Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

W. O. Parker died suddenly of apoplexy in the city hospital at Norwalk, Ohio, aged 71 years.

Unrequited love caused George Spees, a young man at Newark, Ohio, to commit suicide with a revolver.

Charles It. Groves, a politician and salooukeefler of Omaha, was murdered by Tom Collins, a locul tough. The thirty-fourth annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic will be held iu Chicago Aug. 28, 20, 30 aud 81, 10(H). At Ashtabula, Ohio, fire destroyed F. M. Rogers’ livery barn. Eleven conveyances were burned. Loss $3,000, partially insured. At Ilarrisouvillc, Mo., fire destroyed the buildings aud yards of the Hurley Lumber Company, causing an estimated loss of $20,000. Congressman-elect Roberts of Utah hns issued an address to the American people denying the right of the House to prevent his being sworn in. At Bt. Louis, Mo., the M. C. Wetmore Tobacco Company, with a capital stock of $250,000, has been formed to run independently of the tobacco trust. An Englishman, claiming to be the agent of Cecil Rhodes and l)r. Jameson, is negotiating for promising properties in the Rainy Lake region of Minnesota. The Cherokee Legislature has passed an act employing Judge William M. Springer of Illinois ns resident attorney for the Cherokees at Washington for one year. The Sacramento, Cal., ehnmber of commerce has adopted resolutions emphatically protesting against the Senate ratifying the Jamaica treaty for reducing the tariff on citrus fruits. Because of family trouble, John Curtis shot and killed X. B. Thompson ami wounded Henry Smith, six miles wefet of El Reno, Okin. Curtis has given himself up. Smith will recover. The manufacturing potters west of the Alieghauies at u meeting in East Liverpool, Ohio, agreed to an advance of 10 per cent on the price of white ware, to tnke effect the first of the year. The Guyana Gold Mining Company, with its principal offices at Marietta, 0., has been incorporated in West Virginia by A. I). Follett and others Of Marietta. The authorized capital is $3,000,000. At Bddcn, Neb., J. N. Blinkiron, n wealthy stockman, was killed by C. F. Harris, a newspaper man. The tragedy resulttsl from an article regarding Blinkiron which appeared iu Harris’ paper.

Col. James Graham and William I\ Cunneeu, two prominent politicians of Bt. Mary’s, Kan., drank from u bottle containing a disinfectant, believing it to be whisky. Both were made seriously ill. The Fort Dodge and Omaha Railroad is practically completed. It is expected that the running of a local service between Council Bluffs aud Fort Dodge, lowa, will be commenced in a few days. The Kansas Supreme Court has declared invalid the law preventing corporations employing more than ten persons from paying them Hi scrip or anything other than lawful United States money. In Lincoln, Neb., Dr. Charles W. Little,. a practitioner of osteopathy, was found guilty of a violation of the medical laws of the State by a jury in the District Court. The action was begun by the State Board of Health. A suburban passenger train op the Burlington road ran down a hand car bearing five men 100 yards west of the bridge at Alton, 111., killing two men outright and fatally injuring two others. The accident is attributed to henry fog. E. R. Howe of Chicago died at the county hospital ju Los Augeles, Cal., from selfcjntlicted gunshot wound*. He shot himself with Suicidal Interit at'Santa Ana on Nov. 15. Uis family, from whom he is estranged, live in Chicago. Taylor Kirk, a noted outlaw, was found gnttty at El Reno, Okla., of the murder of his sister, Mrs. Mary Garborough, at f-i ■ ■ ’ - At

Cloud Chief, Okie. Kirk will be sentenced to death. He shot his sister because she would not go with him to a dance. Oruio Billingsley, the 5-year-old son of Mrs. Annie Biningsley, was burned to death in Chicago. The boy got hold of a box of matches, set fire to bis clothes, and when the mother came into the room was almost burned to a crisp and dead. Warren Arms, third vice-president and active manager of the tin plate trust, in a letter announces that the Riverside mills of Cincinnati will probably be idle all winter. The mill was closed Nor. 1 and over 300 employes left without work.

A head-end collision between a westbound through freight and an east-bound fruit special occurred twelve miles west of Cheyenne, Wyo., An the Union Pacific road. The fireman of the cast-bound, Benjamin Stocking, was killed instantly. Fire at Greenville, Texas, destroyed business property valued at $(55,0U0. The heaviest losses are: Van ltonket’s dry goods store, $14,000; B. O. Wylie & Co., shoes and gents’ furnishing goods, $26,000; Mrs. V. A. King, two biiildings, SIO,OOO. At Tyndall, 8. D., the jury in the famous liquor case of Mary Stafford against Henry Lovinger has returned a verdict of $1,425 damages for the plnintiff. The plaintiff’s husband was killed while intoxicated with liquor obtained in the defendant’s saioou.

Fire damaged several buildings at St. Louis, nnd the entire department was called out. The losses are as follows: Sanders Engraving Company, $50,000; G. H. Boehiner’s retail boot and shoe house, $15,000; North Broadway Furniture house, $50,000.

The Governor of New Mexico iu his annual report estimates the population of the territory at 200,500 and says this year's record will exceed almost all former yeurs in the revenue derived from produce, sheep and cattle. The report renews the plea for statehood. Former Lieut. Colin H. Ball is searching for the little Filipino boy who came from Ma.vla as the Twentieth Kansas’ mascot. Lieut. Ball took the young insurgent to his home iu beduu for the purpose of educating him, but the boy tired of school and ran away. % The west-bound Union Pacific passenger trajn known as the Colorado Special was wrecked at Grand Island, Neb., and Engineer Meyers and Fireman Murphy were seriously injured. Thp wreck was caused by an open switch, the train running into a string of freight cars. As Soon as certain patent suits now pending upon fruit jar glass blowing machines are disposed Of a trust of fruit jar manufacturers will be formed, so it is said upon reliable authority, and the Ball Brothers’ plant of Mnccle, Ind., will be the principal member of the trust. Practically the whole of the Stuck river valley, Wash., is one vast sheet of water. The river itself is a raging flood, covering acres of the most productive laud iu the State aud threatening some substantial dwellings. It is Higher than ever before known since- the valley was settled by white men. v

A difficulty occurred at the Black Diamond coal mines, twenty miles east of Itoekdale, Texas, in which some fifteen or twenty shots were fired, two Mexicans being killed .and one Mexican and a white boy wounded. Thomas Johnson, a negro, acknowledged having done the killing and surrendered. Judge Thayer in the United States Court at St. Louis granted a writ of habeas corpus in the case of John Reese, one of the members of the executive council of the United Mine Workers’ Association of lowa, in jail in Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kan., for contempt of court. Bail is fixed at $3,000. Louis F. Menage, the fugitive president of the defunct Northwestern Guaranty Loan Company of Minneapolis. Tv ho returned voluntarily from his hiding place iu Mexico a few months ago, after five years’ absence, has been made a free man, all the indictments being quashed on,the grounds that there was no chance of conviction.

Albert Edholm, a prominent Omaha jeweler, was assaulted in his store by G. C. Porter, a newspaper correspondent. Accounts differ as to whether- Porter shot his-victim or clubbed him in the face with the hammer of his pistol. Edholm is positive that he was shot. Porter is equally emphatic in declaring that he did not shoot.

George H. Sawyer, foreman of the Veto ranch, was found dead in a pasture southeast of Goldeu, Colo. Sawyer drove to Denver for supplies, and while returning his team ran away, throwing him out and so seriously injuring him as to render him helpless. The body was found three days later, frozen stiff, and surrounded by coyotes. During a controversy over religiou between J. 8. Charlebois, divine healer, and Mniaehy Dwyer, a well-known resident of Butte, Mont., Dwyer attempted to strike the healer, but dropped dead before he could do so. Charlebois says that he appealed to heavei- for protection aud he believes that Dwyer’s death was an act of Providence.