Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Minnie Seligmati Cutting; the actress, has begun suit at St. Louis for a divorce from her husband, Robert Cutting of Xew York. Boss Haymond, formerly a well-known journalist, has been sentenced to the Milwaukee house of correction for sixty days for vagrancy. At Wellsville, Mo., a Wabash passen ger west-bound struck ft. cow. The engine was ditched and T iceman John Robinson was killed. J. E. Sutton, editor and proprietor of the Daily Reporter of Logansport, Ind., committed stiieide at St. Paul by shoot iug. No cause is known. At Belpre, Ohio, some one emptied two gallons of paris green into a large cis tern belonging to Samuel Wilcpxen. Detectives are working on the ease. Three men were killed by the falling of an elevator in the furnace room of the brass foundry in the branch works of the Illinois Steel Company in Chicago. The boiler house of the oil works on the Kisler farm, northwest of Lima, 0., was blown up by anTxplosion of natural gas. Frank Trembly, the plumber, was killed. The Hennessey Mercantile Company’s warehouse at Butte, Mont., was destroyed by tire. Loss estimated at $57,000. full insurance on stock and $20,000 on building. ~

George K. Nash has been inaugurated Governor of Ohio. A great crowd participated in the inauguration ceremonies, which took place in the rotunda of the , State House in Columbus. Commander Duncan Kennedy, inspee- j tor of the eleventh lighthouse district, stationed at Detroit, Mich,, has been ordered to take command of the cruiser Detroit, now at Key West. Hans Kavene, a well known German actor, who had been playing recently al the Cleveland Theater, was instantly killed by falling from a stairway at his boarding house. His neck was broken. As a result of a drunken* quarrel at a Piute Indian eamp near Pineville, Ore., Matthew Wewa killed his wife, fatally wounded his brother. Charley, and two squaws named Tyler and Susie and killed himself. A barn on the Fox farm, two miles south of Hamilton. Ohio, burned to the ground the other night. Eight tramps were sleeping in the barn. Only six have been found since the tire. Of these two are fearfully burned. Three men blew open the safe in the Lucky Bank at Wolf Lake, Ind., and robbed it of its contents. The amount secured is not known. It is believed a robbery at Noblesville the night before was committed by the same men. Suit was tiled in the District Court of Dallas, Texas, for the ownership of the land upon which Oak Clift', a suburb of Dallas with 5,000 inhabitants, is located. An alleged missing heir has been found. The property involved is worth millions. J. F. Crennan, manager of the Topeka. Kan., branch of the Standard Oil Company, was run over ami killed by a Santa Fe switch engine. Crennan was on his way to his office in the railroad yards and it is thought his foot caught in a “frog." \ Three men (Altered the branch office of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company at 30th street and Stewart avenue, Chicago, and robbed the cashier, Louis D. Vitt, of all the money in his care and of his geld watch. Thelriax’sejUHtlL. Tilt* loss is about $350. Rev. J. 11. Morely of Minneapolis, has been elected president of the Fargo, N. D., College, to succeed P. C. Simmons, who recently dropped dead. Morely has been superintendent of home missions for the Congregational Church in Minnesota for fifteen years. ” As the result of a supposed quarrel Charles Root, a farmer 40 years of age of Texas townri.ip, Mich., and wife

are dead. The crime was committed Mr. Root, who first cut his wife’s throat with a razor and then killed himself in the same way. Two small boys survive. Mra. Mary Patrick Stanton of Cleveland left her two children, a boy of 5 years old and a girl, Mary, 3 years old, alone. 1 They played happily for awhile, when the boy. spying a pok<*r, seized it, thrust it into the tire, and when it turned hot thrust it into the girl’s eye, burning out the optic. Marshall Field, owner of the Woman's Temple trust bonds, has- consented to extend the time for the payment of interest to give Mrs. Matilda B. ('arse and her associate trustees an opportunity to make good their promise that the Temple in Chicago is to "be saved" as a memorial to Miss Frances E. Willard. The Pioneer Steel Elevator Company has been organized for the const ruction of a very large grain elevator at Duluth, Minn. The men back ot the enterprise are Walter Douglas. G. F. Piper, W. S. Archer and ('. E. Thayer, all but the last named being formerly linseed oil men, who sold out to the American I,inseed Oil Company lately. Dr. Theophilus F. I’ravel and wife, of Westville, Ind., died suddenly, the latter expiring within a few minutes of the time of her husband's death. Dr. Fruvel wits lying on a lotinge when stricken with heart disease. Ten minutes biter Mrs. Fravel was also stricken with heart failure, death resulting before the body of her husband hud grown eold. The power house of the Cudahy Oil Company, located north of Muncie, lud., in the Blackford County oil field, was demolished by an explosion, causing a loss of $10,606, in addition to the fact that forty producing oil wells must lie idle until repairs are made in the machinery. 'The fire originated from an attempt of an employe to thaw out a frozen gas pipe. The coroner's jury that investigated the death of Wiutieid Raitdletnan, the express messenger who was killed in the wreck on the Union Pacific Railroad at Brighton. Colo., has found that the collision was caused by the criminal carelessness of Conductor E. W. McAllister. This man lost his reason at the scene of thq accident, but is slowly recovering his mental balance.

At a meeting of the St. Paul stock exchange at South St. Paul. Minn., a formal protest was drawn up and forwarded to Washington against the passage of the Tawney bill for taxing oleomargarine. It is claimed that the passage of this bill would damage live stock interests, certain classes of stock being of value especially for the fat. which is used in manufacturing oleomargarine. : a

I'wo months ago. C. M. Neisou, a Swedish farmer livingteight miles northwest of Kearney. Nell., disappeared. It Was generally believed he had gone to Sweden, but Sheriff Funk thought otherwise and made a search of the premises. Nelson’s headless trunk, with one arm missing, was dug up. Theodore, one of Nelson's sons, confessed that he had killed his father by striking him on rhe head with a pitchfork. He then dragged the body away ami buried it. Louis Weisner Jr., a dealer in horses, was shot five times and fell dead on Main street at Stevens Point, Wis. The shots were tired by Gabriel Green, a man aged 70 years. Green’s sons are business rivals of Weisner. Several weeks ago Green's barn and fourteen horses were destroyed by tire the night after the Green'S had won an important lawsuit over Weisner. The Greens accused Weisner of being responsible for the fire and Weisner's death is a result. Willie Daggs, aged 8 years, sou of John Daggs, a farmer living near Ellsworth, Ind.. killed his sister Lena, aged 12 years. The children were playing in the yard and quarreled Over the ownership of a knife. The boy went into the house and returned with a shotgun, remarking to his sister, “Your time has come.” He shot the girl in the breast above the heart. She died. His brother, tins Daggs, shot and killed hi.s brother John four years ago. The family is prominent. ’