Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Undertakers in convention at Manitou, Colo., were stuck half way up Pike’s Peak in a snowstorm. The Topeka presbytery, in session at Kansas City, Kan., voted in favor of re- , vision of the confession of faith. Sneak thieves stole a tray containing $2,000 worth of jewels from the store of Burt, Ramsey & Co. at Cleveland. George Fenner, who raised the American flag over the City of Mexico when it fell, dropped dead on the street at Bucyrus, Ohio. “George Hessler,” under arrest at St. Paul, has admitted that lie is John Bingham, wanted in Chicago for the murder of Gus Colliander. The Presbyterian synod of Fargo, N. D., lias elected Andrew Christy Brown, D. D., of Omaha synodical missionary for North Dakota. I Dr. Orhinder Longnecker of Dayton, Ohio, has been convicted in the United States Court at Cincinnati of using the mails for improper purposes. Sister Baptista, a Sister of Charity, was accidentally shot and killed at St. Aloysius’ School, in Helena, Mont., by John Nicholson, au 11-year-old pupil. A head-end collision between a Colorado and Southern passenger train and a freight occurred near Littleton, Colo. W. J. Watson, engineer of the passenger train, was killed. At El Paso, Texas, it is reported that the agent of the Wells-Fargo Express Company nt Escalon,Mexico, disappeared, taking with him SIB,OOO of the company's money. 1 The town of Herrick. 111., was partly destroyed by fire. Nearly the whole business part of the-city is in ashes. Loss is thousands of dollars, partly covered by insurance. I't is expected that within less than a year Chicago will be equipped with a pneumatic tube commercial package delivery service which will surpass anyl thing which has yet been planned for any city. Dr. 8. C. Lawrence and J. R. Ritchie quarreled at Senath, Mo., over a bill for medical services due the former. A duel | with knivps followed and Lnwrenee drove ' bis knife into Ritchie’s right side, inflict* , ing a fatal wound. i Mr. and Mrs. Martin Sayers, an aged couple, were instantly killed by a Big I Four train at Elyria, Ohio. They were • driving across the track in a buggy and did not hear the train approaching until escape was impossible. !F. 11. Parks, cashier of Breedun’s grocery, 633 Sixty-third street, Chicago, was held up by .three men, who secured a small amount of change from a pocket of his trousers, but failed to fiud $590 in his inside vest pocket. , Ernst Ammon was held up by five men on the platform of a crowded North Clark street enr in Chicago and robbed of $75 and checks amounting to $65. The robbers were pursued by a crowd of people for several blocks, but they escaped. United States Deputy Marshal Taylor was killed in Pawnee, Ok. Taylor hud arrested a desperado and was guarding him in a saloon, when someone slipped a revolver to the prisoner, who opened fire, the ball striking Taylor in the breast. | George Owiuts, a member of a band that held up the train at Fgirbnnka, Aris., four months ago, confessed in court and told the full story of the fobI bery. Six members of the baud, it is ' expected, will lie convicted upon Owinta* I testimony. The large department store of Burton Brothers burned to the ground at Rnlll-' van, Ind. The building includes the Peo-

pie’s Theater, and entails a loss of SIOO,000, partially covered by insurance. The fire originated in the basement from an overturned candle. The Dawes commission has finished its work of enrolling Cherokees at Bartlesville, I. T. The number of persons enrolled to this date are as follows: Cherokees, 17,562; Delawares. 824; doubtful, 2,336; rejected. 1,040. Rejected for want of jurisdiction, 488. A father, and four young children w'ere blown to atoms at Sells, Ark. While the family was at supper their home was wrecked by an explosion of dynamite. It is believed that a neighborly dispute over a homestead claim prompted the outrage. The Prohibitionists of Douglas County, Kun., are in great trouble. It has been discovered that the messenger intrusted with the duty of filing the nomination papers became intoxicated and neglected his duty, and the Prohibition ticket will not be on the official ballot. * An east-bouud passenger train on the Lake Erie and Western road hit a freight as the latter was taking a siding near St. Mary’s, Ohio. Conductor A. L. Heath, of Lima, was made unconscious and may die of his injuries. All on board were severely shaken up. lu the presence of a crowd of about 200 persons the corner stone for a flying machine factory to manufacture airships on the Carl Dryden Browne patent was formally laid at the Freedom labor colony, a socialist settlement eighteen miles northwest of Fort Scott, Kan. Nelson Williams (colored), 19 years old, has confessed the murder of his father and sister at Osceola, Ark. After killing them lie fired the house, apd their charred remains were found in the ruins. He wanted to leave home and his father would not permit him to go. The Rev. Rowland Hills, the English clergyman convicted of bigamy in marrying an American woman, was sentenced at Blair, Neb., to four years in the penitentiary. His English wife, who crossed the sea to prosecute, asked the court that lie be given a light sentence. In South Chicago. 111., a Chicago and Erie freight train ran iuto au Elgin, Joliet and Eastern freight at a switch. Eight cars of the Elgin, Joliet and E:|nteru train and the locomotive of the Erie train were demolished. The cars were thrown from the track and destroyed by fire. A Chicago am! Alton engine exploded near Curryville, Mo., and was blown almost to atoms. John Mason, colored porter, of Roodhouse, 111., had his head cut off. Many others were badly hurt. Fifty yards of the track was torn up. It is not known what caused the explosion.

The Rev. Father William 11. Ketcham of Antlers, I. T,, has been appointed and will soon take charge of all the Catholic Indian missions of the I'nited States, with headquarters at Washington, D. C. Father Ketcham was for three years pastor of the Catholic congregation at Muscogee. At Tiffin, Ohio, a tray containing twenty-eight diamond rings, valued at $5,009, was stolen from the jewelry store of Lewis Seewald. While oue of the two strangers held the attention of the proprietor the other unlocked the case, took the tray and walked out. Both the men escaped. By what is declared to be a deliberate plot, the New York and Boston express train on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad was wrecked at South Chicago. Two men were killed, three others injured, the engine totally demolished and two express cars piled in a heap. That the quarrel between Frank and John D. Rockefeller of Cleveland is extremely bitter and lasting was evidenced by the action of Frank Rockefeller when he had the bodies of his two children removed from the magnificent Rockefeller lot in Lakeview cemetery and moved into a new lot. The extra session of the Michigan Legislature, called by Gov. Pingree placing before the people constitutional amendments relating to taxation of corporations and the repeal of certain perpetual railroad charters, has adjourned after passiug the measures advocated* by the < lovernor.