Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1901 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Chief of Police McFarland of Kansas City, Kan., has offered u reward of $25 for every footpud or thug killed by a citizen. Artist Zorn has compelled H. Clay Pierce of St. Louis to pay $12,000 for three portraits, $1,200 interest and the court costs. The tire in the Cowenhuven tunnel, near the Smuggler mine at Aspen, Colo., was put out with small loss. The Smuggler sustained no damage. The Attorney General of Ohio brought suit against the Cincinnati Edison Electric Company to test the validity of perpetual franchises in that State. The main boiler of the Bedard Morency Mill Company’s sash and door factory at Oak Park, 111., exploded. The building was wrecked and three men were fatally injured. At . Lima, Ohio. Mrs. Fielding Hall, while preparing the supper, was taken with a lit ami fell across the stove. Her clothing took tire and she was found roasted to death shortly afterward. In Princeton, Ind., Joseph D. Keith has been sentenced to death for the murder of Norn Kifer. The verdict was brought into court after the jurors had had the case for three and one-half hours. At St. Cluirsville, Ohio, Barney Devine was found guilty of the murder of Clarence Warrick with a recommendation of mercy. The verdict sends Devine to the penitentiary for life, without hope of pardon. 1 he secund trial of, Jessie Morrison for the murder of Mrs. Olin Castle will be held at the March term of court iu Eldorado, Kan. The district judge has formally assigned the case to a place on tin- docket. Au all day riot in Wichita. Kan., following rhe throwing of a motorman off his car by hoodlump, terminated in a sixhnnded shooting affray in which several people were injured. Seventeen arrests were made. Philip H. Kennedy, agent for the Merchants’ Dispatch Transportation Company, was shot four times and killed by his wife, Lulu K. Kennedy, nt his office in the New Ridge building, in the heart of Kansas City. The business of the Denton Shoe Company, manufacturers of boots and shoes, at Columbus, Ohio, bus been placed in the hands of Hiram Bronson aa receiver. A suit to enforce the statutory liability of the stockholders has been filed, Jamie Cratx, (J years old, coasted over the brow Of the west bluffs at Tenth street, near the Union depot in Kansas City, and went down a sheer fifty feet before striking. He sustained a fracture of the skull, but may recover.Five persons were killed and scores injured in a panic folloU-ing a cry of “Fire” in the West Twelfth Street Turner Hull, in Chicago. A Yiddish play was in progress and an audience of 1,000 persons, mostly women and children, was present. The postoffice at Kingston, HL, was broken into by burglars and all the

stamp* and envelopes taken, S3O or S4O being secured byithe thieves. Entrance w*s gained a back window. A number of letters were rifled, and th* contents stolen. A new town to be known as National Point is being laid out in Greene County, Arkansas, by Chicago capitalists. The town is on the site of the mammoth box factory which is being erected by the Chicago Box Company to fight the box trust. Alice Wilson, 7 years old, has been returned to her poverty-stricken parent* in Detroit, Mich., almost as mysteriously as she was kidnaped one July morning in 1890, while playing with her older sister. A strange man brought her home and escaped without being seen. The grand jury at MeConnellsville, 0., indicted Walter Weinstock for assaulting Nellie Morris with a razor. Miss Morris is recovering and, now that there is no doubt about a speedy trial, the talk of lynching is no longer heard. Weinstock is held in jail there without bail. On the trail between Ouray, Colo., and the revenue tunnel a party of miners discovered the legs of a horse sticking out of the snow near the edge of a precipice. The dead animal was found saddled and bridled, showing that its rider had been carried over the cliff by a snowslide. Impressed by alleged* spiritual manifestations, Dr. C. Townsend of Madison, Ind., took a lamp and explored his cellar, uncovering a will made twenty years ago by his deceased wife giving him the bulk of valuable property which went to his children in the absence of a will. It is a court sensation. Five masked burglars robbed the farm house of Henry Stroke; - , near Versailles, Ohio, of SBSO. Mr. and Mrs. Stroke! - and their son, Grant, were bound and gagged till they told where the safe was in which the money was kept. Besides the money the robbers stole jewelry and horses and then escaped. Alarming stories to the effect that kidnapers had tried to burn E. A. Cudahy’s mansion were circulated in Omaha as the result of a small blaze in the basement of the building. Mr. Cudahy denies liimself to all callers, but the fire department reports combustion” as the cause of the fifteen-minutes fire. Judge A. R. Dewey of the sixth judicial district of lowa ruled to set aside the Titus amendment relating to biennial State elections, on the ground that it was not legally submitted to the Legislature, und was not legally adopted, and is now no part of the constitution of lowa. , The plant of Der Westbote Printing Company at Columbus,. Ohio, has been sold, the sale including the property and good will of the newspaper, to Charles A. Kochendorfer for $8,025. The property was involved in tin - failure of John and He.nry Reinhardt, bankers and publishers, and Was sold by the receivers. Alice Smith, a waitress, was seized in Hennepin avenue, .Minneapolis, while on her way to work by an unknown man. who attempted to carry her off. He had gone about two blocks with the struggling girl in his arms before her cries brought assistance. The kidnaper then set her down and fled. She was unhurt. Mrs. Mathilda Helstrom, wife of a janitor in a Minneapolis flat building, rose early the other morning and with a bottle struck her lli-year-old daughter Alice a mortal blow in the temple. The two were sleeping together. The girl died almost instantly. As the two were greatly attached to each other it is believed that the mother is insane. Two hundred girls participated in. a class rush at Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio. The trouble was precipitated by a junior girl wearing a senior cap and gown in chapel. A lively struggle between rival class girls for possession of the cap and gown ensued, but was soon stopped by President Bashford and members of the faculty.