Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Fire at Hot Springs, Ark., destroyed the' Rogers block, causing a loss of $15,000. Bubonic plague is said to have reached San Francisco, causing six deaths already. A blow in a friendly sparring contest killed William Stowe, aged 17, at Batesville, Ind. Three suburban trolley lines at Cleveland, Ohio have consolidated with $2,000.000 capital. Republicans nominated W. E. Stanley for Governor of Kansas and Joseph Flory for Governor of Missouri. A stranger who refused to give his name was shot fatally while trying to break into the Warren, Ohio, postoffice. While a fire at the Addison mill, in Tacoma, Wash., was in progress a stairway which was crowded with people fell. Nine persons were injured. William I’nlchou, aged 102 years, died at Findlay, Ohio. He probably was the oldest man in northwestern Ohio, and last summer chopped wood for weeks. The Sauntry mine at Virginia, Minn., has shut down. The mine is one of the new developed open pit properties of the American Steel and Wire Company. . E. C. Morrison shot and killed his brother, M. B. Morrison, at their home, two miles oast of Edmonds, Wash. The trouble grew out of a game of cards. The street ear strike at Dayton, Ohio, has been settled and declared off. 'The cars are running on schedule time. The settlement was made by concessions from both side's. A-desperate battle between four farmers and cattlemen is reported from near Eldorado, Okla., in which the two farmers were killed and the two cattlemen badly wounded. Fierce rioting has prevailed in St. Louis. One man was shot dead in his awn door by a bullet tired by a motorman. Many were wounded in conflicts between the police and strike sympathizers. Two meu were killed and seven injured. three fatally, by the explosion of the boiler of the locomotive attached to southbound passenger train No. 21 on the Illinois Central Railroad at Dubois. 111. Negotiations for the sale of the Rawhide mine, the once famous gold producer of Tuolumne County, California, to an English syndicate have been practically completed. The price named is $850,000. Two Yosemite valley stages were held up at Big Oak flat, near Stockton, Cal., by a lone highwayman. One stage was going into and the other was coming from the park. The rubber secured about S3OO. Samuel Wyatt, a young English evangelist of good family, who is missing in Chicago, leaves queer letters indicating thut he has committed suicide and making wild charges /(gainst prominent men in England. Alois Standemyer, a ranchman, was murdered and his body left lying on the plains ten miles from Harrison, Neb. He was a cattleman and had gone out to look after bis stock. There is no clew to his slayers. Two hundred University of Nebraska students went on a rampage the other niglft at Lincoln, and in a collision with the police assaulted Chief Hoagland and Officer Harr, beating the latter and breaking his leg. < In the presence of clerks and guests of the Coates Hotel In Kansas City, Mo., a lone robber seised a strong box containing $1,500 in jewels and money, held

all at bay with a revolver,, mounted a horse and escaped. Representatives of English wheat buyers are contracting with some of the big Kansas' wheat growers for their entire crop of wheat at 50 cents per bushel. The wheat is to be exported via the Gulf of Mexico to Liverpool. In the District Court at Guthrie, Okla., John McGovern bus filed a suit for a divorce upon the ground that his wife cannot make good coffee. The beverage has not improved any in five years, he alleges, and he cannot stand it any longer. Fire broke out iit the business portion of Grand Meadow, Minn., and 6ne side of the main street was entirely consumed. The loss is estimated at $50,000, with insurance at about one-third that amount. The fire started in a saloon. The origin is, unknown. A new theater designed especially for •the Castle Square opera company fs projected for St. Louis. Under present plans it will be completed for the winter season. It is to be situated at Tenth and Olive streets, near the Century Theater, and will seat 3,500 persons. The African Methodist Episcopal Church conference at Columbus, Ohio, elected live new‘bishops. They are: L. J. Coppen, Philadelphia; M. M. Moore, Washington, D. C.t C. T. Shafter, I’hiladelphia; D. 8. Smith, Nashville, Tenn.; Evans Tyree, Nashville, Tenn. .2 At Portsmouth, Ohio, Stephen Masters, a sawmill operator, was shot and killed by his nephew, Frank Jenkins, when Jenkins had called to settle the affairs of a former partnership. The shooting occurred in the presence of Mrs. Masters. Jenkins surrendered to the sheriff. About 425 linemen employed by the Cleveland (Bell) Telephone Company in that city struck for an eight-hour day without a reduction in wages. The men now receive $2.50 anil work ten hours. The company offered to compromise on nine hours, but this was rejected. Mrs. Annie Smith, 2554 Wabash avenue, Chicago, died at Mercy hospital from burns received while pouring kerosene oil into the kitchen stove. Leo Leahy was badly injured while attempting to extinguish the flames which enveloped her and Edward Leahy’s face was slightly scorched. At St. Louis Judge Elmer B. Adams of the United States District Court issued a temporary writ of injunction restraining strike leaders and all other persons from interfering in auy manner with the running of mail cars over the street car lines of the city. The injunction was asked for by the postal authorities. A young Indian, Tuey, shot and killed his grandmother and fatally wounded his wife near Rolla, N. D. The murderer escaped to Manitoba. He is only 16 years old and was married recently against the 'wishes of his grandmother. All the parties are full-blooded Indians on the Turtle Mountain reservation. Fire caused by lightning destroyed a tank containing 30,000 barrels of oil at the Cramer pumping station of the Buckeye Pipe Line Company aT Findlqy, O. One hundred other tanks of like capacity were saved by firing cannon balls into burning tanks and letting oil escape into the river. The loss will be $50,000. Gov. R. B. Smith of itontana, who had just returned from California, announces tha-t he had decided to disregard Lieut. Gov. Spriggs’ appointment of Senator Clark to the vacancy created by that gentleman’s resignation, and that he has himself appointed Maj. Martin Maginnis of Helena to the vacancy. Maj. Maginnis wired his acceptance. ——= One of the most disastrous fifes for years occurred ou Broadway, at Wellston, Ohio. The original opera house and city hall building, Schuss’s large grocery, Bingham’s saddlery and Dr. Darling's office were burned down. The fire was of incendiary nature and makes the seventh within a week. The loss, which was $50,000, is covered by insurance. At Paulding, Ohio, Simon W. Cramer, ex-Representative of the State, accidentally shot and killed his wife. Mr. and Mrs. Cramer were attempting to dislodge a rat from a pile of debris. Mrs. Cramer was on the opposite side of a woodshed from her husband, who held in his hand a loaded shotgun. He thought he saw the rat and fired, striking Mrs. Cramer full in the face.