Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1901 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Five Chinese girls were sold at auction in San Francisco by a merchant who was returning to China. Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland is said to have bought the Baker street underground line in London. Immigrant inspector seized twenty-two Japanese contract laborers and a British sloop at Waldron Island, Wash. Elmer Peterson was killed in a fire at the Comuiereial House at Kewanee, HI. Two ol).»ru are dead ami two badly hurt. The Kansas woman suffrage law will stand. Tire House judiciary committee has recommended that the repealing act be not passed. Both houses of the Oregon Legislature have passed a resolution submitting to a vote of the people an initiative and referendum amendment. Frank Kester, aged 40 years, was shot and killed nt his home in Kansas City by Policeman Silas Shumate, whom he attempted to assault. The steamer Buckeye State burned to the gunrda at Barfields Point, Ark., and is a total loss. One negro roustabout was lost, inline unknown. Mhry E. Lease has filed suit for divorce from Charles L. Lense in the District Court of Sedgwick County, Kan. The petition charges non-support. The Missouri State Federation of Labor has adopted u resolution forbidding tiie appropriation of any money by the Legislature for the State militia. At Brazil. Ind., Cynthia Rose, aged 18, while preparing breakfast, in some manner got her clothing on fire. She was so badly burned that she died in a short time. a The big barn of the Wisconsin Lakes lee Company at Third and Poplar streets, Milwaukee, was burned on n recent night. Twenty horses perished in the tlamcs. At Wichita, Kan., the county attorney has dismissed the charge against Mrs. Currie Nation. He says: "The mind of the defendant is much impaired and she is irresponsible.” Because a majority of the city council men refused to leave a revival meeting and attend the regular weekly, council meeting. S Hunter, Mayor of Hiawatha, Kan., tendered his resignation. Cush amounting to $250, a large quantity of stamps, and a baggy with a twohorse team, was the result to thieves of a rai<| on the postoffice, general store pil'd livery stable of Richwood, Mo. The new blast furnace of the American Steel and Wire Company in Cleveland was "blown in” the other day. It cost about $1,00y.000 and it has a capacity of 500 tons of Bessemer pig iron dally. The heirs of the late Samuel J. Harris

hnve Just been notified of a claim of S3OO being due him as unpaid balance on his salary, when postmaster of Columbus, Ohio, from July !, 1865, to July 1, 1860. Lawrence Copnell died at his home near St. Joseph, Mo., aged 115 years. Ji - had led an active outdoor life for more than a century. He left a numerous progeny, down to great-greatrgrandehildren. Marvin Kuhns, escaped convict, who for weeks has terrorized northern Indiana and defied the officers, is in jail in Cass County, Ind., where he made such a desperate fight for life and liberty Dec. 10. The Sandusky Furniture Company’s factory at Sandusky, Ohio, caught fire in the engine room and the establishment and contents were destroyed. The loss is estimated at $50,000, insurance about $12,000. The big safe in Harold Vegoes' store at Perth, Ind., was rent asunder by a charge of dynamite and robbed of SIOO in money mid several hundred dollars’ worth of notes and jewelry. The robbers escaped. The east end of the Ohio river bridge connecting East Liverpool, Ohio, and the town of Chester was attached to secure payment in a suit against the East Liverpool Bridge Company for SIB,OOO on a promissory note. Moses Fowler Chase, 22 years old, and heir to SSOO,(MM), is being detained in an asylum in Paris, France, and his father, a jnoniinent. lawyer of Lafayette, Ind., is taking steps to have him brought back to the I’nited States. The Kelly Nail and Iron Company of Ironton, Ohio, has declared a 50 per cent semiannual dividend. This makes 220 per cent in eighteen months. The Belfont Iron Works Company has declared a 6 per cent dividend. •‘George Alexander came to his death by having been burned by a party or part ies •unknown" wasthe substance of a verdict rendered by the coroner’s jury that sat on the ease of the negro lynched recently nt Leavenworth, Kan. Cleveland is the place and Sept. 9 the date fixed by the executive committee of the nati< tjil council of administration of the G. A. IL for the annual encampment of that organization. The encampment was to In ve Inen held in Denver, Colo. The Ohio State Board of Pardons refused bj Tiiterfeie lii tile case of Bosslyn 11. Feri ell, in the penitentiary annex under sentence to be electrocuted on March 1. Ferrell was convicted of the murder of Exp» 'ss Messenger Charles Lane. A dispatch gives meager details of the holding up of the Bank of Bristow, ln-dian-'XutriUiry,. by xmthrws, amLstates that tie president of the bank was shot five tiiiies and mortally wounded. The uddiei s got away with the bank’s cash. The State pardon board denied the application for a pardon for James H. Southall, who is serving a term in the Minnesota penitentiary for the famous government time cheek swindle, the aggregate of which was estimated at $450,000. A runaway engine in the Rock Island Railroad yards at Council Bluffs crashed into and overturned a coach on the Wabash train, killing Jesse Bell, porter, and injuring a woman passenger and two children, and then struck and disabled an engine on a Rock Island train. Disaffected Creek Indians, known as the ‘‘Snake band,” have been riding about the country west of Eufaula, I. T., Winchesters in hand, whipping and maltreating peaceful Indians. The peaceable people have applied to the United States authorities for protection. Mrs. Mamie Drungould of Joliet, 111., at the union depot, St. Paul, Minn., en route to her home, made her way to the second floor of the station, opened a window and threw herself on to the tracks below. She received injuries from which physicians say she cannot recover. A burglar ransacked the house of Cashier Fred Sfillxvagon of the City National Bank, at Niles, Ohio. He talked to Stillwagon in a jolly mood, thanking him for the plunder. He locked the inmates in a room and escaped with diamond rings, a watch and some money. There prevails in Platte County, Neb., a disease which has carried off the majority of the hogs. The loss to the farmers is placed at $500,000 in the last three or four months. Men who had 400 to 500 hogs each find themselves, now that the plague has about exhausted itself, with onl) ten or fifteen hogs. The North Ohio Traction Company,, which has just secured control of the Akron and Cuyahoga Falls rapid transit lines, will build at once nn extension from Kent to Ravenna, six miles, and another from Akron to Canton, twentytwo miles. The company will increase its capital stock to SI,(I<M),(XM). Four children of Benjamin Miller were burned to death near Middleburg, Ind. Their ages ranged from 8 to 16 years. Miller had risen early, lighted a lamp and gone to the barn. The lamp exploded, setting fire to the house. The four children burned were asleep on the second floor, and it was impossible to rescue them. The Ashland and Ironton Bridge Company and the Ironton and Kentucky Bridge Company met at Ironton, Ohio, and consolidated. The name of the new company is the Ironton and Kentucky Bridge Company, with capital stock of SI,2(M),<MM). The bridge between Ashland, Ky., and Ironton, Ohio, will cost more than SI,<MX).(.MK). Mrs. Carrie Nation, the woman who wrecked the Carey Hotel saloon in Wichita, Kan., a few weeks ago, again led a band of temperance women the other afternoon which wrecked two saloons in East Douglas avenue and were just entering the t’nrey saloon to wreck it again when the police arrived and took the women to the station.