Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Twenty street fair booths, worth $20,000, burned at Massillon, Ohio. The Kinsman Canning Company’s plant at Kinsman, Ohio, burned. Loss $5,000, insurance $2,500. Ten prisoners out of fourteen in jail at Nevada, Mo., escaped by digging their way through the wall. In Bt. Louis, an electric street car collided with a wagon load of school children, fatally injuring two and badly hurting four others. At Kansas City, Timothy Keefe, a laborer, died from wounds inflicted by Geo. P. Crehoe, who struck Keefe au the head with au iron bar. Rev. O. 11. Sproul, presiding elder of the Methodist Church for the Aberdeen district, died suddenly at Northville, S. D., while preaching. Wellington C. Lewellyti, accused of killing Police Officers Clifford and Griffiths in Denver, Colo., Aug. 13, was arrested at El Reno, O. I’. The plant of the Pelican mine at Chitwood Hollow, Mo., was entirely destroyed by fire. The Pelican is owned by Tvnyet- & Chandler of Chicago. W. T. Jamison and J. D. Arnold of TonkaWn, O. T\, shot and killed each other in a street fight. Jamison was a gambler and saloon man and Arnold a bote! proprietor. At Salt Lake, Heber J. Grant was arraigned on the charge of polygamy, to which he pleaded guilty. Judge Norrell ordered thut he pay a fine of SIOO, which he promptly did. Prof. Simon Newcomb of Johns Hopkins University was chosen president of the new Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America at its late session at Williams Bay, Wis. Andrew Carnegie has written a letter in which he says he will give Oakland, Cal., $50,000 for a public library building. provided the city will pay $4,000 a year to maintain the library. As a result of a collision between two electric street ears on Ontario street, Cleveland, six persons were seriously injured. Wet rails caused the accident. Both cars were badly wrecked. On board the steamer Hudson at Cincinnati, a steam pipe burst and scalded Secretary Jerry O’Shaughnessy, ex-Presi-dent Cook and Treasurer Rowe, members of the water works commission. A small riot took place iu South Brooklyn, a Cleveland suburb, in which two cars were derailed and bombarded with clubs and stones. Employes of the street railway company dispersed the rioters. Fire destroyed sixteen buijdings in Centralia. Mo., including the Merchants’ Hotel and O. G. Byram’s livery stable. Seventy horses were burned and all the buggies. The loss is estimated at $30,000. Final returns show that Pleasant Porter, the progressive candidate, has been elected president of the Creek Nation, I. T., by a majority of 1,000 votes, defeating ex-Chief Perryman and Second Chief Mclntosh. > M. Bcnard, the Parisian architect, has been awarded the first prize in the competition sponsored by Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, who offered prizes for the best plans for uew buildings for the University of California. While temporarily insane because of typhoid fever, Mrs. Marion Conrad, the wife of a Canton, Ohio, farmer, took a razor and hacked her throat from ear to

ear while looking into a mirror. Death was instantaneous. The old schooner America, which July 4 celebrated ber fiftieth anniversary, sunk in the middle of Lake Michigan. Her crew was taken off by the tug Prodigy. She was bound from Chicago to Grand Haven for a cargo of lee. Fire started by spontaneous combustion in the Turkish room of Andrew McNally’s handsome winter residence in Altadena. Cal. The caretaker extinguished the flames, with help of neighbors, after $5,000 damage had been done. Four masked men held up Southern Pacific train No. 10, west-bound, at Cochise station, Arizona, blew open Wells, Fargo & Co.’s through money safe with dynamite, took the treasure it contained and escaped to the mountains. A cloudburst in the western part of Sheridan County, Kansas, covered the prairie with water twelve inches deep, doing more or less damage. Two men named Chappell and Davis, who were traveling in a wagon, were killed by lightning. One of the worst storms in years swept over Wayne County, Ohio. Three barns were destroyed by lightning. In one of them there were four men. All were stunned and Clarence Rutt was killed. Great loss is reported by farmers generally. Secretary Woodbury of the Kansas City Live Stock Exchange denies the story that five prominent commission firms have been swindled out of $90,000 by persons who drove one herd of cattle from point to point, mortgaging it to the commission men. Dog-in-the-Pot, a member of the Bannock tribe of Indians, committed suicide at Virginia City, Mont., because of unrequited love. Dog-in-the-Pot was in love with Ramona, the belle of the Indian camp, and sought her hand in marriage. His offer was rejected. Fire was discovered in the rolling mills at the Shelby Tube Works at Shelby, T)hio. The tire originated from an overheated oven. The rolling mill is a total loss, as is also the piercing machine room, engine room and boiler room. The loss gauuot at present be estimated, 5 Two members of the Cincinnati tiro department and a child 4 years old were suffocated the other day. Monroe Dent, aged 4, fell into a vault in the rear of his father's house. Firemen Thomas Bland and Harry Heinsheimer went down a ladder to rescue him. The three were killed by gases in the vault. A. F. Dahronge, who claims to be a representative of the Turkish Government, was arraigned in court at Cincinnati on the charge of renting typewriters and selling them. The police indicate that the prisoner is acting as a spy for the Ottoman Government, with his efforts directed against some secret society in New York. In Cleveland, Ohio, William R. Morrison, 17 years old, said to be a member of the notorious "Nickel Plate gang,” was : shot and killed by Mrs. Mary Schwarz. Morrison was with a number of companions and had started a tight in Mrs. Schwarz's yard. Mrs. Schwarz told the police that the boys had been stealing her flowers. St. Xavier’s Girls’ Academy and Convent of Mercy of St. Columba Deanery, at Ottawa, ill,, together with a new $13,000 addition under construction, were destroyed by tire. Forty Sisters of Merry ami twenty boarding pupils escaped in their night clothes without accident. The loss on the buildings is $50,000 .and on contents $25,000. A shooting affray which occurred at Xaco, a small town on the International line, nine miles from Bisbee, Ariz., caused the death of one American cowboy and a Mexican guard, the wounding of several other persons and ultimately in the delivering over to the Mexican authorities of four American citizens, who will be tried for murder. Lightning struck among a gang of men on the grounds of the fair association at Camargo, 111., while the fair was in progress, and ten were thrown to the ground, two being instantly killed uud two fatally hurt. Many women were shocked and stunned. The bolt struck on the north end of the grand .stand, which was filled, just a short time previous. Nearly all of the killed and injured were young men and they were seated at supper when the bolt came.