Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Gov. Leslie M. Shaw was renominated by the lowa State convention at Des Moines. Henry Dodson, a young farmer near Gratiot, Ohio, was killed by lightning in an open field. Albert Berg, Secretary of the State of Minnesota, and Mrs. Lillian Daly were married at St. Paul. Mrs. Benjamin Grosscup, mother of Judge Grosscup of Chicago, died at Ashland, Ohio, aged 78. The will of Lloyd Tevis, filed in San Francisco, leaves the entire estate of SIS,OW,<AIO to the widow. Fire at Mexico, Mo., damaged Mart Wise's dry goods house $15,000. The insurance is placed at SIO,OOO. Rev. J. 11. Bomberger of Columbiana, Ohio, has declined the presidency of Heidelberg' University at Tiffin, Ohio. Clyde Jones, alias Clyde Johnson, the abduJtor of Miss Nellie Berger of Seymour, was captured near Freetown, Ind. Rev. George W. Pepper, the widely known army chaplain, minister, public speaker and ixditieian, died at Cleveland. He was '66 years old. John Schlenber, a jealous teamster of Cleveland, shot his wife four times and then sent a bullet through his heart. The woman died an hour later. The Republicans of the Eighth Missouri congressional district in convention at Jefferson City nominated J. W. Voshall for Congress by acclamation. Chaplain W. H. Milburn of the United States Senate was suustruck while delivering a lecture before the Epworth League assembly at Lincoln, Neb. Walter Cavanaugh and John Wilson, San Francisco, quarreled over the former's sister, with whom Wilson had been living. Cavanaugh was shot and killed. July freight traffic through the Soo canal at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., exceeded 4.000.0tM> tons, smashing all previous records, and surprising every one by its magnitude. , A. Sutherland, a merchant, was shot and instantly killed at Ardmore, 1. T., by E. W. Fairman. Fairman, who in under arrest, claims Sutherland slandered Mrs. Fairman. Judge Dorsey W. Shackelford of Booneville has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Eighth Missouri district, to succeed the late Richard P. Bland. I Rioters resumed their disturbances at Cleveland by blowing up a car with nitroglycerin in Jennings avenue. None of the passengers was injured. The car was badly damaged. The Continental Match Company’s factory at Detroit, owned chiefly by Edwin GouU of New York, has been closed. It has. It ia stated, been transferred to the Diamond Match Company. Dr. C W Adams, who was one of the founders of tha University Medical Col-

dean of the faculty, died on the street from an overdose of chloral. Robert Law, a young farmer near Yankton, 8. D„ attempted suicide by hanging. His sister Ellen found him hanging from a limb, apparently dead. She ent him down and he will recover. James H. Turple, one of the bestknown residents of Lafayette, Ind., committed suicide by plunging headforemost from the third-story window of the Hotel Lahr. There is no known reason for the act. Clay H. Stinnett, one of the Indian Territory’s most prominent citizens, was shot and instantly killed near Ardmore while attempting to separate two men who were fighting. Bender Henson, the slayer, made his escape. At Deadwood, S. D„ the Detroit and Deadwood Mining Company struck gold ore averaging $32 a ton, which makes the second good strike in a month. This company is owned by New York, Chicago and Detroit people. Karl Kristensen and Mrs. Mary Terry, alias Mrs. Kristensen, alias Nellie Brown, have been arrested in San Francisco for passing counterfeit silver money. A complete counterfeiter’s outfit was found in their rooms. During a dance at Wellsville, Ohio, the floor of the room gave way and 200 persons were precipitated into the cellar, a distance of twelve feet. Many persons were injured, several had bones broken, but no one was fatally hurt. The products of the mineral industries of Kansas for 1898 amounted to more than $7,000,000. The figures making this wonderful exhibit will soon be published in the annual report of Prof. E. Haworth of the Kansas University. Because her 16-year-old daughter Ruth Swarts had loved unwisely, Mrs. Catherine Wise of Greentown, Ohio, cut her throat while she was steeping, and then committed suicide by jumping into a pool of water in an abandoned stone quarry. During a heavy thunderstorm the Pittsburg towboat Advance, which had undergone extensive repairs at Middleport docks, Pomeroy, Ohio, was struck by lightning and consumed by fire. The crew of five escaped with great difficulty. The business portion of the village of Minto, N. D., was wiped out by fire. Twenty-three buildings, all frame structures, were burned. Two banks and store buildings escaped destruction. The Ipss will exceed SIOO,OOO, with $40,000 insurance.

A mammoth new wire mill is being built at Cuyahoga Falls, 0., incorporated as the E. A. Henry Wire Co. The plant, which will commence operations inside of a month, will have a capacity of twenty tons per day and is designed to tight the wire trust. The United Supreme Council Thirtythird Degree Colored Scottish Rite Masons began their thirtieth annual meeting in Cleveland. The Imperial Grand Council of the Ancient Arabic Order of Mystic 'Shriners will assemble there Wednesday. The cellar beneath the former American National Bank at Lima, Ohiq, robbed of over SIB,OOO last Christmas, has been searched by several officers of the former bank, but the cash was not found. The cellar was searched by Pinkertons at the time of the robbery. Official - figures show Kansas is making a steady, healthy advance in population. The enumerating made by assessors for March, 1899, compiled by the State Board of Agriculture, gives a total of 1,425,112 inhabitants, which is a net increase over 1898 of 34,143, or 2.5 per cent. . . E. M. East, an aeronaut, made an ascension at Walker, Minn. The wind blew him into the south arm of Leech lake. A steamer went out after him, but failed to find him. It is supposed that the parachute did not work and in attempting to cut himself loose he became excited ami fell into the lake. At Colorado Springs, Colo.. William Borden shot and fatally wounded Miss Mal>el McKenna because she refused to marry him. Several hours afterward the police searching for Borden came upon his dead body near where he had attempted to kill his sweetheart. He had shot himself through the head. A north-bound passenger train on the St. Paul and Omaha road was wrecked at Tekamah, Neb. A switch had been left open and the train collided with a gravel train standing on the side track. E. C. Olesen of Sioux City, fireman of the gravel train, was fatally injured and two traveling men were slightly hurt. So bountiful are the crops in the West that farmers have been unable to get help enough to harvest them. In Nebraska farmers offered $2 a day for farm hands, and could not get them, and reports from the wheat fields of South Dakota tell of the demand for men, which was also quite as great in western lowa. Walter Carr, a painter, was drowned in Lake Michigan off Jackson Park, Chicago, while two companions, Samuel Dingman and William Johnson, were rescued by the life-saving crew. The men were fishing from a small boat when Johnson and Diugmau attempted to change plant's, with the result that the boat was upset. Prof. J.. S. Lowe of Ashtabula, T. S. Clymonts of Cleveland and S. F. Higley of Geneva, members of the Northeastern Ohio Grape Association, have completed their inspection of a large number of vineyards in the lake shore grape belt. They find that grapes nre almost totally destroyed by dry rot. entailing a loss of nearly $1,000,1X10.