Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Lone bandit held up a stage in California and took S3O from an editor, who was the only passenger. At Mansfield, Ohio, n mob drove Zion Elder Ephraim Bassinger of Bluffton, Ind., and two of Dowie's followers out of the city. Mrs. Mary E. Curran, aged 72 years, nnd Mrs. Sara Holmes, sft years old, met death on the tracks of the Chicago and Erie Railroad at a Chicago street crossing. Jack Bradford, the Pemiscot murderer, who was to have been banged at Caruthersville, Mo., was examined by a jury of twelve persons nnd adjudged insane aud will be sent to the asylum. Ira O. Jenkins was hanged at Bismarck, N. I)., for the murder of August Stark. He left a letter stating that bis father, who had been suspected of complicity In the crime, was innocent. Two hundred cases of diphtheria exist in South Bend, Ind., and the epidemic has frightened citizens so that they dare not let their children out of their homes. The public schools have been closed. George E. Townlee, aged 05 years, one of the best-known business men iu Indiana, was found dead in tied at Indianapolis. He was of the firm of Fred Pl Rush & Co. His wife and children are in Europe. Ether, the 14-year-old daughter of Isaac Webb of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died from a peculiar malady. On Aug. 5 she suffered a fainting spell and lapsed into unconsciousness, from which she was never restored. A freight train and work train on the “Tfiree 1” railroad had a head-end collision six miles southwest of South Bend, Ind. The force of the meeting was sufficient to demolish and ditch both engines. Five persons were injured. C. Barnett, a traveling salesman for Reiss & Wallenstein, 474 Broadway, New York, fell dead of heart disease just as he entered Holbrook Brothers’ store in Hamilton, Ohio. The body was identified by a check for $25 from the firm. A unique school has been opened at the Alta House, a social settlement house built and endowed at Cleveland by Miss Alta, daughter of tba Standard Oil magnate, John D. Rockefeller. It is a school In which all the pupils will be crippled children. The Merchants and Planters’ oil mill at Houston, Texas, one of ths largest

cottonseed oil manufacturing and refining concerns in the South, was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at between $350,000 and $400,000; insurance $252,500. A suit tor $25,000 damages for alleged slander has been brought by Dr. Nicola Cerrie, the new vice consul of Italy for northern Ohio, against J. G. Carabelli, Dr. G. R. Purpora, P. D. Errico and N. Costignana, prominent Italian leaders of Cleveland. J. J. Young and wife, residents of Alton, Mo., are dead, the victims of mysterious poisoning. Traces of poison were found in the coffee pot. As Mrs. Young prepared the meal and was jealous of her husband, it is possible she- administered the drug herself. While returning from a fair at Caledonia, Ohio, Albert Morgnnthaler and the Misses Leonard and Fletcher, three young country people, were hit by a Big Four passenger train at Hicks and killed, as was also their team. Miss Fletcher was ground to pieces. In Port Huron, Mich., the elevator plant of the McMarron Milling. Company, Port Huron and Northwestern Elevator Company and D. McMarron A Co. was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $225,000, fully covered by Insurance. Wilbur Inslee, a business man, was injured. • Many lives were lost, principally by suffocation, in the fire which destroyed a branch nursery of 'the Salvation army at 403 East Fourth street, Cincinnati. Six of the occupants of the upper floors, babies and their attendants, lost their lives, two were fatally and five seriously burned. George S. Forbes, a teller in the First National Bank in Chicago, fired a bullet into his heart in a room In the South Chicago Hotel, and died almost instantly. Financial troubles, caused by the failure of friends to pay back money they had borrowed from him, was the reason Forbes assigned for his deed. Suit has been brought in the Nodaway County, Mo., Circuit Court by Mrs. Diana Blackhurst and Mrs. Mary E. Johnson, daughters, and Mrs. Mary C. Wisslead, conservator of the estate of Hebble White Wisslead, son of the late Edward Wisslead, to have tire last will set aside. About SIOO,OOO is involved. The body of Patrick Mulheren, a prominent citizen of Sandusky, Ohio, who disappeared three weeks ago with $2,400 in his pockets, was found in a marsh near there with the skull crushed in. Four negroes were arrested at the time of his disappearance, but in the absence of sufficient evidence they were released and cannot now be found.

Three attempts were made the other night to wreck Union Pacific trains west of Abilene, Kan. Ties were piled on the track in front of the local passenger train and the "Flyer’’ west bound, and heavy iron on the track before the “Flyer” east bound. The obstructions were discovered and trains stopped in time to prevent any damage. Eighteen men employed by the Northwestern Lumber Company were crossing the pond above the mill dam on the Eau Claire river, near Eau Claire, in a batteau. A heavy gale dashed the waves over the side of the boat and swamped it. Eight men attempted to swim to shore, about a quarter of a mile distant, and six of them were drowned. In the course of a fight in Chicago Richard Novack, aged 14, drew a long cigarmaker’s knife and fatally stabbed Albert Olson of 65 West Fourteenth place, who had stayed away from school to celebrate his fifteenth birthday. Mrs. Mary Smith and Mrs. John Walsh, who had watched the fight from a distance, came to the wounded boy’s aid. All the chiefs of the great Sioux nation, from Rosebud, Pine Ridge, Cheyenne and Lower Brule, assembled nt Standing Rock and discussed the Black Hills treaty. They claim the treaty is invalid, as three-fourths of the Indians did not sign. The Indians do not desire to reclaim the hills, but wish to negotiate a new treaty upon an equitable basis. 1). J. Mackey filed an application in bankruptcy in the Federal court jat Evansville, Ind. His liabilities are placed at $577,765.69, assets not given. Mackey was formerly the owner of the Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad, Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis Railroad, Peoria, Decatur and Evansville Railroad and Evansville and Indianapolis line. By the fiendish act of a vitriol thrower Miss Alice Hammel of Vanwert, Ohio, has been rendered blind and disfigured for life. The vitriol thrower dropped the phiul that had contained the acid and a bottle of chloroform in the street, and these gave a clew that led to the arrest of Mrs. John Van Liew, wife of the cashier of the Vanwert First National Bank. Miss Hammel was deputy clerk for Van Liew when the latter was county clerk. Erustus M. Davis, an ex-policeman who lived at 214 Eightieth street, Chicago, killed his daughter Eleanor, 17 years old, shot and seriously wounded Hurry Connelly, in whose company she was, and then, turning the revolver against his breast, sent a bullet through bis own heart. The tragedy took place neur the Davis borne. The knowledge that Eleanor was soon to marry Connelly, whom he hnd forbidden her to see, was the cause of Davis’ deed. Joseph Phillipa, n 15-year-old boy at Napoleon. Ohio, has been arrested and is charged with giving a dose of carbolic acid to the 3-weeks-old granddaughter of John Wells, with whom he has been living for the lust seven years. Young Phillips had bt'come incensed at some act of Wells ami, it is claimed, gave tbe child poison in a spirit of revenge. The baby wns found in its cradle with its lips nnd face frightfully blistered. The boy denies that he administered the poison.