Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Rev. P. M. McCabe of Waseca, Minn., is dead. Mrs. Mary Ruby, a sister of Kit Carson, died at Warrensburg, Mo., aged 87. Ex-Treasurer Frank Parker of Vernon County, Missouri, has pleaded guilty to a shortage of $26,000 iu county funds. A Santa Fe cattle train was wrecked at Argonia, Kan. Two hundred head of cattle were killed, and 100 more crippled. The 5-year-old daughter of B. D. Olsen of Chicago was twice bitten by a rattlesuuke in Aurora County, South Dakota, and died soon afterward. At Great Falls. Mont., John Beupanchich murdered Frank Marhar, cutting his throat with a broken bottle. Both were Austrian smelter employes about 30 years old. At Nevada, Mo., ex-County Treasurer Frank F. Parker, found guilty of embezzling $20,000 of county funds, was sentenced to three years and six months iu the penitentiary. William Van Why and John Lambert were killAl iu the Joe Dandy mine at Cripple Creek, Colo. As they were lieing hoisted the cable broke, dropping them to the bottom of the shaft.

E. H. Willis of Oakland, Cal., who was one of the passengers on the Ward Line steamer Niagara from Havana, detained at quarantine, New York, died of yellow fever at Swinburne Island. An explosion of gases in Kent chemical laboratory at the University of Chicago caused a mild panic among laboratory students and coeds. “Billy” Ingham, a janitor, was badly burned. As James M. McCullough and his family were engaged in making sorghum near Poteau, I. T., two small children accidentally fell into the large vat of boiling molasses and were cooked to death. After a conference between General Manager Sehaff, General Superintendent Vanwinkle of the Big Four and the firemen, an agreement on wages was reached at Indianapolis, although the scale is kept secret. Fire delayed the performance at the Columbia Theater, Chicago, the other evening and almost-caused a panic among the persons who had gathered-to see the play. The blaze was in an adjoining building. Judge Dale of the District Court at Wichita, Kan., granted a permanent injunction restraining the Wichita Street Railway Company from operating its plant and ordering all the cars and track from the streets.

At Benson, Minn., Miss Trank, 07 years old, tried to climb over a stock train while on her way to church, when the train started with her on the bumpers and carried her to Willmar, thirty miles away, in fifty minutes. The grand jury at Cleveland indicted Ralph Hawley for murder in the second degree. Hawley was a non-union conductor during the street car strike and bn July 24 last shot and killed a hoy during an attack on his car. Charles Gibson, one of the best known men in St. Louis, where he had lived half a century, died at Minneapolis. He was 74 years of age. Mr. Gibson spent his summers at Lake Minnetonka, where he had large property interests. The engagement of Dr. Albert E. Sterne of Indianapolis to Miss Marie Burroughs of Stuart Robson's company is announced, the marriage to take place In New York on Dec. 6. Miss Burroughs will retire from the stage. At Forsythe, Mo„ Alexander Kesse, aged 70 years, who married 15-year-old Dora Garrett, has been granted a divorce. The child wife's maiden name was restored and she was granted $4,000 alimony. The couple lived together only about a week. The first serious fight of the coaLmin-* era’ strike at Decatur, HI., occurred the other day. Two union miners were shot, one probably fatally. Fred Dongowskl, a striker, waa wounded, probably fatally.

Charles Maurits, another striker, received a bullet in the arm. The sheep pens at the Kansas City stock yards, covering an entire block, were destroyed by fire, 800 sheep being cremated. Four firemen were seriously injured by falling walls, and one of them, Charles Peterson, may die. The loss is estimated at $30,000. A coal famine Is threatened ip South Dakota. There is already a large shortage and wholesale dealers find it next to impossible to get their orders filled. The railroads have been using their fuel very carefully for several weeks and are fearful lest they be left short. A seven-day church is to be experimented with by the Methodists of Chicago. Services are to be held daily in Wabash Avenue Church, and are to include lectures, concerts and social gatherings, as well as religious services; later a library with reading rooms will be added. As a Rapid Railway line car, Detroit bound from Monnt Clemens, was crossing Beaufait street. Detroit, it was run into by a freight train. Conductor Tony Schneider of Mount Clemens was killed. There were twenty-five passengers on the car, many of whom were injured, several very severely.

Two masked men entered Russell & IligWe’s saloon at Deadwood, S. D., and attempted to mb the place. Mr. Russell grappled with one of the robbers, and a man who was in the place succeeded in getting out during the melee and giving the alarm. The robbers fled, having secured only SB. > New Boston, three miles east of Portsmouth, Ohio, was almost wiped out by fire. The blaze started iu the Portsmouth Heel Company’s factory and spread to that of the Standard Shoe Company. These were entirely destroyed. The tire was caused by an explosion of chemicals. The loss is about $25,000. Dr. L. C. Griffith and William Staggs, citizens of Gory, while in Brazil, lud., quarreled, but later departed together. When midway between Brazil and Cory the quarrel was renewed. Dr. Griffith drew a revolver and tired three shots at Staggs, one bullet penetrating his side and another lodging in the arm. In St. Louis Robert P. Jennings, sec-retary-treasurer and general superintendent of the Broadway Cable Company, was robbed of $1,043 in cash and $48,750 in chocks on a Broadway car at 1:30 o’clock in the afternoon. An envelope containing the money was taken from his pocket. Two men were concerned in the robbery.

A head-end collision occurred on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad five miles east of Cambridge, Ohio, wrecking both engines nud fourteen cars. Engineer W. A. Carney refused to leave his post and received injuries from which he died an hour later. The accident was caused by Engineer Carney’s failure to take a siding as ordered. The fact that a large sum of money is missing from the treasurer’s office at the soldiers’ home at Marion, Ind., has caused much excitement among the officials of that institution. On each iiension day at the home about $75,000 is paid out among the veterans. The amount stolen, $1,710, was taken from Treasurer Hekhert’s safe on the last jx-usion day.