Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Peter W. Corbetf, assistant secretary of the Northern Pacific Railway, died of heart failure at St. Paul, Minn. At Maryville, Mo., Mrs. Mary McGill was killed by the shock of the news that her son. James McGill, bad died suddenly at Jetmore, Kan. AtJPapillion, Neb., the safe in the postoffice was blow n open by cracksmen and nil the postal money and every stamp in the office stolen. Mrs. Mary E. Reese, sister of Gen. William T. Sherman and former Senator John Sherman, died at Lancaster, Ohio, from the effects of n full. Mrs. Ryerson, wife of the lute Gov. George Rjerson of lower California, has been found guilty of killing a Mexican boy nnd, sentenced to imprisonment. David Sinton, for years n prominent figure in southern Ohio business circles, died nt his home in Cincinnati, aged 93 years. He leaves a fortune estimated at $20,000,009. Six hundred cop! miners in three shafts at Leavenworth, Kan., struck for n scale of 90 cents a ton. They received 7<! cents under last year’s contract. The operator* any they cnniiot ncis'de. Leo Rassieur of St. Louis will be in command of the Grand Army of the Republic during the coming year. At the thirty-fourth annual encampment in Chicago he was iinniiinioiifly chosen. B. Franklin Mertz, 25 years old, a law student es Columbia University, was found dead in beil. Mertz went to New York from Detroit, Mich., six weeks ago. It is said he died from natural causes. Eight horses, the prof-.-rty of E. 11. S< hlfcieman. and valued at $2,500, were cremated at the Chicago stock yards. The damage to the buildings wits small. Both horses and sheds were fully insured. The steamship Senator in-lived nt Seattle from Nome with 250 passengers, $500,000 worth of treasure, and news of n brutal minder, in which the lile of F. Scott Morrtsdh of Chicago was sacrificed to the bloodthirsty savagery of Silieriau natives. Two Wabash locomotives and three freight ears of the Wabash fust Eastern freight train No. 0. plunged through nn open drawbridge into the Rouge river at Delray, Mich. The engine crews had remarkably uarrow escu{>e» and no one was Injured. The Nittiobal Land tad Tax League, an organization formed in Cincinnati, was incorporated at Columbus. It aims

to revolutionize existing conditions and secure a universal redivision of all the land ht the United States, so that every citizen shall own a homestead. Mrs. Louisa Sontag, the runaway wife I of Paul Soqtag of Chicago, tried to blow , her brains out in San Francisco. The at- I tempt was not successful. Her two little : girls were by the order of court taken from her and given to her husband, from whom she had eloped with Frederick Roepke. One hundred and twenty-five people participated in an out-of-door dinner nt the reunion of the Biggerstaff family near Prospect, Ohio. Before night twen-ty-eight were suffering with symptoms of poisoning. All are now out'of danger. It is thought the poisoning was caused by a salad. At Arapahoe, Neb.j Lenn Stagemelcr and Minnie Noltmeier, each about 14 years old, were shot, supposedly by two boys named Holloway, who were hunting. Miss Stagemelcr was dead when found. The boys left the vicinity at once. The shooting is believed to have been accidental. The Union Pacific passenger train, second section, No. 3, was held up by bandits two nml one-half miles west of Tipton station, Wyo. There were four .men in the holdup. The express and baggage cars were blown open ami the safe blown to pieces. The railroad coirfpany says the loss was nominal. No one was injured. * As the result of a panic on an electric, car at Silver Lake, a suburban resort near Akron, Ohio, late the other night, one person was killed and three others injured. The panic was caused by a fuse burning out and Hames bursting up through the car floor. The passengers became terrified and made a frantic rush to get off. An attempt to rob the coin collection in the Omaha city library building was frustrated. The ease which the would-be thief sought to tamper with contained ■eoinssfcf the By r->n R<-ed eolleetion wur.u over $5,000. The culprit covered the case with newspaper files, ami while ostensibly rending he filed the padlock, the breaking of which short-circuited the electric-alarm current, and before the man was‘aware of it the doors of the room wore blocked and a special oflieyr took him to the station. Robbers entered a farm house six miles north of Ashland, Ohio, and robbed the occupants, Mrs. Mary Leidigh and her daughter, Arvilla. The men first secured oil in an outhouse for their-torches, and then with a rail broke in the door of the dwelling. Going to the bedroom of_ the women, the robbers bound and' gagged them with strips of the sheets on the conch. The bandits secured a considerable sum of money, after which they took a horse and buggy from the barn and fled, driving north toward the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. As a sequel ,to an unusual will case Miss Hattie Calvert and Thomas M. Barr, both of Kansas City, chief beneficiaries of the will of Charles G. Hopkins, who was a local capitalist, have been married in Stratford, Ont. Mr. Hb;ikins died Oct. 2!>, 1896. leaving an estate valued at $500,000, and by the provisions of his will it was all bequeathed to Miss Calvert, her sister Sarah and Mr. Bair, which was remarkable in that he was not related to them, and left nothing, to his relatives. His sister, Mrs. Narcissa Nelson of Indianapolis, contested the will, but the case was settled out of court, the bulk of the property being given to the original beneficiaries.