Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Niue men perished in the Montana blizzard. Kansas law fixing telegraph tolls has been held unconstitutional. A company with $10,000,000 capital will control' Jopliu-Galena zinc mines. John K. Pollard, United States consul at Monterey, Mexico, died at Carthage, Ohio. Charles W esley of Cleveland died, aged 50. He wus late proprietor of the Weddell House. Leadville, Colo., is excited over the uncovering of a large body of gold ore, worth $2,000,000, in the Penrose mine. The Fifty-first arrived at San Francisco with but one death during the trip. Their transport just missed the typhoon. At Paris, Mo., the preliminary trial of Alexander Jester elosed. Judge Moss remanded' the defendant to jail without bail to await the action of the grand jury. Pearl Hart, the Arizona woman bandit who escaped from jail at Tucson, Ariz., was arrested at- Denting, X. M.. where she arrived on horseback with a male companion. W. D. Manro, who had been drinking for several days, leaped from one of the Mississippi river bridges at Minneapolis and was drowned. The plunge »s;as ’IOO feet into the rapids. Fire swept through a score of homes at 92d street and Commercial avenue, South Chicago, destroying property to the amount of SIOO,OOO and causing the injury of twelve persons.

.¶ John Gustafson, a Duluth explorer, while asleep toppled out of bed, the back of his negligee shirt collar catching on a door hinge less than a foot from the floor, where he strangled to death. .¶ The Pure Food Association, in session in Chicago, has completed its work and elected officers as follows: President, J. E. Blackburn, Ohio; secretary and treasurer, Elliott O. Grosvenor, Michigan. .¶ As a result of the two days’ conference held in Chicago by the officials of the Pullman Palace Car Company it is announced that the Wagner Car Company had been absorbed by the rival corporation. .¶ At Findlay, Ohio, the city home and hospital building was destroyed by fire. By heroic work the helpless patients were removed; the last being taken out but a moment before the walls fell., The loss is $50,000. .¶ William Wilke was killed in an amateur sparring match with Charles Chelius at an exhibition given by two clubs at Chicago. The knockout blow was given in the first round, after a couple of minutes’ fighting. .¶ The largest lumber boat fleet ever in the Duluth-Superior harbor at one time was there a few days ago. The fleet had a capacity of 20,000,000 feet of lumber, and difficulty was experienced in getting men to load the boats. .¶ Another border war broke out between Americans and Mexicans at Naco, a little town that lies partly in Arizona and partly in Mexico. Four Mexican officers and two Americans were killed and one Mexican and two Americans wounded. .¶ Farmers all over Kansas are calling for help to gather the big corn crop. In Marshall County many women have gone into the fields, assisting the men in gathering crops. It is estimated that 500 Kansas women have been engaged in gathering corn. .¶ One of the most beautiful private collections of art on the Pacific coast was reduced to ashes when the country home of W. J. Dingee, near Oakland, was burned to the ground. Art gems worth $300,000, many of them the only works extant, were destroyed. .¶ The dead body of Rupert Hoffman, aged 70. was found in a shed at Pleasant Run, Ohio. He had been dead several days. There were two large gashes in the throat. Hoffman was by common report a miser, and it is thought he was murdered for his money, .¶ Eugene Crowley of Lansing, Mich., was killed at Bowling Green, Ohio, by an explosion of dynamite. He was blasting telepbnne pole holes, and was looking

over a hole where a blast had failed to explode, when the charge went off. His head was blown to pieces. .¶ The Spruce Mining Company has filed articles, with a capital of S1,000,000 to open and operate the Eveleth Townsite mine, which was discovered under the village of Eveleth, Minn., and from over the top of which the removal of the village has just been completed. .¶ At Macon. Mo., the jury in the ease of S. Grugin, indicted for murder in the first degree for killing Jeff Hadley in May, 1896. brought in a verdict of not guilty. Hadley had wronged Grugin's 16-year-old daughter Alma and Grugin admitted that he had killed Hadley. .¶ The convention of railway superintendents of bridges and buildings at Detroit elected officers as follows: President, Aaron S. Markley,. Danville, Ill.; vice-president, Joseph M. Staten, Rich mond, Va.; secretary, S. F. Patterson. Concord, N. H.; treasurer, N. W. Thompson, Fort Wayne. Ind. .¶ The United States Court of Appeals at St. Louis decided that suicide cannot be urged by an insurance company or other organization as its reason for refusing to pay on a policy unless it can be shown that the individual at the time of subscribing for the policy contemplated suicide.

An attempt was made near Watertown. 8. D., to wreck a train on the Chicago and Northwestern by placing obstructions on the tracks, consisting of planks spiked down and ties piled across and braced with iron bars. A boy named McDowell discovered the obstruction, secured a lantern and stopped the train. Otto P. Th. Grantz, owner of the strike southwest of Deadwood. S. D_ has returned home from Denver, where be went with a carload of ore to be treated. Mr. Grantz has announced that be received $79,(100 in cash for his ore. making it the richest carload of ore ever shipped from the Black Hills. Joseph Haigtf. a farmer living five miles west of Donnelly. Minn., shot his 21-year-old son, Bass, blowing his head completely off. He then shot hinedt through the heart. There was a K.WV) mortgage on his farm and it is thought lie killed his son to get $2,000 insurance, and. then killed himself to escape legal punishment. « Jacob Joker, an educated Cherokee Indian, graduate of an Eastern college, who has been employed at the Cantonment Indian school. Guthrie. Ok., by the Gov eminent for some time, eloped with pretty Leltie Plinilee. a 14-year-old white girl, living in the vicinity, and no trace ot them can be found by either the girl's parents or the officials. The country store of Charles Kerch at Doniphan. Kan., was rubbed by two masked men. In a battle which followed K neb was wounded and Andrew Braun was killed by the robbers, wh - made their escape. The robbers opened fire on a posse of men who had traced them by means of bloodhounds and hilled 11. G. Dickerson, an Atchison policeman. In the wiart of Judge Perry at Box. Ok., the celebrated case of John Fntrelt vs. E. W. Depew for the sum of 5 teats was tried and decided. The suit grew out of a difference of 3 cents in the prt.— of ginning some cotton, and the jury gave a verdict of the full amount claimed. 5 cents, to the plaintiff, but divided the costs equally between the parties, each having a bill of $32 to pay.