Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Three soldier eonviets, sentenced for desertion, escaped from the military prised at Alcatraz, Cal. At Los Angeles, Cal., Eugene Weston, a building agent, filed a petition in bankruptcy. Liabilities $76,068, assets $2,075. Frank Freeman of Cutler, Minn., was buried under thirty feet of earth while cleaning a well. He was rescued and will live. V Rosslyn H. Ferrell, the convicted murderer of Express Messenger Lane, has made a motion at Marysville, Ohio, for a new trial. John Dewitt has been appointed receiver of the firm of Noemke & Alf, grocers at Cincinnati. Assets $72,000, liabilities $62,000. The United States transport Sherman has sailed from San Francisco for Manila with about 250 soldiers and a large number of cabin passengers. M. Shiraishi, agent of a new Japanese transpacific line of steamers, is looking into the possibilities of the harbors in southern California for a port of entry. A. A. Cooper committed suicide in Kansas City, shooting himseTf through the head with a revolver. Mr. Cooper was 65 years old. No cause for suicide is known. A regular monthly mail service between San Francisco and Tahiti was begun by the sailing ot the steamer Australia for Tahiti under contract with the French government. A South Chicago City Railway electric car crashed into a south-bound Illinois Central suburban train, severely injuring the motorman and three passengers of the electric car. Harvey Earl, one of the rioters indicted by the Akron, Ohio,, special grand jury, was convicted of illegally possessing and using dynamite. This is the first of the riot cases to be tried. Henry B. Proetor, county treasurer for four years and Republican candidate for State Senator iu the Seventeenth District, committed suicide with laudanum at Gfand Rapids, Mich. James M. Lynch, the new president of the international Typographical Union, succeeded S. B. Donnelly, the retiring president. Headquarters of the union arc nt i'ndlnnapolis, Ind. Drs. A. J. Stone ami Lancaster of St. Paul, Minn., and Murphy*of Chicago performed an operation on Senvtor C. K. Davis’ foot fol- the draining of poisonous matter from an abscess in the sole of the foot. Two men were shot at Shelby, Ohio. Floyd Armstrong and Morris Brower placed cannon crackers in the spouting at Roscoe McCormick’s house. McCormick fired both barrels of a shotgun with deadly effect. Supposedly working in collusion with an elevator boy who knew the combination, two robbers at noon the other dny entered the Yorkshire rfotel, 1837 Michigan nvenue, Chicago, and robbed the safe of S2OO. The schooner Rosa Sonsmith went ■shore 300 feet west of the piers at Ash-

tabula, Ohio, broadside and headed down I the lake. The crew of nine men was ! taken off, together with personal effects, and brought safely into port. , i Burglars forced the safe in the office of James Doolittle, trustee of Oil township, Ind., and decamped with $3,000 In cash and valuable notes. The money be- ' longs to the township and had been re- i , served for school house purposes. I Two electric cars on the Cincinnati, I Lawrence and Aurora Electric Railway I collided near Cleves, Ohio, owing to a misunderstanding of orders. The cars were wrecked and eleven passengers injured, some seriously, none fatally. The biggest mining deal of the year in the old Clear Crock district, Colorado, was put through when Illinois capitalists took possession of the MendotaFrostburg group of claims at Silver Plume. The price paid was $350,000.

While despondent because of continued ill health Abel P. Upham, a director of the firm and in charge of the tea department of Sprague, Warner & Co., Chicago, for a quarter of a century, committed suicide at his hfftne by taking carbolic acid. Roland Reed, who was compelled to abandon his tour while the company was playing in Chicago, has arrived at the conclusion that it will be impossible to continue his tour further the present season, and has therefore disbanded the company. Edward W. Freeman of Kokomo, Ind., one of the speakers at a Democratic barbecue at Peru, was stricken with paralysis on the return train. The night before his wife tirearned lu* was brought home dead from Peru, and tried to keep him home. —The investigation liy the coroner’s jury of how Peter Sac Mary, whose dead body was found near his parents’ farm at Caledonia, Minn., came to his death, was concluded and the jury rendered a verdict that the cause of death was unknown. - Rush Medical College in Chicago is to have a new SBO,OOO building, for which Dr. Nicholas Senn has just given $50,000. Plans for the new building, which is to be called c Senn Hall, are already in the hands of the comptroller of Rush Medical. About 100 students have been expelled or suspended from the Culver Military Academy, Culver, Ind., for sinking most of the pleasure boats, including one steamer, in Lake Maxinkuckee, on the shore of which the academy is situated. The sinking was a prank. After offering up a fervent prayer in which he asked to be lifted to a higher sphere .of usefulness John Crosby, an aged and highly respected resident of Columbus, Ohio, was suddenly stricken with heart failure and died before he could take his seat in his pew. The Armour Packing Company closed the other day the largest month’s killing of cattle yet recorded for a packing house in Kansas City. The total number of cattle killed was 67,754, as against 63,682 cuttie killed in October, 1893, the largest previous month’s killing. Suit for $250,000,000 has been filed against twenty-five of the most prominent citizens in Texas by Joel Blair of Waco. He alleges that defendants conspired to gain possession of his right in valuable Waco property and caused him to be placed in an asylum for two years. The heavy rdins have caused extensive damage near Winona, Minn. The farmers complain that continued rains have made it impossible for them to thrash what grain they have in stack, and now the grain is beginning to sprout. The loss will amount to thousands of dollars. The executive board of the Victor, Colo., Miners’ Union was in session five hours with the mine managers, discussing the. strike of the Independence miners on account of the recent personalsearch order of the mine management. It was announced that all difficulties had been settled. An unsuccessful attempt was made to wreck the Baltimore and Ohio westbound passenger train near Tiffin, Ohio. A pile of railroad ties were laid in the middle of the track and across the rails. The bridge gang coming along a few minutes before the train was due removed the obstruction. The cornerstone ,of University Hall, the main building of Washington University,, was laid in the presence of a large crowd at St. Louis. Preceding the laying of the cornerstone Col. George C. Leighton delivered an address. The Right Rev. Daniel S. Tuttle, Episcopal bishop of the St. Louis diocese, pronounced the invocation. Three burglars and the officers of St. Louis had two exciting street battles, which caused great excitement throughout the city. The robbers were successful in getting into several houses, but the officers were hot on their trail and when the parties met an interchange of shots ensued, the outlaws escaping under heavy tire each time. A crowd of school boys at Lima, Ohio, were beating Frank Carney, an old man, who has been a target for their fun for some time. He ran into the house, secured a shotgun and fired it at the boys. John Reid, aged 11 years, who was standing across the street watching the fun, received the entire charge and was fatally wounded.