Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Senator Teller has come out as a candidate for Governor of Colorado. Union miners took possession of Booneville, Ind., and captured a number of non-union men. The pbstotlice at Nogales, Ariz., was looted by burglars the other night of $5,000 in Mexican money. One hundred and fifty persons were poisoned at Lima, Ohio, by chicken salad served at a’ church dinner. George N. Wiswell of Wisconsin has been selected as sergeant-at-arms of the Republican national convention. Three Chinamen have died within a few days in San Francisco of what is officially declared the bubonic plague. ■ By the burning of the family dwelling four children of John Borden were burned to death in Houston County, Texas. Emil Corson, member of the largest business firm in Gayville, S. D., shot and killed himself on the graves of bis wife and child. Reindeer E, VVekman, an immigration agent of St. Paul, Minn., has tiled a petition in bankruptcy, with liabilities of $51,020.58 and no assets. The lowa House of Representatives unanimously declared by resolution against the Porto Rican tariff bill now before the United States Senate. At Lawrence, Kan., tire destroyed the office building and warehouse of the seed firm of Barteldes & Co. The building contained $50,000 worth of seeds. An explosion at the Hercules powder works at Lamotte, Mo., wrecked the separating house and killed two workmen. Edmund Carter nnd Peter Buck. The explosion of a boiler in a sawmill near Lancaster, Ohio, instantly killed Louis Neubauer, owner, and terribly scalded his four sons and his son-in-law, William Young. J. B. Schweitzer, a young artist of Reno, Nev., has fallen heir to a fortune of about $500,000, bequeathed to him by his uncle, John Bryan Griffith, who recently died in Indin.

Mrs. Charles Pise! was bound ami gagged ami robbed of a watch ami money at her residence in Bloomdale, Ohio. She was prostrated by the severe treatment she received in her battle with the robber. A prairie fire started near Houghton, S. D., and spread over a large tract of country. Thousands of acres of fine range were burned over and several farm buildings were destroyed. The loss is heavy. Vito I‘aoletto, a young Itblian, shot ami Giavito, his partner in the saloon business at Chicago, and, while fleeing from the scene of the crime, was stricken dumb. His case puzzles the physicians. Three girl students of “The Western, a College for Women,’’ at Oxford, Ohio, were expelled and ten others suspended as the upshot of'a faculty raid on an initiation by a society that was in progress about midnight. Christian Gntherl, one of the oldest German residents of Houghton, Mich., was bur ped to deaih. It is supposed that Gutherl, who was almost helpless from rheumatism, accidentally set fire to the bed while smoking. Lawrence Walsh walked ,into .a till-’ cago police station and coolly -announced that he was the man who shot down Robert Gilchrist in the latter's bauber shop in that city. He is reticentjyoncerning tjie motive. M It. J. McFarland, chief of the Kaftsas City, Kan., police department, has hung up a bounty of $25 each for the bodies of all highway iTriibcrs killed in the city while-in the act of committing robbery directly thereafter. At La Crosse, a meeting was held of

egg dealers and produce mets representing western Wisconsin, southern Minnesota and northern lowa, An organization wns perfected, to be known as the Interstate Egg Shippers’ Association. At Lawrence, Kan., fire destroyed the plant of the Pierson Flour Milling Company, valued at $150,000. In addition to the mill, several thousand bushels of wheat and several hundred barrels of flour were burned. Insurance, SBO,OOO. lii accordance with the decision reached at a big mass meeting, the machinists employed In more than fifty establishments at Cleveland laid down their tools. It is stated that about 1,500 men are out, including union and non-union men. William Miller is a martyr to truth telling. He spent over 100 days in jail at Omaha, Neb., because he could not conscientiously promise to appear as prosecuting witness for one Hulzman, charged with highway robbery, Miller being the victim. The National Bank of Hardy, Neb., was looted by four robbers. The entire front of the building was blown out and the vault thrown in pieces into the middle of the street. The thieves secured SIO,OOO and SSOO in gold was picked up in the streets. At 2 o’clock the other morning fire broke out in the C. C. Ayers & Co.’s lumber yard at Red Key, Ind., and this with other property was destroyed. There were four large warehouses in the yard and property valued at $35,000, with but $13,000 insurance Frank Smalley, a Chicago letter carrier, shot himself, dying instantly. He was in the basement of the station at the time. Despondency, caused by long illness, is said to have caused Smalley’s suicide. For a long time he had been brooding over his ill health. The James Nickum sawmill, six miles southwest of Muncie, Ind., was destroyed by an explosion. Three men are dead, one more will die and three others are injured. The explosion resulted from the water pump breaking when the boiler bad on a full bead of steam. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Flemrey, an aged couple at Cheyenne, VVyo., quarreled and when the officers arrived Mrs. Flemrey’s clothing was in flames and her husband was standing over her with a lighted candle, and apparently delighted by her agonizing shrieks. The man was arrested. James Dunlap, prince of bank robbers, and the most expert safe cracker that ever handled a drill, who was concerned in the blowing of the Northampton bank safe when the vaults were robbed of many thousands of dollars in currency, has been arrested by Chicago detectives. Attorney Charles Sparks, wh<y has offices in the Lincoln Inn court, Cincinnati, Ohio, was the victim the other night of what appears to have been an attempt on his life. Vitriol was thrown upon him in such a quantity as to completely cover his head, face and the left side of his coat. He was terribly burned. The Wichita, Kan., electric street railway was attached for back taxes amounting to $3,700, according to the county’s claim. All ears were tied up until shortly after noon, when Mayor Ross arranged a temporary settlement by allowing W. B. McKinley, formerly of Chicago, to take charge as agent for the sheriff. Judge Munger granted a writ of habeas corpus at Omaha in the case of Fair and Joekens, the two members of the Tenth Infantry at Fort Crook held for trial in the State court for the shooting of Deserter Morgan. Judge Munger ordered their release on the ground that it was a private’s duty to obey his superior’s orders. Clifford Jones, elevator man, and HarrySchoen, doorman, fought in a runawayelevator in the Olive Studio building, St. Louis, where both were employed. Upon reaching the sixth floor the elevator was checked automatically, but the men continued to tight. Finally Jones caught up a monkey wrench and beat the doorman into insensibility. John Faber of Chicago, representative of a school book establishment in that city, was ridden on a rail by students at Columbia, Mo., and seemed to enjoy the experience. When the students released Faber he politely thanked them for the splendid advertisement they had gratuitously given the books he was handling. The laugh is on the students.