Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Griggs, Cooper & Co.’s wholesale grocery at St. Paul was burned, entailing a loss of $150,000.

The rich Grantz gold mine at Deadwood, S. D., has been bonded to Denver people lor $1,000,000.

Two passenger trains on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad were wrecked by collision near Sulidu, Colo.

Mrs. M. C. Reed, wile of a minister at Platte City, Kan., was killed by falling into the basement of the church.

At Minot, N. I)., Hans Thorpe, a car repairer for the Great Northern, shot and killed his wife and then attempted suicide. lie is not seriously injured and is in jail.

The total gold production of the Cripple Creek district in November was $2,515,500, an increase of more than 25 per Cent over the largest previous monthly record.

R. W. Wallace, a deputy customs collector, was ambushed and murdered near Presidio, Texas, by a party of Mexicans, lie bad a notorious Mexican smuggler : u custody. L. I). Merritt, a private in Battery U, Third artillery, committed suicide at San Francisco by shooting himself through the head. Merritt enlisted last April in Indianapolis. Superintendent Wolfe of the Kansas City, Kan., schools has caused a sensation by ordering the teachers under his supervision not to appear in the schools in golf skirts. Peter Sekmidum and Mrs. Gekri, his sister, aged respectively 73 and 74 years, were found dead in their home near Sandusky, Ohio, by neighbors, having beeu asphyxiated by coal gas. The unknown bandit who met his death in South Omaha, Neb., while attempting to hold up Bank Clerk Trumble, has beeu identified as W. M. Cummings, living at 5422 Wabash avenue, Chicago. The dead body of John Creineaus, with a bulk-thole in the head, was found in a l«ed in his late home at Clenwood, Ohio. Gremeans was an aged and wealthy citizen. His young wife cannot be found. Clarence B. Douglas, a newspaper correspondent' charged with killing Editor James Williams at Ardmore, I. T.. in June, 181)7, has been found not guilty and discharged. His plea was self-defense. The 300 women employes of the SSwofford Dry Goods Company, of Kansas City, have returned to work, the company having agreed to restore the former scale of 05 cents a dozen for sewing overalls. The Rubber Goods Manufacturing Company, known as the rubber trust, will consolidate the plant at Peoria, 111., with the plant of the India company in Akron, Ohio, tripling the capacity of the latter plant.

C. J. Dressel, one of the leading men of that section, shot himself dead at Lesuettr, Minn. Mr. Dressel had represented the county in the Legislature, and was" a deputy revenue collector for the district.

The town of Garland, Texas, with 2,000 inhabitants and an important business point twelve miles from Dallas, was destroyed by fire. The property loss, exclusive of cotton and railroad interests, canuot fall below SIOO,OOO. Mrs. John A. Logan, Youngstown, 0., has received a message from General Otis through the War Department that the remains of Major Logan will not leave Manila for San Francisco until the latter part of December. Louis Schinska, a Wealthy resident of Dallas, Texas, was found dead in front of the county court house. His skull had been Crushed and his face disfigured. lie had been murdered for robbery, as bis pockets were empty when found. United States infantry, who was to have been tried before the United States Court for using War Department penalty en-

• - v elopes for private letter*, esc*pen from the county jail at Columbus, Ota*. A rear-end collision tietirero MNdEht- , bound Los Angeles paswugw rtnbr ! 2 and a local freight handled ts J. K. Miller, occurred near Islet a. twelve miles south of Albuquerque, X. ML, with «*ious results. Many passenger* neve cat and bruised.

Seventy-five homicides have occnrred in St. Louis during the eleven wmtte of thi* year. It exceeds by six the reread for the twelve mouths of 130 S. Of the many slayers, Frank B. Callaway is the only one whose life is. in jeopardy, he being the only one under sentence of drathAt St. Louis 4. Eads How, grands,-a, of James B. Eads, builder of the St. Louis bridge, and himself at raaiftmnaire. should he choose to accept the fortwne his relatives have been trying in vain for years to have him accept, ha* given $2,000 to “be expended for the public welfare."

John Graboni died at Chicago, the victim of holdup men. Oa the night of Xov. 22 be was attacked near his bowse. He resisted the highwaymen, and in the scuffle that followed was so seriously shot and stabbed that his removal to the hospital was necessary. The robber* e»i caped. L. A. Root, until recently chief clerk of the great enrup, Knights of the Maccabees, committed suicide at Port Horn, Mich., by swallowing carbolic acid. He left a note asking his wifi?’* forgiveness for thus ending bis life. Root resigned his position on account of nervous debility. Judge John A, Williams of the Federal Court, district of Arkansas, who recently sentenced National Committeeman Reese of the United Mine Workers of America to ninety days in prison for his partkspatiou in the Kansas coal miners’ si rake, was burned in effigy in the streets of Pittsburg, Kan. In Omaha Mrs. John W. Scott has brought suit for divorce on the ground that her husband insisted upon treating her sick child by Christian science when it was sick and that it was necessary to abandon her home ami return to her parents in order to secure medicail treatment for the little one.

The North Central Kansas Teach er-’ Association at Manhattan put itself am record when a young minister tried H* puT through a resolution condemning fiootiraiUA hot fight followed, ia which the ywaag women present defended football by speech and vote. The preacher's resolution was defeated by two to erne. At BuslmeJi. Nob., the Union 1 Pacific transcontinental trains collided with frightful effect. Fifteen passengers injured, though none fatally, is the report from the two trains, l»olh of which were heavily loath'd. One of the trains was taking water when the other crashed into it. Fireman Doone was fatally hurt. A wreck on the Neil)art branch of the Great Northern resulted in the death of three men and the destruction of an engine and ten cars. A heavy coal train from Belt, drawn by a Mogul engine, was about a mile from Great Falls, Mont., when the engine struck a steer, left the track and ten tars were piled on top of it. At Dallas, Texas, Roy Morton, 14 years old, killed Nora St, Clair. 11 years old, by shooting her with a Winchester rifle. The,tragedy took place in the store of the boy’s father. The little girl playfully snapped a toy pistol at the boy. The latter seized a rifle, exclaimed "Fit fix you, you •monk,’ ” and fired. The girl fell dead.

While fighting advancing flames in a tire in the Chicago lumber district several members of an eugipe company. Minded by 4he smoke, were swept off a shed roof by the debris from a falling wall, owe fireman being killed and one Majored, while two were unhurt. Ilarty Brothers and J. A. Gauger suffered damage reaching SOO,OOO. Officers of the Flint and Fere Marquette. steamer No. 3 reported on their arrival at Milwaukee front Lwiington that a passenger named Max Pfenning of Janesville, Was., committed suicide by jumping overboard while the steamer was in midlake en route to Milwaukee, Pfenning was 00 years old. No cause is known for his act.

"Forty men and women were crushed and briiised or burled through sjiaoe in a collision between a Wabash suburban passenger train and a cross-town electric car at Thirty-first and Stewart avenue, Chicago. The car was reduced to sjdinters and scattered along the road, and the motorman, struck down at his post, was so seriously injured that he died two hours after the accident.

The Colonial Zinc Company of New York has purchased from C. E. Miyne of Omaha a forty-acre mineral lease and the Mayne mill, near Galena, Kan.. 110 acres of mineral land of the Free Coinage mine and lease, including two mills, the Blue Wing and several large and small zinc and lead mines and first leases -on three tracts of rich mineral lands near Cartcrviile, Mo. The consideration was $300,000. Michigan lmultermeu are making arrangements at Toronto to move their mills and a large part of their plants from Michigan to the Georgian Bay hunber district on Lake Huron. They say the judgment upholding Ontario's right to prohibit the export of saw logs was so clear they have no hopes of being successful on appeal, and that all their mills in Michigan, being unable to get logs, are about to close.