Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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A fire at Prescott, Aria., destroyed the business portion of the town and sixty dwellings, entailing a loss of $1,500,000. At New Castle, Cal., fire destroyed all the fruit houses and leading business houses. The total loss will exceed SIOO,000. John Henry Gear, United States Senator from lowa, died at’Washington. Heart failure is ascribed as the cause of death. Melvin Ingram was stabbed to death by Tot Darnell at Dana, lml., ns the re- ► slt of rivalry for the hand of a young woman. In Kansas City, an “anti-Boxer” riot, incited by an attack of hoodlums on a Chinese laundry, was quelled only by police interference. While fire was in progress at Marion, Ohio. Filler Phillips’ dry goods store was robbed of $1,500 worth of silks. The burglars escaped. C. V. Eskridge, editor of the Emporia, Kan., Republican, nnd nt one time Lieutenant Governor of the State, committed suicide by shooting. Letters from the principal corn counties in Kansas say the corn crop is half destroyed, and will he almost ruined if rains do not coiue soon. One man was killed and two girls injured in a windstorm in Chicago, which hurled a section of sidewalk across a street and into a garden. A Transit car was blown tip by dynamite in North St. Louis and four persons were injured. The car was hurled from the tracks and badly splintered. John E. Hudson of the .firm of J. E. ami W. 11. Hudson, hardware dealers, Maryville, Mo., committed suicide by shooting. lie had liyeu ill for some time. The transport Hancock reached San Francisco, twenty-four hours from Manila, with 101 general passengers nnd 547 soldiers. F|yj deaths and two suicides occurred on the voyage. Frederick W. Lehman, attorney for the St. Isiuis Transit Company, has made a statement that the Transit company will not submit to arbitration the differences between it niul its employes. Fierce storms have prevailed in Texas, one of great violence destroying part of tin l town of Llano and injuring residents. Itains are excessive and continue. In Nebraska very heavy rains prevail. At Norwood, tin Indianapolis suburb, a pitched battle took place between the police and a gang of tramps who had attempted to capture n Big Four freight train. Seven tramps were captured. Vyden Matthews, n Chicago negro, in n fit of anger, shot ami instantly killed Georgie Coleman, colored, at her home. Then with two revolvers the man kept u crowd of pursuers at bay nnd escaped. Democrats havg selected Aug. 8 as the date and Indianapolis as the place fur the notification of Bryan nnd Stevenson that they have been nominated for President nml Vice-President respectively. At Bismarck, N. D„ the Supreme Court bunded down a decision disbarring from the practice of law in the State L. A. Simpson. State's attorney of Stark County nnd former member of the Legislature. Miss Fern Atwood was placed in n cell at the Omaha city jail, the charge against her being “'kissed u man willfully and without his consent haying been first obtained." The man who wus kissed is Capt. Her. A Rock Islnnd passenger train nt St. Joseph, M i., pushed n freight frnin off the track and through a building seventy feet kquarc owned by the St. Joasuih Plow

Company, completely destroying the structure. i The contract for erecting the monument to be placed at Springfield, Mo., in honor of the Confederate dead, by veteran* of that service, has been awarded to Chevalier Trentanove, a sculptor of Washington, I). C. At St. Paul, Minn., the Supreme Court has decided that the baking powder law requiring manufacturers and dealers to affix a label beaying the names nnd nmoiiut of the ingredients on each can is constitutional. —— y - t ——ry David Kelly, a retired cab driver, was shot and almost instantly killed by his brother-in-law, Charles Foster, in their house at 3251 Center street, Chicago. The shooting was the result of a quarrel over a $2 cab fare. Rain has fallen over the entire corn belt of Nebraska nnd western lowa, the precipitation ranging from one to tlyee inches, some points reporting even more. Experts all agree that this rain secures the corn crop. Mrs. David Radcliff, wife of a farmer living near Caroli, Mo., gave birth to three boys. The triplets, who are a healthy trio, were named by the father William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt and Marcus Hanna Radcliff. The body of a man supposed to be A. O. Woodward of Denver was found in a shed at Jefferson barracks, the army post south of St. Louis. The skull is fractured and there are wounds which the finders believe were made with a knife. A collision between a Blake street car and eight freight cars nftaehed to a Big Four engine at the West street crossing of the Big Four Railroad switch, near Military Park, Indianapolis, resulted in the serious injury of several passengers. Four masked robbers blew open the safe of Charles Y. Bussy’s private hunk at Hudson, Ohio, securing S4OO. They bound and gagged two boys who were sleeping in the room, while the night watchman Was held up nt the muzzle of a revolver. For publishing in the Omaha Bee an article which the Supreme Court holds was written w|tb the intention of influencing the court’s decision in the Omaha fire and police commission case. Editor Rosewater was found guilty of contempt. He was assessed the costs of the case as penalty. Mike Conley, alias Doyle, confessed to Chief Mahoney at Cairo, ill., that he assisted in holding up« the Illinois Central train near Wlckliffe.uxy. lie says there were only three meosConeerned in the hold-up and that all wbw drunk. The three quarreled over the division of the spoils and Conley left them. William A. Paulsen, formerly president of the Central Trust and Savings Bank, in Chicago, which, failed March 5. 1890, was found guilty of embezzlement and receiving a deposit in his band after it became insolvent. The verdict of the jury recommended that lie be fined SBO and sentenced to the penitentiary. A shooting affray occurred at Agricultural park, Sail Jose, Cal., resulting in the instant death of Joseph Cecil and the fatal wounding of August Berger. The shooting took place at the picnic of the Brewers’ and Bottlers' Union. Constable Fred Bergerot of Alvieo, who did the shooting, had been drinking heavily. Fire destroyed five large and three small buildings formerly occupied by the Chicago Great Western Railway as repair shops nt South Park, just outside St. Paul, Minn., nnd in addition destroyed about 500 carloads of shingles, causing a total loss estimated at $200,000. The buildings had lieeu used as a storehouse by the Coast Shingle Company. Permission to widen the Chicago river and introduce necessary changes to modify the current caused by the flow through the drainage canal has been granted the Chicago sanitary board in a communication which has just been forwarded by Secretary Root of the War Department. The permission carries a provision absolving the Government from all expense. Two ears collided on the Dalton, Springfield Urbana electric road near Springfield, Ohio, and were telescoped. Probably twenty persons were injured. One car was loaded with persons returning from a church picnic, and nearly all the passengers were hurt. Motorman Charles Armstrong had a leg broken and was internally injured. No explanation of the collision is offered.