Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Four more Dowie elders have been driven away from Mansfield, Ohio. Vigilance "committee of ' -Charleston, Mo. gave 100 lashes each to two wife beaters. A plot to mob Roosevelt and party at Pueblo, Colo., was checked by the local authorities. Judge Jenkins of Milwaukee hns recovered his sight, an operation for the removal of a cataract having proved successful. , Gov. F. B. Faneher of North Dakota, renominated by the Republicans of that State, has withdrawn from the ticket on account of ill health. Four firemen were injured, one fatally, in a collision at Ashland avenue and Fifty-first street, Chicago, engine company No. 49 being run into by an electric car. Lloyd J. Smith, the Chicago Board of Trade member and manager pf the Northwestern Elevator Company, who lias been on trial on a charge of fraud, was acquitted. Iu Cleveland Judge Lamson of the common pleas court handed down a decision in favor of John D. Rockefeller in the $1,000,000 suit brought against the latter by Capt. James Corrigan. William V. Wolcott senior partner of the banking firm of Wolcott of Boston and Wall street, died at Indianapolis from the effects of a stroke of apoplexy sustained on a Big Four train. The new Bessemer plunt of the Republic Iron and Steel Company has been lighted ot Youngstown, Ohio. The mill has a capacity of GOO tons of steel billet* per day and will give employment to 000 men. A diaastrous wreck occurred on the Southern Pacific nt Gartner Siding, near the Utah-Nevada line. Train No. 4 went Into the ditch and one woman was killed and fifteen other persons more or less injured. The Ontario ami Burns stage was held up seventy miles out of Ontario, Iduho, by a lone highwayman, who fired a shot across the road' and demanded the mail. This was thrown out and the stage was not further molested. Mrs. R. C. Pickett was burned to death at her home-hi Minneapolis. A lamp she carried exploded while she was in the bathroom and despite the desperate efforts of her husband to rescue her she was burned to death before his eyes. Fire destroyed upward of $70,000 worth of men's clothing iu the building at 221-3 Market street and adjoining ■tructures In Chlcngo. William Matthews. a hoseman attached to hose company No. 21, was knocked down and run over. Workmen engaged in making alteration* In tbwsiTirst National Bank building. at the-most important business corMr la Duluth, struck deposit of Iron

ore under the boiler room of the building. The ore assayed 65 per cent metallic iron, Edward Burns and Richard Logan, who were confined in jail at Louisiana, Mo., on the charge of murder, tunneled out of the cell into a sewer, which afforded an entrance into the cell of one of the female prisoners. They escaped easily from there. Judge Ensign sentenced Randes Abrahamson, 19 years old, who confessed to setting thirteen fires in Duluth last spring, to ten years at hard labor in the penitentiary. He was convicted of setting fire to a stable in which a human life was lost. A conservative estimate places the loss by the recent storms in various sections 6f Texas at fully $1,000,000. This is exclusive of the great gulf coast disaster on Sept. 8. The property losses are now said to be over $30,000,000 and lose of life fully 8,000. Father Fitzpatrick, pastor of the Holy Family Church at Omaha, had a desperate battle with a burglar in the church, but finally won his fight and notified the police. At (he station the man gave the name of James Wilson and said he was from Helena, Mont. Capt. Frederick Dent Sharp, U. S. A., retired, cofisin of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, died in Kansas City from an overdose of bromide, taken to relieve pain. Gapt. Sharp was totally blind, and it is supposed he was unable to properly gauge the quantity of the drug. While running at the rate of fifteen miles a street car plunged from the track into Chisholm creek at Wichita, Kan. Twenty-eight persons were injured, three of whom may die. One baby is believed to have been drowned. The dosed car was thrown into three feet of water. As a result of the murder of Chief Charley on the Lae du Flambeau reservation, Wisconsin, the dead man’s son, Neganigifig, aged 5 years, has been proclaimed chief of the Chippewas. Causa, the murderer, had a narrow escape after the murder from infuriated Indians.

At Chillicothe, Ohio, David Brooks was killed by his brother Amos. The men had gone hunting near the city and quarreled over a dog. Arnos seized the gitn in David’s hand and fired, killing him Instantly. Amos ran to the wood and attempted to kill himself, but was arrested. A fast freight train crashed into a switch engine on the Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railroad at Durand, Mich., killing Engineer Thomas Hamlin of Detroit and Fireman John Linden of lonia. Twenty-four loaded cars were burned and both engines were demolished. Fire destroyed four brick business buildings at Sheldon, 111. Loss $25,000, insured. The fire started in a drug store from an unknown cause, and for a time threatened to destroy the entiflF business district. Help was summoned from Kankakee, but the local department succeeded in checking the fire. In St. Louis Judge Jacob Klein entered an order in the Circuit Court-that leaves Robert William Blnisdell with two wives. The order sets aside a decree of divorce granted to Blaisdell by default in Judge Klein’s court June 28, 1900. Since the divorce decree was granted Blaisdell has taken another wife. A cyclone nearly destroyed Sharps, lowa. The depot, two churches, a railroad water tank, box cars, loaded cribs and half a dozen dwellings were all blown down. One man was hurt by a buggy overturning on him. The storm nlso struck Newmarket, a larger town, demolishing a few small houses. Two men were killed and four persons seriously injured, and twenty others badly bruised, in a wreck on the Santa Fe fifteen miles south of Guthrie, O. T. The train was running forty-five miles an hour to make up forty minutes’ lost time. The baggage, express, mail and smoking ears jumped the track and turned upside down in the ditch.