Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The tug Red Cloud of Lorain was wrecked off Cedar Point, Ohio. Three lives were lost.

Black Hawk, the most noted of the chiefs of the Wisconsin Winnebago Indians, died in the town of Brockway, Wis., aged 90 years. Richard Kessee, in jail at Springfield, Mo., under sentence of death for killing Dave Shelby at Marshfield, committed suicide by taking morphine. Samuel Merrill, ex-Governor of lowa, died at Los Angeles, as the result of a paralytic stroke w%?cb occurred several days ago. He was 77 years old. Joseph Dunn, wanted for postoffice robberies in Ohio, and one of the five men who broke jail in Toledo three months ago, -has been captured at Port Huron, Mich.

A small sailboat containing six persons was capsized near the mouth of the river at Toledo, Ohio, and Charles Lawrence, a 3-year-old son of J. H. Lawrence, was drowned.

The University of California will erect a monument on the college campus to the collegians who died at the front in the late war after having abandoned their studies there to enlist ns volunteers.

Harry Harmon dived backward from the Eads bridge at St. Louis,, dropping ninety feet, and suffered no injury.' Harmon was attired in complete street dress, except coat and bat, when he dived. The body of a man supposed to be L. L. Applegate of Cincinnati, was found in the woods near Blandon, Mo. A halfemptied bottle of morphine seemed, to indicate that Applegate had committed suicide.

Joseph Martin, a Im If-breed Indian, living twenty miles southeast of Coffeyville, Kan., kicked his 14-year-old sister to death to prevent her marrying Albert Ball, to whom he objected. Martin escaped. Eighty men were out all the other night fighting the forest fire south of Englewood. 8. D. At sunset the wind abated nnd the town was saved from destruction. The fire burned all the timber on Custer peak. A. A. Graham, long a Lake Michigan navigator, resident of Chicago, has returned to Seattle from Atlin, Alaska. He is one of the heaviest American operators in that camp, having acquired thirtyfive claims.

Lieut. Maceo, son of the dead Cuban general, was refused admission to a public dining room in a Spokane hotel on account of his color, when he threatened to kill the waiter and war arrested and fined in a police court. Gov. Bushnell of Ohio, in behalf of the citizens of Marietta, presented ■ silver service to the gunboat Marietta at the Charlestown navy yard. Gov. Bushnell was accompanied by a delegation of Marietta citizens. A fire at Ballard, Wash., destroyed the plant of the Bay Lumber and Shingle Company, the public school building and a small dwelling. The total loss is estimated at $60,000, of which $50,000 falls on the mill company. At Peru, Ind.j Mrs. Edith Quick and brother-in-lnw, Henry Quick, were discharged at a preliminary trial on the charge of murder. At the close of the argument Jus tee Fulwiler declared the evidence was insufficient. The second attempt of prisoners to break out of the Toledo jail in three months owwrred the other'day, and five United States prisoners were nearly out

of tbe building when caught They had uaed saws to effect an escape. T. V. Robins, late of St Joseph, Mo., is in jail at Pond Creek, Ok., charged with attempted murder. He shot his wife four times because she refused to sign a deed unless he would give her part of the proceeds of the transfer. The famous “Carr Strike” mine at Custer, 8. D., has been sold to W. Treweek and other Homestake people, who will bond and exploit it. The mine was discovered in May by Charles Carr, and the ore averages $1,360 gold per ton. Rev. William Johnston, former pastor of the African Baptist Church of Maryville, Mo., and evangelist of the Colored Baptist Church of Kanias and Missouri*, was killed by Officer John Wallace while resisting an attempt to take him to jail. By the explosion of an oxygen tank in the Chicago Calcium Light Company’s machine room in that city, Frank Hopkins was fatally burned and Howard McClenethan, engineer of the company, received fatal injuries by burns and bruises. Two masked men walked into Harry Green’s gambling “game” on the second floor of a block in thA very, heart of the business district at Spokane, Wash., and held up fifteen men, looted the tills and safe and escaped with $1,600 in cash and bills.

Eight persons were injured at Lorain, Ohio, as a result of a head-on collision between two riiotor cars on the Lorain and Elyria electric line during a dense fog. The front half of each car was demolished. None of the injured was fatally hurt. The boiler in Chapman & Sargent’s bowl factory at Copemish, Mich., exploded, killing three men and fatally injuring four others. The building was totally wrecked, debris being scattered for eighty rods around. The loss to the factory will be $5,000. The barkentine Gardiner City has arrived at San Francisco from Bristol Bay, Bering Sea, with 5,025 barrels of salmon. She and the barkentine Willie R. Hume report that the run of fish at Bristol Bay this season has never been exceeded in the past. At Garnet, Kan., Harry Winans was killed by the explosion of a gas tank used in connection with a kinetoscope. His father, H. K. Winans, was burned from face to feet and will probably die, and his brother Don was bruised and burned slightly. The 2-ycar-old daughter of Louis Gilbert of St. Paul met with a peculiar death. She was playing with a bean pod in her mouth when it slipped down and lodged in her windpipe. A physician was instantly called, but before his arrival the child died.

Dr. T. A. McCann of Dayton, Ohio, performed a wonderful surgical feat. He located a horseshoe nail in the windpipe of a boy by the X-ray process, and then extracted the nail by means of a powerful magnet. The boy is Clarence Grady of Indianapolis. At Salt Lake. Utah, a carpenter named Van Guilder gave his two children, a boy and a girl, heavy doses of morphine, then shot the girl through the head, killing her instantly. He afterward shot the boy through the head, probably fatally, and then killed himself.

E. J. Riekes, 37 years old, of Kansas City, who, it is said, holds a responsible, place under Swift & Co. in that city, was taken to Bellevue hospital, New York, violently insane. He had been visiting friends in Maine and was on his way to Dutchess County, New York. The Gillette-Herzog Company of Minneapolis has secured a contract for the construction of a $35,000 all steel sugar mill, to be delivered at Honolulu within five months. A sugar cane crushing plant is already under construction by the same company for another Hawaiian firm. A suit has been filed in the District Court at Omaha. Neb., by Attorney General Smythe, the petition of which declares the existence of a school furniture trust, and asks that the unlawful combination be prohibited from doing business in Douglas County or in the State of Nebraska. Recently a party of boys ranging in age from 18 to- 20 years left Toledo to see the country and they decided to rough it, depending on beating their way on the trains. Four of them jumped from a fast flying Baltimore and Ohio train at Akron and all were injured, Abraham Klein dying. Masked robbers invaded the home of Robert June, a cattleman living south of Hope, Kan., and secured $2,100, which June had just received as the proceeds of his year’s herd of cattle. June and his family were intimidated with shotguns while the house was searched. The robbers escaped. Fire in the big plant of the Jacob Dold Packing Company at Kansas City burned through the engine room of the fertilizing department into the lard room and the main plant. A large section of the plant was destroyed. The plant was valued at over $500,000 and it is estimated that $250,000 damage was done.

The east-bound fast mail train on the Walaish line crashed into the rear end of a freight train near Birmingham, Mo. The fast mail locomotive and three cars of the freight train were demolished. Fireman Bert Gallagher of Kansas City was probably fatally injured and Porter Bert Cooper was slightly injured. No passenger was injured.