Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The army worm is causing great damage around Fort Scott, Kan. W. D. Hooper, a wealthy grocer, died at his home in Hot Springs, Ark. Horace K. Thurber, for many years prominent in New York as a business man, died at Hailey, Idaho. Jessie Hoover, 14 years old, a daughter of the engineer of the scenic railway, was drowned at the Omaha exposition grounds. The police at Los Angeles have arrested ft man who confesses that he is Clyde Mattox and is wanted at Newkirk, Oklahoma, for murder. Schwarzschild A Sulzberger's packing plant at Kansas City has reopened, the trouble with its 1,090 men which led to the lockout having been amicably settled. An open summer car on the Euclid avenue line in Cleveland was blown to pieces by an explosion of nitroglycerin or gun cotton, and six passengers injured, one of them fatally. Two sharp earthquake shocks were felt in the southern part of California. The first shock lasted several seconds and was most severe. The vibrations were from east to west.

The United States transport Indiana arrived at San Francisco from Manila, after a voyage of thirty-two days, with 358 sick soldiers ami a number of Red Cross nurses. George Geddes, managing editor of the Republican of Springfield. Mo., has been poisoned by eating crawfish. Several others who ate the fish at the same time were made sick. A cyclone struck the eastern portion of I.a Forte, Ind., and wrecked the boot and. shoe store owneff by Butterworth A Co. Several other buildings were also leveled to the ground. -Three litUhere were drowned in Lake Michigan.-off Chicago, the other day". One gave lip.his life in tin attempt to save a lad who had ventured out beyond his depth, both going down. Cincinnati messenger boys are on strike for a raise of compensation. The matter became serious the other night whim two 'noys were stabbed, several hit by missiles and many slugged with clubs. While attempting to jump from a train before it had stopped. Miss Annie Borne of Emporia. Kan., aged about 18 years., was thrown under the wheels and fatally hurt. The wheels severed her body. Judge Norrell at Salt Lake has sentenced Angus M. Cannon, who recently pleaded guilty to the charge of polygamy in having married State Senator Mattie Hughes Camion, to pay a tine of SIOO. While sitting on the porch of his father's home in Toledo, eating ice cream. George Schiness, chief clerk at the Big Four Railroad office at Tiffin, was seized with a violent spell of coughing and fell over dead. A three-story business block on Muin street. Circleville, Ohio, belonging to J. G. Maag. collapsed. Fred Mink, an iceman, was caught in the building and instantly killed. Many people were more or less injured. Edna Curtis, Millie Detrick, Inez and Mabel Neal, daughters of Caldwell, Kan.. citizens, were drowned at Brury. They were in bathing in the river and got beyond their depth. Their ages range from 16 to 111 years. , Frank Wallace, a convict from Kansas City, leaped from the third floor of the Jefferson City, Mo., penitentiary to the stone pavement below and was killed. He was 19 years old and serving a 12-year sentence for robbery. The Homestake Mining Company has filed in the connty clerk's office at San

I Francisco a certificate of the increase of I its capital stock from $12,500,000 to $21,1 000,000. The company has mines in the Black Hills, South Dakota. Emil G. Etxold of Company G, Twentieth Kansas, writing from the Philippines, tells of Will Smart and Orville Spencer, two Company G boys from Independence, finding an iron box containing $3,500 in Spanish gold coin. The 400 coal miners working for the J. H. Durkee Coal Company at Weir City, Kan., who went on strike because it was supposed that Durkee was selling coal to one of the striking coal companies to fill their contracts, have returned to work. A terrific explosion occurred at the plant of the Xenia Fuse Manufacturing Company near Xenia, Ohio. Three persons were dangerously injured. The plant, which was part of the Aetna Powder Company of Chicago, is totally wrecked. Mrs. Blanche Davis of Kansas City has brought suit against her former husband, R. IL Davis, for SIO,OOO because he did not keep his promise to remarry her after he was divorced from her. Davis secured a divorce from his wife in the fall of 1897. City Marshal John Gates of Strong City, Kan., shot and almost instantly killed Mrs. Johnson on the Santa Fe platform there. He had ordered her off the platform, whereupon she attacked him with a knife, and to save his life the officer tired at lAr. Louis Billow, who was arrested in Eilenburg. Wash., is wanted for the murder of Jacob Hess of Lindsay, Ohio, on May 16, 18!M1. Billow was engaged to marry the daughter of Hess, but her parents opposed the match. Billow shot and killed the father.

The entire business portion of Fayette, Wis., was destroyed by tire. Andrews & Richards' general store, E. L. Worrell’s general store and postoffice, Mrs. C. Abraham's drug store and hotel, Dr. T. J. Buckley's office and several dwellings were among the buildings burned. Three laborers. Daniel Callahan, Michael Pevarieh and Andrew Polosky, were buried under 5,000 tons Of clay at theday pits of the Buckeye Sewer Pipe Company at Akron. Ohio, and killed. The cave-in occurred without warning. Fifty men worked three hours to reach the bodies. The largest individual subscriptions received for the St. Louis world's fair fund t<> date was announced by the Missouri Pacific Railroad, which gives $85,000 to the $5,000,(100 being raised. The Burlington system announces a subscription of $55,000. The subscriptions from the railroads terminating in St. Louis will probably exceed $(>00,000. Charles Shubert, a discharged soldier of the Twenty-second regular infantry, was shot in the back ami mortally wounded by Jesse McCarty in a saloon row over a game of cards at Fort Cook. Neb. McCarty fired the shot at John Reynolds, the saloonkeeper, but it went wide and struck Shubert.

The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton elevator in East Toledo, Ohio, was totally destroyed by tire and the loss on building and contents will be nearly sl,000,900. It is not known how much insurance is on the contents. 900,000 bushels of wheat, but the building carries $185,000 insurance. At Fort Wayne. Ind.. Sheriff Melehing ami Superintendent Gorsline arrested Mrs. Mattie Hasscnfuss and her son Otto on suspicion of having taken the life of Carl Westenfeldt, an aged retired farmer who made his home with Mrs. Hassenfuss. Chemist Brayer Jound the man's stomach tilled with arsenic. A large number of young- Poles who have been living in Kansas City. Kan., and gaining a livelihood by working as laborers in the packing houses have started to return to the fatherland in response to letters received from Poland. They have told their friends that they were going buck to join the army. Opposition to the woolen trust, known as the American Woolen Company, is the purpose of an important German concern that intends to establish a great woolen mill in Chicago within a year. Secrecy is maintained as to the name and home office of the corporation. A woolen mill has lieen planned for the concern will cost $600,000, It is the intention to manufacture worsted. Men's clothing and women’s cloaks, suits and skirts also will be made of the material.