Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Seattle is to have a world’s fair in IGO4 to commemorate settlement of the Pacific Northwest. Four Omaha residents were wrecked on Salt Lake and were on an island thirty-six hours without water. The trial of Mrs. Mollie Qtiigg, aj Celina, Ohio, on a charge of having killed John It. Dilley, a wealthy lumberman, resulted in a hung jury. George D. Jackson has declined a nomination for (’ot)gress in the Tenth "Michigan District. The vacancy will be filled by the Congressional Committee. As a result of a family quarrel Charles Dabor, G 5 years old. shot and killed his wife in Chicago and then tried to end his own life by shooting himself in the throat. Pending an appeal Judge Allen at Springfield, ill., ordered a stay of the proceedings by which the Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis road was to have been sold. It. 11. Ferrel), an ex-employe, confessed to having robbed an express ear and killed the messenger near Columbus, Ohio, in order to secure money to pay for his wedding. The official returns of the twelfth census will show Indianapolis to have a population 0f.1’68,915, an increase of 63,479 people in the last ten years, or.a gain of 60.2 per eent. The States of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota have raised approximately 136,900,000 bushels of wheat. This is about 67.000,000 less than the three States raised hi 1599. Wheat in greatest plenty, but half a crop of corn, summarizes the latest report issued by the Kansas Board of Agriculture, based upon returns from every school district in the State. John ILivlin has acquired a long lease of the Imperial Theater, St. Louis, which, in connection with the .Middleton 'Theater Company, he will operate with the Havlin and Columbia theaters. Bobbers of a Union Pacific train near Hugo, Col., were surrounded on a ranch near Gooiilnnd, Kan., where one was burned to death in a bouse in which lie fought a posse and another was shot to death. While ringing the tire bell at Gatewdod, Mo., on the occasion of a tire, Unfits Forslice was instantly killed. The heavy clapper, weigling several pounds, broke loose ami fell thirty-five feet down the belfry. ’l'wo children, romping on the side streets of Mount Auburn., Cincinnati, inadO ghastly discovery in a sewer catch basin. It was the body of a dead man, with hi. head literally beaten to a jelly. There is no positive < lew to bis identity. The trial at Palestine, Texas, of the lynchers of Janies Humphreys and his two sons in Henderson County in IS9B, has resulted in a third conviction mid sentence of life Imprisonment, the trial of W. B. Brooks having readied this end. Backbone of long labor war in Chicago lias been broken by the action of carpenters in deserting unions for employment under the members of the Contractors’ Council, who promise to pay .union scale. The steamer Myrtle M. Boss, with n cargo of 3<N» tons of coal, consigned to the Windsor Ferry Company, sunk at her dock At ’Jvtrolt. It li supposed a sea-

cock wm left open. The crew escaped Without accident. In Wichita, Kan., Miss Jessie Morison was again held for the murder of Mrs. Olin Castle at El Dorado on Juno 22. Her second preliminary hearing came up upon a writ of habeas corpus applied for by her lawyers. 8. C. Reighard, of Toledo, Ohio, shot his wife in her confectionery store, then walked to his family home and shot himself through the heart. The woman expired in less than five minutes?' Jle was insanely jealous of her. Dr. Michael N. Regent, Mrs. Delia Mahoney, Janies O'Brien and Mrs. Nora O’Brien were found guilty in Chicago of conspiracy with intent to defraud. All w?;-e heavily fined and Dr. Regent’s sentence includes imprisonment. The United States steamer Edna, in the charge of four United States engineers, lias, been at Portsmouth, Ohio. The engineers are engaged in a survey of the Ohio River fur the building of locks and dams and for the general improvement of the water way. William McLid.md, who escaped from the Kansas State Penitentiary in June, 1889, appeared in Leavenworth recently and" voluntarily gave himself up to the warden, saying that he Was tired of living in suspense and wished to serve the balance of his time. The Janesville-Milwaukee local on the Milwaukee *Ttiad while pulling out of Janesville collided with a switch engine which .was pulling five loaded cars of coal. BCirt Schlatter, engineer, of Janesville, and Gus A. Boudrnth, fireman, both on passenger train, were killed. In remembrance of the kindness and friendship of Lina Graf, who had befriended and eared fur him in his old age, the lute Nathan 11. Knapp, St. Louis capitalist, in his will, bequeathed Mrs. Graf all his estate with the exception of $5, left to the testator's daughter. The undershirt man has made his initial appearance in the police court in St. Louis. When questioned by the judge why lie had no coat or shirt he said he was the original undershirt man and did not propose to be made uncomfortable by fashion. He was lined $lO for disturbIng the peace. * ——— The sudden death of Edward P. Herrick in Chicago, combined with the pre--viou* mysterious deaths of his wife andhis niece and the serious illness of his daughter-in-law, caused the police to inquire into the matter and developed the fact that there were traces of poison in tlie dead man's stomach. "An ai-conniiod.itinn train on the Duluth and iron Range Railroad, was wrecked at Knife River, about twenty miles from Duluth, and Fireman Brtiley was killed and Engineer Pettibone was-slightly injured. The train ran into a washout and six cars were overturned. Bruley was completely buried under the engine. . When Panhandle train No. 8 from the west pulled into the Union depot at CoUnubus, Ohio, shortly after ID o’clock lihe other night, Charles Lane, the express messenger, was found dead in the car with eight bullets in his body. The safe was blown open and $45,000 is said to have been secured by the robbers. Mrs. Mary E. Scales, of Creston, recently out of the asylum, gave her 2-year-ohl daughter laudanum, from the effects of which the child died. She attempted to administer the same drug io her G-year-old son., but he escaped and gave the alarm. She then locked herself in tlie house and took a fatal draught of the same drug.