Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1901 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Russian settlers near Ana moose, N. D., arc said to be starving. Six-year-old Roy Gillette, son of It. A. Gillette, accidentally shot liis 4-year-old sister at Nevada, Mo., with a target rifle. Six Japanese section laborers on the Great Northern Railway were struck and killed by a freight train near Citibank, Mont. Smallpox has broken out in the national soldiers’ home in Leavenworth, Knu. It is believed fully 1,000 of the 3,500 in the home have been directly exposed. Steve Holgate, a gambler well known in Chicago and on the Pacific coast, committed suicide at Grand Forks by taking morphine, lie had suffered recent reverses at the gutning table. An unknown highwayman held up the Hot Springs stage in the moiintnin near Holy Springs, Ari., and rifled the contents of a private express box. It is thought that the booty was light. Sydney Miller, the 7-year-old grandson of ex-l’nited States Attorney General Aliller, was kidnaped by his mother in Indianapolis, but was found at Lawrence, Ind., and taken buck to Indiuna polis. In Los Angeles, Cal., John W. Tinsley shot and killed his wife, Anna P, Tinsley, on the street and then fired a bullet into his own head, dying instantly. Trouble over money matters caused the double tragedy. In a fit of jealous rage Atnrtin Terpel, 48 years old, of Cleveland, fatally stablied his wife Caroline, aged 3S years, and his son Matthew, aged 1(5 years. Then he shot himself through the heart, dying instantly. Hnmma Divinity Hall, on the Wittenberg College grounds at Springfield, Ohio, burned to the ground. It wits occupied by the theological seminary. The loss on the building will be about $20,000, covered by insurance. In a runaway about three miles above Ouray, Colo., the Red Alountaiu stage was overturned and six passengers were thrown over a cliff about seventy feet iu height. Airs. R. 8. Hickey, a passenger, received perhaps fatal injuries. Stonewall J. Do France, a noted forger, who was sent to the State’s prison at Jackson, Alieh., from Kalamazoo County in 1891 for eleven years for defrauding a Kalamazoo bank of several thousand dollars, has been paroled by Gov. Filigree. J. O. Naylor has been appointed receiver for the American Marbles Company, which has been running übout two months in Steubenville, Ohio. It is the only factory of the kind in the United States, the product being glass marbles. 1 lie three children of L. Lnvery—n daughter aged J yours, a sou aged 2 and > (l-months-old infant—were burned to j dentil near Olympin, Wash. The parents were temporarily absent, leaving a hired man at work cutting wood about 200 yards from the house. IA franchise was granted by the county commissioners at Columbus, Ohio, to the Columbus, Winchester and I/nneaster Tractiou Company, which will build an eleetrie road from Columbus to I/tiucaster, paralleling the Columbus, Hocking Valley aud Toledo Railroad. I Fire at North Amherst, Ohio, caused

about $25,000 damage. The following are the losses: H. A. Plato, dry goods, $12,000; William Boarduiau, groceries and crockery, $4,000; H. Goardman, saloon, $2,000; John Brown, harness, sl,000; Methodist Church, $3,000. Ypsilanti Smith, an aged hermit, died a few days ago in.his. but six miles west of St. Paris, Ohio. It was supposed that he was poor. Later $45,000 in government bonds as found in an old chest in his cabin. The coupons had not beeu torn off these bonds'for thirty years. Gotlieb Stacker and liis family, moving from Stillwater, O. T.f to Roger Mills County, Kansas, were 'caught while asleep in their wagon in n prairie fire. A 17-months-old baby was roasted to death and a hoy, a young woman and the mother were so badly burned they will die. Two frightful elevator accidcuts occurred ju Cleveland within five minutes in buildings only a short distance from each other. Sydney Hamm of London, Ont., stepped into an open shaft and fell six stories and Ralph Spellman, aged 10, fell nine stories. Botli were instantly killed. Some unnamed millionaire has notified the Rev. John S. Rutledge, pastor of the Gleuviile, Ohio, Methodist Church, that he can have unlimited credit for the relief of the poor people of Gleuviile. The gift is free from conditions, except that the giver’s name shall not be allowed to become known. :x_ _ .(, _l_ Mystery shrojtds the shooting of William It. Smy t lie, secret ary of the Masonic grand lodge of the State of Indiana, which occurred in Mr. Smythe’s office in Masonic Temple in Indianapolis. Mr. Smythe’s story is thut a woman did the shooting, but the police have been unable to find any trace of her. Abraham Johnston and wife, both over 80 years old, were bound, tortured and robbed about .midnight at their home, a short distance below Marietta, Ohio, on the West Virginia side. Their assailant, a gigantic negro, gained entrance to the house stealthily. After securing all the valuables he left his victims still bound. Miss Mary Kennedy, 55 years old, was burned to death in a fire which attacked her boarding house at 224 West Monroe street, Chicago. Her body was burned to n crisp. Firemen who attempted to save her found the door leading into the rear bedroom which she occupied, locked. They broke it down, but too late to effect a rescue. A mail pouch containing SIOO,OOO in negotiable paper and an unknown amount of money was stolen from the Wyandotte, Mich., Michigan Central Railroad passenger station the other night. The last mail for Wyandotte arrives at 10:28 on the Michigan Central, and, owing to thp lateness of the hour, it is left in the station until morning. Three burglars subjected Mrs. Albert Kern of Blue Island, 111., to fearful torture before she would reveal the hiding place of SSO, of which they were in search. After she had finally submitted to the robbers the woman was bound and gagged and left senseless in her room, where she was found by her husband. The thieves Airs. Kern is the wife of a eigarmaker who Is reputed to have saved considerable money nnd secreted it about the house in which lie lives. In a letter written from the Philippines to his folks in West Superior, Wis., in November, Captain Harry W. Newton says that the encroachments of the natives were worse than they had been at aiiy time during the year previous. As one instance of their ferocity lie xvrites: "Just the other day they jumped a detachment of our Twenty-fourth, numbering twenty-two men, and captured sixteen of them. One was found terribly mutilated, showing signs of being skinned while yet alive.” A prominent railway official at, Alaningordo, N. M., received a box of fifty gems closely resembling and alleged to be diamonds, found near Capitan, the coal camp on the line of the El Paso nnd Northeastern Railway Company,' eighty miles north of there. The stones were found by J. J. Blow, formerly associated with the Doßeers Consolidated Company at Kimberley, South Africa, who has been secretly investigating the field for the last month, and a letter from him accompanying the shipment says they are either diamonds or something so closely resembling the gem that they deceive him. Mrs. Carrie Nation, president of the W. C. T. U. of Barber County, Kansas, wrecked the finest saloon in Wichita, and that night she occupied a cell in the county jail on charges of having maliciously destroyed property.' The attack on the saloon is said to be first of a proposed general outbreak of the prohibitionists of the Stnte against the illegal licensing of “joints.” When Gov. Stanley was appealed to to aid Mrs. Nation he refused to have anything to do with her ease. This has aroused great indignation among the church people, and a serious outcome from the episode is expected.