Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Judge J. M. Bonner of New Orleans Is dead at Los Angeles. The St. Louis presbytery by a vote of 32 to 1 lias decided against creed revision. Great storm swept over Texas, causing loss of life and property. Three towns were reported to be under water. The population of San Antonio, Texas, lsuannounced ns 53,321, as against $7,Ci 3 in 1890, a gain of 41.54 per cent. .George \Y. Noble, a wealthy furmep of Lawrence County, Ohio, was found iqurdered at bis home. 11c lived alone. Robbery wiis the motive of the murderer. Village of Morristown, Minn., was visited by a tornado Monday afternoon. Besides destroying several buildings eight persons were killed. The storm came without warning. John Muhleison, 50 years old, a somnambulist, walked across housetops In St. Louis din ing u terrible rainstorm. A lightning flash awakened him and he fell and broke his neck. N. Bertrand. Jr,, sole proprietor of the Bank of Walker, Minn., committed suicide by shooting himself with a rifle. The bank is in good condition nnd depositors will be paid iu full. The convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen In Dea Moines raised the salary of grand master to $5,000 and re-elected Frank I*. Sargent for the ninth consecutive term. Warren E. Harrison, foreman of the llocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company, was killed at Brigham City, Utah, by James Burke, a lineman. The men had been close friends. In order to erect u physical culture hall as a monument to bis son, Frank, who died u few years pgo in Germany, A. C. Bartlett of Chicago has given the University of Chicago $125,000. Lack of demand for money in Kansu* Is driving ninny banks out of business. No fewer than seven have quit since Jan. 1, the last to give up being the C. E. Putnam bank of Richmond. Elders Moot of Lima and Bnssinger of Blnlfton, Dowieites, scut to Mansfield, Ohio, by order of Overseer at Large William 11. Piper of Chicago, were given a coat of tar by infuriated citizens. Four masked men held up the express car on the St. Louis-l'ortlnnd train of the Burlington at the village of Woodlawn, Neb. The railroad officials say that no motley was secured except from the local •afe, A fire at 2002 to 2008 Morgan street, Ft. Louis, Mo., resulted in the injuring of ■even firemen by falling walls. The los« wiis 20,000, mostly sustained by the Hargndine-McKittrick Dry Goods Company. A tornado passed through Neodesha, Kan., wrecking iwo dwelling house*, three barns and slightly damaging half • dozen others. Mrs. John Ford was se-

rlously injured and her little son was slightly hurt. Just one hour after liis father, J. R. Mclntyre, had been buried, John Mclntyre was married to Miss Lena Glick at LaPorte, I’nd. Rev. D. 0. Shirk, who preached the funeral sermon, cfficlated at the wedding. A woman of 80, rather pretty, expensively dressed and wearing a diamond ring, committed suicide at the Ivennard house in Cleveland. Hundreds have looked at the body, but the woman's identity is a mystery. The county seat war’ between Cloud Chief and Cordell, Washita County, O. T., has resulted jin the theft of the judicial records from the court house at the former placed Uordell was recently "chosen in place of Cloud Chief. James Ellis Tucker of San Francisco has saUed for Honolulu on an important mission. HeTFas been commissioned. to revise the customs law und service of the Hawaiian Islands so as to bring them up to the standard of those ut home. John Morienzski, aged til, was shot nnd killed by a deputy game warden on the Mississippi diver, near Pig's Eye, Minn. Morienzski and his son are said to have been illegally fishing, and the killing resulted from an attempted seizure of nets. Four persons were drowned by the sinking of the schooner John Martin in the St. Clair river abreast of Port Huron, Mich., as a result of a collision with the steel steamer Yuma. The accident caused the drowning of three men and one woman. Single-handed, a masked robber held up the west-bound passenger train on the Northern Pacific and succeeded in getting away with about SSOO in cash, several watches and a quantity of jewelry. The robbery occurred after the train left Athol, Idaho. Hundreds of land seekers are arriving at Brewster, Okanogan County, Wash., to secure locations in the Colville Indian reservation, which will be opened for settlement Oct. 10. They are chiefly from Minnesota, Illinois, lowa, the Dakotas and Indiana, - • L. J. Kahler, a young balloonist, who had been making daily ascensions at the street carnival in St. Joseph, Mich?, was hurled from his balloon in the presence of 5,000 people and fell bead first to the pavement below, fracturing his skull and causing death. By the breaking of a temporary platform on which were hundreds of people, at Huron, S. D., gathered to hear the address of John G. Woolley, the Prohibition candidate for the Presidency, three persons were hurt seriously and a score of others bruised. Owing to an adverse decision made by him at Marietta, Ohio, Judge J. M. Duffin was attacked by Dr. Sylvester Perkins. The fight became general. Every one in the court room participated, including thVee of the judge’s sons, and Perkins was bkdly beaten. In Cincinnati the conference committee of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers and of the manufacturers signed the wage scale that will be effective until July, 1901. Immediately messages were sent in every direction or-dering-the furnace fires built at once. M. Bramham, aged 50 years, a Confederate veteran, came to Painesville, 0., from Charlottesville, Va., to wed an heiress whose acquaintance he had made through a Chicago matrimonial agency. The heiress changed her mind nnd he left town single, penniless and wisqr. Three men robbed the Newport Hotel, 73 Monroe street, Chicago, of $75 at 3 o’clock the other morning. They bound and gagged the porter and forced the clerk to open the safe, doing the so quickly that the victims were able to give the police but a meager description of the bandits. The Thalmer Iron works, the largest concern of its kind in Indiana, an independent plant, owned by W. H. Palmer & Brothers, Chicago, was almost totally destroyed by fire at Muncie. The works will be rebuilt. There are 500 men employed, who will be out of work for a brief season. In the destruction of the steamer War Eagle of the Eagle Packet Company and the steamer Carrier, operated by the Calhoun, Packet Company, at the foot of Locust street, St. Louis, one man was burned to death, another is missing and a third painfully injured, nud property valued at nearly SIOO,OOO was destroyed.