Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The town of Edoubnrg, N. D., was wiped out by tire and two lives are lost. Senator Thurston thinks a Western man should he McKinley's running mate. C. I'. Casgrnin of Chicago committed suicide by drowning in Mountain Lake, M i ii u. ■<Mrß. Elixa Ohrismau has left S2SO,UUU for the founding of a uuirersity at Topeka, Kan. Grand jury at Cincinnati Indicted \V.' W. Thomas and Harry Walters, business men, for arson. The report thnt the St. Louis and San Francisco road would build a line Into Denver ia denied. Matt Parrott, publisher and former Lieutenant Governor of lowa, is dead at Battle Creek, Mich., aged (33. The damage to fruit trees near Canyon City, Colo., from the late heavy storm and frosts is estimated at 9500,000. The late Philetus Sawyer of Wisconsin leaves an estate of 93,000,000. Relatives get it all, except 910,000 for charity. By direction of President McKinley the military post near the city of Bismarck, N. D., hereafter will be kuown as Fort LiaColu. Railroad, express and telephone companies have combined to test the Nebraska law creating a State Board of Transportation. Andrew CordifT, an Ohio fanner, was about, to wed Miss Lucy Cole when he discovered by accident that site was his daughter. An underground thugs' den was discovered by the Chicago police in a basement vault iu the ruins of the A. C. McClurg book store. The steamer Doric sailed from Han Francisco carrying fourteeu Tyrolese white slaves to serve five years in the Hawaiian sugar fields. / Mrs. Caroline A. Cantwell, a wellknown Chicago woiuuii, sues her husband, David C. Cantwell, for n divorce in the District Court at Perry, Ok. N. L. Michael, ex-vicc-presidcnt of the American National Bauk of Lima, Ohio, which was robbed two years ago of 913,000, has been indicted for the robbery. Attorneys for six Western land grsut railroads decide to sue the United Htatesc fol nearly $300,000 for transportation of soldiers from Chicago to Ban Francisco. Middle-of-the-road Populists at mass couveutiou in Kausna City, Mo., condemned W. J. Bryan aud adopted as their new name the progressive people’s party.’ James Harris of Ottumwa, Kan., charged with the murder of J. 11. Allen, n wealthy merchant, implicates in a written coufcssiou the wife of the murdered man. The Supreme Court of ludlaua has decided thnt shaft's iu uattottul banks must be taxed at their marketable value without regard to debts which holders may owe. The Light and Heating Company of Leavenworth, Kan., learns that s fraudulent Issue of its bouds for 9140,000 Is In circulation aud offered for sale in Ckk, CJgo. President John Henry Barrows of Ob

erlin University announced tqat Dr, Alice 11. Luce of Wellesley College has accepted election as dean of the woman’s department St OborlinJ A strike of 153 union workmen occurred on the Northwestern Elevated road in Chicago, and in case the line is not in operation by May 31 it may involve a forfeiture of another SIOO,OOO. > ' Albert J. Deady, aged 28, and his wife, aged 10, locked in each other’s arms, leaped farm the Apple street bridge into the canal at Dayton, Ohio, and were drowned. t Both bodies were recovered, i Mrs. Amber Feeker, who is fighting with her husband, Charles Conrad Fecker,- for the possession of a 5-yoar-old boy whom she says she adopted in Milwaukee, has sued her husband for divorce. The plant of‘the St. Louis ~ Chronicle, occupying the three and four-story buildings at 11 to 18 North Sixth street, St. Louis, was practically destroyed by a tire. The fire is supposed to have.originated in the boiler room. The will of the late Philetus Sawyer, disposing of an estate valued at $3,000,000, has been filed at Oshkosh, Wis. Relatives get it all except SIO,OOO, which is given to the Ladies’ Benevolent Society of that eity. In St. Louis John Marienthai accidentally shot and killed his friend, Joseph Opperman, in a saloon. The bullet was intended for John McGahn, who was attempting to rob Opperman, when detected by Marienthai. It is rumored in St. Louis business circles that P. D. Armour & Co. are backing the wholesale purchase of real estate surrounding the old Union stock yards there, with the view of establishing an immense packing plant. Garfield McDonuld confessed to the Chicago police that he had stolen 100 bicycles from the basement storerooms of flat buildings on the South Side during the last three months. He disposed of the wheels to regular bicycle dealers. At Los Angeles, Cal., Joseph Hildner, formerly of Chicago, was shot to death by ttyo footpads. Hildner was escorting his mother to her home. Both were commanded to surrender valuables. As they both demurred, the fatal shot was fired. The epidemic which is carrying dozens of citizens of Butte, Mont., to their graves hag been diagnosed as pneumonia. As an illustration of the terrible fatality of the disease, out of forty-eight cases in one of the hospitals forty-four deaths resulted. Charles G. Fieisehmaun, secretary of the Trust Security and Safe Deposit Company of Detroit, hanged himself in n barn in the rear of his residence.- No reason for the deed can be given unless a recent illness hud unbalanced his mind. An electric passenger car on the Shore Line Railroad collided south of Mount Clemens, Mich., with some flat cars which were being pushed by a motor car. In the shock the passenger motor was forced upon a flat car. Seven persons were injured. At Terre Haute, Ind., George Cowell, a 50-year-old widower, shot and fatally wounded Annie Hartley, aged 14, with whom he was infatuated. Cowell tried to kill several other persons before he was overpowered and restrained by his grown sons.