Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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At Ashtabula, Ohio, the body of 11. A. Luce was found in the river. Death was accidental. American Steel nnd Wire Company announces that it intends to treble its plant in Cleveland, Ohio. Col — Adam -St ßaker, president- of the South Bcml, Ind., Wagon Company and a pioneer citize'n, is dead, aged 70. Proposal to withdraw the colored troops from Arizona is opposed by the settlers, who fear Indian outbreaks. At the meeting of the Christian Missionary Alliance at Cleveland SIO,OOO was subscribed for foreign missions. Eugene Blanc committed suicide at Perryville, Mo., claiming that he was hounted by the spirit of his dead wife. Fire, supposed to lie of incendiary origin, destroyed the old building of St. Jarlath’s Catholic Church in Hermitage avenue, Chicago. There will be no peaches or-prunes exported from the southern part of California this year, according to the statements of deciduous fruit growers. Two girls died as the result of injuries received in a gasoline explosion in Chicago, during which one of them was hurled through a second-story window. The hotel at Castle Craig, Shasta County, Cal., burned to the ground. All the guests escaped with their baggage. Castle Craig Tavern was a fashionable summer hotel.

A powder magazine belonging to Geo. E. Turner„and situated near the Reward mine, about two miles from Nevada City, Cal., exploded, tearing a hole forty feet deep in the earth. Chicago Heights, 111., has fifty cases of scarlet fever and the epidemic shows ■no promise of abating. The disease is caused by stagnant pools of water and rejuse in the suburb. The middle-of-the-road Populists of Nebraska met at Grand Islatjd, nominated u ticket headed by Mayor Fleck of Custer County for Governor and indorsed Wharton and Donnelly. Miss Jessie Morrison has been held to the grand jury nt Eldorado, Kan., charged with the murder of Mrs. Olin Castle, a rival. Miss Morrison will be confined in the county jail at Wichita. in San Antonio, Texas, while his wife slept with her babe in her arms Ventura Ramos cleaved her skull with an ax and fled, leaving letters behind indicating his intention of committing suicide. Mrs. Clark, wife of ex-Auditor William Clark, became suddenly insane at Marion, Ohio. She could not stand the death of her son, who a few days since fell on a pitchfork and was disemboweled. Below Cottonwood Point, Mo., on the Mississippi river, the headless skeletons of live persons were unearthed. It is believed a second Bender family existed there, who decapitated victims and robbed them. A street car containing forty people on the Mineral Ridge nnd Niles Railway jumped the track at Mineral Ridge, Ohio, and turned over. Every person on board was injured. The cause of the wreck is unknown. The Amos & Davis Iron Company, which operates the Versailles furnace at Ironton, Ohio, has applied for a receiver, and E. 8. Culbertson has been appointed. Inability to meet obligations is given as the cause. A Northwestern express was derailed half way between Rec Heights nnd llighmore, 8. D., by cattle on the track. Fireman George Briggs was killed nnd Engineer E. E. Vance severely injured. No passengers were injured. In Caledonia, Minn., Banker J. R. Clements of La Crowl l , accused of wrecking the Fillmore County Bnnk of Preston, Minn., has been sentenced to ten years more on a second indictment. He was given five years March 1. At Newtown, an eastern suburb of Cincinnati, David Brown, a hostler, killed Mark Robinson and fatally wounded Frank Murphy. The shooting was the outcome of an old family quarrel and nil arc said to have been drinking. The Ohio tube plant in Warren, Ohio, Is to be torn down. Word has been received that the concern will be moved, part of it going to Youngstown. The mill is owned by the National Tube Company and employs ROO to 400 men. A Columbus', Sandusky and Hocking Valley locomotive jumped the track on

a trestle between Crooksville and Satillo, Ohio. Both engineer and fireman were killed. The fall was sixty-four feet and the engine was utterly destroyed. The bodies of two unknown young men were found beside the Chicago Great Western Railway tracks at Savannah, Mo. Each had been shot in the back of the head. The theory m that they were murdered on a train and thrown off. Tie close of the court year and the totaling up of the number of divorce cases filed discloses the startling fact that one out of every five Cleveland marriages seems' to be a failure.. In other words, for every five marriages one divorce is asked. Fire destroyed a barrel and box factory owned by Kiser & Dowies in Chicago. The flames spread to the saloon and residence of Louis Arefus, May street and Carroll avenue, and three houses in the rear of the factory. The estimated loss is $7,000. In Dayton, Ohio, six unknown persons assaulted Calvin Phebus, aged 60, and his son Eugene, aged 25, nnd beat them Into insensibility. The attacks are the outgrowth of the strike at the Callahan Machine Company, the men assaulted having refused to join a strike. Clyde Hagan, the young man who with Frank Levick, it is alleged, tried to wreck the Memphis flyer, two miles west of Lamar, Mo., on the night of May 21, was arrested near there. Levick has confessed, but asserted that Hagan placed the obstruction on the track. The little town of Long Run, two miles west of Mount Pleasant, Ohio, was visited by the most severe wind and rain tsorm that has been in that section for the last thirty years, and three lives were lost in the fl >od that followed. The damage to property was very heavy. The most disastrous fire in the history of Pomeroy, Wash., occurred the other night and caused losses which aggregate more than $90,000. The blaze originated from a gasoline cigar lamp. The county loses SIO,OOO by the burning of the court house fixtures and office supplies. Efforts are being made to secure the release from the Joliet penitentiary of Elizabeth Ann.lngersoll and John C. Collins, the aged couple who abducted Gerald Lapinej of Chicago on May 30, 1898, and kept him for nearly a year at the woman’s home in Painesville, Ohio. The collier Tellus, which was in collision with the transport Belgian King, in San Francisco bay, was rapidly discharged of her cargo. A rough estimate by an expert places the damage to the. Tellus at $30,000, while SIO,OOO will have to be spent on the Belgian King in repairs.

Cyrus B. Fockler, elder in charge of Dowie’s Zion Church at Mansfield, Ohio, Was caught by a crowd of infuriated citizens, who attempted to give him a coat of tar at the gas house. A quantity of dirty oil, however, was all that was available and Fockler was stripped and smeared with it. A terrible encounter occurred between two Russian farmers, whose names have not been learned, in Emmons Cipinty, S. I)., which resulted in the of both. There was no witness of the battle, but it is supposed they quarreled over a tract of hay land and attacked each other with pitchforks. Jessie Morrison, who was held without bail at Eldorado, Kan., for the murder of Mrs. Olin Castle, applied to the probate court for a writ of habeas corpus, claiming that she is unlawfully held to answer for murder and that the evidence is not sufficient to cause her to be held without bail.

“Dutch” Poors, the 'alleged murderer of John Adams, has been arrested at Warsaw, Mo. Poors and Adams left Chandler, Okla., in company two weeks ago. Adams’ dead body was found hidden in the brush south of Warsaw. When arrested Poors had Adams’ team and other property. At the concluaion of the preliminary examination at Anoka; Minn., the court decided to release James Hardy and Elmer Miller, accused of the Wise murders, holding that their alibis were conclusive. Young Mattison, whose confession first directed suspicion to Hardy and Miller, was held for trial. Jim Kennedy was ordered out of Frank Johnson's saloon at Union City, Okla., for disorderly conduct. He resented it and drew bis gun, shooting Johnson in the head. Johnson replied with two shots. Johnson is dead, but Kennedy will recover. The latter is under arrest, charged with murder. There was a head-end collision between li south-bound passenger train and a north-boitnd freight on the Chicago, Rock Island and Texas road, midway between Rush Springs and Ninnekah, in Indian territory. As a result three trainmen are dead and five others injured. Both engines are total wrecks. On account of the drouth on the range early in the season the attention of South Dakota cattlemen has been turned toward artesian wells. The first effort in that direction will be made by P. F. McClure on his Cedar creek ranch. If his well proves successful it meap« the sinking of hundreds of such w>lls on the great Sioux range. A great forest fire has been raging on the lands of the American River Land and Lumber Company, twelve miles northwest of Placerville, Cal. The big chute built by the company in 1894 nt the terminus of its railroad to run logs into the south fork of the American river is destroyed. The cost of the chute was about $90,000. The claim of the heirs of Charles Durkee, formerly Governor of Utah, against the United States for certain bonds of the Central Pacific Railroad Company, valued at $64,623,512, was dismissed by Judge Hngner of the District Supreme Court at Washington and the application for a ruling against Secretary of the Treasury Gage to compel delivery of them to tlie claimants was denied.