Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1901 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

8. R. Fryer of Van Wert, who put up at a hotel in Limn, Ohio, was caught in a folding bed and fatally injured. Dr. Kodermund, who willfully exposed himself to smallpox in Appleton, Wis., has been locked up in the Milwaukee detention hospital. The Western Store Fixtures Manufacturing Association in nuuual session at Quincy, 111., decided to advance prices 5 und 10 per cent. Henry A. Everett of Cleveland and Detroit capitalists now own the controlling interest in the United Street Railway Company of Detroit. Information lias been received of an explosion in mine No. 7 in Franklin, Wash., whereby two men wero killed and several persons injured. W. L. Meredith, son of Superintendent Meredith of the government bureau of printing and engraving, has bceu confirmed as chief of police of Seattle, Wash. A heavy storm of wind and snow prevailed over lowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio on Sunday. Railway traffic was badly impeded. Walter Lehmlcko, manager of the Isaac Staples water works at Hot Springs, Ark., committed suicide there. He whs formerly register of deeds of Washington County, Minn. Fire in the business center of Beatrice, Neb., burned out lloagland's drug store and Woods' photograph gallery. Adjoining buildings were seriously threatened. Loss $30,000. Mayor Ziegenbein of St. Louis has signed the bill passed by the municipal assembly of that city for the issue of $5,000,000 of bonds for the Louisiana purchase world’s fair. A terrific explosion of natural gas 4n Cincinnati completely wrecked the house of John Loftus. Mrs. Maggie Clnry, housekeeper, was fatally burned and Mrs. Loftus prostrated. Firs destroyed the Dolphin paint and color works at Toledo aud injured the adjoining buildings. The total loss on buildings and stocks is $85,000. The cause of the firo is unknown. Tony Giovanni, a 2-year-old child, was seized and carried off by a gray eagle while playing in the yard of his home in a Denver suburb. The child was finally recovered, apparently unhurt. At Bt. Joseph. Mo., the building of the Krug Packing Company was almost entirely destroyed hy lire. President Henry Krug estimates the loss at SIOO,OOO aud states that it was fully covered hy insurance. Charles Layton, son of the president of the Commercial National Bunk of Sandusky, Ohio, recently dismissed from the position of assistant cashier of that Institution, committed suicide hy shooting himself. Th# attorneys for Captain Oberliu M. Carter, now serving n'sentence in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., for misappropriation of government funds, will appeal the case to the United States Supreme Court. All tho furnace workers In the Mahoning valley, Ohio, havo accepted a reduc-

tion of 10 cents, from $1.90 to SI.BO per day, in wages and the strike which was threatened will not occur. About 1,600 men are affected. The man who committed suicide at Carthage, Mo., and was supposed to be F. Crombie of Chicago, has been ideuti fied ns Frank 8. Converse of Milwaukee, llis body has been ordered shipped to Whitewater, AA’is., by his widow. At Kansas City tire destroyed the Coates Opera House. AValker AVhiteside and his company were playing “Heart and Sword” in the house. The theater block was a total wreck, but no one was injured. The loss is fully $150,000. The Supreme Court of lowa announced that the decision of the lower court in the Titus biennial election amendment was affirmed. This knocks out the amendment to the constitution and results in a State election being held next fall in lowa. After a careful investigation Superintendent of Schools L. 11. Jones says that Cleveland public school pupils are being made stupid by smoking cigarettes. Young boys are dull and stupid and cannot learn their lessons. Boys of 10 or 12 seem to be most seriously affected. The National Mutual Life Insurance nud the Northwestern Life Association, both having headquarters in Minneapolis, will he consolidated Feb. 21. The consolidated association will have 25,000 policy holders, $40,000,000 insurance, $700,000 annual income and SOOO,OOO of assets. The bus’ness portion of Fort Abercrombie, N. D., was destroyed by a tire which is reported to have started by au overturned lamp in a machinery house. The loss is placed at from SBO,OOO to $90,000, with less than $40,000 insurance. Eleven business houses were burned. In Detroit, Mich., fire completely gutted the building at 40 to 50 Earned street, occupied by the Dreskoli-Jupp Paper Company, nud before the firemen gained control of it spread to the plant of the Free Press Printing Company, which •suffered extensive damage. ’The loss is about $200,000. Arthur It. Barnard, the teller of Dr. Dowie’s bank, cleared up the mystery of his 1 disappearance by, voluntarily returning to Chicago. He had run away, he explained, because his fiancee, Miss Edna Pugh, had gone in company with another young man to a party to which he was not invited. Half a dozen people xvero injured by tlie explosion of u gasoline lamp that wrecked the interior of Oilinger’s barber shop in Saliua, Kan. Rev. George Caldwell, a United Brethren minister, was blown through a plate glass window*, temporarily blinded by the explosion and burned from head to foot. The Supreme'Court of Missouri ousted from office Joseph Flory, w*ho for six years had held the position of railroad and warehouse commissioner, and seated Joseph P. Rice, who was appointed last December by the then Governor, Lon ' Y. Stephens, to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Joseph Herrington. An enth*e family of five children of Mr. and Mrs. August Luepke were smothered to death by a fire in a small frame house at 420 Russell avenue, Milwaukee. The fire is supposed to have been caused by a lamp explosion, though this will never be known, ns Mrs. By water, the only person found alive in the house, was unable to speak. At Lebanon, Ohio, Dora Creager, aged 18 years, shot Charles Thompson and the wouuded man died in about two hours. The shooting was the result of a quarrel. Miss Creager attempted suicide by taking laudanum, but her life was saved by physicians. The two had been engaged for some time and their marriage was contemplated. J. C. Gilchrist of Cleveland has purchased of the AA’ilson Transit Company the follow ing vessels: The steamers AA’allula, Olympia, Sitka C., Tower and Yakima and the schooner Yukon. The deal involves $375,000. Mr. Gilchrist also purchased the steamer Charles A. Eddy from Captain Boutelle of Bay City, Mich., for $70,000. O. J. Aassen, one of the oldest farmers of Minnehaha County, 8. I)., with another man left Garretson with nMonm to drive home and later the other man drove into Baltic for a doctor, claiming that Aassen had been thrown out of the rig and hurt. AA’lien the physician arrived Aassen was dead. Sheriff Huston is investigating the mystery. Mrs. B. F. Coleman, wife of a Pennsylvania telegraph operator in Tiffin, 0., while suffering from a temporary mental aberration, left her home, walked on the ice to the middle of the Sandusky river, disrobed, pluuged over the dam, apd, after wandering about for nn hour in a nude condition, sought nud was given shelter at a near-by house. Rather than submit to hazing Claud AA\ Norton and Harry Powles, cadets at the AVeotworth Military Academy at Lexington, Mo„ ran away from that institution. They were arrested in Kansas City and will be sent back to Lexiugton. Norton and Powles said they had been hazed by their upper classmen beyond the limit of endurance. The boys are both 14 years of age.