Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Will of the late Senator C. K. Davis i left his estate of $05,000 to his widow. I James Con.sidine was convicted at .Columbus, Ohio, for robbing the post- ! office at Granville, Ohio, in 1890. Prof. W. W. Campbell has been formally appointed director of the Lick Obi servatory, vice Prof. Keeler, deceased, i The Carter White Lead Company has closed its works at Omaha, Neb., und the business will be transferred to Chicago. An earthquake shock lasting nearly a minute was experienced in Joplin, Mo. The motion was from north to south. No damage is reported. Fire pccurrcd in the Standard Theater, St. Louis, shortly before midnight the other night. It is estimated that the ! damage will be about SIO,OOO. Iu a prize fight at Tattersall’s in Chicago Joe Gans was put out in the second round by Champion Terry McGovern. Tlie mill lusted but five minutes. Two new timber companies have been incorporated at Tacoma, Wash., by Frederick Weyerhauser nnil other prominent capitalists of the Mississippi Valley. C. C. Black of Goshen, Ind., formerly president or the Fort Wayne and Albuquerque Railroad, has filed a petition in bankruptcy with $219,000 liabilities uud $220 assets.

An immense cave, filled with stalactites and stalagmites, and containing a subterranean river, has just been discovered twenty miles southeast of Eureku Springs, Ark. Architect Bernard’s revised filan for the projected University of California buildings have been accepted by the regents. They contemplate an expenditure of übout $10,000,000. Coast train No. 3, west bound on the Great Northern Railway, was wrecked at Brockton, 235 miles east of Havre, Mont. Three persons were killed uud many slightly Injured. The building, foundry and machinery of the Lane & Bodley works at Cincinnati were burn Oil, the total loss being from $200,000 to $250,000. About 200 men will be thrown out of work. The case against Fred S. Kelly, former cashier at Omaha, Neb., of the Uheuix Insurance Company of* Brooklyn, charged with embezzling $5,000 of the company’s funds, has been dropped. As the result of proceedings alleging Insolvency the A. 0. Patton Manufacturing Company of Columbus. Ohio, bus passed into the hands of receiver*. The concern manufactures hollow ware. The Colorado Supreme Court in the case appealed by the American Refrigerator Transit Company sustain* the State’s right to assess the enrs of foreign corporations doiug business in Colorado. Joseph Dcsehenes, operating a hid department store in Grafton. N. I)., with branches in many neighboring towns, has filed a petition in bankruptcy, placing his liabilities st $130,000, with assets at SOO,OOO. Secretary Irwin Shepard of the Na* tional Educational Association announces that the executive committee hts selected

Detroit, Mich., as the place of meeting for the fortieth annual convention July 8 to 12, 1901. Daring a performance at the Standard Theater in St. Bo'uis, Henry Jacoby fell from the top gallery into the parquette eirele. Every bone in his body was broken. The accident caused a panic in the audience. Two negroes, Jiin Henderson and Bud Rowlands, who confessed they waylaid, brutally murdered and robbed Hollie Simons, a barber, were lynched in the jail yard at Koekport, Ind., by a mob of 1,000 frenzied citizens. Joseph Richter, an aged retired merchant of Cincinnati, who murdered Geo. Uchtmanu in a quarrel over a bill for the church to which both men belonged, was adjudged insane. Criminal proceedings have been stopped. Paul Antoine, tlie French corn til at San Francisco, who recently attempted suicide by shooting himself in the head on account of the threat of his wife, whom he had married clandestinely, to expose their Alliance, is dead. After deliberating nearly four days, the jury in the famous Jessie Morrison case at El Dorado, Kan., was discharged without giving a verdict. The woman who futally cut Mrs. Oliu Castle'will have to be tried again. Baptiste Gamier, known all over the West, and especially among army men, as “Little Bat,” the fearless Indian scout, was shot and fatally wounded in a saloon at Crawford, Neb., by James D. Haguewood, the saloon manager. A miraculous escape from instant death was' experienced by Will Mcßride, aged 10 years, who fell down an air shaft of a mine at Jacksonville, Ohio, a distance of 115 feet. Though bruised considerably he was practically unhurt. Application has been made at Columbus Ohio, for the appointment of a receiver for the Federal Natural Gas Company. A temporary injunction has been granted to prevent the Company from disposing of its property or stock. As a result of a mysterious case of poisoning at Forsythe Mines, near Marietta', Ohio, four persons are dead, three fatally sick and two others are seriously ill. The dead are Andrew Barniek, Mary Laichak, Andy Litehie and a child. A stampede up Fourth of July creek, a branch of the Kettle river, in Washington, has set in. Shot gold has been discovered with ground running $lO to the cubic yard. The strike extends on both sides of the British-American boundary. Claude Ileger, aged 35, wheelsman of the steamer Malietoa, married, homo in South Haven, Mich., and Frank Gorman, aged 45, sailor on the same steamer, married, home in New Baltimore, Mich., were killed in a freight train wreck at Milwaukee.

A ghastly discovery that may bring to light a crime was made at Minneapolis by two boys skating on the Mississippi river, when they found firmly imbedded in the ice tlie body of a man with the skull badly crushed. The man had been dead a long time. Fire completely destroyed the Fowler Cycle and Carriage works at North Carpenter u9d Fulton streets, Chicago, entailing a loss of SIOO,OOO, of which SSO,000 was on the machinery, and stock of the company, of which Alderman Frank Fowler is the owner. The Herrick House at Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio, caught fire and the fiauies swept every frame building on the east side of Bridge street from High street south. Nearly a dozen structures were burned. The loss is estimated at about $20,000, partially insured. The Montana Supreme Court has affirmed the judgment of the lower court in the case of the Helena Water Works Company against the City of Helena, holding the contract between the two void because the city exceeded its constitutional limit of indebtedness. Alfred Kern, 10 years old, was cruelly tortured at San Jose, Cal., by three beys. They caught him ns he was returning home from a kindergarten school and burned his face with matches until the skin and flesh peeled from his face and blood spurted from the wounds. Rosso C. Hoffman, 22 years old, a messenger for the Adams Express Company, was arrested in Cleveland on the charge of having stolen fourteen diamonds’ valued at $2,800. The gems were found on his person. They had been consigned by a Cleveland dealer to a New Y’ork house. An engine, twelve cars and five men plunged down a 50-foot embankment on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway near Murray, lowa. John Dozle was killed, and the four other men, names unknown, were badly hurt, two probably fatally. A trestle gave way when the train's weight was upon it. The town of Sunnyside, iu the Irrigated district of Yakima County, Wash., has been purchased outright by a party of Dunkurds, which includes C. Rowland, a hanker of Lanark, 111. They intend to establish a model town, tlie citizens of which will own small farms in the country round about, and will also found a college. Gov. Nash of Ohio has called a special meeting of the board of pardons to consider the'application on behalf of Rosslyn H. Ferrell for a commutation of sentence. Ferrell is under senteuce to be electrocuted on March 1 for the murder of Express Messenger Lane. The date of the meeting was fixed by the Governor for Jan. 10, 1901. While slum be ting in their chairs beside n grate lire in their home, 417 Washington boulevard, Chicago, Mrs. H. A. Apliu and Mrs. Ntula Hast were attacked at 9:15 o’clock the other night by burglars, who, after beating and choking both women, tore open the bosom of Mrs. Aplin’s house gown, plucked forth a casket containing diamonds and other jewels worth $3,000 and lied with their jilunder.