Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Bn. P. M. McCabe of Waseca. Minn.. ia dead. Former Congressman Daniel D. Burns died at his home in St. Joseph, Mo. Mgr. Joseph Jessing, head of the pontifical college, the Josephenum, died at Columbus, Ohio. Helen Gould has shipped to Wichita, Kan., one of Tiffany's best hall clocks as a gift to the Wichita hospital. Fett Snyder, formerly a man of great wealth, but of late a rag picker, was burned to death in Wichita, Kan. His house burned to the ground. Because Chicago creditors refused to carry him any longer F. G. Bussell, a hardware merchant of Hastings, Neb., went into voluntary bankruptcy. Rev. Louis Edward Holden, formerly of Beloit College, Beloit, Wis., has been formally inducted into the otßc-e of president of Wooster, Ohio, University. A meteorite half as large as the moon, with long tail, passed from east to west from horiii>u to horizon over 'Keokuk, lowa. It was of great brilliancy in the west. Sherwel! Kershaw, formerly cashier of the Detroit Copper Company of 231) Lake street, Chicago, surrendered to the police in St. Louis. He confessed to haring embezzled *6,000. Pietro Galleano, the well-known baritone with the Lambardi Italian grand opera company, went suddenly insane at St. Joseph,. Mo., and is a raving maniac. He Was sent to an asylum. A passenger train on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway struck Mrs. Xickota Audrydjczak with her 4-yoar-old child in her arms, at South Chicago and killed both instantly. Richard Honeck. who pleaded guilty to the murder of Walter F. Koeller, was sentenced to life imprisonment by Judge Baker of Chicago, lie declined to say anything before sentence was pronounced. The schooner yacht Chiquita was cast on the beach of Lake Michigan off Miller's Station, Ind. The corpse of a man was found on the deck, the rest of those on board having evidently been washed overboard. A terrific explosion occurred at Aetna, Ind„ in the Aetna powder mills, in which two men were killed and one man injured. The explosion was in the dynamite' mixing house, the cause not being exactly known. At Oakland, Cal., from the effects of injuries sustained in a game of football on the college campus at the State University, Jesse Morris Hicks died at the East Bay sanitarium. He was struck in the neck while making a hard tackle. At Mountain View, Mo., Avery Smith killed George Humphrey, beating him to death with a baseball bat. Both were schoolboys 15 years old. They quarreled over a game, and Humphrey, it is said, threatened to use a knife on Smith. Martin R. Smyth, a clerk in the employ of Rosenbaum Brothers, commission «merchants in Chicago, shot aud killed himself at his home. Smyth’s friends say he had been ill for some time and that probably led to the suicide. Eleven buddings belonging to the plant •f the American Steel and Wire Company at Waukegan, UL, were burned. Within an hour after the first alarm was given the flames had stretched over a •pne* 1.000 feet long and had done *IOO,000 of damage. ‘ ;' ; ;

ooate of the striking joiners and the negroes imported last summer by the Kansas and Texas Coal Company to work in the mine, located about three miles south of Bevier. Four or five negroes were slightly wounded. ' U At Little Rock, Ayk., the wholesale drug bouse of C. J. Lincoln & Co. and the warehouse of Funes Bros, were destroyed by fire. The buildings were valued at $70,000. The estimated value of the Lincoln stock is SBO,OOO aud the Femes Bros, at $150,000. Antoine Gerrard, 15 years old, was released at Canal Dover, Ohio, from a refrigerator car after haring ridden over 1,000 miles and nearly starving to death. The boy says he stowed away in the car at Xew Orleans. He had been without food or drink for four days. The big lake steamers Lehigh and Lewiston collided directly under the red and white flashes of the harbor light at Chicago. It was a matter of only an inch or two which saved both boats from going down. The money loss, counting loss of time, will amount to $25,000. The dead bodies of A. 11. Patterson and his wife were found in a room at Bartl’s hotel, 353 State street, Chicago. The woman was wounded twice in the breast and Patterson was shot in the mouth. It is supposed the man did the shooting after a.couple had quarreled. In Kansas City half a milljon dollars’ worth of property was destroyed by fire that started in Jones Bros.’ big department store and spread to half a block of other buildings. The aggregate insurance is estimated at $375,000. Jones Bros,’ stock, valued at $300,000, was totally destroyed. At Moscow, Idaho, the jury returned a verdict of guilty in the case of ten and not guilty in the case of three of the Coeur d’Alene miners who have been on trial in the United Stntes Court on a charge of conspiracy and stopping a United States mail train at Wallace on April 29 last. Rolla J. Guerin, aged' 30 years, a huckster, was shot and killed in -his home at Kansas City. Later William Lamphere, aged 10 years, and Will Kiper, aged 18, who had worked for Guerin, were arrested. Lamphere confessed he had done the killing, claiming that Kiper planned it. The motive was robbery. WiHiam Wainseott shot aud kilied George A. Tunks at Springfield, 111. The tragedy occurred at Wainscott’s home, which was also the home of Tunks and his w ife. Wainseott walked to the police station and gave himself up. Ho claims he did the shooting in self-defense. The men had trouble over a settlement. George H. Barthel, assistant manager of the Simmons sporting goods store at St. Louis, probably mortnlly wounded his wife and his father-in-law, seriously injufred his mother-in-law and committed suicide. Jealousy is supposed to be the cause of the crime. Barthel and his wife had been separated for more than three years. E. P. Fox of Chicago died at Albuquerque, X. M., from consumption. The body was taken to Chicago by James Toby. After the death it was discovered that over SSOO in cash, a watch and diamonds valued at SSOO had disappeared. The Royal Arcanum officials have engaged detectives to trace the money and property. Twelve piano and organ factories in Chicago have closed their doors for an indefinite time, locking out 3,000 workmen. By this action the manufacturers stole a march on the Piano and Organ Makers’ Union, which had threatened to call the men out if the manufacturers did not accede to their demands for a recognition of the union.