Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Dr. F. 11. La turners was killed iu a runaway accident at Greeneastle, I ml. Wood & Downs’ box factory, on Tenth and Mullanphy streets, St. Louis, was destroyed by fire. Yankton College will get D. K. Fearsous’ gift of $50,000, for its debt of SUO,000 has been paid. Dr. John A. Murphy, for forty-two year* a practicing physician iu Cincinnati, is dead, aged 70. At Cincinnati Dr. T. W. Grnydon is dead front the effect of nn operation for the relief of appendicitis. Utah Democrats in convention instructed for Bryan aud deplored the exclusion of‘ Roberts from Congress. The business portion of Woodstield, 0., was burned after midnight the other night. Loss about $50,000. Itt. Jlev. Muhlon N. Gilbert, bishop coadjutor of the diocese of Minnesota (Episcopalian), died at St. Paul. Rev. Charles Secoinbe, a pioneer missionary of the Northwest, is dead at Springfield, S. !>., aged 82 years. Cecil Leslie, wanted in New York City in connection with the Frauklin syndicate swindle, was arrested in Cleveland, Ohio. Archbishop John Hennessy died at Dubuque, lowa, surrounded by Ills relatives. His death was peaceful anil entirely painless. His age wus 77 years. Dr. E. A. Guilbert died at Dubuque, lowa, aged 72 years. He was formerly president of the State Board of Health and a leading Mason in the West. The steel steamer Orlando M. Poe for the Rockefeller fleet was launched.at the Globe yards, Cleveland. It is 400 feet loug aud will carry 9,000 tons of iron ore *net. Four men with weapons enough to hold a score of people at bay robbed Dennis A. Foster, ticket agent at the Twelfth street station of the South Side Elevated railroad in Chicago of S7O. According to official aualysis made of the St. Louis drinking water, uo pollution has resulted from the opening of the Chicago drainage canal, and uo one need fear an epidemic of typhoid fever. Union men iu every machine shop in Chicago are on strike. A general order instructing them to drop their tools was issued by President James O’Connell of the International Association of Machinists. t Mrs. Frances SI. Wolcott, wife of United States Seuafor Wolcott of Colorado, was granted an absolute divorce at Denver, with alimony at $7,500 annually. Desertion was the ground upon which the decree was issued. At Defiance, Ohio, tire destroyed two business blocks. The losses arc: A. Martin & Co., furniture, SIO,OOO on building and $15,000 on stock; Craven & Rtiess, dry goods, $4,000; Young’s grocery, $4,000; building. $15,000. Hendrick O. Hnrdt of New York has beou iu Minneapolis looking up locations for the forty Holland families which were intending to migrate to the Trnusvaal, but which have been compelled by the war to change their plans. Edward 8. Dreyer has again been

found guilty of failing to tarn over $319.000 which he held as treasurer of the West Park Board in Chicago. This Is his third conviction for this offense, and he must now go to the penitentiary. The Ohio Hotuc of Representatives defeated Mr. HiHt’s resolution proposing to amend the constitution by giving women the right to vote at all elections after Jau. 1, 1901. Ei-jlity-two votes were required to adopt, and the vote was 49 nays to 57 ycjis. William P. Kinney, janitor of a vacant flat building in Chicago, shot nnd killed a colored man who, he says, was breaking into the place. The dead man, the police believe, was a lead pipe thief, from which class of criminals the district has suffered considerably. Hazel Rogers, 12 years of age, a bright and prepossessing child, committed suicide at Fort Madison, lowa, by shooting herself in the heart. Although little is known regarding the cause, it is believed she grieved over a childish love affair until death seemed the only relief. At Omaha, Neb., James Shaonahan was convicted of murder in the second degree for the killiug of Ed Callahan in Shaunahan’s saloon in South Omaha. In a previous trial he had been acquitted of the murder of Ed Joyce. Both men were shot by Shnnuahan at the Ame time. Jacob Lovensheimer, well-known resident of Huntiugton township, Ohio, died from injuries received at the hands o( a neighbor named Patrick McMahon. The two men quarreled over a line fence, and McMahon fractured Lovensheimer’s skull with a club. McMahon escaped. At Brewersville, Ind., in front of Stearns’ store Al Fuller and Isaac Powers, a school teacher, met and began shooting. The trouble was over the correction of Fuller’s child by the teacher. Powers was shot once through the lung and Fuller received three balls. Both men were fatally injured.

The Ohio State Senate concurred in the House amendment to the Cox “Ripper” bill for Cincinnati,' and it is now a law. As amended the bill takes the appointing power of the city government out of the hands of the Governor and allows the people to choose their own governing hoard at the April election. Coroner Rhu finds that Harold I.eslie Williams, who died of morphine poisoning at the European hotel in Marion, 0., committed suicide. When found Jay the hotel employes, young Williams had bis eyes fixed on the likeness of his wife, which he had propped up on his dresser before taking the fatal dose. Miss Georgiana Pack of Minneapolis died in Harper hospital, Detroit. She was visiting her sister, Mrs. Bingley Fales, and was injured three weeks before by being run iuto by a bicycle ridden by a messenger boy. Several small bones inside her head were fractured and she never regained consciousness.John, Charles and Emma, aged respectively 5, 7 and 9, children of Charles Wenger, living eleven miles from Olympia, Wash., were burned to death. The parents were absent from home, attending n dance, and an elder sister, aged 12, was left in charge of the house and children. The fire was started by the explosion of a heater. The three men who held up Spreen’s saloon in Cincinnati, went to Newport, Ky., robbed everybody in two saloons at the point of revolvers, assaulted one‘man and engaged in a running pistol fight with the police. The men then ran to the river, which was full of heavy lee and running fast, and compelled Clark, a boatman, to make the perilous trip across. An attempt was made to assassinate Thomas L. Traylor, a wealthy farmer and Republican politician living near Otwcll, Ind. Traylor was called to the door by an unknown man and three shots fired at him, one shattering his left arm. Joseph Vincent, who lately sued Traylor for $25,000 damages, charging that he alienated his wife’s affections, is under arrest.