Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

William Wood, of Pearl Bryan fame, has left the navy and is working for a San Francisqp newspaper. At San Antonio, Tex., Fred Lee, an insurance agent, was found deiid in the river. He was probably murdered. The explosion of a nitroglycerin magazine near Warren. Ind., shook buildings in all the towns within twenty-five miles. Gov. Wells of Utah Ims issued a proclamation calling an election to be held April 2 for the purpose of electing a representative to Congress. The postoffice at Bradley, 111., was entered by burglars, the safe blown open and about $1,400 worth of stamps and S4O cash taken. The burglars escaped. Plans are being prepared for the new modern hotel to be erected by the Fred Crocker estate in San Francisco. It is calculated that the hotel will cost at least $1,500,000. The Ohio Valley stove manufacturers have decided to advance the prices of stoves 10 per cent on May 1 unless there should be a slump iu the iron market iu the meantime. Henry Miller, the millionaire California cattle king, was seriously injured in a runaway accident at Gilroy, Cal. lie was removed to his home in Sau Francisco and may reCover. The people of the village of Delta, 0., were surprised at the return of Oliver Pike, whose funeral was held there four years ago and whose body was supposed to be buried in the village cemetery. David M. Magee died at Oxford, Ohio, aged 89 years. He originated the famous Poland-China breed of hogs in 1840, and made Ohio famous as a swine-breeding State. Mr. tea gee accumulated a big fortune.

Bridget Smith, a wealthy recluse, was found dead seated in a ehair in her room ut St. Louis. A number of valuable rings, a handsome, gold watch- and other expensive jewelry were found on a dresser. Rudolph Nunnemacher. head of the real estate department of the Pabst Brewing Company, died at Milwaukee, after an operation for appendicitis. Mr. Nunuemacher was u son-in-law of Copt. Frederick Pabst.Findlay, Ohio, hunters discovered a large number of dead rabbits with their throats much swollen. Physicians examined one and pronounced the cause of death diphtheria. They warn iieoplc against eating rabbits. The third of a series of dynamite explosions within the city limits of Leadville, Colo., occurred the other day, wrecking the handsome residence of A. V. Hunter, the millionaire mine owner, and the house of J. C. Ritchey, adjoining. At Oklahoma City, O. 'l'., "Tom'’ Qneenan. a bartender, driven crazy because he had gambled and lost his money, shot and killed his Wife and then jumped from a second-story window, injuring himself so that he is not expected to live. Fortner Gov. Jones Wolf of the Chickasaw Nation died of pneumonia at Denison. Texas. He was one of the most noted Indian statesmen that ever lived, and was the last of the full-blooded Indian governors. lie wus the historian of his tribe. A large four-story brick .building, occupied by, McK.msick, Copciin & Riduell, confectioners on Second avenue, ?M|tdieapolis, was dwtrbywl by total loss being a I mot SI2tMH)6. Hevernl smaller stores were damaged to the amount of $5,000. • William Brew,er made-application for ■ receiver for the Ifcotf e$ J’ottcwr Company at Warren, Ohio, claiming Tt is insolvent. Brewer has one-fifth of the

SIOO,OOO capital stock. He and athei* stockholders disagreed. The conrt has ordered a statement. F. A. Schumacher, sou of the "oatmeal king,” is at the bead of a new company being formed at Akron, Ohio, the American Cereal Company. Ferdinand Schumacher will be interested in the company, at least to the extent of permitting the use of his name therewith. Three men, equipped for safe-blbwing, fell victims to the revolver aim of the Quincy, 111., police. Two wore killed and the third wounded and made prisoner, but not until a running battle had been waged through the lobbies and Aip and ddsvn stairways of the Moecker Hotel. In St. Louis fire destroyed a four-story building occupied by the Missouri Tent and Awning Company. An official of the company estimated the total value of the building, stock and machinery at $120,000, fully covered by iusurauce. The Calumet building was damaged $200,000. D. K. Pearsons, the Chicago philanthropist, has endowed Fairmount College of Wichita, Kan., with $50,000. Some time ago he gave $25,000 to this institution. This college will shortly receive an endowment of $150,000 from sources which its uiauagers refuse to divulge at present. The biggest order for mules in use in the Transvaal yet placed in the Kansas City market by the British Government is uuder consider;! ion. Local firms are also said to be bidumg on furnishing the British with 1,000 horses for use on the continent, to replace those sent to South Africa. At Geneva, Ohio, there was sold at public auction the other day the entire circus and menagerie owned by Walter L. Main. Lions, tigers, elephants and other animals went to the highest bidders, and the rolling equipment, from Roman chariots to private railway cars, was disposed of. ‘

Oue-half of the three-story building in Denver, Colo., occupied by W. A. Hover & Co., wholesale druggists, collapsed, the three floors above the street level, with their contents, dropping into the basement. The firm carried a stock worth about $125,000. Its loss will uot fall short of $50,000. The Illinois anti-trust law of 1803 was declared unconstitutional by Judge Kohlsaat in the United States Circuit Court in Chicago. Because of the section which exempts from its provisions the agriculturist and stock raiser, the court held that the statute is tainted with class and special legislation. Burglars blew open the vault ami safe of the bunk at Deerfield, Wis., and secured SB,OOO. The thieves gained access to the vault by digging out the brick at the rear. The noice of the explosion was heard, but no attention was paid ta it and the robbery was not discovered until the next morning. Suit was tiled in the United States Court at Columbus, Ohio, by the Michigan Sult Company against W. A. Wason of Columbus for over $32,000. the suit being a test of the Ohio trust laws. Wasou was agent of the concern and states that he purposely held back the money to test the trust law. The steel collier Miami, belonging to the Pacific Coast Company, was wrecked ou a reef near Oyster bay, on the east shore of Vancouver island. She is a total loss, as she broke in two and went to the bottom. All members of the crew were saved. The loss is estimated at' $250,000, with SIO,(XX) additional for the cargo. A convention held at Devil’s Lake, N. D., to take measures to secure the opening of the Fort Totten Indian reservation ami to throw open to setlement 200,000 acres of land not taken in severalty by the Indians, voted to memorialize Congress to appoint a commissioner to treat with the Indians and effect a sale.

A runaway electric ear on the Dayton and Xenia Traction road left the track at a sharp curve just east of Dayton, Ohio, and was demolished. One man whose name was not learned was crushed into an unrecognizable mass. Hattie Kling, a young woman residing at Alpha, Ohio, was instantly killed, her head being crushed. Three masked robbers entered the factory of Dr. Peter Fahrugy &' Sons Company at Chicago, bound and gagged four employes of the concern, blew open the safe and escaped with SBOO in currency. The burglars used a high explosive, which shattered the safe and completely wrecked the office. The burglars left but slight clews. At Marmatou, Kan., a dozen tgemen worked for two days with picks and shovels excavating for the foundation of a church building. They recently organized a United Brethren Church and could raise but enough money to buy the material, so the female members of the congregation did half the excavating for the foundation walls. Reynolds and Wagner, escaped convicts, were captured the other day, but Wagner subsequently escaped. Reynolds was taken from the officers and lynched by a mob. Reynolds was charged with killing Night Captain Rooney of the Colorado penitentiary nt Canon City. Wagner is said to have held Rooney while Reynolds stabbed him. W. R. Bond and F. M. Hughes of Custer, S. D., have discovered on the southern slope of Hartley Peak, five miles east Of Custer, a forty-foot ledge of the finest quality of onyx and kaolin, or China clay. The vein of clay is fifteen feet wide and the quality is said to be the best. It is used toy the manufacture of fine porcelain. This is said to be the lurgeet body of kaolin in the United States.