Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Dr. J. C. Mulhall committed suicide at St. Louis while despondent over financial losses. The Kansas Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional the State law of 1897 taxing judgments. Mrs, H. G. Fuller, wife of the presiding judge of the South Dakota Supreme Court, is dead at Yimktou. Alonzo Jones of Deerfield township, 0., died, aged 87 years. He was a greatgrandson of Benedict Arnold of revolutionary fame. Three hundred negro laborers at Cleveland struck because they were compelled to ride in the same cars with Italians in going to wtfHf. Jonathan Thompson was killed and Thomas Wilson was fatally injured by a Pittsburg and Painesville train near Warren, Ohio. President. Harper reports that John D. Rockefeller has duplicated recent cash gifts to the University of Chicago, a sum exceeding $500,000. Citizens of Dickinson County. Kansas, have organized a relief association for the purpose of sending corn to India for free distribution in the famine stricken districts. The floods in the Patlatch and Clearwater rivers are receding. The weather in eastern Washington is' cooler and all danger from further floods is believed to be past. Officials of the National Association of Rod Mill Workers claim that the rodmen are out at all of the several mills- controlled by the American Steel and Wire Company in Cleveland. By the unanimous decision of three judges Michigan was "declared winner in the intercollegiate debate held at Ann Arbor with the representatives from the University of Chicago. Henry Carraher of Chicago committed suicide by shooting himself while in his coal office. He lived with his mother and brother in an adjoining house. He had been despondent over business troubles. J. S. Harrison, a real estate man of Kansas City, a brother of former President Harrison, was kicked on the head by a vicious horse at Beaumont, Texas. He was knocked senseless and his skull was fractured. The purchase of the McCassy Brothers’ washboard factory in Cincinnati by the Saginaw Manufacturing Company of Saginaw, Mich., is said to be the beginning of a consolidation of the washboard manufacturing business. Guilty of murder in the first degree was the verdict returned at Anthony, Kan., in the case of John Kornstett, the 16-year-old boy who has been on trial for the murder of his cousin, Nora Korn■tett, a 10-year-old girl. A mob of indignant citizens that rioted in the corridors of the City Hall at St. Louis and threatened violence to the delegates unless measures for lighting were passed, awed the house of delegates into compliance with its wishes. Fanny Hall, a pretty vaudeville actress, was shot three times at her room in a San Francisco hotel by Thomas Carbrey. Carbrey had followed the girl from Denver to Dawson City and back, but she ignored him. , He was arrested. Judge Thayer, in the United States Circuit Court at St. Louis, granted an application for a writ of habeas corpus and ordered the release of John P. Reese, lowa member of the executive board of the United Mine Workers of America. A cablegram has been received by Bamnei Snyder of Massillon, Ohio, from the United States minister at Holland, telling him that his claim as one of the heirs of a large estate is well established. The estate is said to be worth over $45,000,000. Frederick G. Bonfils and H. H. Tammen, proprietors of the Evening Post, were shot in their office at Denver, Colo., by W. W. Anderson, a prominent local attorney. The shooting was the result of a quarrel over the conduct of a murder case. The Hercules Torpedo Company’s

| nitroglycerin magazine, three mites from I Lima, Ohio, exploded, demolishing the ' building and severely shaking the city. ! The explosion was caused by au oil stove I used in the building to keep the glycerin from freezing. James House of Blue Mound, Hi., a patient at a St. Louis private sanitarium, jumped franr a second-story window and died of his injuries a few hours later. Before making the leap the frenzied man assaulted and seriously injured his nurse, Albert Debrin. Lewis H. Severance of New York has given $60,000 to Oberlin, Ohio, College for the new chemical laboratory. He has purchased the land on which the laboratory is now being built. Mr. Severance’s gifts to the college the last year were over $63,000. M. Jacoby shot and instantly killed Milton Nelson at the home of the latter at Spencer, Neb., and then killed himself. There is no known cause for the crime. The two men were friends and were preparing to go to town together when the tragedy occurred. The entire business portion of Colorado Springs was threatened by fire which broke out in the May Clothing store. Aided by a high wind the flames spread rapidly, but they were controlled after three buildings were destroyed. The total loss is estimated at $150,000. One of the children kidnaped from their mother in St. Louis last May aud taken to Buffalo, N. Y., has been returned to her by Superintendent of the Poor Lafayette Long. The mother is Mrs. August Stephany, who said that her husband stole their children for spite. After robbing John Parsons’ drug store in Chicago, and beating the proprietor into insensibility, two well-dressed thugs went behind the counter and waited on several customers. Parsons, who is 70 years old, was thrown into the basement. The robbers obtained SSO from the safe. The McGinnis Bank in Owensville, Ind., was entered on a recent night and the safe blown open, the explosion completely wrecking the building. It is rumored that about $15,000 was taken, but the bank officials refuse to give any information. The burglars escaped on a hand car. The big refining house of the Indiana Oil Tank Line Company at Lafayette, Ind., was destroyed by fire, together with fifty barrels of lubricating oil. The immense steel reservoirs near the structure were heated to an alarming degree. The estimated loss is $12,000, insurance $3,000. ' , - Austin K. Wheeler, treasurer of Lemon & Wheeler, the wholesale grocery company of Grand Rapids, Mich., committed suicide by shooting himself through the brain with a 32-caliber revolver. The act was committed in the basement of the company’s store. Death was instantaneous. Tom Coudon, a cowboy, and Miss Lillie Wilson, daughter of a prominent ranchman in the Sioux range, were married at Pierre, S. D. The match was in opposition to the wishes of the parents of the young woman, so the young couple took a sixty-mile ride on horseback to escape an irate father. A desperate attempt was made to assassinate Judge William Lochren, formerly pension commissioner, in the chambers of the judge in the United States court room at St. Paul. Minn. James Welch, the would-be murderer, had lost a damage suit before Judge Lochren and became insane over it. Memories of the murder at Sioux City of the Rev. George C. Haddock on Aug. 3, 1886, were revived by news from Oklahoma that Henry Peters, one of the men indicted for the crime, was not burned in the furnace of a Sioux City brewery, as had been supposed all these years, but is living in that territory. William Gladish, druggist at Omaha, mounted a pile of boxes in his store to watch telephone linemen at work, and when he lowered himself a brass hook projecting from the ceiling caught in one of his ears, suspending him, his feet just touching the floor. A telephone man had to cut the hook to liberate Mr. Gladish.