Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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A statehood convention of the Indian Territory and Oklahoma will he held ■Dec. 10. ,—: —-»—i ——.—.— Several passengers were hurt in a collision between two Northwestern elevated trains in Chicago. Students at the Kearney, Neb., Military Academy, in revolt, were hacked by members of the faculty. The Marion presbytery at Delaware, Ohio, voted in favor of the revision of the creed of the Presbyterian Church. Preston Porter, Jr., the young negro who murdered Louise Frost, was burned at the stake by a tuob at Linton, Colo. John Whalen, supposed to live in Detroit, was shot and killed by George Wilson or Ed Reynolds at Cridorsville, Ohio. M. S. Hughes of Chicago was run over and mangled beyond recognition by a ■witch engine in the Lake Shore yards at Toledo. The canning factory of the Canton Canning Company at Canton, Mo., was burned to the ground. Loss $20,000. Insurance $14,000. Apache Indians from Arizona attacked a Mormon settlement in Mexico. Several on both sides were killed before the Indians were routed. By tin* collapse of a condemned wall in n Chicago Hat building, seven bricklayers were injured by bricks and other debris and narrowly escaped death. At Akron, Ohio, a big blue lly was found alive in a box which had been buried in the cornerstone of the old high school, elected fifty years ago. Three convicts nt Leavenworth. Kan., overpowered the guards and left the prison, hut one was killed and two men were hurt in the light that followed. A baby elephant was horn nt Bamboo, Wis., in the winter quarters of Ringling Bros.’ circus. This, it is claimed, is the first elephant ever born In captivity. The four story Ren wick block nt Davenport, lowa, occupied by the Davenport Furniture and Carpet Company, was destroyed by fire. The loss is $125,000, The business portion of Buffalo, N. D. t was destroyed by lire. Ten buildings were burned, including the poMtotth-c, the Buffalo Express and the State Bank. The poztofllce safe ut Danville, lnd., was blown open about 2 o’clock tho other morning and S2OO cash and SIOO In stamps taken. The Interior wns wrecked. The Rev. Alonzo Rich was, in the United States District Court nt Kansas City, sentenced to two years iuNhe penitentiary and fined SIOO for perjury lit a pension claim. Martin Irons, the famous labor leader, who conducted the big Missouri Pacific strike In 1880, died at Buncevilie, Texas. He lmd long suffered from broken health and spirits. The population of the State of Miehtgnn as announced officially'by Ihe Census bureau is 2.420,082. na against 2,<Ki:t,sso in 1800. This Is riu Increase of 227.003, or 15.0 per cent. Announcement of the engagement of Miss ltutb Plumb, second daughter of the late Senator F. B. I’lumb, to Behuyler

Colfax Brewster of lola, Ivan., w as made at Emporia, Kan. At Ashtabula, Ohio, fire destroyed the Boston store and J. Iv. Stebbin’s jewelry store and badly damaged Brash’s dry goods store. The loss will amount to several thousand dollars. B. F. Borden and Fred Scroggins met in the public road near Lufkin, Texas, and each begau shooting with a pistol. Borden was killed aqd Scroggins badly wounded. An old feud was the cause. The town of Piedmont, west of Poplar Bluff, Mo., was visited by a fire which nearly wiped it out of existence. A doztfn stores, Including the postolflce, and numerous dwelling houses were burned. Arpad Ilanizsthv, a prominent viticulturist and wine merchant, was found in a dying condition on the sidewalk at San Francisco. He died while being removed - to the-Hospital. Heart di-ease is the supposed cause. The Hotel French burned at Sturgeon Bay, Wis, Miss Ilechardt of Ahnapee, \Yis., a guest, was burned to death. The hotel was crowded. Most of the guests had to make their escape in tiieir night robes. The loss is $8,000,. * Peter O. Johnson killed his 5-year-old son, George, and himself in Chicago. Carbolic acid caused the death of both, His wife seepred a divorce recently and apparently the breaking up of his home prompted him to commit the crime. For some time past efforts to locate a squeaking noise in the pipe organ at-Beth-lehem Church in Sheboygan, Wis., have proved fruitless until the organ was overhauled and the trouble discovered. In one of the large pipes a’ live owl was fotimL , At Denver, Colo.. Joseph Haeanalt confessed that he was implicated in the sensational robbery of Mrs. Flora Betts 1 on the night of Aug. 27, when diamonds valued at s7,<>oo were taken from her after she had been beaten almost into insensibility. At the meeting of the State normal school board it was resolved to allow four Filipinos, free tuition at each of the State normal schools at St. Cloud and Winona, Minn. The request came from Commissioner of Education Atkinsou :it Manila. - • . Mrs. Annie Steinuinger of St. Louis walked to the Church of the Practical Christians, several blocks from her home, and the exertion caused her death. Her husband pleaded with her to take the street ear, but she preferred to save a nickel by walking. Three negroes who had been arrested by Sheriff Haywood for waylaying and attempting to kill Mr. Stalk-up were taken from jail at Jefferson, Texas, by unknown persons and hanged to the railroad bridge across Cypress bayou. The negroes bad confessed. The Minnesota Supreme Court lias tie- j cided that the sq-ealled “jag-cure law” j is unconstitutional because it applies only j to counties of over 50,000 population and j it is limited iu its benefits to a certain j number in each county, oue per year to each 10,000 of populatic J. Janies S. Barber of Clinton, nephew of President McKinley and assistant" paymaster in the United States navy, died at Hongkong. Mr. Barber had been attached to the warship Don Juan de Austria and hail been iu the neighborhood of tiie Philippines since the early part of the year. \V. .T. Quigley, telegraph operator at Reno on the Duluth and Iron Range j road, sixty miles north of Duluth, is supposed to have been robbed and murdered. I The telegraph office was burned and the ■ charred remains of Quigley were found \ in the ruins. An investigation has been I instituted.