Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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At Lexington, Neb.. Frank Dinsmore, charged with the murder of his wife and John Lane, has been sentenced to be banged. A row occurred in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho., in Pheiffer’s saloon, in Which two colored soldiers named Hayes and Hayden were shot. The body of William Brown, a rich cattleman of Hood County, was found on a high mountain near Granberry, Tex. Brown disappeared a year ago. John R. Haines, the Topeka ticket broker recently convicted of murdering Charles Watson at Kansas City, was sentenced to fifty years in the penitentiary. By a vote of 15 yeas and 16 nays the Ohio Senate defeated the Clark bill giving local option on the liquor traffic to municipalities and wards in municipalities. While undergoing initiation into the secret order of Eagles at St. Paul, James Morrison was seriously injured by the discharge of a cartridge used in the ceremohy. William Cunningham, a wholesale dealer in woolens at St. Paul, Minn., filed a petition in bankruptcy. The liabilities are placed ut $113,1)41.93 and assets at $106,844,52. • ’ A vicious horse snapped at Dr. J. C. Tritch, one of the most prominent physicians in Findlay, Ohio, and nipped, off th? end of his nose. He will be distiguferfkor Mfti. Tbv gement of the Topeka Capital has.decided to adopt the methods of the Rev.‘Charles M, Sheldon and continue perinanently to publish a strictly Christian daily newspaper. Four business blocks were burned at Southwest City, Mo., at a loss of SIOO,000. Among the losers are: J. D. Georgian. hardware; postoffice, two hotels and a livery barn and several grocery stores. At Fremont. Ohio, Louis Billow, charged with the murder of Jacob Hess, with whose daughter Billow was in love, has been pronounced guilty. Billow killed Hess because Jhe latter refused to allow his daughter to marry, Frank Cass, 18 years old, was killed at Levi Lakes, Cal., in a friendly boxing bout with Bert Whidden. In the eighth round Whidden struck Cass with a sixounce glove on the left side of the neck. Death resulted in half an hour. Henry A. Mclntosh of Lima. Ohio, a brakeman on the Lake Eric and Western road, hastened approaching death by cutting his throat iq the presence of his wife and several friends who were nursing him during his dying morinents. A gasoline explosion occurred at the residence of James Weaver in Columbus, Ohio, when George White attempted to start a fire with gasoline, resulting in the death of one child, fatal injuries to five other persons and serious injury to another. The millers of Kansas, Oklahoma and Kansas City, have decided to handle their surplus output through a stock company to be known as the Kansas and Oklahoma Milling and Export Company. The

lup. t W i WilllartAJueumb. ex-deputy inspector of W4>rk*Uop».flfi<J faeturiea. was severely EmJlay. Ohio, by a loaded .cigar that had been presented him by a practical joker. The cigar exploded while be held it in his mouth. “He may lose the sight of/pae eye. ' . ;■*: The fa the ease of lite. Henrietta Bamberger, die St. Lotds fnidwife. returned a verdict of guilty-of the charge of inansli'ngbter and fixed her punishment at five years iu the penitentiary. It was charged that she caused the death off Wilhelmina Spoeri. The Chicago-Denver flyer on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Hailway, known as “No. 1,” had a slight accident at Tower 310, twenty-five miles west of Ottumwa, lowa. The engine and front truck of the baggage car left the track. No person was injured. Detectives in Chicago arrested six burglars and recovered about SBOO worth of stolen property, which is said to be the proceeds of many burglaries. Isaiah Lindsey, colored, one of the prisoners, confessed the gang bad roblied fifteen stores within ten days. . An unidentified man. presumably a tramp, was struck and instantly killed by the Baltimore and Ohio No. 7 fast line at noon, near Spring Mills, Ohio. The engineer stated that the man had stepped off the track, and then deliberately stepped in front of the engine. An attempt was made to wreck the Lake Shore fast rtiail at Olmsted Falls, O. A rail had been laid across the track. The engineer saw the obstruction in time to apply the air brakes. The front wheels of the locomotive struck the rail, but the engine remained on the track. Annie Strother, night cashier in Ixiuis Swan's restaurant, No. 150 Twenty-sec-ond street, Chicago, was shot and instantly killed at 1 o’clock the other morning by a well-dressed, heavily veiled woman. The murderess escaped. Jealousy is thought to have been the motive. All the vessels of the revenue fleet' will' leave San Francisco about May 2, and will assemble at Seattle May 20. They will then start for Alaskan waters. The fleet includes the Bear, Rush. Grant, McCulloch and Manning, the latter vessel now being on her way from New York. Thomas Dooley, a saloonkeeper at Butte, Mont., shot his son-in-law, Thus. Littlejohn, ami the Jatter’s wife, Lyda, during a difficulty on the street. There had been bad feeling between Littlejohn aud Pooley since the former married the latter’s daughter without the father's consent. v

The rapidly increasing interest in the breeding and raising of Angora goats in the Southwest has resulted in the formation of the American Angora Goat Breeders’ Association, which will have its headquarters in Kansas City. A herd book will be provided as a means of guaranteeing pedigrees. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad shops at Zanesville, Ohio, are tied up by a strike in which 225 out of 300 men employed have joined. In the past three years there had been several cuts in the rates for piece work. The scale last established was such that the men could average about sl.lO per day. By order of Sheriff Porter four Steubenville, Ohio, builders went to Mingo Junction and, under instructions from the common pleas court, appraised the town hall preparatory to a sale of the property to satisfy a judgment of $l4O. The town hall is quite an imposing building, nearly uew, and was appraised at SB,OOO. The jury in the Hepp murder case in Chicago returned a verdict of guilty and fixed the punishment at fourteen years in the penitentiary. Hepp shot and killed his brother-in-law, Frank A. Anderson, at the home of the latter, Nov. 14, 1899. The shooting grew out of a quarrel between Mrs. Hepp and Mrs. Anderson. License to incorporate Armour & Co. of Chicago was issued by the Secretary of State of Illinois to J. Ogden Armour, P. Anderson Valentine and Louis U. Krauthoff. The capital stock of the corporation is $20,000,000. The object of the corporation is to engage in all industries incident to the packing house business. "Fire broke out in Orr’s linseed oil mill at Piqua, Ohio. The flames Spread rapidly until Gray’s woolen mills were soon enwrapped. The blaze spread across the street and became so threatening that the departments from Lima, Sidney,- Dayton, Urbana and Springfield were called. The loss will reach several hundred thousand dollars. John 8. Bratton, the well-known horseman, and A. C. Hunter, a buyer for export trade, from Chicago, engaged in a fight at the National stock yards, East St. Louis, over a transaction in the auction ring. After the sale Hunter went to Bratton's office find the men soon engaged in a lively quarrel, during which Bratton drew his revolver and tired two shots at Hunter, but. fortunately, neither took effect. The men were separated by those present and a truce was patched up, for a time nt least.