Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1901 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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The Olympian games of the olympiad year 1904 will be held in the city of Chicago. Stephen M. Hollos of-Greenville, Mo., committed suicide because of domestic troubles. Henry Dyres, aged 17, was shot and killed by Mrs. Sevose, a Frenchwoman, at Fleming, Kan. In the Colorado Legislature a bill was introduced providing for the restoration of capital punishment. Eight men were suffocated in a fire that broke ouj at night in the Harvard lodging house at Minneapolis, Minn. Philip D. Armour, the noted Chicago packer, died of a heart affection after Buffering several weeks with pneumonia. A rubber manufacturing company with a capital of $1,0*10,000 soon will be established in Chicago to tight the rubber trust. Announcement is made that Mrs. R. C. Kerens of St. Louis will build a charity hospital at Eureka Springs, Ark., to cost $50,000. A mail sack containing registered letters and valuable packages was stolen from the Valley Railroad depot at East Akron, Ohio. Peter Fossett (colored), who was the body servant of Thomas Jefferson, died in Cincinnati. He was born at Monticello, Va., in 1815, A train on the Nevada, California and Oregon Railway, north of Reno, Nev., was blown from the tracks. Several passengers were injured. Daughter of a Minneapolis merchant was married while ill with smallpox, the service being read through u window of the isolation hospital. The Armour Packing Company of Kansas City has purchased 25,000 tons of common salt in Portugal, the price being less than In this country. John Drinkcorn, a well-to-do ranchman. was killed ami his companion, named Toby Cross, fatally injured in a run away accident at Cody, Wyo. Charles Lee pleaded guilty to the charge of manslaughter in the killing of Grant Arnett, nt Seneca, Mo., and was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. Thirty-five Scandinavian* have been brought from Castle Garden to "Gen." J. R. Covey's colony, north of Massillon, Ohio. They w ill be employed in Coxey’s quarries. The.steamer Inqtta went ashore on a reef near Han Francisco ami is a total loss. Fourteen of her crew and her one passenger were rescued, One sailor was drew tied. Walter A. Weinstock, aged 20 years, assaulted Miss Nellie Morris at Hackney, Ohio, and cut her with a razor. Rhe died a few hour* inter. Weinstock was seized •nd bound. To avenge bi* sister'* wrong. William Barry, a wealthy fanner not far from

Milton, N. D., kflied his hired man, Andrew Mellen, and then surrendered himself to the authorities. John Yates, aged 40 years, and his son, aged 18 years, miners, were burned to death in their cabin near McQueen’s run, in Ohio. The fire was caused by an explosion of a can of giant powder. Bishop W. X. Ninde, one of the oldest and most prominent bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church and president of the Epworth League, died suddenly at his home in Detroit, of heart disease. Three hold-up men killed Herman Seatin in his saloon at Snyder,.Neb,, because he refused to bold up his hands, and then escaped after a running tight, in which one of the robbers was wounded. Jessie E. Clarke, whose stage name was Violet Creegan, was found dead in her room nt a Chillicothe, Mo., hotel. Death resulted from the use of ether, be-lievcd-to have been taken to relieve headache. The Northern Ohio' - Electric Railroad Company has tiled articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State of Ohio. The company will build a line from Defiance to Bryan, Ohio. The capital stock is $25,000. The Stuttgart and Arkansas River Railroad, running from Stuttgart to Gillett, a distance of forty miles, was sold at public auction at Pine Bluff, Ark. The Cotton Belt road was the purchaser, giving $40,050. Over 300 employes of the New Eastern Ohio Window Glass Factory at Barnesville, Qhio, have gone on a strike. They complain of the quality of glass produced and refuse to work longer unless there is an improvement. Mrs. J. F. Jacobson, a resident of Kerkhoven township, Minn., hanged herself in the barn and was not found until life was extinct. Iler son died three months ago, since when she had mourned and wept continually. George Krupt, a clerk in the Portland, Ore., postoffice, was shot three times and killed by a footpad. Krupt was on his way home and it is supposed that when ordered to throw up his hands he resisted. The murderer escaped. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president of the University of California, has received -informal itm_-from- secret . .sources.. in the Philippines to the effect that Aguinaldo is dead, and that his death occurred no less than six weeks ago. Richard Novack. 15 years old, who was recently convicted of kitting hrs playmate, Albert Olson, in Chicago, was sentenced to one year in the Pontiac reform school. Novack is said to be the youngest person ever convicted of homicide in Illinois. A. Reinheimer, a millionaire merchant tailor of Cleveland, died in terrible agony, the result of the prick of a pin. Three of Cleveland’s most prominent physicians did everything in their power to save his life, but the merchant died of blood poisoning. Mrs. Rachel A. Moores, a wealthy woftian of Texarkana, has just found $2,BUO in gold which was buried by her husband, Col. David N. Moores, in 18(1(1, on his plantation near there. Mrs. Moores says she located the treasure through a dream. Gov. Stevens of Missouri has pardoned Maude Lewis, who was sent to the penitentiary for the murder of State Senator Pete Morrissey of St. Louis. There was a petition on tile in the Governor’s office contaiiring 10,000 names of people in St. Louis and- Chicago. Mrs. Mary E. Lease, of Wichita, Kan., has changed her mind about suing her husband, Charles Learfb, for divorce. Reconcilation was brought about by their children. Mrs. Lease will shortly return to Wichita, quit politics and settle down to domestic life. Omaha is to have a new auditorium, with a capacity of seating 10,000 people. The auditorium company has concluded a deal for the purchase of a block on Howard street, between 14th and 15th streets, for a consideration of $55,000. The structure will cost $200,000. The town of Syracuse, Ind., suffered loss by fire of an entire block of business buildings. The loss is estimated between $25,060 and $30,000, with but $5,000 insurance. Syracuse has no protection against fire. A bucket brigade worked six hours to keep the flames from spreading. A Chicago Great Western passenger train was wrecked near Sargent, Minn. Two engines were pulling eight cars thirty five miles an hour and the second engine struck a defective rail and was overturned/with the baggage car. The latter was burned. Three men were injured. President A. M. Fowler of the Ray County Bank of Richmond, Mo., announced that John W. Shotwell, cashier of the bank, has been missing for several days. He added that stockholders had subscribed $21,000 to meet any shortage that may be found in the accounts of the bank.