Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Three men robbed the pnsswiger station nt Lockport, 111., taking SIOO. Population of Chicago based on the new directory is estimated at 2,010,000. Three men have discovered placetmines of fabulous richness iu lower California. Eight persons were badly hurt iu u cable train accident iu Milwaukee avenue, Chicago. Despite the strike, a $20,000 building is to be constructed at once at'the University of Chicago. Senator Spooner of Wisconsin says he will retire from public life when his present term is ended. The president of the Cincinnati council was arrested for violating the law requiring tights on bicycles. Douglas Walker was shot and killed by his brother-in-law, Albert Boyle, ut Kingman, Kan., as the result of a family quarrel. The Democratic convention at Kansas City completed its work by nominating Adlai E. Stevenson, of Illinois, for Vice President. The Democratic convention, in session nt Kansas City, on Thursday nominated William J. Bryan of Nebraska-for President by acclamation. At Kansas City Bryan and Stevenson were iudorsed by the silver Republicans, but not without a hard tight over the Vice Presidential nomination. Fire at Prairie Depot, Ohio, destroyed two squares of business property, including a loss of front SOO,OOO to $75,000. Eighteen business houses were burned. Mrs. William Mitchell, a white woman, who was the wife of a colored man, and their son were shot dead by unknowu parties on their little ranch near San Francisco. At Richmond, Ind., Xuthau Lockwood, a baker, 50 years old, cut his daughter Bessie's throat and shot himself. Both are dead. It is believed that Lockwood was insane. The entire family of Samuel Jones uud several guests at Wild Cherry l'urk, Mo., partook of toadstools gathered by children for mushrooms. Niue persons were taken sii k and six died. The Staudard Wheel Company's plant nt Sandusky, Ohio, was destroyed by tire, the fire originating iu un adjoining factory. The loss is over SIOO,OOO. Two hundred men arc thrown out of employment. * *• < Ella Grtie. aged 48 years, an Inmate of the Mnssilluii, Ohio, State Hospital for the Insane, Committed suicide by strangling herself with her stocking. She came from Akron. The 2-year-old son of William Miller, near St. John's, Ohio, is dead. Mrs. Miller, the child's stepmother, was arrested nnd confessed because tin* child cried she held its jaws. Fire, supposed to have been started by a drunken man. destroyed all the business houses nu the north side of Main

street, Windom, Minn. The loss is SOO,000; insurance not known. The Itev. James Powell shot and killed Frank Heed at Eifort, Ohio. The two men quarreled over Reed’s attentions to a girl and Powell emptied both barrels of a gun into him. Powell was arrested. The headless body of a woman, identified as that of Miss Haney, was found near New Vieuna, Ohio. The woman was last seen alive about 7 o’clock the previous night, and the murder is shrouded iu mystery. Believing that Frank Heoderly induced her daughter Maggie to go to New York, Mrs. Elizabeth Toomey of Newark, Ohi'o, shot Hcnderly and then herself. She will die, but there is hope for the young man. At Dallas, Texas, the State court of criminal appeals has affirmed the life sentence of Ed Cain and Bob Stevens, convicted of assisting in the lynching of three white farmers in Henderson County in May, 1899. F. 11. Gedge, manager of the Anderson, Ind., plant of the American Steel uud Wire Company, has been promoted to the district managership, with headquarters at Chicago. He will have the district wqst of Ohio. An oil tank southwest of Limn, Ohio, containing 35,000 barrels of ' oil, was fired by lightning ami is a total loss. Hundreds of men bunked earth walls around the tank to prevent the spread of the fire when it was shot. Frank Everly, aged 70 years, was found dead in his harness store nt Marion, Ohio. He was married four times and had children, but their residences nre unknown. A good business and $1,500 in cash awaits them. Virgil Karp, youngest of four brothers of that name who gained national fame by bloody affrays with cowboys iu Arizona, was killed ut Willcox, Cal., by John Boyett, between whom and Eurp bad blood had existed for years. While Miss Dollie Weber, of Doniphan, Mo., was using a pair of curling irons -she accidentally lost her hold on the handle and the iron in dropping struck her left eye, burning the pupil and rendering the organ sightless. ’ ’ The Chicago Democrat, an afternoon newspaper organized in February, 189i£suspended publication of its daily edition. Nathan Eisenlord, publisher of the paper, states that its discontinuance was made necessary by lack of patronage. The steamer Ida of Mount Clemens was wrecked during a terrific gule off Kelley’s Island. She was picked up in the lake ami towed to Sandusky. When the wind subsided the crew was reached by the Marblehead life-saving crew. The big plant of the Illinois Steel Company at South Chicago, 111., was besieged by a mob of 1,000 men and women, who claimed that the company was keeping prisoner 100 workmen in the blast furnaces to prevent an impending strike. The preliminary examination for the West I‘oint cadetship was held at Yankton, S. D., under the direction of Senator Kyle, eight contestants taking the papers. J. Novotny of Yankton passed with highest standing, with Albert T. Lyman of Mitchell second.

Judge Hubbard, of the Superior Court iu San Francisco, decided that the marriage of persons iu Nevada who had been divorced iu California within one year was valid. This decision is diametrically opposed to the one rendered by Judge Belcher a month ago. Antonio Soso and Jose Vasquez, two prominent cattlemen, quarreled over a cattle brand in the San Pedro Valley, Arizona, and both men were killed iu a fight with guns. A feud between the cowboys employed by the two men killed has arisen and serious trouble is feared. William Lobe of Cleves, Ohio, was killed and Neal Batseher of Harrison, Ohio, was mortally injured in un electric ear accident near Harrison. The car contained fifty passengers. It jumped the track rounding a curve in a deep cut, and plunged into a hank, demolishing the ear. Dr. Henry Wade Rogers, formerly president of Northwestern University ut Evanston, 111., has accepted an invitation from the Yale Law School to act as instructor in the law department of Yale University during the coming year. He will till the chair made vacant by the death of E. J. Phelps. An explosion occurred in a tunnel being constructed at California, an eastern suburb, for the new Ciuciuunti waterworks. One of the workmen was chi eying a lighted candle, when an explosion was caused, doing considerable damage ami seriously injuring Robert Legner, electrician, uud nine workmen. A cyclone and cloudburst struck Steamboat Iloek, lowa, destroying the whole village. The lowa River rose five feet there within on hour. A cloudburst between St. Anthony aud Zenring washed out nearly a mije of track on the Story City branch of the lowa Central Railroad and caused great damage to crops. James 1.. Grisham of Rcott County, Missouri, went home intoxicated and whipped his wife. She fled to the'home of her brotber-ln-law, Ilolicrt Grisham. Tile enraged husband followed and attempted to repeat the beating. Ilis brother .interfered nnd after a quarrel shot James twice, fatally wounding him.