Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

There are thirty-three cases of smallpox at the Children’s Home iu Dayton, Ohio. All the eases are said to be of a mild form.

Anyone in Missouri found guilty of placing arsenic, calomel, bismuth, ammonia or alum iu any kind of food may be fined not less than SIOO, After much wrangling and bloodshed the coal tuiue strike, which has disturbed the peace in southwestern Indiana for several weeks, has been amicably settled. In Burlington, lowa. Conrad Knopped Struck his wife during a dispute. Henry, their 15-year-old son, came to his mother's aid, sboeting his father in the right breast with a revolver.

The members of the Mississippi Valley Medical Association, in session at Chicago, tabled a resolution praying for the repeal of the internal revenue tax on drugs, medicines and surgical appliances. W. 11. Oga n of Tipton, Ind., has secured options on every lime manufacturing plaut iu Ohio. Indiana aud Michigan. He will incorporate the new lime trust us soon as the inventories can be made out. A shower of grasshoppers visited New Albany. Ind.. covering to a depth of two inches a space of about three acres. They came in such a cloud that the citizens thought that a hard storm was approachiug.

James Harlan, former United States Senator, former Secretary of the Interior and father-in-law of Robert T. Lincoln, died at Mount Pleasant, lowa, Thursday morning. He was conscious to the last, but unable to speak.

The I'uited States agents of the British Government have just closed a contract with one of the large wagon manufactories in South Bend, 1 lid., for the entire supply of wagons to be used in the impending struggle in South Africa. At Reedville. Ark.. John J. Boles attempted to move a shed valued at $lO from the premises of his nephew, W. lidgar Reed. The latter remonstrated and was shot by the old man. Rind then drew a revolver and shot the old man. Moses Smith of St. Paul, Minn., and Miss Peru Thuniau of Evansville. Ind., were married Wednesday. The wedding was to have taken place Tuesday night, anel the bride' was overcome when the groom failed to appear. Mr: Smith was delayed on route. A statement of the eoudition of the 381 State and private banks of Kansas at the dost' of business Sept. 7. shows deposits exceeding $2(5.000,000, an increase in three mouths of $2.000.(N)0, more money than was ever in the State institutions at any preceding time. The window glass trust received a hard blow, when Judge, Rva.n of the Superior Court at Anderson, lud., held that the complaints tiled a few weeks ago asking for an injunction to prevent the window glass companies in the county from joining the trust are good and sufficient for cause of action. The judges of the Jackson County (Missourii Court have recognized the boycott started by the business men of Kansas City against the Burlington road, instructing the sheriff that so long as'the boycott is in force he must. not travel over that road in taking insane people to the State asylum at St. Joseph. Dr. J. E. Lowery died at his home in Cedarville. Ohio, the other night. His death, a dispatch says, is thought to be due to an alloy of copper or brass used iu tilling bis teeth. His system became filled with poison from the alloy, finally ending iu convulsions and death. The fillings were removed shortly before he died.