Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Enos Rath, the night watchman of Hicksvillc, Ohio, was shot and killed by three burglars who were trying to enter a residence. Charles Fisher, who recently moved from Kokomo, lud., to Cowley County, Kansas, was acquitted of wife murder at Winfield, Kan. The warehouse of the Jones Brothers’ Hardware Company nt Little Rock, Ark., was destroyed by fire. Loss $175,000; insurance $125,000. Robert Freeman, at one time the owner of Rex McDonald, the champion saddle horse stallion of the world, died at his home near Mexico, Mo. An east-bound Oregon Railroad and Navigation passenger train was wrecked near Rooster Rock, Oregon, by running into n slide. The fireman was killed and the engineer severely injured. Colonel Richard T. Flournoy, n native of Virginia, a Confederate officer under General It. E. Lee and a resident or St. Paul, Minn., for nearly thirty years, died of heart trouble, nged 50 years. Several houses nt which non-union coal miners are boarding were blown op with dynamite at Huntington, Ark. Ten United States deputy marshals were sent there from Jenny Lind. No one was injured so far as knowD. Thomas Lindsay, aged 21, was shot and mortally wounded by his younger brother, Jesse, at the home of their broth-er-iu-law, Joseph Yeager, at Maryville, Mo. Thomas said the shooting was accidental. Jesse disappeared immediately after the shooting. Nearly one-half of the business portion of Weston, Ohio, was burned the other day. Twelve buildings, occupied by about twenty business firms, were destroyed. The amount of the damage is estimated to be SOO,OOO, and the insurance amounts to about half that sum. A street ear on the Seventh street line of the Springfield, 111., Consolidated Street Railway Company was blown up by dynamite in the north part of the city. The car was demolished, but the motornian, conductor and three women passengers escaped injury. Unknown parties entered the office of the Monroe, Neb., Mirror during the night, destroyed the presses and dumped the type and other material into a creek. The act is supposed to he the outgrowth of a hitter town fight. The paper is the State orgnn of the Liberty party. The State Supreme Court in its decision handed down at Bismarck, N. D., in Graham versus Graham strikes another hard blow at the divorce industry. It holds that residence in the State must be bona title and characterized by the intention to stay to give the litigant the benefit of the State low. The building occupied by A. Krolliek & Co., commission merchants, at 35 and 37 Woodbridge street, and the wholesale dry goods establishment of Strong, Lee & Co., back of it, at 153 Jefferson avenue, Detroit, were destroyed by fire. The total loss is estimated at S3UU,OOU on stocks and $30,000 on buildings. At Mount Vernon, Ohio, Charles Goldsborough, a crippled saloonkeeper, shot and killed his wife aud then ended his own existence by sending a bullet through his head. The tragedy was enacted in the apartments of the couple over the saloon. Jealousy on the part of the husband led to the deed. Near Coshocton, Ohio, a work tram returning from the Morgan Run and Wade coal mines on the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad collided with 9 freight train, killing three people, Asbury human, Squire West and Moses Caton, and injuring twenty-five others. The dead and injured live in Coshocton. The bank of Milton, Wis., was robbed the other night, losing more than $2,000 in cush, stumps and bonds. Government bonds worth $1,720 arc missing. The robbery seems to have been the work of professionals. The private deposit boxes within the vault were all broken open and the contents scattered. Frank and George Bailey, prominent business men of Stockbridge, Mich., were found iu the rear of their bicycle aud jewelry store, both shot through the head. George was dead and Frank was dying. It is thought that Frauk, who bad been under a doctor’s care for several days with a mental trouble, shot bis brother and then himself.