Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Ex-Judge William M. Zearing of Chicago died at Mackinac Island, aged 75. Frederick W. Niblock, Pasadena, Cal., died of hemorrhage of the lungs, aged 29. Lillian Lewis, an actress of national reputation, died at Farmington, Minn., of consumption. Fire caused by an explosion of a gasoline stove destroyed fifteen buildings, comprising the main portion of Cass Lake, Minn. George W. Blazer, superintendent of the Elizabeth, Colo., public schools, was shot and instantly killed on the street. The murderer escaped. Fields of wheat in Cuss and Traill countiek, N. D., were devastated by a severe storm of wind and hail. The loss ia from 40 to 50 per cent. At Cleveland, explosives were again resorted to on the Euclid avenue line. The car was bound east. There were twentyfive passengers on board, but no one was injured. At Bowling Green, Ohio, the jury in the case of John Zeltner, on trial for the murder of Attorney Westenhaver, brought in a verdict of guilty of manslaughter. Albert Beers shot and killed Daniel Lininger at Toledo while the latter was in company with Beers’ wife. Lininger had been warned to stay away from Beers’ bouse. A liberal rainfall extended over southern Kansas and Oklahoma. For several days there had been very hot weather, but no hot winds, and corn is in perfect condition. Crazed by jealousy, Henry Marks placed a dynamite bomb under the home of his girl’s parents at Guthrie, O. T. The house was demolished. Walter Steubens was killed and the young woman fatally hurt. Two police officers were murdered at Denver by a recruit belonging to Company L, Thirty-fourth Volunteer Infantry, now staioned at Fort Logan. The officers were shadowing the soldier and two companions. At La Crosse, Wis., fire broke out in the two-story building corner Pearl and Front streets, occupied by Davis, Sorenson & Co., manufacturers of bar fixtures and office furniture. It was totally destroyed. Loss, 850,000. The C. E. Ingalls creameries in northwest Nebraska are all attached and closed by numerous creditors. Ingalls was born at Woodstock. 111., and came from Guilford and Galena. His family bought tickets for Dubuque, lowa. Three powder mills connected with the plant of the Aetna Powder Company, near Aetna, Ind., blew up. The explosion was caused by a fire igniting a quantity of dynamite in process of manufacture. The loss was about 85,000. Gus McKennie, a prominent and wealthy cotton compressor of Gainesville, Texas, who with his wife had been stopping at Manitou, Colo., was instantly killed by a colored waiter, George A. McCormick, at the Barker House. During the progress of a ball game at Felicity, Ohio, Clay Larkin struck Chas. Schock of Neville on the hea<F with a baseball bat. Schock wgs rendered unconscious and died. He had been a merchant at Neville for twenty years. The Injunction proceedings brought against the city of Toledo to prevent the payment of $3,000 appropriated for a junket to the meeting of the League of American Municipalities has bad the de-

i aired effect and Toledo will not be represented. The coroner's jury at Omaha placed the blame for the electrocution of four firemen at the Mercer Chemical Company’s fire on Aug. 9 on the ThomsonHouston Electric Light Company and the city electrician, charging criminal negligence. Chicago will soon have another improvement added to its mail service. A plan has been adopted by the Postoffice Department for the registration of mail by the letter carriers at the doors of persons living in the residential sections of large cities. W. T. Coleman, an ensign on the battleship lowa, who was to have been court-martialed at San Francisco on a charge of having been intoxicated at the Puget Sound naval station, attempted suicide by shooting with a navy revolver. He will recover. L. Walker of Poland, Ohio, filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy. Walker is the man through whom President McKinley met with monetary difficulties several years ago. He admits liabilities to the amount of SIO,OOO and avers that he is without assets. Thoburn Gibson has discovered an ore deposit upon the lands of Jesse Spalding, between Crystal Falls, Minn., and Amasa, that shows up to be 600 feet long and averages thirty feet wide. The ore assays 64.40 in iron nnd .08 in phos. The find is worth $50,000. Six firemen were injured at a fire which broke out in the restaurant of Star & Owen, near the corner of Sixth and Market streets, San Francisco. The roof of the building fell in and several of the firemen were buried beneath the debris. All are expected to survive. Mrs. Clara Baldwin of Irvington, Ind., with strychnine introduced into the food eaten at dinner poisoned her husband, her son James, 18 years old, and her daughter Mary, 15 years old. Mrs. Baldwin went to an upper room and shot herself through the head, dying instantly. The strike of the employes of the American Smelting and Refining Company’s plants in Colorado was declared off at a meeting of the smelter men’s union in Denver. It is thought it is but a question of a short time until all the plants in Colorado will be going at full blast. Emile Swarbeau was riding a bicycle on the streets at Muncie, Ind., when the pneumatic tire in the rear wheel exploded, throwing the rider several feet into the air. He"was dashed to the sidewalk and rendered unconscious. The rider was found to be in a dying condition. Fire, which broke out in the paint department of the Cleveland Stone Company’s plant at Berea, Ohio, destroyed a number of buildings filled with valuable machinery and a large quantity of lumber, all owned by the stone company. The loss is estimated at upward of SIOO,000, insurance unknown. The National Hay Association wound up its session at Detroit with the election of the following officers: President, James W. Sale, Bluffton, Ind.; first vicepresident, John D. Carscallon, Jersey City; secretary and treasurer, F. F. Collins, Cincinnati. Baltimore was chosen as the next place of meeting. William T. Caple, a non-union motorman of the Big Consolidated Company at Cleveland, fired two shots at William Little, a teamster, both bullets taking effect. In return Little picked up a hatchet lying in his wagon and hurled It at Caple, striking the motorman in the head and making a frightful wound. Several of the unsigned national bank notes of the First National Bank of Portland, Ore., taken by the Union Pacific robbers in June, are in circulation, being of $lO, S2O and SSO denominations. Some have appeared at Chadron, Neb., and it is held by legal authorities that these bank notes are legal and must be redeemed.

C. T. Hobart, chief engineer of the Columbus, Lima and Milwaukee Railroad, brother of Vice-President Hobart, was fatally injured at Gomer, Ohio. Mr. Hobart attempted to pass between a big crane at the Watkins elevator and the railroad track when a construction train passed and squeezed him. His hip was crushed and he was internally injured. Robert Shatto, aged 17, met a horrible death at Columbus, Ind. He was working in a hopper-shaped wheat bin at Griffith's elevator. His legs became submerged in the wheat, and, drawn by rhe suction of receding wheat, he was unable to extricate himself. He was covered by 400 bushels of wheat, from which it required an hour to recover the body. Workmen repairing the high school building at Arapahoe, Neb., brought to light a double tragedy. In one of the rooms was found the body of James Bloodworth. Lying partly across the body was that of Miss Grace Cooper. Both had been shot through the temple. Bloodworth was 21 and Miss Cooper was 15. They had been keeping company for some time, to which the parents of the girl objected.