Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Dowieites were not permitted to get off the train at Mansfield, Ohio. Bandits held up a Unton PasTlic train near Hugo, Col., killing an old man who fired at them. The census-fTguresforMilwaukee, given out in Washington, give the total population as 285,315. The Minnesota Supreme Court sustained the law under which the new St. Paul city charter was adopted. The town of Gilman, Colo., was burned, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO nnd making homeless upward of 200 people. A tornado devastated the country for miles around Hatton, N. 1)., ruining crops and severely injuring several people. Alexander Jester has gone to Norman, Ok. He has grown twenty ybars younger since his acquittal and will preach again. Professor John D. Batchelder of Faribault, Minn., has accepted the chair of modern languages in the University of Vermont. Receipts of Klondike gold at Pacific const points so far this season are about $9,500,000, against $7,630,000 at the same time last year. The Homestake mine at Load City. S. D„ has produced $.<15,000,000 in goid in twenty-three years and paid $9,000,000 in dividends to its owners. Martha Hendricks and Paul Varner, Bennett, Mo., who were attempting to elope, were drowned while striving to escape from the girl's parents. Fire nt Cleveland destroyed one of the mills of the Cuynlioga Lumber Company, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. John Zahm’ un employe, was fatally burned. ItelLb’.e returns of the election for Govyraor held in the Choctaw nation show that Judge J. W. Dukes has been elected. Mr. Dukes run on the full-blood ticket. Authentic reports received in Arcola, HI., by men who have covered the broom corn district state that a recent storm di<l over a million dollars' damage to the growing corn. The authorities think they have broken up a gang of vounterfeiters’by the capture of Charles Elliott at East St. Louis and Itoy Baker at Kansas City, together with much spurious coiu. As a result of a feud existing between the Harris and Dooley families in St. Francis County, .Missouri, five persons were shot and killed and a young girl severely wounded at n picnic at Doe Run. Bryan udu Stevenson, the Democratic nominees for President and Vice-Presi-dent, respectively, will attend the convention of the National Association of Democratic Chibs nt Indianapolis Sept. 5. At Marion, Ohio. James J, Joy, nged 45 years, a theatrical advance agent, shot himself through the head in his deserted home. His wife had left him, taking their two children with her. He couldn’t live without her. The Minnesota Supreme Court has decided the Duluth mayoralty contest between T. W. Hugo, Republican, and

Henry Trudgen, Democrat, in favor of the former, to whom the returns gave a majority of 0 votes. : D. H. Burnham of Chicago heads a board of architects of national reputation appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury to pass upon the plans submitted by competing architects for the federal building at Indianapolis. An explosion under a car of the Dallas (Texas) street railway caused a panic among the passengers, but no one wes hurt. The union motormen, who have been on strike for six weeks, disclaim responsibility for the accident. Fireman James Brannigan of engine company 17. at St. Louis, ran in front of a swiftly moving electric car and resetied from the jaws of death little Ira Marks, 7 years old. The top of the boy’s ear was clipped off by one of the car wheels. The Norwegian Lutheran Seminary has accepted the offer of local friends nnd decided to locate at Anthony Park in St. Paul. Minn., making eleven colleges and seminaries having homes in that city. Expensive new buildings will be erected at once. As tlie result of a pitched battle with moonshiners near Johnson, I*.T., one deputy marshal was slightly wounded and another. Schrimpsher, of Paul’s Valley, is missing. The band escaped under cover of darkness. Schrimpsher is believed to have followed the band and been killed. A large part of the business section of Convoy, Ohio, was destroyed by fire. The loss will be from SBO,OOO to SIOO,000. ’The burned "buildings include the postoffice, the town hall, the Columbia* Hotel, six store buildings and a number of residences. The tire started in a blacksmith shop. In the absence of the family, a burglar raided the home of T. E. Day, at Marion, Ohio. When neighbors tried to capture him, he poured gasoline from a can, touched a match, and set tire to the house. During the excitement which followed an attempt to save the house the robber escaped. Mrs. Edith Norris, her daughter, Maud. 15 years old, and her son, Thomas, 13 .'ears old, are dead at tlie Norris farm, near Harvey, 111., as the result Of eating poisonous toadstools mistaken for mushrooms. Tlie father, J. A. Norfig. two other daughters and a servant of the family are recovering from the poison. When tlie court officer went to the drug store at John and Sixth streets, Cincinnati, to serve a warrant on T. L. Greve, charging him with selling cocaine without making a proper entry in his books, he found that his warrant was for the arrest of a dead man. Greve died a year ago and since then his widow and sons have run the store. • Nearly $1,000,000 worth of lumber was burned in Barker A Stewart’s and the Keystone Lumber Company’s yards at Ashland. Wis. Almost 50,000,000 feet of lumber was burned, and two of the Keystone Company's tramways and four out of five of the Barker & Stewart tramways were burned to the water’s edge wit it all their lumber'. District Manager Campbel) of Hm Republic Iron and Steel Company has notified all tlie clerks and employes on salary at the niHLs at Youngstown. Ohio, that their services would not be required. No assurance was given as to when they could ■’again secure employment and they were advised to secure other positions. Tlie order affects 300 men. Tlie .Minnesota Supreme Court has decided against the railroad commission in its test ease against tlie United States Express Company to compel the latter to furnish information in its annual reports concerning its business and property. The company gave information covering its Minnesota business, but refused to report its interstate business.