Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Dr. Cundiff of New York Mills, Minn., j is said to have fallen heir to a $3,000,000 j estate in England. The steamer Mariposa leached San Francisco with sr>,ooo,oct) in s] -■ c.e from Sydney, Australia. The population of St. Louis, according to the census returns, is 575.235; that of Indianapolis, It>9,UM. Harry Davis, an aeronaut,’was killed by falling while making a balloon ascension at Delphos, Ohio. The grain in shock in North Dakota is in deplorable eotidition. Much grain has sprouted in the shock and all is diseob iri'd. Hailstones as large as walnuts fell at Larned. Kan., for half an hour, beating fruit and leaves off the trees and killing mall} birds and small animals.. James S. Love, a meciianiivof 98 Newberry street, Chicago, was found in a dying condition at St. Lou-is. having attemphsl suicide beeattse of the loss of his position. Joe Alvarez, the richest cattle man of El Paso Comity, Texas, was killed in a pitched battle with New Mexico outlaws. Medina, the alleged leader of the gang, is under arrest. A stockholder of the 11. D. Lee Mercantile ('oiiipatiy of Salina, Kan., has made npidivation fur a receiver for the concern, asking the distribution of dividends amounting to SIG(),'O(W. Louis Peck, wh-.-e life was demanded by the mob .it Akron Ohio, was taken into court the other day, ideaded guilty, was given a life sentence and taken to the penitentiary at t'olumbus. Five thulls.ind d>T worth of gold, right off the fmmice and red hot, was stolen from the assay office of the Jay Gould syndicate plant at Helena, Mont. There is no clew to the thieves. John Ronm r and <'lenient Long shot at each other five times with pistols in a saloon at Dallas, Texas. Neither was hit. but James Daniel, a bystander, was shot in the groin and left side and is dead. Wheeling nntl Lake Erie through freight No. IS3 ran into a Washout ut CoshiM-ton, Ohio. Engineer Doyle of Cleveland and Fireman Dilger of Canton were killed. The engine and nine cars were piled up. Mr. and Mrs. James P. Simms of St. Louis h-aunsl through a divorce petition that their youthful son has la-eti married for several montlie, and that they have a daughter-in-law. Mrs. Simms is 19 years old. She eloped with young Simms to Belleville, Itl„ on May 111. Robert Bigham of Warsaw, Neb., was killed by a tminine. locked in the same cell with him at Wayne. Neb. Adolphus Wanlun-l of Buckner, Mo., was the murderer. After kicking and choking Bigham, who was locked up for being drunk, be chewed the victim's face, arms and body. The court house nt Kiugiisher. O. T„ and several adjoining buildings were destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $50,090. All of tile court house records, except those of the county treasurer mid such of the county clerk's mid district clerk’s as wore in a_ fireproof vault \vere dost royed. At Pu‘ iti-Bay a man mimed 11. Metzger of Cleveland attempted to drown liim-elf because of a ipiarrcl with a girl who had aitvompnnied him on the boat to the island. He leaped into the lake, and for half an hour fought thret* men who were trying to rescue' him. He was finally saved. Plans are now under way to establish a great suit company to operate the salt fields in Kansas, in competition with the

•alt trust. The syndicate, if established, will endeavor to supply salt to the big packing companies of Kansas City, Chicago and Omaha, and other cities where there are packing plants. Miss Zellinska, 18 years old, daughter of Jacob Zellinskii, living six miles from Ashton, Nob., was shot through the heart by John Schral), her lover. She was out picking plums. Sehrail was hunting in the timber. He saw something moving in the bushes, and, without waiting tc find out what it was, fired, killing the girl. 7- -7-