Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

For tin- first time in' many years the Mississipia river is t'rvwe over at St. lannis, . • ' -' -. L Sa® Fr-jiwri-xs- vitiates have voted to board the rilj in the sum of s4,s3*>,tMM> for park pnrinrseifc .'"'j Jganes A, Cassidy, an <dd member of the Outage Brawl of Trade, is dead at rii.renix. Anr. The nrain. .Intiidins <*f the Globe Window Glass Works burned at Findlay, Ohio. Tar loss is sL\W*>. At IJura, tifikt, larder Queen, a clerk, was toaruwil stead ire his room- He was asphx xnaosi. His hotrn- was in Chicago. Dr, Joseph Rhodes Buchanan. San Jose. Cal,, a ~w«dt-known- writer upon unedb ai and wreulf sciences, is dead, aged Kk Charges Ihtrham. an employe of H. M. King, a ran«-hn»a»t. near Arvada, committed suicide at Denver. Oto. by swaltowoiag cprrwswe sttHimate. Wyatt Sharp, who escaped from the Arkansas j»-nitentiary. has surrendered It® th«- (relive in I tenter. Sharp killed B. A». Whetstone in a fight at Huntington. The Cbryeni’Jy flyer on the Uniou Pacific Railroad crashed into the Boukier Valley train at Brighten. Colo. One man was killed and deren persons were in jnrvd Nine freight ears on the Santa Fe route'went through Cajon creek bridge, twelve wiies north of San Bernardino, Cat The care caught fire and the bridge was burned. At Ellinwood. Kam. Mary Beck, 42 years old. was found by one of her four chihirew dead in ,hrr racking chair, her throat cat and her forehead braised. Ii fat thought she killed TI ■ J Horefav Blythe mnekfey. heiress t# re-reral million <Mlars left her by fa* father. Thomas Blythe, has been ®uiet b ****■ SgffiSSS&riS

atantly killed by Charles Thoma*, aged 50 years. Bayles married Thomas’ 12-year-old daughter against the father’* wishes. G. N. Elliott. 75 years old. dropped dead at bis home in Topeka. Kan. He was probate judge Us the county for many years and was one of the early settlers there. Death was <•; I by paralysis of the heart. A special from l-‘- den. N. 1).. says: “Fire broke oiit in livery barn and halt the business portion of the town was consumed before the flames were under control.' The loss is estimated at $25.0U0, partially covered by. insurance.’’ Joseph Swtrtz. a Kansas City sjmrt, is wanted at Cotmcil Bluffs, wherb he had been playing fnro for a week. He pawned gotxl diamonds nud redeemed them, and in a day or two pawned paste diamonds to the amount of $2.8U0 and skipped. The largest insurance deal on'record was consummated at Galesburg, Il|., when the Coveniht Mutual Life Association voted to transfer its 28,000 meipberk and $45,000,000 insurance to the Northwestern Life Assurance Company of Chicago. J. XV, McAndrews, one of Haverly’s “original forty," .and known furoiud wide as the “original watermelon myn,’’ died at the insane asylum in Elgin, IIL, aged ♦44 years. He was comniitted hist May, when he was'■suffering from pnri>sis and steadily failed. The Farmers’ Mutual tinioii Fip- and Lightning Insurance Association ’Of Chardon prepared in Ashtabula. Ohio, an application to the common . pleas court of Geauga County asking for the dissolution of the company and thto winding up of its affairs. < , !-■ --e The lied River Valley Mutual Hail Insurance Company of Wahpeton, N. X)., was closed by Insurance Commissioner Harrison, who applied to Judge Lauder tor a receiver for the. concern. The company’s liabilities are over SSO,UIM)' and the only Charles <Chapman attempted Io drivjthrough a swollen streajn abort’ . Ardmore, 1. T., with his family, with the result that Mrs. Chapman and their daughter were drowned, l.'pou .being told of the accident, the. mother of Charles Chapman died of the shtick.

A Colorado Midland passetiger train, bound north, and ; a Sauia Fe freight train hnd a bead-end collision two miles south of Palmer Lake. Colo., Fireman Edgar Jones of t,he Santa Fc being killed and Engineers Leavitt and Ttitk being seriously hurt. No passengers were injured. The building and contents of the Bis-len-XVinzer wholesale grdcci y lit Burling ton, lowa, wore destroyed by five, eutail iug a .loss of $150,000. The iustirnnee is about $95*000. The firm isi well known throughout lowa, Illinois and Missouri. The intense cold prevented the firemen from doing effeetivc work. Eugene V. Smalley died -suddeaiy at his home in St. Paul. Minn. Mr. Smalley was the editor and 'published of the Northwest Magazine. His death was due to stomach trouble. As a newspaper man, author and publisher Mr. Smalley was one of the most widely known writers of the Northwest.

The three-story building in Washington street, Indianapolis, occupied by Brosnan Brothers, dry goods, was gutted by lire. The firm loses about $65,000, twothirds of which is covered by insurance. The buihling was owned by Edward Seburmann and was damaged to the extent of several thousand dollars. The Toledo and Western Railroad Company filed articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State nt Columbus, Ohio. The capital stock is $1,800,000.The coinpany is to construct and operate a railroad.’ by--electric or other motive power, from Toledo, through Lucas and Fulton (•owntres, to the Michigan line. Former Citngressman Ben Clover committed suicide at his home 'Hear, Douglas. Butler County. Kan., by shooting. Despondeney resulting from sickness and poverty was the cause. .Clover formerly represented the third district in Congress, and was among the first to l»e elected by the famous Farmers’ Alliance movi’iuent. W. J. Milsap, a prominent stockman, was seized by two mon when about to enter the Klein Hotel at Walsenburg, Colo., and Whs robbed of The money was mostly in his coat and vest pockets, and these garments were torn from him. No trace of the criminals has been found. .Mr. Milsap was on his way to Mexico to' buy cattle.

Inspector Betz of the Postoffice Department has been examining the accounts of the postmaster at Pomeroy, Ohio, XV. 11. Huntley, and has discovered a shortage of $2,000, the postmaster having made no report or return of money for six months. The postmaster’s bondsmen have taken charge of the office and will make good the amount.

I'he litigation at Hamilton, O„ where it was sought to prevent the consolidation of the Cincinnati and Hamilton and the Cincinnati and Miami Valley Elee-: trie roads, has reachetl the Supreme Court. The consolidation would give a continuous line from Cincinnati to Dayton, forming part of the longest electric system in the world. The courts at Hamilton declined to interfere, and now a stay has been secured until the Supreme Court can hear and pass on the matter. A special from Astoria, Ore., says: "The steam launch of the I'nited States revenue cutter Commodore Perry was sunk by running on the Sylvia de Grace rocks about 000 yards from shore. The Perry was lying near Tongue Point and the launch put off with five men on board to bring back some of the officers who were in Portland. Soon after striking the launch began to fill. A fisherman on shore read the distress signals and reached the wreck in a small boat just in time t,o take the ■incn off before the launch sank.” Judge Munger in the Federal court at Omaha declared the Greater American Exposition Company bankrupt. The proceedings were brought by laborers and others who held unsecured claims and were not contested by the exposition’ officials. The opposition came from some of she creditors who, were in ft position to get their claims in full through the possession of property or aqdinnts due the exposition company. The decision releases about .s.‘>o,ooo which has been tied, np in banks pending the decision of the case. \ ‘ h .Judge Moer of the District Court atl Dntath; Muilu/h** made an important posits near Ely, Minn. In the case of the Midwnerl copapftny against F* >V. Eaton j t^ T gjMWt of . the secretaries of the interior V flag W'Kobl?, setrarfthe patbht uWIW’ ’.: sirai- i■ . oojwr?c a : >.f •.t w? ' ’l4 bii? . a** Aid

which the Midway company claimed and awards the title to the scrip defendant*, Eaton; and otJiers. . The esi»cmies of litK gation in this krfise hare amounted to S2<MMKM). An appeal will be taken at once. ' Eden Baptist Church at Stromsberg, Neb., wicb was dedicated a year ago. was destroyed by fire and Mrs. j. L. Johnson and daughter wore seriously injured. The lire was caused by an explosion of .acetylene gas, with which the church was lighted. - The gas generator and the furnace were both located in the luisemeut, and it is supposed that escaping gas was ignited by the furnace. Meetings were being heM nnd a Ihrge numbei- of people were present, hut most of them had just left the building when the explosion occurred. The building was badly wrecked and what was not destroyed by the explosion was consumed by fire. The American, Window Glass Company, which has kept its t’orfy-four factories, representing 1,700 pots capacity, idle since last June, has again gouC into operation. There was great rejoicing at Hartford City. Ind„ where the trust, has the largest window glass factory iu the West, in addition to a small twelve-pot concern. Altogether 1,500 workmen return to' w-ork ifi that city'dml probably 15,IMI0'throughout thei gas bdtc 'lridiana is the greatest glass producing State in the country. There are forty-five window glass, concerns, ,tiC|y flint factories, twenty-liye, green houses apd threo plate glass factories. The \yqidow glass industry is entirely in control ' of labbr unions. There is not a iioiiniiioii' window glass factorj- in the .United StatesThe total capacity-of window: glass, factories of the United States is 2,(507 pots, oMyhiclj IMSO [*)ts ar,u ipjlndiapyi. Eightyfive per eent. of the entire capacity is Controlled bj* the ti J ust.