Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Capt. George Ritchey died at the soldiers’ home at Fort Leavenworth. Kan., aged 62. The Y. M. C. A. at Lenvcnworth, Kan., dedicated a new hall, built especially for its use at a cost of over $15,000. Ex-Congressman David B. Culberson, father of United States Senator Culberson, is dead at Jefferson, Texas. Frank Rockefeller has left the Euclid Avenue Church of Cleveland because of a quarrel with his brother, John D. Smallpox has broken out at Butler College at Irvington, a suburb of Indianapolis. Five young ladies have the disease. Grantsburg, 111., was almost totally destroyed by tire. Only two business houses, the postoffice and a suloou were left standing. In eastern Ohio ice formed in some localities the other night and killing frosts were general. The damage to fruits aud early crops is heavy. The Kansas railroad law, which is the result, of ten years of Populist agitation in Kansas, was declared unconstitutional by the State Supreme Court. Walter Scott Kuniler, 49 years old, former Mayor of Oxford, Ohio, fell in a fit in the street in Oxford. His head struck a eeineut pavement and he died instantly. The Stebbius Bank at Creston, Ohio, was entered aud the vault blown open. The burglars secured about SIOO, but failed to secure $14,000 in the strong box. Emma Stelz, 34 years qld, was shot aud almost instantly killed by Mrs. Albert Hodst in the latter's saloon at 1626 North. Clark street, Chicago. Jealousy, it is said, was the cause. A bulletin issued by the Ohio State Board of Agriculture estimates the prospective wheat crop of the State at only 41 per cent of an average, or about 16,000,000 to 18,000,000 bushel*. Fred Bortzmeycr, a young man who arrived at San Francisco from Cleveland, Ohio, a few dny* ago, was shot aud fatally wounded by a highwayman who secured S9O before he fired at his victim. Harry Burke, a student in Cincinnati University, received a fatal injury while vaulting over a ten-foot barrier. The pule broke aud he fell buck, striking the upper part of hi* spinal column on the top of the broken pole. Six masked robber* held up a Northern. Pacific freight train east of North Ynklma, Wash., robbed five passengers and threw them from the moving train. The robber* used their revolvers freely and two passenger* were shot. Half a dozen distinct tornadoes occurred in central Kansas following a day of exceedingly high temperature. Two pcr•*on» ore known to have been killed and three Injured, while the loss on house*, cattle aud other property it very great. Joseph Bays, a young farmer, who lived n few miles southwest of Hopkins, Mo., died of eating eggs. He made a bet with a friend that he could ent three dozen eggs. Ho did it. Ile-wa* taken ill a few hours later, and the doctors were unable to relieve hitu. A street car, filled with Dewey celcbrator», wa* blown from the track and wrecked on the outskirts of St. Loui* in a lonely spot. k Ad examination of the track

I showed that it had been coated for a distance by a‘layer of nitroglycerin and some , other substance. Officials of the Northwestern Elevated Railroad Company in Chicago have announced that the .153 union workmen who went on a strike on the road a few weeks ago have been taken back to work under an agreement conceding every point to the -unions. The through passenger train from the east on the Great Northern was thrown from the track in the yards at Great Falls, Mont. Passengers in dne ear were badly shaken up, but no serious damage was done. Striker? claim that they had nothing to do with it. J. F. Valentine of San Francisco, first vice-president 'of the Molders’ International Union of America, has succeeded in effecting a temporary settlement of the trouble in the foundries of Akron, Ohio, and the men who hftvh been out on strike have returned to work. The small town of Barrett, Minn., was burned away the other night'. Fire is supposed to have been of incendiary origin. There was no fire protection, and twenty-three buildings burned to the groutfd. The combined losses are nearly $60,000, with light insurance. The Ebinger Grand Opera House at Fort Madison, lowa, was destroyed by tire. The insurance will not cover half the loss of $25,000. Frank Threener, a fireman, was struck on the head by a falling brick aud sustained a fracture of the skull, necessitating trephining. A washed-out trestle leading to the Black bridge, south of St. Charles, Mo., caused the wreck of the “Katy flyer," a fast passenger train on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway, and resulted in the death of John Boyle, fireman, with the fatal injury of L. D. Palmer, engineer. A three-story brick building at 1302 Grand avenue, in the business center of Kansas City, occupied on the ground floor by Jacob Goodman as a second-hand store and above by Mrs. Mary Sonn as a rooming house, collapsed, burying seven persons in the ruins. It is believed none of the injured will die. Four men were wounded, one probably fatally, during a labor riot on an Archer avenue car in Chicago. A dozen shots were fired, every window in the car was shattered and passengers fled, panicstricken. The fighting was between coal heavens employed at the E. L. Hendstrom & Co. coal docks and seven strikers. The Mississippi Valley Hay Storage Company and the lumber yards of the Hofiper-Lothman Manufacturing Company, located at Branch and Second streets, St. Louis, were destroyed by fire. The total loss is estimated at $350,000, of which the hay company sustains about $40,000 and the Hofner-Lothman Manufacturing Company the remainder. Judge Lochren in the United States Circuit Court at St. Paul remanded Rafael Ortiz, the Porto Rican, back to Stillwater prison. In his decision Judge Lochren held that by the cession of Porto Rico that island became an integral part of the United States and that the Federal constitution thereupon, ex propria vigore, extended over the island and its people. A call has been issued for a national convention of farmers, to be held at Topeka, Kan., July 2 and 3, for the purpose of forming a gigantic trust to control the price and sale of grain and live stock. The call is signed by Walter N. Allen, president, and James Butler, secretary of the Farmers’ Federation, a mutual co-operative association recently chartered under the laws of Kansas, with an authorized capital stock of $20,000,000.