Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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John B. Carey, ex-Mayor of Wichita, • Kan., died suddenly in San Jose, CaL, i aged 74. OlUcials of the Pullman company are ' looking for a 1 leaver site upon which to j build large s-h<q«s. At Guthrie, O. T., Belle Fleming, aged j 17, has been admitted to the bar of the j United States Court. The operators of the Qtiita coal mines have signed the'scale demanded by the Miners' L'uion at Russellville, Ark. John Gilliland was killed by an engine on the Jamestown and Frauklin branch of the Lake Shore Railway at Ashtabula. Ohio. Andrew Martin, a young millionaire of San Francisco, died at his mountain re- | sort at Palm Springs, 100 miles from j Los Angeles. Senator John M. Thurston of Nebraska j and Miss Lola Purniau, daughter of Mr. j aud Mrs. W. J. Furman of Washington, D. C., were married a few days ago. The bones of a man and woman were found in the ruins of the St. Charles Hotel, which, with six other buildings, was destroyed by tire at Wagoner, I, T. ; Emil Ilollinger, the Chicago wife mar- : derer. declared on the gallows with his last breath that he was an innocent man. j The drop fell, breaking bis ucek in- • stautly. Metal workers' lockout in Chicago has J lieetl settled. Sykes Rooting Company j paid disputed -railroad fate and men | agreed to arbitrate question of wages during strike. At his ranch, eight miles northeast of j Colorado Springs, Colo.. C. P. Shores 1 shot and killed Thomas Williams, aged [ 21 years, who a year ago eloped with j his daughter, Lelia Shores. Leonard B. Imbodru of Kansas City, ’ Mo., found guilty of conducting a “wild- j cat” liauk, has been seutcuccd to ten ] years’ imprisonment in the State pent- 1 tontiary at Jefferson City. Fire which started iu of a wholesale millinery stock did SI 10,- j 000 damage to- the buildings at 140 and ] 148 State street, Chicago. Several persons were injured by explosions. Six men were killed and four seriously injured ill an accident on the Chicago. St. i Paul, Minueaiiolis aud Omaha Railroad near Humboldt. S. I». A work traiu was thrown from the track by a handcar. Cornelius Corcoran of 5401 licarboru j street, Chicago, killed one of his chil- i dreu, shot and fatally wounded three ’ others, ami then euded his owu life. The father, it is said, had been insane for i some time. Mrs. Ernst Hummel, public school 1 teacher in Chicago, had her 7-niouihs-ohl child adopted by her sister, thus obey- ' ing board- rule that uo woman with a ; child less than 3' years old may be a teacher. A special dispatch from G leu wood \ Springs, Colo., says that Game Warden a Johnson and his |iosse had a fight with the Indians who had invaded the State i from Utah for the purpose of hunting, j oud one Indian was killed. Edward Prugk, aged 38, single, and re- j siding with his parents five miles south- 1 cast of Dayton, Ohio, committed suicide j by firing the contents of a shotgun into ' his breast. Prngh had become mentally | deranged from excessive grief. Mrs. George Harding, residing at Sheridan, Wyo., munlercd her 1' ilf sou. Lee W., aged 4 years, aud then committed suicide while in a state of temporary insanity. She cut the child's and her own carotid arteries with a razor. William Huff was taken from the county jail at Bloomfield, Mo., aud hanged by a mob of about 100 men. Iluff, who was charged with the murder of Andtew Melton, showed remarkable nerve, facing the mob aud asserting lie was not arraid. The Swift sheep syndicate is tryiug to secure grazing privileges on the Uintah and Uncompahgre reservations in eastern Utah, where it purposes to place 700.000 breeding ewes. Two agents of the syndicate bare boon trying to arrange the deal. The American Bicycle Company dosed the Viking and Colton factories at Toplants. The two concerns have employed COO men, including the traveling and

oto force*, and these are bow sot as At Santa Ana, CaL. E. R. Howe of Chicago tried to commit suicide by shooting. The bullet parsed through his bead, lodging under the right eye. He declared he was without friends and, therefore, did not care to live. Physicians think he wiQ recover. It is said that a new morning paper will be started in Cincinnati on Jan. 1. It is understood that George B. Cox, the Republican politician, will be financially interested in the new enterprise. The paper is to aril for 2 cents and have an afternoon edition. The will of David Ayres, involving an estate valued at $35,000, and which was contested by his son David and his granddaughter, Roa Ayres, both of Chi cago, was set aside by the jury at Sandusky, Ohio, on the ground of incapacity and undue influence. At Bakersfield. Mo. Luke Seels mortally wounded Postmaster \V. M. Sharp with a knife. A challenge to fight was accepted and the principals went to the cellar, where a duel was fought, resulting in the fatal wounding of Sharp and slight injuries to Seels. The directors of the Unive.sity of Denver have elected Dr. Henry A. Buchtel of East Orange. N. J., chancellor of the nniversity, to succeed Chancellor William McDowell, who resigned in June last to accept the secretaryship of the Methodist Book Concern. Frank D. Randall, a civil engineer of Kansas City, claims to have discovered in the Grand canyon of the Colorado river a vein of copper greater than any heretofore known, together with gold, garnet-bearing schist, asbestos, onyx, serpentine and coal in great profusion. At 2 o'clock the other morning two masked men broke into the Parker, Kan., State Bank and, binding and gagging Cashier Slaughter, who slept .n a rear room, blew the safe open, securing sl,000 in cash. They stole two torses and escaped with a posse in pursuit. David V. Rieger, former president of the Missouri National Bank, which failed Nov. 3U, 1890. owing depositors sl,500,000, was found guilty in tbc United States District Conrt at Kansas City, Mo. of misapplying the lasi’s funds and sentenced to six years in the penitentiary. A At the noon hour the othei day the office of the Southwestern Mt tual IJfe Insurance Association at Marshalltown, lowa, was entered, the safe blown open and cash, drafts and certificates of deposit to the amount of about $0,500 were abstracted. There is no dew to the thieves. At Toledo. Ohio. Amelia Harris Fletcher. a society girl well known in northern Ohio, and residing at Weston, was given an absolute divorce' from her negro husbaud. John Fletcher. On the witness stand Miss Harris testified that the negro forced her, at the point of a revolver, to marry him. Robbers blew open the safe of the Bank of Curl Junction. Mo., and secured between $3.01)0 and $4,000 in cash. The robbers numbered four and were well armed. A crowd of men pursued them a short distance out of town, bnt returned without having gotten near enough to exchange shots. In Youngstown, Ohio. Frank llaney. aged 19 years, son of Joseph Haney, a prominent insurance agent, committed suicide at the rooms of the Manhattan (’lull, taking an ounce of morphine, his condition not being discovered until too late to save him. Haney had been suffering from insomnia. Judge J. 11. Cramer of Oak Haritor, editor of the Exponent, and A. G. Winnie of the Port Clinton Republican, fought to a finish on the depot platform at Port Clinton. Ohio, and Winnie lost an ear and one finger, the members having been bitten off by Cramer. The feud i is one of long standing. Ben L. Rich of Idaho and I- M. Xe- | beker of Utah. Mormon elders, have arrived in Columbus. Ohio, and announced their intention of opening headquarters at once and making Colnmbus a recraitj ing station for the Mormon faith. The : < lergy U Columbus are highly indignant ! over of the Mormons.