Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1899 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Henry C. Niese was killed in the prize ring at St. Louis by Fred Bellerson. The private warehouse ot the City Elevator Company at Minneapolis was burned. Loss $50,000. The Brown & Hinman plant in the State prison nt Columbus, Ohio, was damaged $<5,500 by fire. Insured. Prosecuting Attorney Williams of Pawnee County, O. T., while arguing a case in court, fell dead with heart disease. At Fort Scott, Kan., Dr. F. C. Rainier, a physician, was accidentally killed by his own shotgun while hunting with u party of friends. Articles of incorporation for the M. C. Wetmore Tobacco Company of St. Louis were tiled at Jefferson City, Mo. The capital stock is $1,250,000. The Comedy Theater at San Francisco was destroyed by tire. The flames are supposed to have started in the scenery room. The loss will exceed $25,000. The Tacoma, Wash., Daily Ledger has changed hands, passing into control of the Tacoma Newspaper Company. It is understood the purchase price is $75,000.

Tire St. Louis and Iron Mountain Bailroad Company has tiled a mortgage in Sebastian County, Ark., for $40,000,000 in favor of the Metropolitan Trust Company of New York. The library of former United States Attorney General A. H. Garland, deceased, was sold at public auction at Little Boek for the insignificant sum of $125. It contained 2,490 volumes. Chief of Police Murphy of Moorhead, Minn., was shot while attempting to arrest a burglar of the name of Collins. Collins shot and ran, but fell, dropping his revolver, which Murphy secured and shot Collins in the head. .» At Mnrfa, Texas, a freight train ran into a hack at East Crossing. The hack contained Mrs. Lacey Duncan, Mrs. John Krupp and Mrs. William Coalson. Mrs. Lacey Dunean and Mrs. Krupp were thrown against the engine and instantly killed. Fire broke out in the broom department at the Stale penitentiary at Lincoln, Neb. The broom factory in which the fire started is owned by the Lee Broom and Duster Company, and their stock and machinery are a total loss, put at $25,000. covered by insurance. Representatives of Eastern wool firms, principally from Boston, have been canvassing the wool growing sections of Washington State in an effort to buy nest year’s clip. In the Banier reserve district advances have been offered at a full price when delivered of from 17 to 20 cents per pound. Chief of Police Corner of Cleveland has received a communication from the thieves who recently walked out of the jewelry store of Sigler Bros., in that city with about $20,000 worth of diamonds, and it is understood that negotiations have been opened which may result in the return of the gems. It is definitely announced that__the Armours have closed a deal for 240 acres just across the Toledo city line, upon wfiieh they will erect an enormous porkpaekiug establishment and stock yards/ second only to those in Chicago. N. B. Beam, tfie railway magnate, is said to have interested Mr. Armour in the city. Peter J. Studebaker. Jr., sou of the head of the wagonmaking firm of Chicago, died at San Francisco, of heart disease, aged 21 years. Young Studebaker had considerable literary ability and had recently finished a play entitled “Sword and Scepter,” which was to be produced at Fisher Opera House in San Diego Jan. 15. * Mrs. Aliev Palmer, .whose family lives in Alabama, was burned to death in a midnight fire in a boarding house at 1 Hubbard court, Chicago. The fifteen women boarders aroused from sleep were thrown into a panic and rushed, hither and thither for a means of escape, finally getting put in safety. The buildinjf was damaged to the extent of s4,<Mlp. , V Judge Wted Statt* UfreSt Opart at a decision in the case of the Detroit Photographing Company against Frank 8.

products of artists originally are pot subjects of copyright: Thia applies to all photographs of Rocky Mountain scenery. William Morganrath died at Dayton, Ohio, from the effect* of a blow on the head with a coffee cup, delivered by J. I. Jones. The young men were in a restaurant talking and joking, when Morganrath got the laugh on Jones, which angered him. Jones grabbed up the coffee cup and threw it at Morganrath, fracturing his skull. There was t fatal collision on the Cleveland, Akron and Columbus road at Newburg, Ohio. A passenger train, whose brakes refused to work, collided with a pony engine on a side track on the ground of the Ohio State hospital. Alonzo Sherman and Charles R. Ehlers,, en gineer and fireman on the pony engine, were fatally injured and died an hour later. At Litchfield, Minn., John Dougherty, Charles Brost, Philip Rowe, Casper Schmidt and William have been indicted for the murder of a man of the name of Miller in the Eden Valley jail. Miller had eloped with Schmidt’s wife and was found and locked up. The grand jury has discovered that a mob broke into the jail, choked him to death and left his body hanging In his cell. The coroner’s jury had returned a verdict that Miller committed suicide. The village of Bristol, Ind., has a new sensation. Mrs. Selin Setters received by express the other day a bright 0-months-old baby. She is completely mystified by the arrival of the youngster, which was delivered by the express agent, who refused to state whence it came, professing ignorance on that point. Mrs. Setters announces that she will adopt and rear the child. The infant was well clad, properly tagged and is believed to have started from a station on the Lake Shore road not far from Bristol.