Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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J. B. Ballintine is dead at Stanley Basin, Idaho. Joseph Opclt, a well-known hotel man of Lincoln, Neb., died at Omaha. Col. S. A. Sawyer, a well-known financier and stockman, is dead at Manhattan, Kan. At Vacaville, Cal., by the explosion of a soda fountain in a bakery, lvarl Andler, an employe, was killed. Dr. George A. Hendricks, professor of anatomy in the. University of Minnesota, died of acute Bright's disease. Reuben Hale of Canton, Ohio, committed suicide by sliootiug. Trouble with his wife caused him to commit the deed. William Kennedy, a member of the San Francisco fire department, was shot and killed by Warren Main. Both were intoxicated. J. D. Ileimhoffer of Findlay has sold his oil property in Wood County, Ohio, to the Northern Oil Company of Cleveland for SBO,OOO. The Culpeppei-Siiaunon College building at Lebanon. Mo., that was built at a cost of $75,0U0, burned. The fire caught from u defective Hue. One man was killed and four others were injured in a wreck between two Lake Shore passenger trains at Fourteenth street, Chicago. S. B. Drumgold, a ticket agent on the Metropolitan , Elevated Railway in Chicago, was robbed of S4O by three unknown men the other night. The Duluth-Superior Elevator Company lias leased for one year all the elevators of the United States Flour Milling Company at the head of the lake. Nebraska Republicans, in convention at Omaha, nominated M. B. Reese for Supreme judge and E. G. McGilton and Dr. William B. Ely for university regenls. Two hundred journeymen -tailors went on .strike ut Detroit because their demand lor a 10 per Cent raise in prices on all garments had not been complied with. Four men were killed and three seriously injured in a rcar-eud collision between two freight trains on the bridge across the Des Moiues river uear Windom, Minn. Judge Lochren in the United States District Court at Minneapolis, practically held the State law prohibiting the sale of oleomargarine colored to imitate butter to be unconstitutional. At Terre Haute, liid.. Miss Laura Boldt, 22 years old, was burned to death by the explosion of a gasoline 6tove. All her clothes, even to her shoes, and most of her tlesh. were burned off. An electric car tilled with passengers and running at h high rate of speed, jumped the track at Prince’s curve, one mile from Carthage. Mo., turniug over on its top. Twenty persons were injured. A Wade Park avenue car was blown up at Cleveland with dynamite. The car was hurled from the tracks, the front wheels and truck being shattered. The motormau and two passengers escaped injury. Charles N. Whitman, a millionaire breeder of Hereford cattle, with farms in Kansas and a 250,000-acre ranch in Texas, is dead at his home in Denver, of a disease of the stomach. He was 40 years old. The Nevada Supreme Court has rendered a decision in the governorship contest. By the decision Ueinhold Sadler, the silverite, wins the case by gixty plurality, an increase of forty votes over the original count. Six passengers were killed and .five Injured in a collision on the Denver und Bio Grande Railroad a half-mile we*t of Florence, Colo. The Phillips-Judson ex-

carrion train from the eatt ran iato an east-bound freight. • * At Ashtabula, Ohio, the men employed by Barry Bros., in wrecking operations on the schooner Sophia Minch struck for 50 cents an hour aod no loss of time. Barry Bros, refused to grant the advance and operations were suspended. While Jasper Beebe, his son, a daughter and two grandchildren were crossing the railroad tracks four miles east of Albia, lowa, a passenger train crashed into their vehicle. Three were killed and one of the children was fatally injured. Two brothers, William and Charles Goldsten, living near New Albany, Ind., fought for several minutes with corn knives, until both fell exhausted. William received a terrible wound extending from the corner of his mouth to his left ear. The oil producers on the Lima. Ohio, oil fields, including the territory in Ohio and Indiana, arc forming an organization to suspend drilling for the next month and send the market higher. The largest producers in the field are in the movement. While preparations were being made to “shoot” the Rayl oil well on the ltidingcr farm, near Wellsville, Ohio, the well overflowed and. the oil ignited from the fire under the boiler, causing an explosion that killed two men and injured three others. Miss Viola Horlocker, charged with attempting the life of Mrs. Charles F. Morey, her former employer's wife, by sending her a box of poisoned candy, has been taken to Hastings, Neb., from the Oaklawn Sanitarium, in Jacksonville, 111., for trial. Mrs. Julia Bcnheard, a widow, living n( Wichita, Kim., in looking over some old letters, found a deposit certificate for 810,000, which her brother, W. L. Richardson. had placed in the Bank of Trenton of Trenton, Tenn., to her credit Jan. 23, 18G3. At Lakefirid, Minn., Andrew Dotmi shot Andrew Zella in the breast with a shotgun, after a quarrel over an account of $3. Mr. Zella died about two hours afterward. Both are Bohemian farmers. Douni was caught by neighbors and is now 'in jail. An Omaha-St. Louis excursion train returning from the Omaha exposition was wrecked on a bridge over the Platte river at Maryville, Mo., and all on board miraculously escaped injury. The track spread just before the train passed upon the bridge. Isaac J. Turpen of Louisville, employed as salesman at the wholesale clothing house of Stix, Krause & Co. of Cincinnati, while showing goods to a customer on the fourth floor suddenly ran to a back window and jumped to the ground. He was killed instantly, A Big Four freight train dashed into n Tiffin-Fostoria electric ear at the crossing of the tracks in Tiffin, Ohio, demolishing the rear of the car. Ten passengers on the electric car jumped. Miss Mae Griener. Tiffin, and Miss Pierce of Anderson, Ind., sustained serious injuries. John Carson, a farmer, aged 05 years, of Newton Falls, Ohio, was stung to death by bees. Carson wanted to work in his apiary and to quiet the bees burned sulphur. This only enraged the bees, however, and they swarmed over him, stinging him in hundreds of places. At Findlay. Ohio, Miss Loie Ward was fatally burned awd her mother and little brother were injured while working over a stove with rosin. It is supposed that the substance caught lire .and Miss Ward's clothing ignited from the blaze. The mother and child are not seriously injured. The owners of the Cripple Hill gold mines, six miles from Hot Springs. Ark., have discovered platinum in paying qufOetities in their mines. The find was accidentally made while assaying for gold. The assay shows five to six pounds of platinum to the ton. This metal is -worth $lB5 a pound. Several persons were injured and property valued at $275,000 was destroyed in a fire which swept over a large area of the Union stock yards in Chicago. The stock yards hospital, Dexter Park pavilion, several horse sheds and two rcsi-' dences were destroyed, and twenty horses perished in the flames. Fire almost destroyed the six-story brick building at Nos. 35 to 59 North Jefferson street, Chicago. The great promptness of the firemen’s response and the number of engines placed the fire under control within half an hour after the first alarm was given. The building is owned by J. Harley Bradley. The loss on the building is SIO,OOO.