Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Al Kittson, son of the late St. Paul millionaire, has been appointed inspector ot bill boards at St. Paul. Fourteen passengers on a North Shore electric car are hurt in a rear-end collision near Rogers Park, 111. A tornado struck about half a. mile west of Lodi, Texas. One house occupied by colored people was destroyed, six people being killed outright. A. C. Collins of Bradner, Ohio, aged 29 years ami married, a gauger for the Paragon Oil Company, while gauging 4 tank of oil fell in and was drowned. An unlocked switch flew open under a Lake Shore ami Michigan Southern train in Chicago ami caused a wreck in which eight excursionists received injuries. Henry Bishop Perkins, Jr., son of a Warren, Ohio, millionaire, committed suicide at his home by shooting himself. Grief at. his father’s long illness was the cause of the act. S. E. Burke, engineer of maintenance for the Cleveland, Akron and Columbus division ot the Pennsylvania lines, was accidentally killed on an inspection train at I'richsville, Ohio. Mrs. Mary Hummell, in a fit of insanity. killed her 5-weeks-old baby in Cleveland. She called in her husband and told him that she had seized the infant am! dashed out its brains. Meiioah Beamer, a pioneer Missourian, died at his home at Blackburn, Mo., aged N 2 years. He was a noted horseman in his time and once owned Blazebtiry and President Wilkes. Two business houses at New Bloomfield, Mo., burned. Dr. C. M. Wright, who was sleeping in one of the stores, was burned to death. The financial loss is about $3,000, partly insured. St. Paul, Minn., officials of the American Express Company are mystified over the disappearance of $7,000. It is believed that the pouch containing the money was stolen by local people. Dr. A. H. Walla, his 1-year old daughter and Delta Cone, a painter, have gone from Kansas City to Chicago for Pasteur treatment. They were bitten by a bullterrier that lias developed hydrophobia. z A messenger reached El Paso, Texas, from the village of Guadalupe, Mexico, bringing the news that that place had been completely swept from the face of the earth by a waterspout. Not a house was left standing Frank Allgood, sentenced to three years in the penitentiary for horse stealing, was baptized by immersion at the Christian Church in Wichita, Kan. His hands nnd feet were shackled and lie had to Im* carried to the baptistry. Captain Elmer E. Wing, of Ran Fran cisco, Cal., manager of the Welsbach Lamp Company, committed suicide by inhaling gas. Business troubles caused him to take his life. His wife and daughter reside in Delaware, Ohio. Dr. Combi Beck killed William Barton nt Waymansville, Ind,, because Barton objected to Beck keeping company with I his daughter. Two years ago Beck killed I Miss Grace Cohee because she refused to I marry him. lie was acquit ted of the 1 crime. The central committee of Galveston, Texas, Ims discover'd that owing to the lack of system in the distribution of relief among the cyclone sufferers there has been much extravagance. Forged orders to the amount of SIO,OOO have turned up. A rear-end collision took place between two of the big electric cars on the Broad way line in St. Louis, nnd a dozen jirrsunn were hurt. The colliding car smashed the platform of the car in front ot it, nnd, rearing up, tore away a section of the roof. A deal for 100,000 of Rt. Louis County, Minn,, acres, adapted in large part to •gFaultare, is in progress which involvM

from $275,000 to $300,000. The deal is one of the biggest for lands of this- kind ever undertaken in the State. Th* property is situated north of thp St. Louis river and east of Floodwood. Section saved the regular pv sebger train on the Bismarck, Washliuvn and Great Falls road, in North Dakota, from #rious wreck. They discovered a pile of ties fastened to the rails at the entrance to a cut, in such a fashion that a disastrous w;rcck would have been inevitable. Tramps are suspected. At Wapnkynetn, Ohio, Flora It. Miller, who was charged with the killing of her-3-year-old step-son, Leroy, was found guilty of manslaughter. On July 2, Mrs. Miller, in a fit of mildness, seized her step-son by the throat and choked him to death. Tlie census bureau has matte public the returns of population for the territory of Arizona. The population of. the territory in 1890 is 122,212, ms compared with a population in 1890 of 59,020. This show's an increase during the decade of <12,592, or-104.9 per cent. The State of Idaho has set npnrt 248,000 acres ot land on the Snake river, near Shoshone Falls, to be reclaimed under the Carey act by canals, to be taken out of the river at the head of the canyon lending to the falls. The undertaking will cost. $1,500,000. . The.. First. National Bank at Union. Ore., was robbed the other morning. Nitroglycerin'was applied to the door of the vault. The shock blew open the doors and broken particles passed through the front of 'the building. The robbers fled on the approach of who had sounded the alarm. The loss is about $3.000. Gen. John W. Fisher died at his home in Cheyenne, Wyo., aged KG year*. Gen. Fisher was a man of national character, having risen from a private in the ranks to a major general during the Civil War. It was Gen. Fisher, then a colonel, who, without waiting for orders, charged nnd took Little Round Top at the battle of Gettysburg.