Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

"Five highwaymen held up n crowded ear in Chicago, seriously beat the conductor and robbed Edward Wright of $317. Henry Zimmerman, sou of a resident of -Chicago, has been sentenced at Bt. Paul, Minn., to. the State reformatory on conviction of forgery. The population of North Dakota, as officially announced, Is 319,146, as ugainst 182,71!> in IS'. 10. This is an increase of 130,427, or 7-1.0 per cent. A defalcation of SIOO,OOO or more lias been discovered in the accounts of the late George Griffiths, clerk of the Cincinnati Board of Education. Two men, Charles Harris and P. D. Batson, were" killed and four seriously injured at Grannis, Ark., by the explosion of a pinning mill boiler. After serving as postmaster and assistant postmaster continuously for thirtyeight years, John Pynn of St. George, Utah, has resigned. He is 85 years old! riircc men in a wagon, one of whom was killed, were struck by a Chicago, Burlington and Quincy passenger train at the railroad crossing in Harlem, Chicago. Five prisoners held for burglary and assault escaped from the county jail at Mexico, Mo., chiseling through a brick wall. Eleven other prisoners refused to leave. Reuben Loekmnn of Wyoming committed suicide with a ritle, causing instant death, lie was subject to insanity. The tragedy took place on the grave of his favorite dog. The jury in the Whipple murder case at Bcrmidji. Minn., brought iu a verdict of not guilty after severul hours’ deliberation. Much iudiguatioo is expressed ut the result. , Thirteen persons were killed outright, fifteen fatally injured and several others less seriously hurt by the caving in of a roof over white-hot glass furnaces in San Francisco. According to announcement from Seattle, the Great Northern will soon take steps to. run its line into Vancouver to compete with the Canadian Pacific iu oriental business. In a tight at Sun Antonio, Texas, between union and non-union employes of the Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Company one man lost his life and four others wore wounded. Chief of Police John VV. Campbell of St. Louis has been*offered the position of chief of police of Manila under the civil government now in courne of formation, and the offer has been accepted. Richard Novak, 1-4 years of age, was found guilty of murder by a jury in Judge Tuley's court in Chicago. Novak stabbed nud killed his companion, Albert Olsen, during a quarrel Sept. 17. Frank C. Robertson, aged 43, Troop L. First regiment, National Cavalry volunteers, committed suicide in Wichita, Kan.

Hi* hfttne is in Hancock Connty, Illinois. He wm one of Roosevelt’* Rough lUder*. The young women of Cardingtoa, Ohio, have formed a ‘'ladies’ bachelor club.” One of the strictest rules of the club is that nine of Its members shall entertain male company either “at home or abroad/’ The smallpox epidemic which has gained such a foothold in Winona, Minn., is being fought hard by the State and city health authorities. There are at present from £OO to 000 cases of 4he disease in the city. Mrs. Grace Robinson, aged 18 years, of Libby, Mont., was arrested in Cleveland, her arrest being caused by her husband, who claims that sho stole $50,000 worth of mining stock from him and deserted her hoipi*. t At Norwalk, Ohio, a jury brought in a verdict for SI,OOO damages for Mary Bores against Peter Kluding. She sued him for SIO,OOO for kissing her and afterwards slandering her. Kluding is a rich fa truer. Upton Moore, aged 40 years, and Iloiley Heaton, aged 22 years, were killed and Charles Mohr was fatally hurt by a boiler explosion on a farm near Bellefontaintb Ohio, while engaged in shredding fodder. George 51. Weingard of Topeka, Kan., traveling salesman for a whisky house, was found guilty in Kansas City of murder iu the first degree for killing W. A. SlmjisoU. a 59 was sentenced to the peuitentiary for life. And rev Itadel, vice-president of the Middles* g and Somerset Traction Railroad of Ohio, fans taken possession of the property. No figures are given, but it is understood that the price is well up in the hunted thousands. While a number of settlers near Roseau, Minn., were burying a little girl they wove attacked by wolves, which severely b«t several persons in attempts to get the body. The uuimals were finally driven away by tire. Six iqtn killed, a train wrecked aud sixteen Passengers and employe* injured, were th* results of tiie explosion of a boiler in the Northwestern Railway Company's power house in Chicago. The property loss is about $40,000.

Gen. W- L. White'of Grand Rapids, ex-quart/f master general of the Michigan National Guard, pleaded guilty to the charge qf complicity in the State military clothing frauds and was sentenced by Jud.qg Wiest to ten years in prison. Nearly 100 men stood in line before the land otEce. at Crookstou. Minn., to make first filing when the White Earth tracts opened. The line was formed Saturday night ai.J fifty orAnore stood in the cold until Tuesday, their meals being brought to them. Murde: and a probable suicide ended a roma nee-- in Chicago. . Fred A. Hiiiison killed hiu sweetheart, Isabelle A. Walker, at the Hotel Vickery, and then turned the revolver to liis own chest and tired a shot which will probably end his life. The incentive was. jealousy. The Ljjtle Miami Traction Company yf Xeuijp Ohio, lias been incorporated with $5014)0 capital stuck. It is proposed {o build jn electric railway from Xeuia to Cincinnati, touching Springfield, Wilmington, Lebanon, Dayton, Middletown, Loveland aud other cities. Four n:>n were drowned at Spokane, Wash., by the capsizing of a ferryboat In the Spokane river. The ferry was crossing (lie stream with eighteen workmen from the construction camp near the t Ire.-it. Xthorn ’shew bridge. All the Lien were thrown into the water. Between 1 and 2 o’clock the other afternoon, whej I. N. Foe, a promincut Toledo, Ohio, real estate dealer, was temporarily absent .from his office, someone broke open his desk and took a strong Im>x containing about $5tX» in cash and checks a lie $20,000 in negotiable paper. Not the slightest clew has been discovered.