Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1900 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

South Dakota Catholic clergymen are planning to erect a monument to the memory of the lute Right Rev. Francis Lawler. Congressman John J. Lentz, Dem., defeated for re-election in the Twelfth Ohio District by a narrow margin, lias given notice of contest. In a sidetrack collision near Piedmont, Mo., Johnson Tyner and J. L. Morris, brakrmen, were killed and V. J. Melby, another brakeman. was seriously injured.’ Frank* Hamilton, _ a newspaper man. accused of killing Leonard R. Day, a young millionaire of Minneapolis, Minn., was arraigned on the chart# and pleaded not guilty. President McKinley has pardoned William 11. Huntley, postmaster at Pomeroy. Ohio, who was convicted and sentenced in June last to eight months in the county jail for embezzling money order funds. In a desperate hand-to-hand tight on a street car in South Chicago three masked bandits, seemingly tyros, were beaten off and made to flee. Three passengers, unarmed, assisted the niotormau and conductor. August Miller stabbed Henry Holliday eleven times at the Yellow Poplar lumber mills in Coal Grove, Ohio. They quarreled over a stacking bar which both wanted. Miller was arrested. Holliday cannot, recover. Charles M. Miller, assistant civil eugi ‘near on the Montana division of the Great Northern, was struck by an electric car in St. Paul, Minn,, and died before reaching the hospital. He was .ill years old. single. The residence of Conrad Ruff, a dairyman, north of San Jose, Cal., was destroyed by tire. Four young children perished in the Haines. Two others, together with Mr. Ruff and a hired man, were severely burned. After successfully holding up and robbing Lewis Walters in Chicago, Edward Donavan, a notorious criminal, was shot ami instantly killed an hour later by Ofli cor Timothy ltiordan of the West Chicago avenue police. William Reddick of Findlay, Ohio, president of the Producers’ Explosive Company, was blown to atoms by an explosion of nitroglycerin at the company’s factory in Lima. The explosion shattered hundreds of window panes iu the city. W. R. Tail’s department store at Austin. Minn., was closed under sheriff’s execution. The largest creditors are the Powers Dry Goods Company, St. Paul, $11,000; Fisk & Co„ Chicago, $4,000; ltcid, Murdoch A Fisher, Chicago, sl,700. Mrs. Jessie L. Beckwith, daughter of Robert T. Lincoln of Chicago and granddaughter of President Lincoln, who in 1807 married Warren Beckwith, a baseball and football player at lowa Wesleyan University, has been divorced front her husband. While n party of miners were dysceuditig the slope in the Wagner coal mine, five miles south of Akron, Ohio, a wild oar overtook them. Some of the men jumped to the side of the track, but five were struck by the car, two being killed and the others badly injured. Judge Neff, in the eriminal court in Cleveland, sentenced Edward Itutlireu, colored, to be electrocuted April Ik’. P.IOI, for tin 1 murder of Patrolman Shipp. Shipp discovered the negro in the act of burglary* in a residence and tried to arrest hint. Ruthven killed the policeman and escaped. Randall Welti*, night engineer at the shaft of the Evans Coal Company, Youngstown. Ohio, fell 1.70 feet to the bottom of the shaft and miraculously escaped alive. Though badly bruised, he was conscious, aide to explain how the accident occurred and has an even chance for recovery. Si.v masked men forced ga entrance into the bank of Madison, Ohio, and blew /ilie outside door front the vault, but were frightened away before having penetrated further. There was but s.‘l7 in the vault, but a smaller safe in the bank contained over $8,01)0 in cash. This wag not interfered with. Au extensive non-trust match factory is to lie established in Duluth, Minn., the Duluth .Match Company, capital $150,000. L. E. Ewing, vice-president and

of the Grand Rapids and Toledo Match companies, is one of the prime mover*. M. 11. Atworth of Duluth is president of the new company, Edward V. Higgins, who resides In Coldwater Canyon, Cal., has confessed that on Dec. 4 he inurdei-ed his mother and William Shechan\ a gheep herder, with an ax. A body has been found in a grave on the hillside where Higgins says he buried his victims. The self-accused murderer shows signs of dementia*