Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

In a fight in a saloon in Omaha, Neb., Ed Joyce was instantly killed and Ed Callahan mortally wounded. Girls’ clubs in southern Kansas have resolved to wed men who served with Funston in the Philippines or remain single. A man giving the name of Thomas Hughes of Chicago, who claimed to have been shot by robbers, died at Mankato, Minn. The carriage trimmers of the Brown carriage works at Cincinnati have struck against a reduction of 15 per cent in wages. More than 150,000 bushels of wheat were burned in a tire which destroyed the Nickel Plate elevator at. Greenspring near Tiffin, Ohio. Andrew Carnegie has offered to give $50,000 for a public library in San Diego. Cal., if u site be donated and the library maintained as at present. Will Deitrick fell from a Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton freight he was stealing a ride on north of Lima, Ohio, and was ground io- pieces. The town of Kale, O. T„ having a population- of SOO, was destroyed by tire. Henry Johnson and Richard’ Salms were burned to death. The loss is $30,000. Senator J. B. Foraker was notified by telegraph of the death of his aged mother at Hillsboro, Ohio. Mrs. Foraker had been seriously ill for the past three months. At Springfield, Ohio. Mitchell Post, G. A. It., voted not to attend the next national encampment in PhNadelphia on account of trouble over stop-over privileges with railroads. The child of Mrs. Augustus Hageman, 30 mouths old, was kidnaped at South Bend, Ind., by a girl, and it is thought she is in possession of a gypsy band that recently passed through there. The store of Hoyt, Kent, Sefton & Co. at Cleveland has been placed in the hands of a receiver on application of H. H. Hoyt, who charges other members of the company with mismanagement. Three thousand five hundred brickmakers went on a strike in Chicago, nearly every brickyard in Cook County being shut down, with the resultant prospect of tying up building operations indefinitely. "Louis Billow, who is under arrest at Ellensburg, Wash., for murder, has confessed that because Miss Hess of Fremont, Ohio, refused to marry him he blew up her house with dynamite and shot her father dead. Elizabeth Collins, colored, tried to steal Hilda Fowler, the 6-year-old daughter of Charles Fowler, in. Chicago. She was roughly handled by a crowd of enraged people. This attempt waWhe fourth she had made within an hour. While at Parish’s home in Lima, Ohio, Hany Huffman pulled a revolver and

told Ed Pariah that he would show him how to kill Mexicans, The pistol was discharged and the bullet entered Parish’s breast, killing him. Huffman was arrested. A railroad to connect the Northern Ohio Railway at Copley and the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling at Warwick with Barberton is to be built by a company being formed by O. C. Barber and J. K. Robinson of the Diamond Match Company. The famous Mariposa estate, territorially one of the largest gold mining properties in the United States, and the first quartz property developed in California, is to be reopened and worked after a suspension of operations for nearly thirty-five years. Fire destroyed the palatial residence of Mrs. Mary Hayes-Chineweth at Edenvale, San Jose, Cal. Loss $175,000, insurance $75,000. A second fire destroyed the fruit warehouse of J. B. Inderreiden & Co. of Chicago, causing a loss of $40,000, insurance $25,000. W. A. Thayer, the balloonist from Collins, Mich., was killed in sight of many persons at Streator, 111. He fell from the parachute when the balloon was up 200 feet, landing on his back on the railroad track. His back, neck, both legs and both arms were broken. As the congregation was leaving the Methodist Church at the close of a session of the Pine Bluff district conference, held in Grant County, Ark., an unknown assassin fired a load of buckshot into Van H. \Villiams, inflicting fatal wounds. No cause is known for the crime. Charles L. Taylor and Johq M. Fulton of Reno, Nev., have bought from Samuel Hunt, Orin Bennett aryl S. D. Thacker the largest antimony mine in the United States, there being over 20,000,000 pounds of high-grade ore in sight. The mine is in Humboldt County, Nev. “Honest" John Salisbury, a former member of the Board of City Aidermen at Kansas City and for many years a prominent live stock commission man, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a pocketknife. He had been mentally unbalanced for several months. Ten men were badly injured and a large number of others bruised and cut in a collision between a work train on the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad and a shifting engine near Mingo junction, O. Both engines were demolished. The accident was caused by a misplaced switch. At Carmi, 111., Mrs. George Crabtree, 16 years old, confessed to having put poison in coffee with deliberate intent to murder her stepmother and father, Walter 8. Warthen. The result of the act was that her brother was killed and her parents and a neighbor were made deathly sick. Robert Miller, aged 50, residing near Centerville, Ohio, tried to kill himself by cutting his throat and then setting his bed on fire. Miller would have died soon, but his family rescued him. and. by the aid of a physician, may save his life. He is. a wealthy farmer, and gave no reason for the rash act. The ore handlers’ strike on the M. A. Hanna dock at Ashtabula, Ohio, is settled, and the men have returned to work. The men gained every point they demanded. An arbitration committee of three persons was appointed, which will engage and discharge all employes and settle all differences. Mourned as dead for fiye days and as many nights. Jesse Castle, a boy aged 8, has returned to his borne in Columbus, Ohio. During all the time that his grandmother, with whom he lived, mourned him as dead, the child was the prisoner of some colored man in the vicinity of Gahanna and Delaware. The aged wife of John Pritzke was found dead at her home in North Little Rock, Ark. The body was horribly mutilated, having been chopped to pieces with an ax. Near the body sat John Pritzke, the husband, in a dying condition from wounds inflicted with an ax. The* house had been robbed. Harry W. Fontaine embezzled money from Dreyfuss & Co. at Denver, and shortly after the discovery of his crime committed suicide by taking morphine. About fifteen years ago Fontaine lost $15,000 at roulette and on the Chicago Board of Trade. His father hnd been a wealthy liquor dealer of Toledo. Three people ended their lives in the Ohio river in front of Evansville, Ind. They are: August Mattingly, 17 years of age; Miss Pearl Cheaney, 14 years of age. and Miss Marion Onan, 20, of Henderson, Ky. The young people were caught in the rapids in front of the mail line wharfboat and their skiff capsized. A light engine going west on the Union Pacific collided with an overland passenger train one and one-quarter miles west of Walcott, Wyo. Fireman Koneld was killed. Engineer Walter Marsh of No. 4, a resident of Laramie, was fatally'injured, dying a few minutes after beipg picked up. Both engines and mail cars were demolished. The main line of the Baltimore and Ohio was completely blockaded the other day by a. tunnel just west of Cambridge, Ohio, caving in. The cave-in occurred about twenty minutes after the regular west-bound passenger had passed The track inspector who discovered the accident had just time enough to stop a special and save it from destruction. The tunnel is 700 feet long and at least half of it was blockaded. All trains were run over the Cleveland and Marietta Railway.