Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The President has appointed George it. Wauty to i>c Federal judge for the western district of Michigan. Seventeen cases of bubonic plague are said to have existed at Port- Towuseud, Wash., for nearly a month. Col. John Magrew of Lafayette, lud., has been appointed captain of the watch of the eapitol at Washington. In Indianapolis John B. Stout, a respected citizen, was robbed and shot by footpads on his way home. He died. K. E. Clark has been appointed temporary receiver of the Benton Power and Traction Colli pauy at St. Cloud, Minu. The threatened strike of the employes of the St. Louis Transit Company is oIT. An agreement satisfactory to both sides has been reached. Albert E. Davis and Samuel G. Brookcr, public works department clerks in Cleveland, Ohio, have been found guilty of defrauding the city. The Second Presbyterian Church in Chicago, built in 187:5 and 1874 at a cost of $150,000, was destroyed by tire that started in th% organ loft. The remains of Kate Chase Sprague have been buried beside the grave of her father. Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase,' at Spring Grove cemetery, Cincinnati. L. C. Gilmore, former cashier of -the Kansas National Bank, who lias been on trial, charged with embezzlement, was acquitted by a jury In Ihe District Court. At Redfield, lowa, tiro destroyed all the business houses on the south side of Main street. The loss is estimated at about $20,000, only partially covered by insurance. William Pearce, a farmer living three miles west of De Soto, Mo., was accidentally shot and killed by a set gnu which be had himself placed in his corn crib for thieves. Anthony Hopkins was hanged at Beauinout, Texas, for wife murder in the presence of 5,000 people, who took Up a collection of SIOO for liis mother and seul it with his remains to her in Wnr;o, George Anderson Fowler, who has been in control of the packing plus* of George Fowler & Son Company, limited, of lvausas City, has transferred his entire interest to Anderson Fowler, his nncle. Three sons of Jacob Ziegler, a farmer living north of Champaign, 111., fell through the ice in a creek and drowned while looking for stovewood. The children were all less than 9 years of age. At Omaha, Neb., tire entirely consumed the stock of the Omaha Tent and Rubber Company, valued nt SBO,OOO, and gutted ihe building in which it was located. The loss on the building will be $75,000. At Colorado Springs, Colo., exteusivo buildiug enterprises have been temporarily stopped by a strike, innugttrated by the Building Trades' Assembly. Carpenters and painters to the number of 250 •re idle. The safe or the Bank of Hitchcock, 8. D., which was burned a few days before, was opened, aud it was discovered that SII,OOO known to have been iu the safe at the elose as business the day of the ire was missing. Cincinnati distillers mill export large quantities of whisky soon to avoid payiug the revenue tax of sl.lO. It will be stored abroad and when there Is a ready sale in this country it will be returned aud the duty paid. , The girl wife of Earl Goebauour was deserted at Fort Collins, Colo., by her husband, who ran away with the girl's mother, Mrs. Mary Taylor, Mrs. Taylor, her three children, the eldest 10 years of age. aud Gochnnonr caiue from lows. The board of directors of the Kansas penitentiary decided that the price of the product of i lie binding twine plant of the State penitentiary at Lansing will be 10 cents a pound, or as near that figure as U»e cost of production will permit. At Cincinnati Judge Taft issued a decree of foreclosure and order of sal* of

the Columbus, kiidusky 1 and Hocking Railroad on the suit of the Metropolitan Trust Company of New York. The court fixed the upset price for tiie road at $2,500,000. The Christian Cbfireh at Fort Recovery,: Ohio, 1* divided over the innovation of a regular choir, organ nOd missionary and aid societies. Borne of the members have asked the courts to appoint a receiver for the church property and have a final accounting rendered. United States Commissioner Douglass Wight aud Horace H. Blanton, an attorney of Nevada, fought a street duel with pistols. Wight received a scalp wound and Blanton was shot in the abdomen. The trouble arose over the approaching mayoralty election. Alexander Carter, 32 years of age, in a temporary tit of insauity, shot and killed Charles, a university student, aged £2 years, at the house of their parents in North Berkeley, Cal, Then placing the muzzle of the pistol is his mouth he blew ont his brains. Fuller E- Brown, 30 year* of age, committed suicide in the city jail at Helena, Mont., by dashing his brains out upon the cement floor. He was to have been arraigned for forgery, but when summoned by an officer jumped head foremost from the upper tier of cells. DeWitt Hurley; until recently teller of the Central State Bonk of Des Moines, iowo, fell from a window of the sixth story of tjie Youugerman block to the sidewalk, and was almost instantly killed. Hurley was sitting in the window and fainted. He was 33 years of.age. N. L. Michael, vice-president of the American National Bonk when it was robbed of SIB,OOO a year ago last Christmas, .was arrested at Dima, Ohio, charged with the robbery. The robbery has puzzled the best detectives in the country. Mr. Michael brands bis arrest as an outrage. Lead City. S. D„ was nearly destroyed by fire the other morning. It was not until afternoon that the tire was tinder control. Between forty and fifty buildings in the business district were consumed by the flumes. Tbe loss is estimated at $500,000, with insurance for about $150,000. Warrants for murder in the second degree were issued at St. Louis against Costello Doro and Charles Reynolds, colored, aged about 12 years, who are charged with shooting Harry S. Koehler, a white boy of the same age, Feb. 22, as the result of a race quarrel. Koehler died from his wounds. The receiver for and principal creditors of the Toledo Commercial have sold the paper to H. P. Crouse of the Findlay Republican and if John R. McLean agrees upon the cancellation of his lense the new owner will enter possession ou April 1 and make the property into an administration Republican paper. Encouraging reports continue to be received from the great cattle ranges in the western part of South Dakota. There have been comparatively no losses during the winter. This is remarkable, iu view of the fact that on Upper White river alone more than 1,000 young Southern cattle were last fall turned loose ou the range. M iss Maggie Carmody of Toledo has received a letter from an aunt in Australia, inclosing a draft for SB,OOO and asking her to go to that country in the spring. The letter contained the information that her aunt, Mrs. G. B. F. Bradbury, who is in poor bealtb, has willed her SBB,OOO In realty aud SBOO,OOO in securities. A Helena, Mont., special says: “For fear that the train bearing him to Helena might not arrive in time to catch the Butte mail train, upon which he desired to transmit to the sheriff at that place a respite for Joseph Schafer, the innocent man under sentence to be hanged there, Lieut. Hov. Spriggs telephoned the officials of his intention, and upon arrival in Helena he attached his signature to tbe temporary respite in order that the Supreme Court might have nn opportunity to pass upon Schafer’s appeal. The sheriff replied that he would respect the telephonic reprieve In case the papers did not arrive.” :