Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1901 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Mrs. Carrie Nation addressed the Kansas Legislature on the saloon traffic. Citizens of Topeka have organized and ordered the saloon-keepers to close up. A big fire raged in St. Cloud, Minn., Thursday night. Th* West Hotel and several other buildings were destroyed. No lives were lost. William Craswell, city auditor, shot himself in the head at Valley City, X. I)., nml is dead. Family trouble is assigned as the cause of the deed. During a quarrel Mack Smith, living near Hock Hills, Ohio, struck his brother, William, with his fist, from the effects of which the latter died. The hill providing for the restoration of capital punishment and naming electrocution ns the method passed the Colorado House on the third reading, 41 to 24. Captain James S. Dunham, probably the leading authority on matters of lake commerce in Chicago, died at his home there of angina pectoris, aged 64 years. Ceu. Benjamin M. Prentiss, the wellknown veteran of the Mexican and Civil Wars, died at his home at Bethany, Mo., after a ioug illness. lie was 81 years old. An express snfe containing $40,000 was stolen from the depot platform at Manila, lowa, while being transferred between Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul trains. C. M. Hale, grand secretary of the State Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, dropped dead while taking part in initiatory ceremonies at a Tacoma, Wash., lodge. Frederick Harvey, manager of tlu 1 system of eating-houses along the Santa Fe Itoute, died at his home in Leavenworth, Kan., of cancer, after long and painful illm-ss. Building trades lockout in Chicago, which lasted a year, has been ended by agreement reached by arbitration committees of Carpenters’ and Masters’ associations. Andrew Carnegie has agreed to give Mankato, Minn., $40,000 for a library if the city will furnish a building site anil SI,OOO perpetual income to maiutaiu the institution. Dr. C. H. Poticher committed suicide at Swanton, Neb., by taking prussic acid. He had resided there but one week. He left a note saying bis parents lived at Ureeucastle, I ml. Theodore Rosenhluh and wife nnil four children were all more or less injured by n _ natural gas explosion at their home in Canton, Ohio. A small heating stove was tint i ause of the accident. At Athens, Ohio, Mrs. Mary Roberts is dead, a daughter, Blanche, is not expected to live, while n son, O. C. Roberts, is a raving maniac, all as results of unusually severe attacks of grip. Death came suddenly to Harry Frey, a 15-year-old schoolboy while he was sitting at his desk in school at Mount Vernon, Ohio. Overindulgenee in schoolboy games Is supposed to be the cause. Frank Johnston, 60 years of age, a

gateman at the Perkins avenue crossing of the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad ip Cleveland, was killed by a thug, who also robbed him of bis month’s salary. In trying to cross a flooded creek at Otay, Cal., Paul Morton, Vice President of the Santa Fe; his wife and Miss Howard of Chicago had a harrow escape from Jieing swept down-stream and drowned. The family of Charles T. Lewis, a lawyer of Toledo, Ohio, is suffering from arsenical poisoning, attributed to canned soup. Jeannette Spark, the domestic, is dead, but the other persons affected will recover. Samuel Maxwell, the eminent Nebraska jurist and ex-Congressman, who served for twenty years as chief justice on the Nebraska Supreme Court bench, died luddenly of heart failure at Ills home In Fremont. A motor car cfashed into a sleighing party of twenty two persons in Cleveland nnd eleven were injured, but none fatally. The party had been at a dance in the countryl and were returning to their homes. Hypnotized and led to the altar by a rosy-cheeked girl of 19 years, according to his statement, John Gibbons, an aged and wealthy residcut of Minneapolis, has filed an application for divorce. Mr. Gibbons is Cl years of age. The new steamer Ventura arrived at San Francisco thirty-eight days from Philadelphia. Customs officers who visited the vessel report that four men of the engineering staff were scalded to death during the voyage! There is more shipbuilding on the Pacific coast at the present time than there is anywhere else in the United States. There is not a yard in Washingon, in Oregon or in California that has not on hand all the orders it can take care of. Mrs. Frederick Hamsch, formerly Josephine, Countess Ritter, aged 27 years, committed suicide by shooting herself at her beautiful home on Hot Springs road, El Monteeilo, Santa Barbara, Cal. The cause is suposed to have been temporary insanity. The Guggenheim block, a two-story building at the corner of Main nnd Fourth streets, Pueblo, Col., occupied by the Crews-Beggs Dry Goods Company’s big department store, was ruined by tire. The loss'is estimated $130,000; insurance, SIOO,OOO. Three masked men entered the bank at Andover, Ohio, bound the watchman, Alonzo Root, nnd blew open the safe, but were frightened away by persons attracted to the scene of the explosion. The safe was blown to pieces and the building badly wrecked. The safe in the office of the Chicago and Welston Coal Company in Chicago was broken open. \The robbers secured about ls2Oo in cash and negotiable paper valued at S3OO. They overlooked a'packnge containing $350 in bills and nearly SIO,OOO of negotiable paper. Fire destroyed the Twentieth street power-house of the Omaha Street Railway Company, nnd so seriously threatened the Methodist Hospital that- it was necessary to remove thirty patients to neighboring houses. There were uo casualties. The loss is about $50,000. More than 150 shots were fired, a sergeant of police and two negroes were wounded, and a ballot box was stolen during a riot about the Second district polling place of the Fourth Ward, at 12th and Linden streets, St. Louis, where a primary election was being conducted. News of what is proving to be übout the liveliest mining rush in Washington for two or three years comes from Keller, on the south half of the Colville reservation. The rush is to the head of Iron Creek, and was the result of the opening up of a big vein of S3OO ore there a few days ago. Underwriters aud shippers have given up all hope of seeing any of the big overdue fleet which has been so anxiously awnited at Portland, Ore. Over 230 lives and property valued at $1,200,000, it is feared, have been wiped out of existence tvitliin less than sixty days. Seven ships are given up. Col. George T. Perkins, president of the B. F. Goodrich Company, one Of the wealthiest men in Akron, Ohio, has made a formal proposition to the city offering to build and equip a public librury building costing at least $50,000, providing the city will furnish a site. The city will accept the offer. While a mob was besieging the jail at Crested Butte, Colo., and threatening to lynch George Buric he committed suicide by hanging himself to a bar in his cell with an electric light wire. Buric was arrested on a charge of having assaulted Kate Mufich, 12 years of age. He declared he was innocent. A burglar with a keg of beer on his shoulder was laid low in the snow by Mrs. Thomas Bart how ieh of Chiengo. She felled him with a stick of wood after waiting for several minutes for hini to emerge from her store. The woman shouted for help and the beaten thief was taken to the police station. The second section of Erie train No. 3 was wrecked half a mile from Wren, Ohio. An axle of the engine broke while running fifty miles an hour, and the entire train was ditched, several ears turning over on their sides. Charles Finney, fireman, jumped and was killed instantly. There were no serious injuries among the emigrants. Fire which originated in Valentine Schroeder’s candy factory ut 38 Woodward avenue, Detroit, caused $50,000 damage in this establishment and adjoiniug property before it was extinguished. The intense cold made the fire apparatus hard to handle, and before the firemen had conquered the blaze most of them were sheathed in ice.