Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

William Baker, a prosperous farmer, who lived near Tontogany, Ohio, hanged himself. Chief Wash-a-Kie, leader of the Shoshone Indians, is dead in Wyoming, aged 93 years. Solomon Roserelt, builder of the first steamers to cross the Atlantic, died in Delaware, Ohio, aged 03. Charles Everett Smith, who was a gunner ou the Petrel in the battle of Manila Bay, is dead at Kansas City. Chris Ilintseff; one of the owners and manager of the Lucky Friend mine in Picayune Gulch, Colo., lost his life by a snowslide. A wealthy farmer named Matthew Lattimer, aged 72 years, was frozen to death while walking half a mile to his home near Elyria, Ohio. Bimetallists of the country will hold a convention at Kansas City July 4. Eight hundred delegates are expected to attend from all the States and territories. While engaged in cutting a tunnel in lime rock at Englewood, 8. D., Henry Walschmidt and Walter Morezic were suffocated by smoke from black powder. Col.’William S. King, ex-Congressman and a national character for the last forty years, died at his home in Minneapolis. Col. King was born in Franklin County, N. Y„ in 1828. At Pullman, Ark., there was an explosion of a sawmill boiler, in which seven men were killed. The whole building covering the engine was blown down upon the workmen. Enraged over family troubles, Alan Geisler, a wealthy farmer residing two and a half miles north of St. Joseph, Mich., shot his wife and then drowned himself in Lake Michigan. Fifty passengers on a Chicago street electric ear were shocked by electricity. The wire connected with life heating apparatus had broken and came in contact with the water-soaked floor.

Seven business firms were wiped out by fire at Wonewoe, Wis. For a time it seemed probable that the entire village was doomed. The loss amounts to $6(),000. The origin of the tire is unknown. Edward Probst, a wealthy mining man, committed suicide at San Francisco, leaving no word as to the cause of his act. It is thought th.’ deed is due to an atfec'tiou of tile brain, the result of recent paralysis. llurold L. Williams, ;i5 years old, a vocalist, of Chicago, died at the European hotel in Marion, Ohio. He was on his way home from :t visit with friends at Circleville. Ohio, and stopped over to spend Sunday. A head-end collision between fast freight trains occurred at '.table Itock, Wyo., on the Union Pacific. Engineer Johu Brown ami Fred Snow were seriously injured. Brakeman W’iuniug and «u unknown li.emau were hurt, but uot seriously. The west span of'the Big Four bridge over the Wabash river at Terre Haute, Ind., gave way as a freight train was crossing, and the engine and thirty-nine car out of a total of fifty fell Into the river. Three of the train crew were carried out. William Penrose, who has be<?n posing as a crazy convict and thereby gaining advantages, has disappeared from the Denitenliary at Columbus, Ohio. The

officials found a rope made out of knotted sheets by Penrose, and used by him in 1 getting over the wall. G. C. Copeland got a verdict for $15,000 against the Wabash Railroad Company In the Circuit Court at Mexico, Mo. This case is the result of the Wa)basb wreck at Missouri City in 1897. Mr. Copeland was conductor of the wrecked passenger train. The body of Adolph A. Gleich, a farmer who had been missing for three days, was found at the bottom of a deep ravine near Yankton, 8. D. He had been out with a team and wagon to get wood, and driving too near the edge of the ravine, all went down. The horses were also killed. Boiler No. 1 at the Ypsilanti, Mich., Paper Company’s Superior mill exploded shortly after the night crew had gone to work, dislodging its four companion boilers and totally wrecking the boilerhouse, and killing one employe, William Horton. Another, Martin Tull, was severely scalded. Wilson Wakelin, a prominent farmer residing three miles north ot Brock, Neb., murdered his wife by entting her throat with a razor. He then went to the graveyard, where his first wife was buried, and standing on her grave, cut two ugly gashes in his throat. Death in both cases was instantaneous. The Independent Tug Company hasbeen incorporated under the laws of Ohio with a capital stock of $100,(XX) to compete with the tug combination known as the Great Lakes Towing Company. The organizer of the new company is Captain J. A. Sweeney of Cleveland, who has three independent tugs. The smallpox situation in the Cherokee nation is growing worse in some places. The board of health is having trouble in coping with the disease at Claremore, where there are about twenty-five cases, owing to the antagonism of the local officials. Cases are reported at Fairland, Redland, Stillwell, Chouteau, Tahlequah and Foyil, with others in the country. Dr. Franklin Caldwdll of Chicago shot and killed Mrs. Ephraim P. Hayes, also of that city, in the Endicott Hotel, New York. He then took hrs own life. At the coroner’s inquest facts were brought opt tending to show that Dr. Caldwell, who was employed by Dr. Hayes, was infatuated with the latter’s wife, and killed her because his affections were not returned. In Detroit the department store of Marr & Taylor was gutted by fire: Losses: Marr & Taylor, $65,000; George C. Darwin, cloaks and furnishings, $10,000; Razenswig <fc Co., boots and shoes, $lO,000; Moll & Stock, tailors; John D. Mabley, clothier; 11. M. Kittle & Co., trunks; Mrs. 11. S. Weaver, and K. F. Craigie suffered light losses. The total loss is SIOI,OOO. At Xenia, Ohio, William Cousins made a desperate effort to kill his former sweet heart, who is now the wife of William Rickman. He went to her home in the absence of her husband and told her to prepare to die. As he fired his revolver at her head she jerked his arm so that the ball went through his hand and narrowly missed her. Help arrived, and Cousins was taken in custody. The dead and mutilated body of Mrs. Everill E. Synon was found by her husband, Michael Synou, lying in a clothes closet off one of the wretched rooms the family occupied at No. 240 South Green street, Chicago. The woman’s skull had been fractured in several places and there were a dozen gashes in her neck. Her head had been beaten out of all human semblance. The woman’s husband is suspected.