Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Penfield township. Ohio, was visited by an earthquake. Robert J. Burdette w T as stricken with vertigo while lecturing before n Hnnford, Cal., audience. Judge Melnncthon Wade Oliver of Cincinnati died suddenly at Twin Lakes, Wis. He wns 75 years old. California health authorities are considering the question of establishing a quarantine against consumptives. The Calistoga and Lakeport stage wns held up near Napa, Cal., by a solitary highwayman, who made off with the express box. The first frost of the season damaged corn, late potatoes, buckwheat and tender vegetables in sections of Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. At Guthrie, O. T., the lowa Indians have been holding a pony smoke and dance. Eight hundred Indians danced nightly in gorgeous rnjment. In a pitched battle between negro and white miners, fought in the main street of Carterville, 111., seven of the colored men were killed and two others wounded. At 3:30 o’clock the other morning the safe of the bank at Davenport, N. D., silver and a number of valuable papers was blown open by burglars and S2OO in taken. The projectors of the. new Madison Hotel at Toledo, Ohio, which is to be one of the largest in the West, have announced that the plans include free automobile service. Abraham Dahrouge, a Syrian, iu jail at Cincinnati, said he knew of a plot to kill the Sultan of Turkey; that the chief conspirators had been in Cincinnati, and later in Indianapolis. Michael Owens and Richard Conroy, marines of the cruiser Philadelphia, have died from the effects of drinking wood nlcohol at Vallejo, Cal. Both men enlisted at Mure Island. Gen. R. A. Alger has given out aHetter written by himself in New York Sept. 8, in which he announces his withdrawal from the candidacy for United States Senator from Michigan. Ex-Mayor William G. Rose of Cleveland died at his home there, aged 72 years. Mr. Rose had been ill for about three months. The primary cause of death was rheumatic gout. At St. Louis, Mo., John O. Dickey, a clerk in the Burlington Railroad office, fell twenty feet from the Holman .cycle path bridge while riding a wheel and choked to death in the mud. A large aerolite fell near Sycamore, Ohio. It weighed over 500 pounds and burst into many pieces. The light of the meteor was blinding and its roar in passing through the air was deafening. At Martin’s Ferry, Ohio, Joseph J. Gill of Steubenville wns nominated for Congress by the Sixteenth congressional district Republican convention on the two hundred and ninety-ninth ballot. Charles Alfred Pillsbury, one of the leading men of the Northwest and conspicuous as one of the founders of the flouring mills center in Minneapolis, is dead of enlargement of the stomach. A Toledo wheel manufactory is filling an order for five bicycles for the children of the King of Siam. It is the largest order for wheels to be ridden by persons of royal birth ever received in America. A north bound passenger train on the Southern Pacific Railroad ran into the rear end of the Porterville accommodation train at Formosa, Cal. Three women were killed and three men seriously hurt. On account of the quarantine regula- . -

tioß* neither mall nor passengers were permitted to be landed from the steamer Coptic at San Francisco. The Coptic made the trip from Yokohama in fifteen days. Fire started at Lincoln, Neb., in the Jacob North printing bouse, a three-story building, contaming an immense amount of printing machinery and the home of many publications. The North building was completely destroyed. J. N. Waldron, an enlisted man of Company E, Thirty-fifth infantry. U. 8. V., committed suicide at the Hotel Columbia, Vancouver, Wash., by taking poison. He left a letter, requesting that E. F. Pnlley, Stone Fort, 111., be notified. There was a big wreck on the Great Northern four miles west of Harlem, Mont. A passenger train was derailed from seme unknown cause, the engine, tender, baggage and mail cars and two conches leaving the track. SevefTpersons were injured. A nitroglycerin magazine of the Hercules Torpedo Company, three miles southwest of Lima, Ohio, exploded. The building was blown to atoms. One man was found some distance away in the woods, unconscious. It is uot known what caused the explosion. As a result of domestic difficulty, Mrs. liarne Phillips of Scotia, Neb., forced her two children, aged 1 and 2 years, to take carbolic acid and then swallowed a dose of the poison herself. The husband found all three lying upon the floor dead when he returned from the field, where he had been at work. Fire which started in the basement kitchen of Seaver’s bakery, at 8(5 State street, Chicago, spread into the Economical drug store and for a time threatened the complete destruction of the entire Burden bloc|t, the first floor of which is occupied by these concerns. The flames caused damage estimated at $50,000. At .the Columbus, Ohio, penitentiary Rev. G. F. B. Howard was compelled to bend over a box while a lusty guard vigorously applied a hickory paddle. Howard was lately returned to the penitentiary, from which be escaped Sept. 12, 1894. He was captured at Horton, Mich., where he was pastor of the leading congregation of that village. Practically an entire block of buildings was destroyed by fire at Los Angeles, Cal. The losers are the Los Angeles Farming nnd Milling Company, the Perry Mill and Lumber Company and J. R. Holbrook, dealer in iron pipe and well casings. Three men were injured in the fire, two of them probably fatally. The property loss will reach $250,000. Three men were killed and twenty freight cars destroyed at Paul, a small station on the Missouri Facifie Railroad eight miles south of Nebraska City, Neb. Freight train No. 124, running very fast to make Julian as a siding point, crashed through a bridge two miles south of Paul. The twenty ears piled on top of the engine, nnd the wreck caught fire. Eight women were seriously hurt, one perhaps fatally, in a cable car accident on the Twelfth street linei.of the Metropolitan street railway system at Kansas City. It was on the “incline,” by which the cars descend the west bluff to the union depot. A drunken man fell off a car, and it was stopped to pick him up. Another train crashed down the grade and telescoped it. B. R. Banning, a Hawaiian capitalist, arrived from Honolulu and registered at the Occidental, San Francisco. Among his effects was a valise containing, it is said, between $30,000 and $50,000 in bank notes, bonds and sugar stocks. A few hours after his arrival he missed the valise. It is thought that Mr. Banning’s property was sent on board the Nippon Maru by mistake and is now on its way back to Honolulu.