Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Several military prisoners at Fort Snelling. Minn., made a break for liberty and one escaped recapture. The State ticket nominated by the Republicans of Minnesota is headed by Samuel K. Vansant for Governor. Michigan Republicans at Grand Rapids nominated a full State ticket, with Aaron T. Bliss of Saginaw for Governor. Four cases of leprosy have developed at Boise, Idaho, among returned volunteer soldiers who served in the Philippines. John Moberly, aged 92, died at the home of his sou, David Moberly, six miles north of Maryville, Mo. He took .strychnine. James 11. Merrill, 54 years old. Mayor of Oshkosh, Wis., died suddenly at the Kimberley apartment house in New York, of apoplexy. Crow Indians will work on the new Burlington extension running through their reservation in Montana and Wyoming. First instance of Indian working. Janies Doran & Co., brokers in St. Paul, have been forced to the wall. Mr. Doran explained: “I went wrong on wheat a( 78 cents. 1 shall fail for about $300,000. At Grand Forks, N. D., heat, drouth and high winds were followed by frost, and while the wheat crop was damaged much it is a little worse off in places than previously. Billy Stiles, a Tombstone fugitive, was captured at Casa Grande, Arlz., by Charley Hood and Burt Glover, the former a line rider and the hitter deputy sheriff of Cochise County. The national Prohibition convention at Chieago nominated John G. Woolley of Illinois for President of the United States. Henry B. Metcalf of Rhode Island was named for the vice-presidency. Two hundred miners and smelters, employes of Keswick, Cal., and vicinity, drove twenty-one Japanese railroad workers out of town. The Japanese were employed to take the places of white men. During a severe storm near Bournevilli', Ohio, Richard Hinkle, farmer, was killed by lightning in the harvest field. The house of Robert Summers was struck nnd burned ami a barn was also destroyed by lightning. A masked robber started through a Pullman car on the Omaha-Billings train on the Burlington after leaving York, Neb., soon after midnight. He got two watches nnd S7O, but took alarm, pulled the air brake and left the train before completing his work. With 5,000 union masons nt their command Chicago contractors who have remained idle for five mouths have resumed work. The 1 mlustritil Union, a "nonunion" organization, is relied upon by the contractors to supply laborers, carpenters nnd men of the iron crafts. A destructive fire occurred nt Morenci, Ariz., completely wiping out the old concentrator nnd innmmo(,h smelting plant of the Detroit Copper Mining Company owned by Phelps. Dodge & Co. of New York. The loss Is estimated nt $1,000,O<H), partially covered by insurance. The Rev. 8. A. Templeton of an evangelist who claims to represent the Christian Catholic Church of that city, whs showered "with bud eggs while preaching an o|>cn-nir sermon in Corinth, N. Y. The crowd listened to him quietly until he begun to abuse leading citizens by mime. I In view of the ndversc findings of the Ohio Supreme Court regarding the avail-

ability of the centennial appropriation to meet current expenses the Toledo centennial board of directors met and decided to close up their offices, except one room, which will be retained thirty days to close up all business. A new species of animal, which ajppears to be a hybrid between a dog and wolf, infests the southern portion of Wayne County, Mo. The anitpals have large claws and climb trees as readily as a catamount. A daughter Of Jesse Osborne was crossing a pasture when one of the animals attacked her, mangling her so that death resulted. A. M. Baldwin of El Reno, Oklahoma, has tendered to Gov. Barnes a company of 100 Indians and cowboys for service to the Government in case more troops are required in China. Capt. B. V. Benson of Ardmore, in the Chickasaw nation, has tendered the Secretary of the Interior the services of seventy-eight men, many of whom are Indians, in case of war in China. Samuel Landis, president of head camp No. 1 of the Knights of the Soil, the farmers’ secret organization begun at Abilene, Kan., last April, says the order has suspended in Kansas. The farmers have been unwilling to leave their wheat fields to attend meetings, and the prime object of the order, which was to enable them to bold their wheat for higher prices, was futile when wheat prices went skyward. The W. U. Cargill Elevator Company of La Crosse, Wis., which runs an extensive line of elevators throughout the wheat region, announces that owing to the prospective wheat shortage all of its elevators north of the Litchfield line will not be opened this year. This affects seventy of this company’s elevators. It will retain nil persons employed by it at these elevators at an expense of nearly $50,000.