Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

At St. Louis, Mo., a voluntary petition in bankruptcy was filed by John P. Herrmann, Jr. Liabilities $167,202; assets $32,311. At Columbus, Ohio, Miss Dessie Garrett was struck by a West Broad street car and injured so that she died Within an hour. Sjie was riding a bicycle. At a reunion of the Third Ohio cavalry at Toledo, nrrj* geroents were made for a grand reunion of the Army of the Cumberland, to be held in that city in 1902. At Pierre, S. D., Mrs. Jennie Weston drowned herself and her son Bertie, aged 4 years, in a cistern at the family home. Family troubles are supposed to be the cause of the tragedy. Albert Anderson, aged 21, was instantly killed near Allison, Mo., by Thomas Downing, aged 17. It is understood that a woman whom both admired was the cause of their difficulty. Bichard Prendergast of Chicago, former judge of the County Court, ex-trus-tee of the sanitary district and an eminent member of the bar, died at the Chicago Hospital, of anaemia. The farmhouse of John Marshall, near Fullersburg, ill., was raided by four men, who knocked Mr. Marshall down with a slungshot. bound and gagged him and his daughter, and made off with $6. “Kid” McCoy, aspirant for the heavyweight championship of the world, was knocked out in less than two minutes by Jack McCormack. the Philadelphia heavyweight, at the Star Theater in Chicago. Miss Viola Horlocker, charged with poisoning the wife of her employer at Hastings, Neb., is said to be a patient at Oaklawn Sanitarium, Jacksonville, 111., a private insane asylum, enrolled as Miss Allen. Harry Staiuinger, IT years of age, was instantly killed and Frank Murdoch, also 17 years old. utbytally wounded by Henry Bartholmus, Whose watermelon patch six iniles east of Ouray. Colo., they were raiding. The young son of George Alispauch, a prominent citizen of Toledo, Ohio, disap peared while the parents bad him at Monroe Piers. No trace of the child can be found and it is believed be was abducted. It is announced that representatives of the Burlington. Cedar Rapids ami Northern Railroad will purchase the right of way for an extension of that road from Worthington, Minn., to Canova. S. D., a distance of 125 miles. The record has been cleared to the land relinquished by the State on the Crow Creek Reservation in the eastern part of Hughes County, S. D., and the same is now open to settlement. This opens 18,000 acres in that district. A tire, supposed to be of incendiary origin, destroyed an entire block in the heart of Sidney, Neb. Three business houses, six residences ami as many barns were destroyed, at a loss of not less than $40,000, with no insurance. At Kansas City, contracts were closed for the sale to a syndicate of Eastern commission merchants of seventy car loads of eggs now in store at Topeka, Abilene and Concordia, Kan. The sellers will realize 16 cents a dozen. Six persons were drowned in the White river at Ileimsel ferry, twelve miles southeast of Washington, Ind. A ferryboat broke loose, Jlist as a wagoq was part way upon It, and wagon, horses and occupants were precipitated into the water. „The Newport. Ohio, police authorities are scouring that efty tor some trace of a'mysterious “jack the Slasher.” Foe

no apparent reason, a strange man attacked Mattie Block, a domestic, - and slashed her with a knife, inflicting four ghastly wounds. The explosion of a watchman’s lantern started a fire that destroyed $300,000 worth of property for the Bradley & Vrooman Company, A. B. Ansbacher & Co. and the Standard Varnish Co., all large paint houses, in Chicago. The schooner Hunter Savidge capsized in a squall on Lake Huron when off Point Aux Barques, Mich. Five persons were drowned. The schooner was without cargo and was caught in a squall, which threw her on her side. The boat ha ils from , Alpena. Eliza Day, colored, aged 60 years, a patient at the Columbus, Ohio, State hospital, died from peritonitis, and an autopsy revealed in her stomach the handles of five silver spoons and fifty cambric needles and in the bowels nearly fifty more needles. A head-end collision between Burlington flyer No. 3 and a fast freight occurred at Denton, Neb. Three men, names not learned, were injured, none fatally. The freight engine was broken to pieces, the passenger engine derailed and traffic on the main line blocked. Mrs. Frank Whitlock, who died at her home in Batavia township, Mich., was reputed to be the heaviest woman in the country. Her weight was 640 pounds. Her coffin is forty inches wide and twen-ty-seven inches deep. Mr. Whitlock was formerly a Chicago policeman. By the explosion of an altar lamp at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Toledo the building was destroyed and with it all the altars and statues. The flames were noticui too late to save any of the valuable material within the building. The loss is SIS,CX)O on the building. The general conference of Christian workers closed its seventeenth annual session at Northfield, after what is admitted to be the most successful series, of meetings in the Northfield movement. At the closing service D. L. Moody asked for an offering to help the prison fund. Torn Ryan, a cattleman, was shot and killed by Frank Coil, a young sheepman, fifteen miles southeast of Chadron, Neb. The affair is the result of a feud that has existed between the cattlemen and the sheepmen over priority of right on pasturage land. Coil gave himself up.

In Cincinnati St. Paul’s German Catholic Church was partly destroyed by fire. The parish school adjoining was damaged by falling debris when the dome fell. The church was being remodeled for its golden anniversary. The fire started from the supplies of the frescoers and painters. The three sons of Martin Winkle of Luckey, Ohio, were injured fatally at a lime kiln near Toledo by being caught in the machinery. The youngest, 6 years old, got too close to the machinery and was caught in the shafting. The other boys in attempting to rescue him met with similar fate. A big deal in the transfer of a line of grain elevators was consummated at Winona, Minn. It includes the sale by the National Elevator Company of its line of forty-two elevators along the line of the Great Northern and Milwaukee and St. Paul railways to the Van DusenHarrington Company of Minneapolis. As passenger train No. 1 on the Colorado and Southern was proceeding south between Folsom and Des Moines, Colo., train robbers attempted to hold up the train, but were frustrated. The conductor opened tire on the robbers. The bandits returned the fire and shot the express messenger, Fred Bartlett, through the left side of the face. Diver William Baldwin was killed near Tacoma, Wash., while trying to reach the sunken British ship Andelana, lying at the bottom of the harbor with eighteen of the crew. Death came to the daring submarine explorer when he was 150 feet below the surface of the water. Death was due to some accident to the pumping gear which supplies the air. Lumber deeds to property in St. Louis County, Minn., transferring from the Pillsburys of Minneapolis to Landen Choate of Oshkosh for the sum of $90,000, have been tiled. The property involved is in the northwest corner of St. Louis County, for the most part adjacent to Itasca County. Timber in this section of the county is usually boomed to Canadian mills at Rat Portage by way of Little Fork river and Rainy river. A man who gave his name as Thomas Spotwood, 60 years old. was arrested at Ardmore, I. T., and placed in the United States jail. He is believed to be Theophilus Freeman, wanted at Butler, Mo., where he was sentenced to be hanged otj Dec. 7, 18(19, for murder. A few days before the date of the execution he escaped from the jail. Sheriff Mudd of Bates County, Mo., is positive that the prisoner is Thomas Freeman. The prisoner admits having been in Bates County about that time, but denies that he is the person wanted.