Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The King Solomon Mining Company has been organized in Washington with $30,000,000 capital. Both of Cleveland's delegates to the Presbyterian general assembly state that they favor a shorter creed. Fire at Ponca City, Ok., caused sl‘>o,000 loss. The biirned district includes one of the best business blocks in the city. At Northfield, Minn., the tine new’ An* ditorium building, costing $20,000 and owned by A. K. Ware, was damaged, SIO,OOO by fire. At Lesterville, S. D„ fire totally destroyed the McCall-Webster grain elevator with 0,000 bushfil* of grain and the Hunting elevator. | | In a wreck of a Southern Pacific work train, four miles belcfw Cottonwood, Cal., three men were killed and three injured, two probably fatally. Mrs. J. 8. Siniugtou, colored, and tier twin babies were burned to death in their home at Denver. The fire was caused by the explosion of a lamp. Murat Halstead has accepted the presidency of the new College of Journalism at Cincinnati, an institution devoted to teaching practical newspaper work. The members of the Minneapolis Packers and Nailers' Union have demanded that the employing flour millers restore the 35-cent cut In wages made in 1895. Charles J. Figgs, arrested on suspicion of bending an internal machine to the residence of George B. Cox in Cincinnati, has been released after a preliminary hearing. At Alexander, Ark., Mrs. T. N. Holland shot and instantly killed William Cook, a member of a prominent family. Mrs. Holland claims Cook defamed her character. E. Benjamin Andrews, superintendent of the Chicago public schools, has been elected to the chancellorship of the Nebraska State University. The vote was 4 to 2 iu bis favor. At San Francisco thirty-three of 219 Japanese steerage passengers who arrived on the steamer Belgian King a few days ago have been refused a landing by the immigration officials. The Toledo, Ohio, Daily Commercial has been succeeded by the Toledo Daily aud Sunday Times under the management of the Toledo Times Company. H. P. Crouse is editor-in-chief. William Horner, proprietor of the Park House aud saloon at Steubenville, Ohio,shot and killed his wife. Horner locked the doors and defied arrest, but the officers broke in and overpowered him. After being in existence nearly forty yean the firm of Armour & Co. of Chicago has lx*en dissolved, and the vast interests of the firm pass into the hands of the new corporation of Armour A Co. A storm approaching a tornado in proportions is reported from near Winfield, Kan., and in the vicinity west of Clearwater. Two deaths are reported, and four persons were hurt by overturned houses. An English syndicate has dosed a deal for eighty acres of sine and lead mineral lands at Galena, Kan., the consideration being $500,000. This syndicate will organise a $17,000,000 trust to operate the property. Miss Alta Rockefeller, second daughter of John D. Rockefeller, president of the Standard Oil Company, Is to bo married to E. Parmalat Prentice of Chicago. The wedding will probably take place next fall. The aub-commlttee of the national

Democratic committee has formally decided to let Kansas City retain the national convention in July, the local committees having made satisfactory promises of a hall. • ■_ At Colorado Springs, in the breach of promise suit brought by Miss Nellie Lewis against President Sam Strong of the Free Coinage and other Cripple Creek gold mining companies the'jury awarded the plaintiff $50,000 damages. The Citizens’ State Bank of Yates Cantier, Kan., has been closed by Dejhity Bank Commissioner Waterman. There is a heavy shortage, but Waterman says it may be made good when the board of directors and'stockholders meet. The big Southern Pacific railroad bridge over the Colorado river at Columbus, Texas, has been entirely swept away. The loss will exceed SIOO, OUO. No lives are lost, but all crops are destroyed and all cultivable laud overflowed. Jesus Garcia and another Mexican of the name of Flores held up a faro game in Tom Steel’s saloon in Johnson, Aria., and killed Scott Weathersby, a prominent mining man, who they thought was attempting to prevent their escape. A portion of a building owned by the Armstrong-McKelvey Lead and Oil Company collapsed without warning at Pittsburg. Twelve persons were in the building at the time, and three were killed. The financial damage is about $20,000. Michael Ellison, Jr., was instantly killed and five other men seriously injured by an explosion in the plant of the Chicago Pipe Line Company near Logansport, lud. Defective pipe and high pressure are said to have been the cause of the accidenj.

The Denver and St. Louis express on the Burlington Railroad ran into a wagon containing twelve persons near flarfem, Mo. With one exception all of the occupants of the wagon were injured. The wagon was drawn by two mules, both of which were killed instantly. Albert G. Robert and William Duncan, Jr., in the criminal court at Kansas City pleaded guilty to stealing $32,000 from the Barse Live Stock Commission Company and were sentenced to three years and six months apiece in the penitentiary. They mortgaged Oklahoma cattle that they did not own. The novel sent of building a railroad through a mule barricade was successfully accomplished at Oronogo, Mo., by a Missouri Pacific construction crew. For some time-there has been lively competition between the Missouri Pacific and ’Fripco companies in seeking to get into the busy new zinc mining camp. .The representatives of the Indiana miners and operators have signed the wage sca|f for the year ending April 1 next year. The miners waived the weekly pay day as provided by the new Indiana law, pending a decision of court of last resort on its constitutionality, and will be. paid semi-mouthly, as in the past. Rufus Wright of the firm of Morgan & Wright, bicycle tire manufacturers, was shot and mortally wounded by Mrs. Louisa Lottridge of Paw Paw Lake, Mich., in the latter's apartments at the Leland Hotel, Chicago. Death resulted iu a few hours. Mr. Wright declared to Captain Colleran, chief of detectives, that the shooting was accidental. Frederick Kestermeir, after a short illness, died at Marietta, Ohio, aged 83 years. His soa, Frederic, Jr., lived with him and they kept house together, all other relatives being dead. Ten minutes after the father died the son, who had cried for three days, went to his bed, threw himself down and was dead in a few minutes. The physicians say he died of a broken