Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Ten persons were injured, in a trolley car accident at Toledo, Ohio. Fitzwilliam 11. Chambers, prominent Detroit lawyer, is dead, aged 67. Officer John Kelly shot and killed John Butler, a paroled convict at-Joliet, 111., in a melee on the street. William Hayes, a farmer of Hume, 0., is suffering from the bite of a rat, and it is feared hydrophobia may develop. Fire at Buckley, Wash., caused the loss of twenty-seven buildings, and practically the whole town was wiped out. Buffalo Bill's Wild West show was run into by a freight train near Detroit, one man being killed and nine injured. Maj. J. B. Crump of Enid, Ok., was run down and killed by a train at a crossing. Deceased was prominent in politics. Ex-Congressman Jerry Simpson fought a mob of 200 men, who assaulted him while he was speaking at a race track in Fort Scott, Knn. The wife and daughter of Secretary A. W. Shaw of the Y. M. C. A. of San Antonio, Texas, were drowned in the Comal river w-hile boating. Director Sorrentino of the Banda Rossa was robbed nt Minneapolis of medals and decorations valued at S9OO, including a present from Emperor William of Germany. The Minnesota freighter Mamba was struck amidships by the steam barge James Watt at Detroit and badly damaged. The bow of the Watt was also badly smashed. D. Valencourt Deuell, late leading man of the Sporting Duchess company, playing with Rose Coughlan, died in Seattle from cocaine after two desperate attempts at suicide. John E. Zeubliu, for the last ten years superintendent of the Chicago Telephone Company, was instantly killed by falling from • Pennsylvania west-bound limited train near Bucyrus, Ohio. The California Supreme Court has decided unconstitutional the Strntter primary election law on the ground that th< Legislature cannot interfere with the regulation of political parties. Two horse thieves are in jail at Sioux Fulls, S. D., as the result of n chase of over (AM) miles made in buckboards. One escaped twice after being taken and stood off his pursuers until wounded in a rifle duel. A fire due to the careless handling of kerosene in starting a tiro destroyed the residence of Theodore Hackenburg at Austin, Texas.' Hackunburg and his wife were fatally burned. I’rojicrty loss about ssO.< MM >. ('. C. F. Smith, formerly of Craig, Larkin & Smith, wholesale ('rockery dealers in Sun Paul, Minn., wns found starving and demented in the Yellowstone Park, where be had been lost for four days and three nights. Mortimer D. Shaw, who conducted the telegraphers’ strike in 1883. and who was once a prominent labor leader of, America. was buried in St. Louis in potter's field a few days ago, under the name of Marlin Shaw. Mrs. J nine* Elton, wife of the treasurer of Grund Forks County, and her sister-in-law, Mrs. J. H. Bird, were fatally injured while driving at Grand Forks, N. D. Their buggy was run down by a runaway dray team. The plant of the Waco, Texas, Ice and Refrigerating Company, one of the largest in the Routh, was demolished by a

boiler explosion Henry Mercer and Jack Dorsett were filled aad several persons were seriously injured. Sergeant Ed Jackson, Thirty-third volunteer infantry, writing to his father in Wichita, Kan., from the Philippines, says the soldiers there generally believe Aguinaldo is dead. A body was found that corresponded ecactly with the description of the insurgent leader. The people of Ulysses, Kan., believe that Rev. Mr. Johnson stands very near to God. The other night he prayed fervently for rain for the farmers’ crops, fitoon a deluge came. The rain fell in torrents all night and the people were unable to leave the school house until the next morning. Under instructions from the War Department Gen. Shafter has appointed a board of officers to examine all military prisoners in confinement at Alcatraz Island, near San Francisco, and submit recommendations looking to the release of such prisoners as deserve clemency. There are S(M) confined there. The Kansas Oil and Gas Company has let the contract for fen gas wells to be drilled in the vicinty of Coffeyville at once. The company expects to have twenty wells drilled by Oct. 1. The plan is to bring factories from the gas fields of Indiana to Kansas. Thousands of acres have been leased in this section. A hailstorm crossed North Dakota near Cummings, doing incalculable damage. Large hailstones were driven with terrific force before a furious wind, cutting down vegetation of all kinds and badly damaging buildings. The grain was nearly ready for harvest. The entire territory affected comprises over 100 square miles. Four women driving in the park at Wichita, Kan., whipped their horse while crossing a bridge. He ran away, overturned the carriage and threw the occupants to the ground. Miss Grace Gilbert died from her Injuries. Mrs. Blanche Chandler Miller is not expected to recover and Miss Ella Chandler is seriously injured. A man named Peterson, living thirty miles from Glencoe, O. T., met with a peculiar death. While he was sleeping in the yard his 3-year-old sou was playing near him and in some manner got hold of a sharp butcher knife and playfully hacked the father’s neck, severing the jugular vein, from the effects of which he soon died. One of the worst forest fires ever known in northwestern Montana is raghig in the Swan Lake country, on the western part of the Lewis and Clarke forest reserve. Gus Mosier, superintendent of (he reserve, reports that the Indians deliberately set fire to the timber and are slaughtering the game. He will proceed against the perpetrators. .