Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1901 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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The body of L. P. Copeland, an attorney of Reno, Nev., has been found in an irrigating ditch. The Flour City National and the Security National banks of Minneapolis, Minn., have consolidated. Frank Carolan, who married Harriet Pullman, sustained a broken leg at San Mateo, Cal., while hunting. One man was burned to a crisp nnd four others seriously burned by an explosion of hot metal at the Bellevue, Ohio, steel works. The three children of 8. R. McCarty, janitor of a Kansas City office building, were burned to death in a fire that destroyed their home. Burglars blew open the safe in Barnes Brothers’ store at Stewart, Mo. They secured SI,OOO and escaped. The store building was burned. Fire which started in Pitkin & Brooks’ china and art ware store, Lake and State streets, Chicago, destroyed the building nnd contents. Loss $500,000. Before Mrs. Carrie Nation had been in Topeka two hours she engaged in a rough-and-tumble fight and was whipped by the wife of a local saloonkeeper. Sheriff James Summers of Madison County, Mont., was shot and killed near Virginia City by John Woolf, 18 years old, whom he was trying to arrest. Gov. Dockery sent a message to the Missouri Legislature advocating the passage of a law inflicting the death penalty in cases of kidnaping for ransom. Solomon Bear, who murdered his son Isaac on Aug. 6, 1900, two miles north of Churubusco, Ind., was sentenced to imprisonment for life in the Noble Circuit Court. Mrs. Catherine Wieczoreck died in St. Joseph, Mo., at the age of 105 years. She was born in German Poland, nnd up to within a few minutes of her death never suffered a moment's illness. In a decision the Ohio Supreme Court holds that the State supervisor of elections (the Secretary of State) is the final judge of all controversies arising under the election laws of the State. Mrs. Maud Lewis, nged 23 years, was . struck down by a footpad near her home in Kansas City. Her assailant escaped. She is the fourth woman seriously injured by highwaymen at night within n month. Gov. Nash of Ohio has decided to convene a court-martial to hear charges agaipst Col. Zimmerman. Maj. John C. Fulton, Assistant Surgeon William Guy Wreen and two captains of the Fifth regiment, National Guard. Martin Stickle was hanged nt Kalama, Wash., for the murder of W. B. Shn.aklin near Kelso, Mich., in 1890. He had confessed bis crime and also that he killed

Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Ktiapp Nov. 28, 1000. His motive was robbery. Chester P. Bentley, the absconding secretary of the Goldstone and other Cripple Creek gold mining companies, pleaded guilty at Colorado Springs, Cfllo., an I was sentenced to six months in the penitentiary and to pay a fine of sl. The Lake Shore Railroad is about to establish immense car and locomotive repair shops, equipped with all the requirements of modern railroading, at Collinwood, the suburban freight yards near Cleveland, at a cost of $1,000,000. Mrs. Henrietta R. Howell, wife of a wealthy Chicago lumber dealer, who was reported to have been abducted from a private sanitarium at San Francisco, has been found in a private residence, where she had wandered during the night. The first number of W. J. Bryan’s Commoner has made its appearance at Lincoln, Neb. Aside from the two columns devoted to light humor, and a limited number of extracts, the eight pages are solely the product of Mr. Bryan’s pen. ' Springfield, Ohio, somewhat of a sensation was created in police court when Judge Miller ordered all prisoners in the city prison released. He said he released them because one was allowed to get drunk and none had been required to work. An irnseriled T-nvclope containing $7,000 in checks has been recovered from the mails for its owner through the efforts of Postoftiee Inspector Sullivan of Denver. Not a check was missing when the envelope was found. The blunder was made in Leadville. The cable power house of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, at Ninth and Washington streets, Kansas City, Mo., was destroyed by fire. The loss is about $75,000 and is covered by insurance. Sixty cars and 1,200 gallons of coal oil were destroyed. Dr. William Smith, formerly first professor in the American College of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Mo., who is lecturing in Springfield. Ohio, on that science, attempted suicide while temporarily insane in his private office by the use of a hatpin. He was unsuccessful. Deputy Marshal Grant Johnson and Bunnie Mclntosh of Eufaula, I. T., two men noted for their bravery and daring iu hazardous expeditions against outlaws, made a bold dash upon the encampment of Snake’s Indians near Eufaula and captured Chitto Harjo, Crazy Snake. Randolph Willis and Thomas Taylor, both convicted of burglary and under sentence of three years in the penitentiary, escaped from the county jail at Pomeroy, Ohio. They sawed out the steel bars of their cell and dug a hole through the wall of the jail building. A smallpox epidemic is sweeping over Kansas. The State Board of Health has reports from forty localities in the State where the disease has made its appearance. The town of Agra has been quarantined, and the State Board of Health will have to quarantine a half-dozen other places. Three scars_on the forehead of Miss ■Pauline Lewolling, the second oldest daughter of the late Gov. Lewelling of Kansas, bear witness to a hazing by girls of the Wichita High School. Just when the episode occurred and the perpetrators are secrets closely guarded by the parties Concerned. Before daylight the other morning Police Sergeant James Hickman of the mounted division in St. Louis had a pistol duel with a horse thief, whom he encountered in the western city limits, and was severely wounded iu the left arm. The robber escaped, though it is thought he was badly wounded. The Rio Grande freight depot in Colorado Springs was burned. Watchman L. C. Wells was found dead in the building. lying in a pool of blood with a revolver near his right hand. It is suspected that he was killed by burglars, who fired the building. The loss on the building is estimated at $5,000. Gov. Nash has sealed the fate of Rosalyn H. Ferrell and the latter will meet his death in the electrocution chair in the Ohio penitentiary March 1. The dangers which might result from lax justice in such a murder as that committed by Ferrell were pointed out and the Governor said he would not assume.,such responsibility.