Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Woman suffrage was defeated in the lowa Senate by only three votes. At Waynesville, Ohio, tire destroyed an entire square in the business portion of the towu. Dr. David Tappan, president of Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, was banged in effigy on the college campus. Mrs. Marie Doble, wife of Budd D. Doble, the horseman of San Francisco, has filed suit for divofee on statutory grounds. A dispatch from Chico, Cal., announces the death of Gen. George Bidwell. Gen. Bidwell was the prohibition candidate for President in 1892. At Menominee, Mich., fire destroyed the Spies building, the largest business block in (he city. Loss on the building >60,000, insurance >12,000. A flood in the Colorado river carried away the-great dam at Austin, Texas, and caused >8,000,000 property loss. Forty-eight lives were lost. The Indianapolis carpenters' strike has been ended by the contractors recognizing the union and granting 30 cents an hour, 5 cents less than was demanded. It is announced that the coal miners aud operators of the Bellaire, Ohio, district have settled their differences, the Indianapolis scale being signed. About 5,000 men are affected. •

Ex-Postmaster G. W. McKinzie died of heart disease while making a speech at a Republican ward meeting at Kokomo, Ind. He was a member of the Ninth Indiana battery in the civil war. Fire guttwl the four-story brick and atone Hagerman block in the business center of Colorado Spring*, Colo, entailing SIOO,OOO loss on the building and twenty or more limit occupying it. The Ohio Senate passed the Toledo centennial bill, after cutting the appropriation fronr $1,000,000 to $750,000, and providing for a new commission of eleven members to be appointed by Gov. Nash. Anthracite coal of excellent quality has been found In the Wichita mountains. Au El ICeno coal merchant declares that the opening of the Kiowa and Comanche country will result in giving access to an Immense coal field. After a week's Illness Milas B. Cobb, who had been prominently identified with the more important business Interests of Chicago nearly seventy years, died at the home of his son-in-law, William B. Walker, in that city. Albert E. Davis and Samuel G. Brook er, convicted of robbing the city of Cleveland. Ohio, ha\e been sentenced to the penitentiary for four years each. Execution of the sentence has been suspended until May 15, pending an appeal. The country southwest of Austin, Tex., was visited by a cloudburst. The Nueces river aud other streams Were converted almost instantly Into raging torrents that overflowed and swept away thousands of acres of growing crops in the valleys. Three miners were crushed to death by a fall of slate in the Superior Coal Company mine No. 3, at Wellston, Ohio, There were Jacob Tucker, John VVilllams aud David Davis. The bodies were crushed into an almost unrecognisable mass. Wll'iatn Claybonrn, one of the most

notorious criminals that Indianapolis has produced, and an escaped convict from the Indiana reformatory at Jeffersonville, was shot in the arp> by Detective John Morgan at the home of his grandmother. At Petroit Harry Hornberger, the youth convicted the other day of the murder of Jolifi 11. Reindell, attempted suicide by slashing Jkl* throaU with a razor, which he had procured from a fellow prisoner. Jail officials interfered In time to save his life. Arthur F. Marsh of Allegan, former inspector general of the Michigan National Guard, tried on an indictment charging him with feloniously conspiring with certain of his official associates to de’frnud the State, was found guilty by the jury at Lansing. Shoughnassce, the famous chief of the Pottawatomie*, died at Nadeay, Kan., at the age of*DO, and was buried in his dooryard, with Indian rites, by the side of his wife, who died a year ago. Death was due to quick consumption, following an attack of grip last winter. At Proctorville, Ohio, the flouring mill of G. D. Pugh caught fire and from this a conflagration resulted which destroyed half the town, clearing squares of residenees and business house®. But two stores of any importance are left. Loss >200,000. Insurance >OO,OOO. Judge Pangsley in Common Pleas Court at Toledo, declared that provision in the Ohio statutes unconstitutional which prohibits an employer from discharging a workman because the employe is a member of a labor union. The court held that the statute is class legislation. At Omaha Judge Keysor handed down an important decision on a question of law in a case that has been watched with interest by labor organizations in nearly every locality. It established that the resolutions of public officials to use only union made goods have no legal validity. L. Lemmon, a master printer of Lincoln, Neb., a member of Col. W. J. Bryan’s Third Nebraska regiment during the war with Spain, committed suicide by taking poison. His body was fqmd on the State fair grounds. He is caid to have been despondent over business reverses. A passenger train on the Fort Worth and Denver City Railroad was wrecked near Channing, Texas. The coaches caught tire and the entire train except one coach burned. It' is reported six or seven people were killed, among them the Wells-Furgo express messenger, Chapman. Henry Hurlburt, a workman in the Lyons Paper Company’s mill at Clinton, lowa, met a horrible death. He fell against a swiftly revolving shaft, which caught his clothing and hurled him with great force against the side of the building. His body was crushed into a shapeless mass. In the Union Pacific land department at Omaha there is in progress one of the heaviest land deals for several years—a proposition made by a syndicate of Chicago capitalists to buy 140,(MM) acres in Lincoln County, Neb., extending on either side of the railroad from Gothenberg, Neb., to North Platte.