Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Judge John Ilornbeck, ngod 78 years, died in Carthage, Mo. Adaiu Sweigert, a pioneer of Chicago and California, died in San Frnncisco, aged 81) years. Mrs. Ellen Mooney suffocated in fire which did $1,500 damage to the Graeme Flat building in Chicago. Navajo Indians resisted Arizona deputy sheriffs attempt to make arrest. One white and five Indians killed. August A. Becker, the butcher who murdered his wife last January, was hanged in the county jail at Chicago. New Carlisle, Ohio, was visited by a destructive fire, which burned the opera house uud several other business buildings. In Cleveland fire broke out in the Bradley block on Rank street, destroying the upper two of the seven stories. The damage amounts to SIOO,OOO. Chicago labor leaders took stand against arbitration of present controversy between contractors and unions. Said there was nothing to arbitrate. Charles E. Sutton, a lawyer of Bozeman, Mont., committed suicide by shooting and hanging himself. He had been despondent on account of ill health. Thomas L. Boyd, one of the oldest engineers on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern road, died suddenly of heart disease at Elkhart, Ind., aged 70 years. Daniel M. Houser, Jr., son of D. M. Houser, one of the proprietors Of the Globe-Democrat, died at his home in St, Louis, of typhoid fever, aged 29 years. J. K. Burnat died from neuralgia of the heart at Carey, Ohio, caused by running to catch n train. He dropped dead aear the depot. He was imstmaster of Yanlue. John Allen of Springfield, Mo., a student at the Christian Brothers’ College, St. Louis, was fatally iujured in a football game with the St. Louis University alumni.

Dr. Myra K. Merrick, the first woman who practiced medicine in Ohio, and one of the first who practiced in the entire country, died in Cleveland, o* the age of 74 years. Levi Moore, who murdered three women in a rooming house at Kansas City last Slay, was found guilty and the jury fixed his punishment at ninety-nine years in the penitentiary. At Denver, Colo., O. D. Bryan, mine owner aud promoter, was drugged and robbed of valuable papers, his railway pass and money, and his associate in business disappeared. Ole Musou was drowned in the Minnesota river between Fort Snell ing and Mendota by his horse backing into the stream. Mason’s brother Nets managed to reach shore in safety. Through the intercession of the Stnte Board of Arbitration the strike of the ■lOti Stirling Boiler Company employes at Akron. Ohio, was settled at a meeting of employes and employers. In Chicago a jury declared Harry H. Hammond not guilty of shooting John T. Bhayno. the rich fur merchant. The latter's relations with HnmnioAd’s wife are anil to have influenced the verdict. Charles Weidle and his niece, aged 13, mao killed near the Miamizburg, Ohio,

depot by being struck by a Big Fonr passenger train at the crossing. Their boggy was demolished and the horse killed. ▲bout thirty anion cylinder feeders and job pressmen and twenty-five union printers went on strike at Kansas City. The union men demand nine hours a day, recognition of the naion and the anion scale of wages. The Belfont Iron Works Company’s nail mill at Irontqp, Ohio, has been compelled to close became of a strike of Bixty-five nipping boys. They demanded a 10 per cent advance in wages, which was refused. . I ;. George Weige and Herman Smith were instantly killed by a runaway three miles from Deadwood, S. D., on the road to Spearfish. Weige was an old timer, and was known to the northern hills people as “The Potato King.”

Articles of incorporation have been filed with the Secretary of State at Trenton, N. J., of the Havana American Company, with authorized capital of $10,000,000, to grow and deal In tobacco and manufnctnre cigars and cigarettes. Charles Bais, a notorious negro, better known as "Race Horse Charley,” was shot and killed by Joseph W. Smith, the colored proprietor of a billiard room at Cleveland. The shooting was the result of a quarrel between the two men. At Cincinnati the Norwood bicycle works, L. L. Bramkamp, president, had a disastrous fire, which practically destroyed the contents of the three lower floors. The upper floors, filled with stock, escaped injury. Loss estimated at $70,000. An explosion occurred in the glazing house of the California powder mill at Santa Cruz. Four cylinders containing 10,000 pounds of powder exploded. Patrick Hughes, night watchman, was killed. No cause for the explosion dan be ascertained. r The safe and office furniture of the Melvern, Kan., bank were demolished by nn explosion of dynamite the other night and robbers then looted the placet securing SOOO in money and several thousand dollars in notes and checks. They escaped. The Carlsband-Walters copper mine property, located just south of the Ore-gon-California boundary line, near Coles Station, has been sold to the Siskiyou Copper Company of Itoselarid, B. C. The consideration is stated to have been $700,000. Sanniei W. Hitchie, formerly a wealthy Minneapolis broker, was found dead on the floor of bis room at the National Hotel in Seattle, Wash. He had slashed his throat with a razor and then driven a knife almost through his neck. He was despondent. C. M. Keyes, Jr., a director of the Bank of Cbecotah, I. T., a sou of C. M. Keyes, a commission merchant at the St. Louis stock yards, was shot aud killed at Checotah by W. L. Robbins, a collector," with whom he had quarreled. Robbins escaped. Two persons are dead and a third was made seriously ill in Kansas City, Kan., from eating mince pies, apparently containing ptomaine poisoning. George W. Hoffman, aged 72 years, a carpenter, and his son-in-law, John Salmon, aged 45 years, died after hours of agony. One of the largest and boldest robberies ever perpetrated in Cleveland was committed the other afternoon. Thieves succeeded in getting away with a tray of diamonds valued at $30,000 from the store of Sigler Brothers, manufacturing jewelers, at 52-54 Euclid avenue. Suit has been begun at Pomeroy by Attorney Genernl Monnett to oust the National Salt Company, known as the “salt trust,” incorporated under the laws of New York, on the ground that It is a violation of *the Valentine anti-trust law and lias forfeited the right to do business in Ohio. At Plano, Cal., Reese Martin was.shot and killed by his 19-year-old son Alfred. The young man accused his father of striking his mother. A quarrel ensued and the son discharged both barrels of a shotgun at the older man, causing instant death. He claims that he acted in self-defense.