Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Dr. C. L. Diven, I). D„ pastor of Unity Church in St. Paul. Minn., is dead. The Chinese Six Companies has agreed to help the San Francisco police suppress highbinder murders. Secretary Gage has asked Congress to appropriate $17,500 to equip a new marine hospital in Chicago. In Kansas City John J. Kelley, a former policeman, was shot and killed by Worth Bailey, a bartender. John Findley Wallace of Chicago has been elected president of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Charles T. Yerkes is said to be backing the Missouri Electric road, which is trying to secure a franchise at Kansas City. Clifford R. England, who admits that he embezzled SIO,OOO from the Warren Scharf Asphalt Paving Company of Detroit, Mich., in 1897, was arrested in Chicago. At Leadville, Colo., two masked men held up Golob's saloon. Jerry Ryan, the bartender, refused to throw up his bands and was shot twice by one of the robbers. dying instantly. The robbers fled. At Fort Worth, Texas, Edwin E. Chase killed himself with a pistol, the ball passing through his head. He was formerly a wealthy resident of that city, aud at one time he was worth more than $250,000.

Three safe robbers entered the picture frame factory of E. B. Clark & Co., 156 to 170 Mather street. Chicago, bound and gagged the watchman, Michael Smith, blew open the safe and escaped with small booty. Ten persons were injured in a train collision on the Great Northern road at Hillyard. Wash. A passenger train and a freight train crashed together during a, dense fog. None of the injured persons is seriously hurt. The Bank of Elletsville, Ind., was robbed between 1 and 2 o’clock on a recent morning. It is repotted that $1,500 was taken. The robbers pried open the windows with crowbars and used nitroglycerin on the safe. Mrs. Susan G. Tevis received nearly all of the estate of her late husband, Lloyd Tevis, by a decree of distribution from Judge Coffey at San Francisco. The property distributed to her is valued at about $7,000,000. Spittoons will be placed at distances of 200 feet along the streets of Cleveland if an ordinance introduced in the Council is given approval. The novel plan to aid in keeping the city clean was suggested in all seriousness. Thomas Hennesy. manager of the St. Louis Radiator Manufacturing Company, jumped through a third-story window at Mercy hospital iu Chicago. His injuries resulted in death. Mr. Hennesy was delirious at the time. Rev. J. M. Atwater died at Cleveland, Ohio, aged 62 years. He was at one time president of Hiram College, then a professor in Eureka College. Illinois, and later president of Central Christian College at Albany. Mo. Orders issued by the Great Northern Express Company will do much to prevent evasion of tile North Dakota prohibition law. Agents have been instructed to refuse to accept in future all C. O. D. shipments of liquor. The Zanesville and Ohio River Railroad, extending from Zanesville to Marietta along the right bank of the Muskingum, has been sold after several years of receivership to the Ohio and Little

Kanawha Company, organized by J. Hope Sutor, tl>e receiver. A small boat containing two Italian fishermen was run down on San Francisco bay by the ferryboat San Rafael. Gerolame Olivieri was drowned and his companion, Andrew Castagnola. saved himself by clutching the steamer's paddle whedl as she slowed down. Jack Morrissey of Oklahoma was quarantined in a Wichita. Kan., hotel upon the day he was to have married Ella Andersen, and before the quarantine was lifted the fickle Ellu had run away to Arkansas City and married Henry Adams, a railroad brakeman. 8. A. Gibbs of Tacoma, Wash., a prominent shingle dealer, has brdught suit, in the United States Court against the Washington Red Cedar Shingle Manufacturers' Association for damages in the sum of $51,600 tor a violation of the act of Congress itt relation to trpsts. Ex-Congressmon J. Fraifk Hanly and George P. Haywood, opposing attorneys in the Hinesley case on trial in the Circuit Court at Lafayette. Ind., came to blows, and it required the combined efforts of bailiffs, jurymen, witnesses and attorneys to separate the angry men. As a Grand Trunk passenger train was passing through the tunnel from Port Huron to Sarnia it run into a light engine, almost completely demolishing the engine. William Riggs, the engineer, and a freight hand named John A. Burke, were instantly killed. The passengers were uninjured. A wreck occurred on the Erie Railroad near Milton Tower, Ohio. A freight train broke in two and then came together. The concussion exploded a tank of naphtha and burned two freight cars. Au unknown man, apparently about 25 years of age, was run over by the entire train and ground to pieces. Fire did SOO,OOO damage to the fivestory brick building at 30, 38 and 40 Woodward avenue, Detroit, occupied by the Mutual Storage Company, Valentine Schroeder, confectioner; Gebhard Paper Company, Schneider & Sieder, awniug manufacturers, and the Diamond Printing Ink Company. Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, author of “In His Steps," is to be given an opportunity to edit a daily newspaper as he thiuks a Christian daily should be edited. For the week beginuiug March 13 he will have absolute control of every department of the Topeka, Kan., Capital, news, editorial and advertising. A report has reached Redwood Falls, Minn., from relatives of the deceased that old man Slover recently died in California aud that he made a deathbed confession that he had killed Moses Lufkins in Gales township some twelve years ago, instead of William Rose, who was afterward executed for the crime. In the craw of a turkey Alexander Bjorkiund of Denver, Colo., recently purchased for $1.15 his wife found a gold nugget valued at sl.lß. Now Bjorkiund has the mining fever aud is making every effort to find where the fowl came from, judging that if the place can be located it must be rich placer ground. Two pine land deals involving 230,000,000 feet and $765,000 have just been closed at Duluth. W. H. Cook. Henry Tourrist and a Wisconsin man have bought 200,000,000 feet of pine for $700,000 from W. A. Avery of Detroit, Mich. Wright & Davis of Saginaw have sold 30,000,000 feet to Rupp & Kerr. The Commercial Bank of the town of Silver Lake, Ind., was wrecked by masked men, who blew up the vault and safe with nitroglycerin. The cracksmen carried away about $4,000 in paper money. They were compelled to leave several sacks of silver,, owing to a battle begun by- citizens. These sacks contained sls,At Fort Worth, Texas, the convention of the National Live Stock Association considered a resolution that all public lands adapted to grazing purposes be made subject to lease by stockmen who are citizens of the States wherein the lands lie. The resolution was adopted by a vote of 322 to 227 despite strong opposition. The Parquet Milling Company’s mill at Lima, Ind., was totally destroyed by a mysterious explosion. George Lunphier, the fireman, was terribly scalded by escaping steam from the boiler. The onlycause that can be assigned for the accident is an explosion of dust. Parts of the boiler and machinery were blown 500 feet. The loss is estimated at $5,000. At Muncie, Ind., fire, probably of incendiary origin, destroyed the entire plant of the Union Traction Company, together with the Snyder cooperage works and a dwelling house. The estimated loss on the traction company’s plant is between $90,000 and SIOO,OOO, fully covered by insurance. Every motor car save one used in the city street car service was consumed. In the breach of promise suit of R. Kirk against Mrs. Mary Eggleston, tried in the District Court at Larned, Kan., the jury returned a verdict in favor of Kirk for sl,(jsoT Kirk boarded with Mrs. Eggleston and claimed that she borrowed money from him by leading him to believe she loved and would marry him. After getting the money Mrs. Eggleston refused to marry him. The effort to protect the standing pine in the environs bf Walker. Minn., resulted in the display of firearms by citizens who objected to its iteing cut off by the contractors to whom it was sold. There arc about 10,000,000 feet involved, worth $50,000. The owner, T. B. Walker of Minneapolis, has for three years offered to sell it, without result. His agents now have granted more time and it is expected the town will buy the pine. At Fort Scott, Kan., a mob of 400 men lynched George and Ed Meeks, alias Smith, twb Kansas City criminals, who were convicted of the murder of Leopold Edlinger, a young farmer of Bates Courty, Missouri. The same mob was prevented from hanging Ainos Phillips, an old Bates County farmer, who is convicted of the same crime, by a determined stand taken by the Sheriff and his deputies, assisted by conservative citizens. The Supreme Court at Des Moines, lowa?"handed down au opinion sustain? ing the constitutionality of the collateral inheritance law, passed three years ago. It imposes a tax of 5 per cent on all inheritances go to collateral heirs. The heirs of the estate of Frank C. Stewart of Council Bluffs objected to paying and in the lower court Judge Thornel held the law unconstitutional, but that as amended a- year later it is constitutional. Jean Marcoux, a grocer at 5024 Center avenue, Chicago, owes the return of $302 to the courage and daring of his daughter Delia. He had been swindled out of the money by clever confidence

mew two hours before. In order to recover the money, Mias Murcoux had pursued the swindlers in a buggy, then I warded the electric car upon which they were riding, and fearlessly attacked the man who had the money. She seized him by the throat and choked him so hard that he gave up the money.