,a barn, and have made confessions that they have started .eight fires in various parts of the town within the past two years. Vi L. M. Crawford, manager of the Crawford Opera House, filed a petition in bankruptcy in the United States District Court at Topeka, Kan. ' His unsecured liabilities amount to $388,730. and those secured to $59,450 more, making a total of $448,180. The combination of wholesale grocers of Illinois, lowa and Missouri, for the purpose of purchasing goods in large quantities, took definite form when the Westen Brokerage Company was incorporated at Deo Moines, With a capital stock of $490,000. The Board of Regents of the Uaiver. Hty of Nebraska has accepted the resignation ofjOhayeßorMcLeay and appointed A committee of regent* was appointed to

punree « fir a ft ranmv 11© CwUnrrHnT SKcKmbkl. - Ttaac trsiw ««* AIM oote ta* ota I «re woto ototohriy tojnreff W taOrwrite tag of a freight tzwta «■ Ar Afton road soar ffDooteta, Mn. TB* wreckage ctmstotefl off ten <nw tastes off merchandise, bug* ante Uta aaaun left the trar* «■ ato*9 varan. The conductors wad usMtanuHn off nta Big Consolidated Rtasrt BaßtataF wssas at Cleveland, wta were «a a terita bag month, taree gra>e mt agate, RfeMttan*dred men are afcdteA They «fltem ffbe company has not lived ■* to tee agree■nrriif maAa uiiHstirfli -ran Ara* tfAna* ft mi II Sill UMTUI lunuc vv liivlJ tuiunu tawir tutaxiru strike. Tta farmers of tee Arkansas waßey are unable to harvest tbSMSok off annas* «ff wheat because off rains siMrib fianre flnads ed the rasnitiy. Geaga V. Wtatem. te Topeka, say* weeds taw ggama «*» teat* in the fields that tee Samaras wU be umable to harvest the ®rato. The oamffifiaa prorata for 100 miles afavg tee finlaa Bits river. Wit* a shack the teat off m tmteansflir and a report that was taaal ter tas writes a premature explosion tote gfiane to ter quarry of tee Artesian stem wad liter works in Chicago, white 'was Itetewte B® - a shower of stone, injuring * -tmnre <sg persons. breaking hun&refls off vtotora ami creating a panic among tee atetteftsams «ff that district. Mrs. Marion Moore, residing waff off Brazil, Ind., met a tragic 'fiexte to attempting to save her -sun Item 'tarmn. While her son Edward was mwuiing in a field near the house tas tansies nam away. Mrs. Moore ran out to cstkdh tta horses, when she was knockad mi torr nta machine, which crushed and cnlttaar taflK, causing almost instant death. At Fort Smith, Ark., ten tta -striking miners were convicted «ff ®ntmuug ton® a conspiracy for the purpose off mnimifitcing and terrorizing the mqantefl Snap* miners in the employ tof tee Kansas mn& Texas Coal Company., in viatotinn nta injunction issued by Fetonafl Auflge Bogers, restraining the -strikers team iixfterfering with the aaQfiqyies. The Alaska flyer Huntterilffi treaitheo Seattle with 150 Klnndihere amfl $500,900 in dust. The ofirtadt mum ® board was C. A. Voskelhu* «g Chicago. He shipped $183,000 igr tee ntaer tafcre leaving Dawson, and livings tee taihinetof a $200,000 output with tarn. He- has been in the Klondike for teree ymurs. und got all of his gold Troon one Bimnuza Creek claim. Pickands, Mother A tee Ctawihmfl iron men, ha ve discovered a taupe 'iff high-grade iron ore in tee jjritailiir nwqperty, two miles southeast of dtamfiMuqih. Mich. The was discovered wiiih a diamond drill at a depth -rs otaiut 2WO* feet. The deposit is sixty Seat wra&e. .iilll clean ore, running <5 per cent. Bu nmtttfilic iron it is a non-liessemer, tan -off a very desirable grade. Frank Ray, with his sweetheart, Orlfeerine Wimsey, and Clifford umd Aomes Shannon, started on an excureiaa ujp nta Ohio nivfsr from j& 3i smyiirtai launch. The launch had a small dtat-tatt-tom, known as a “John boat,” ita ttiw.. Roy playfully jumped into this taist, sand all the others, against his protest. Hollowed. The boat filled and -sank All hut Ray were drowned. According to a Lincoln. 3WK, tffifgmtdh. suit to secure title to Chicago comprising nearly M 0 acres mid wjilueß roughly at $250,000,*000, as atom to ta wstituted in the land department at Matta ingtou and later in tee courts -of W. B. Price, a Lincoln lawyer uiiganuiiating tee thirty or forty heirs es JJuixmiite Smith, will begin tee action under * gooemption patent said to have been gnsuZefl to Smith in 1834.

According to a letter received ly Otoff of Police Bite op off Springfieia. Jta, Robert M. E. -Cooper to Aeir tto SMRRBfi in Cripple Creek mining jiroperty ante Texas real estate, left ig- Captain Cragn, a frontiersman, wffio died recently to Cripple Creek. Cooper formerly efltal a paper in Springfield and was at one ttone prominent in Mtosonri politics. Be tacame penniless and has Snr years 'lirert to St. Louis. Yeans age to Texas saved Crego's life.