Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Men who Kaw tw-xui •fprffi--eJ >-oj 'foe ajgwndH-itis Eave tor-med a <csrt* at Clittorlaud. Brig. <Jt®. C:tk4t J. IGhmtotlL. a xekecaui of the civil war, is -de* a at *taiaM. agwd 70 years. Al Findlay, Ohio, the *f the Fsn»d lay Carriage Company &s®rwared by fixe. Loss tPEsjOW. ics-srarte slXm*.‘WL Fire- destroyed xbe lawa*® ac Roby, ImL, iJnce raJtUitoe hs-srs heUaglug lu the Thomas Ctoatffia a»-ux-killed. The 1.20 H Hniooa phani-ieas- a®.. Uhtotngs* weie locked win Jtoe wiker zu-urLusg. as a result of the action taken by the contractors’ exumed. 11. Graham Frost, a (uroer w-aWr <K Congress from M isswwri, died al tike nesideuce of his fattbeg, Gew. Ik. M FrwsU. ul Si. Louis, aged aS years. Miss Mary Ana IneianA. Sa. WtaL Minn., eldest sistc;- at Aa><i>»udw9> Ise land, died t rim; the si-oA at to Miss Ireland was G 8 years «f age. In a collision <ui ttoe E» road wear Akron. Ohio, Eugrueer Ufiday was. kjuked and George Kial, tawMs. s&gtalj sm jured. Three coaches wwe wrested. The nine cii»es whitlh wwe sa last years grand #v<grsag wiffl .bit iu the program aga-in tbc cesnsusg swu.sm. The meetings wad toeg.m at l*ettroi£ July !«. Ax Harrisonville. M-«_ fiae tkaE warted in C, C. GramiJserrys grwery sSuee destroyed one «C the city's. y«nij»<ay«a2 bmkuess IskK-ks, eausiug a loss a-siaaua&cid at SS6<I,tWU.

Thomas MiA'aSery. a fairanw Exiigg:: near Benson. \<4u «4u:«- x-jmtoSAj to- ; sane, stalled to kid ids wife sew*® ■ childrca. He was iwqghr i bors and locked in jail. Charles. Jones, alia®. <i4a4hs. J<A®-sja* the train roWtar who site*o ftattasraj lhe- ? lective J ohn Jacksxat Jsiefialia at tike Htildea round-ujt, *a- chrcweA k? a posse near Chilhowee, M e Frank Clark, a as she Kansas I jH-niUtolisiry at LeavtofflMrth, Ik-Jkdi Jw sejih Clark, aMber ewavws. sbe <Mtetr . night at sin>jH-r. He snys Ciautk had Uhi'ealeiied to kill bito. At IVca, lud, tke jwy » sW Mrs. Edith Quick case wTurtw-a a vw-miact «f! acquittal. It was no suir«toe. as at was generally supi«osed tit Stale ihad «wC uttered saffioeul dityxl evidtoKifc. At He 4 Springs Ark, Gws Ntcto® us > Chicago was sJtot and krfhdl ha fr«iJbK I of the Arkansaw Oab hy a «<Mng wan i of the name of Biciuiwas. N-xßhuag can toe learned of tbekwaseat xtoe afiuaty. Fire in East Grand FadSi, N. IM, <4e | stroyed the Kelly A GiiUaaa saibww atal burned to death W, D. K-rifly. «®e *C thgproprietors, and I*. J- MoAsdsa®. <M»e wtl the oldest resideiiis aud toonatr Mayor «f the city. -- , : ' ■ ■ ; Heary Kuwl while rieatoMg a tnixing machine m Tran's habety at T»)ed«, OftkL was ca ngta I® ttoe stowly i»volviag nuxiuwenr and toedrw m-ss&aancg could veach him toe was groand to fta*laents. The spice howe at S»«ngwe. Wsrar ft Co. at Randolph street and Msetocaa avenue. 'Ota**, was damased toy tone to the exttoit of SlvatWW. <M ttoto atoaaat $35,000 was ea ttoe badfiag aad the haF I aaoe oa the ttocto. Bert FltohCber was bnrawd to dteath m ■ his to»— at 417 Wcsa FanylSfth sftact.

F'Ctarngw He had taken his wife and I ehiMren safely ent of tbe house and went ImmHl tata the burning house for sufficient i ctochine to keep them warm. Tta Missouri Supreme Court has decided that there is no law granting the right ■ ta appeal from a conviction in criminal roasts ms a prosecution by information. The derision will prevent appeals in cases «C department store managers. Nine aww were injured severely, between itaty and fifty persons braised and scores paaiestrickew in a collision between a Chatapw Milwaukee and St. Paul aubur taa passenger train and a Northwestern ftrisht train, at Grayland. 111. Ira S. Milliken, formerly general manager of and a large stockholder in tbe Hamilton and Liadenwuld Electric Transit Vwnpnny of Hamilton. Ohio, bas filed a petition for the appointment of a receiver of the company's property. Three of the Chinamen held at Fargo, N. D.. for violating the exclusion act were sent back to the flowery kingdom, ; whMr one other was admitted as .aw The four all claimed membership ip the Wah Hing Company, Chicago. Frampted by jealousy, Nicholas Hetzlec stabbed and mortally wounded Mrs. Lewiita Schaefer in her home at Chicago ari then shot himself in tbe right temple. Hetzler died <-instantly and Mrs. Schaefer expired within a half hour. Terry McGovern settled all the aspirations of Eddie Sautry to become featherweight champion of the world by knocking him out tn the fifth round at Tattersail'n. Chicago. There was not a vestige of doubt as to McGovern's superiority. At Youngstown, Ohio, fire broke out in the McElroy furniture store and extended to J. M. Euwer & Sous’ dry goods store and to the adjoining block occupied by

G_ M. McKelvey A Co, The loss will , aggregate between and SS<X>JXM). Ten buildings, comprising a whole block in tta business district of Ada, Mhrn., were destroyed by fire. The loss will tench with insurance of SISjDUU tw fififiiMW*.*. The water supply was short ■ with pumps out of order and hose frozen. Ftafessar H. i>- Young, superintendent of tta public schools at Norwich, Ohio, ■ who bad come to Zanesville on a freight i train and was walking from the yards ■ to- tta depot, was struck by a Baltimore i xnd Ohio passenger train aud iustau.ly .- xultod. Tta Echo Mountain House, a large hotel ou Mount Lowe, near Pasadena. Cal.. burned dow n. The tire was caused by a Artective fine. All the guests escaped uninjured and most of them saved all rtair personal effects. The loss is in the tieightarhoof of SWO.O(H). At Muncie, Ind., the livery barn of Bowe A Munshower was destroyed by tire- Cecil Weekly, a cab driver, was burned to death, and forty-seven horses were also burned. Adjoining buildings were damaged by falling walls, aud the total toss will be about $25,(100. Walter L. Farnsworth, who, on his arrest. told tta- police he had forgotten how many wives he bad. but thought he had forty-seven, was found guilty of bigamy ba Chicago and his punishment was fixed at indeterminate imprisonment in the penitentiary and a tine of SI,OOO. Jtoliti l>. Rockefeller is no longer an : official of tta Ohio corporation of the Standard Oil Company, neither is his bencher, Frank Rockefeller. There is a i-T-rsU-tettt story afloat that the Rockefeltors- bate ata* withdrawn as officials from tta entire Standard OU. Company. Sotutnp'ix is killing Indians in dozens in • tta Cldville reset-vatian, Washington. The outang town of Republic, on the northern part of tta reservation, has armed tneu g'lurdiug every trail leading from the -<>udK to prevent infected Indians getting eatraßce and spreading tta disease. A dastardly attempt was made at T ort Wurth, Texas, to blow up a crowded street car. A large dynamite bomb was placed on the rail, but the wheels of the ear did uot strike it s<iuarely, and it was pa-tad off the rail. Had it been exploded utauy people would have lost their ticew.

Ftre visited the wholesale district of Insliatiapoli-s. and within two hours over worth, of prapMty was destroyed The flames broke out iu the wholesale- iprueery store of George M . Stout & «'<*. and spread to the wholesale drug house of A. Kiefer & Co. and the wholesabt groeery of Britikuiey er. Kuhii & Co. A hiss of was caused at Little Ko»k, ArE. by a tire that destroyed the states of the Diekinsva Arms Company. Arkansas Paper and Book Company. Mrs. Allen's millinery establishment. J. V- Zinamerman's jewelry store, Sam Blum's liquor store. E. Stern's cigar and twbttcxo store and N. Williamson’s barber Fifty starving men were reescued. from the Cleveland waterworks crib, four m-iles out in Lake Erie, but not until one tag went to the bottom of the river. The i men were engaged on the construction of the new waterworks tunnel, which, is intended to supply the city of Cleveland with water in the future and ran. oat of pcijvUluiks,.