Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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French troops have occupied Igli, near the Morocco frontier. Marguerite Couuctte. n Belgian, was sold at nuctiou for S4O in Galveston, Texts. • : • Burglars blew open the safe of the bank of Stapiehurst, Neb., securing $1,500 in booty. They escaped. One man was killed aud one fatally injured by the fail of a scaffold at the new State capitol iu St. Paul, Minn. A. S. Haliidie, inventor of the first cable car system in the United States, is dead at San Francisco, aged 73. Indianapolis police found a demented colored niuu chained to a stake in a she.l, where he had been tied five years. The fire-story brewery of the Atlas Brewing Company was burned in Chicago, an estimated loss of $250,000. Mother Mftry Annunciate. mother general of the Sister* of the Holy Cross iu America, dic'd at Notre Dame, Ind. lndiann Republican Slate convention nominated Winfield T. Durbin, a colonel of volunteers, for Governor, and a full ticket. The Government engineers have discontinued work at Sabine Pass, Texas. They ■ay the Government appropriation is exhausted. High school students nt Findlay, Ohio, removed the hands from every clock lu she building. Four youths have been suspended.

In u quarrel in a court room nt Paris, Texas, Lawyer E. P. Scott stabbed Justice J. J. Hooks in the stomach. Judge Hooks it badly injured. In Los Angeles, Cal., C. Cole took bts 8-year-old daughter front in front of her motjier’s eyes bee4use his wife would not return to his home It. Massachusetts. The Western Association of Princeton Clubs was organized at Bt. Louis with thirteen clubs as charter members. John D. Davis of St. I.ouis was elected president. Samuel I)e Witt Beals, the oldest educator iu point of service in Nebraska, died in Omaha, nged 74 years. He had been engaged continuously in avhool work In Nebraska since 1871. George M. Pullman, one of the twin sons of the late palace car builder, has token a second wife. The bride was Mrs. Iconise Bowers, of Chicago, divorced wife of Fred V. Bowers, the soi.g writer. The body of John Blagg, a prominent Farmers' Alliance lecturer; was found in the Solomon river uear Abilene, Kan. The body had evidently beeu iu the water for several days. Blagg was a prosperous fanner. A jury in Judge Baker’s court It. Chicago brought in a verdict of guilty in the case of Charles 1). Lamb, who shot and killed his father-in-luw Inst December, and fixed his punishment iu the penitentiary for life. In n resort in the western part of Galveston, Texas, a white woman was sold at auction for (40 by a man claiming to be her husband. The woman begged piteously not to be sold. A bartender purchased her. A battle was fought between union and non-union stonecutters iu the yards of the lluuipmnycr Stone Company in Chicago. One union man was shot in the left thigh by C. MncCreary, bookkeeper for the company. Seven persons were injured in the partial collapse of a double twq-story frame building at 1712-14 State street, Chicago. The building stood five feet from tbe street level, ami it struck the ground with great force. T. hi. Biiltlugtuu, chief of tbe Chero* kee nation, appointed Senator C. V. ltog ers of Clarenmre otid Wilson O. Brutotf of Muidrow ns expert accouutants.to investigate alleged crookedness in the auditor** office at Tshlequah. ▲ cloudburst, by a high

wind, descended upon Waco, Texas, at noon tbe other day, and tbe result Is that eight people perished in the city limits and property valued at several thousand dollars was destroyed or injured. At the home of Luther Brewer, Beven miles southwest of Upper Sandusky,Ohio, William Bolyard, aged 34 year!*, shot his wife, 23 years old, and then killed himself. Both died instantly. The couple had been separated three months. The Columbus, Qfcfe, plant of the National Steel Company has been closed under orders from the general offices, the reason assigned being to make extensive repairs. Between three and four hundred men are thrown out of work. 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 tbe passenger motor was forced upon a flat car. Seven persona were injured. Oberlin M. Carter, former captain in the United States army, has arrived at Leavenworth, Kan., to begin his term in the army penitentiary for defrauding the Government. He was put at work as bookkeeper, aud later may be employed as civil engineer. Thomas Manning Rage, a wealthy St, lamia bachelor, died there recently, uud his will shows that he left a snug fortune to Miss Anora Blue, for many yenrs his stenographer. The will provides that she is to receive $2,500 annually from his estate. Mrs. Louise Ix>ttridge is again free at Chicago. The coroner’s jury after only a few minutes’ deliberation exonerated the woman from all blame in connection with the shooting of Rufus Wright, the wealthy tire manufacturer, who died at tbe Iceland Hotel April 15. W. I). Dickinson, a popular young farmer of Sharon Township, Ohio, shot Miss Edna Wilkinson, a young school teacher, on the streets of live Green. Then be turned the revolver upon himself and blew out his brains. A love affair, with extreme jealousy, was the cause. At Cincinnati Mrs. Jessie Adams was acquitted of the charge of murder in the first degree. She recently killed her husband, who was the ageut of the Union Pacific Railway there. The evidence showed that Mrs. Adams had suffered from cruel treatment and was acting iu sc If-deft'use. Board of curators of the Missouri State University at Columbia elected Prof. J. W. Kyle of the University of Chicago to the chair of Greek, Prof. A. F. Smith of Wisconsin University to the chair of agriculture aud Prof. Charles A. Ellwood of the University of Nebraska to the chair of sociology. Mindee Chowagee, the negro-ludiau who escaped from jail at Marshall, Mo., after assaulting Sheriff Joseph Wilton and his little sou and shooting the Sheriff's wife in the arm whet she came to their assistance, was lynched. The enraged citizens broke into the jail, dragged out the prisoner and hanged him on a tree in the jnilyard. D. Rosenberg, living at the South Side Hotel in St. Louis, and Miss Goldie Borland of Chicago, who has been visiting friends there, were married quietly by Rev. H. J. Messing. Iu order to marry without the knowledge of their parents or friends the young touple pretended to hnve had a quarrel. Both now explaining matters to their relatives.

Burglars secured $5,000 from ihe vaults of the Bank of CoulterviHe, 111., during the early hours the other morning and made their escape. The robbers are supposed to bo members of the gang which has operated throughout the State, Indiana and Wisconsin during the last mouths. Not the slightest trace has been obtained of their Identity. A. E. Calhoun, a well-to-do ranchman, living eighteen miles south of Whitman, Neb., was shot by Ancel Connor, a neighbor. They engaged in a quarrel about some land and when the dispute become heated Calhoun ordered Connor off the premises. During the disenssior. Connor pulled a revolver aud shot Calhoun iu the alMlomen, indicting u fatal wound. A south-bound St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern passenger train was held up by a negro bandit near Higgin sou, Ark., at 1 o'clock on a recent morning. The negro had no visible confederates and confined bis operations to one passenger coach, compelling the panic stricken passengers to band over their valuables nt the point of a pistol. The bandit escaped.