Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1901 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Lewis iSiusou I'iske. I>. D„ I.L. D„ president of Albion College, Michigan, is dead, aged 75. Northern Pacific freight train ran away down a mountain nt Butte, Mont., and a hrakeman was-tilled. John Julian,, who robbed a saloon in Kansas City, after locking the proprietor in an ice chest, was .sentenced to forty years in the penitentiary. 11. P. Packard of ltedfield, S. D., is shut out from his home because of smallpox. The city is quarantined and no one is allowed to enter or leave. The will of the late Frederick Harvey of Santa Fe eating house fame was filed for probate at Leuven worth, Kan. The estate is valued at $1,100,000. George Fowler, Son & Co., to build stock yards for the Company's exclusive use, in connection with its packing plant in’Kansas City. Judge Fursman’s ruling in the Kennedy murder case, barring the testimony of handwriting experts, is likely to destroy the State's case against Molineux. In the Nevada State Senate a concurrent resolution known as the lottery bill, which passed both houses two years ago, was defeated, .‘1 for anil 10 against. Pretty Pearl Wcidtnan of Cleveland married William A. Kurtz, and when her father and mother found it out they formally announced that they disowned her. The Toledo Southern Railroad Company of Toledo, Ohio, was incorporated with $25,000 capital. It proposes to build an electric railway from Toledo to Dayton. Mrs. Lulu Prince Kennedy, who shot her husband, Philip 11. Kennedy, in Kansas City on Jan. 10, has been indicted by the grand jury for murder in the first degree. Herbert A. Wright, the broker, acting lor himself and two or three others, has purchased the majority of the stock of the Wick Bunking Company in Cleveland. Maurice Thompson, the author, died at Crawfordavllle, Ind., nfter an illness of many weeks. He had been kept alive for several days by the use of stimulants. \\ bile nt work in the village well at Bisvabik, Minn., three men were caught by a cuve-in. Two men were saved, but James O’Laughlin is buried under twelve feet of dirt and is dead. Alton It. Dalrymple, a millionaire, who, with his brother, Oliver A. Dalrymple, owned and operated the "Bonanza” wheat farm in North Dukota, died at bis residence in St. Paul, Minn. At Logan, Ivan., Joseph R. Hinton, aged 22 years, a rejected suitor, shot Maggie Shurtz, aged 17, and then himself. Both will die. Hinton hud previously threatened to kill the girl. At Arkansas City, Kan., seventy-five men armed with axes and hatchets and headed by the ministers of the city went to n saloon called the "Last Chance” nnd destroyed it after the manner of Mrs. Nutiou. Cnpt. Ernest Penguet, GO years old, a St. Louis millionaire, has announced his engagement to Miss AU-xina ’ Louise Green leaf, aged 27, stenographer in the Boatmen's Bank. Miss (Jreenlcnf is nn orphan. Mrs. Mary Walton, a wealthy widow of Appleton, Wis., nnd John G. Holmes, a former clerk in her employ, were secretly married In Denver, Colo., on Feb. N. Mrs. Walton is much older than the young man. In Cincinnati Judge Hollister granted a permanent injunction against the Jef* fries-Ituhllii prize fight. The promoters postponed the event until after they enn carry the ease to the Circuit nnd Supremo Courts. rho most disastrous fire for years wiped out the wholesale houses of Johu A. Haynes, Lewis & Co. and William Lonergan, the Bujletin building nnd office and several other concerns at Cairo, 111. Loss SIOO,OOO. Gilbert Ashville Pierce, former territorial governor of Dakota uud United States Senator from North Dakota, a veteran newspaper num, died at the Lexington Hotel in Chicago, after an illhess of several weeks. Tha executive committee of the I’res-

byterian 30beolog:cal Seminary has purchased a six-acre tract in KotinUc place, located in the northern part of dmaha, and will commence work at once on the aeminary buildings. John Day, Robert M. Haley and James Fitzgerald, the Shnnesville bank, robbers, were sentenced by Judge Sbotwell at Canal Dover, Ohio.i The first-named got nine years and the other two ten years in the penitentiary. Day pleaded guilty. At Lafayette, Ind., a serious coasting accident occurred, In which many were injured. To avert a collision with a bobsled, an attempt was made to turn a coruer, and the rack run' into a tree. Three women and two men were painfully hurt. J. Ogden Armour of Chicago and his associates have just completed another gigantic'deal by which the Fruit .Growers’ Express, otherwise known as the Armour ear line; succeeds to a monopoly of the refrigerator car business in California. v All accident occurred to the east-bound train on the Central Pacific near Mills City, Xev., which resulted in killing three passenger s and seriously injuring several train men. The train run into a washedout culvert and one sleeper was teleseoped. In Kansas-City Fay Doyle, aged 28 years, a son of Dr. T. Doyle, was shot with a revolver in the hands of Catherine Davis, who says she is a professional nurse, lie is seriously wounded. The woman says it was accidental. They had quarreled. News from Canyon City saya the greatest snowstorm ever known in the Texas panhandle has ended. The snow is two feet deep on the level in Randall, Swisher, Briscoe nnd adjoining counties. There is heavy damage'to cattle and general ranch'interests. Robbers wrecked the Grenola, Kan., State Bank with dynamite in an nttempt to rob it. The vault and front of the building were ruined and the furniture and fixtures were blown to atoms. The robbers were scared away before they could open the safe. Thirty passengers in a street car coming to Cincinnati from Dayton, Ivy., were carried down a fifty-foot embankment into the bed of a small stream on the Kentucky side of the river, and only one of the number escaped injury. At the same time not one of the number was killed. Ex-Captain Oberlin M. Carter, U. S. A., serving a sentence in the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth for defrauding the government on harbor contracts, suffered another defeat in Uis attempt to secure his freedom. Judge Hook in the United. States District Court refused to release the prisoner on bail. Hall Frampton, a colored man at Nebraska City, Neb., quarreled with his wife and attempted to kill her. His stepdaughter, aged 15, took the part of her mother, when Frampton turned on her, seized a shotgun, chased her a block, shot iter in the head and then beat her brains out with the stock of the weapon. A diamond sunburst brooch valued at SBOO was obtained from the jewelry store of Merrick, Walsh A Phelps at St. Louis, and Chief of Detectives Desmond's men are now engaged in searching for the boldest diamond manipulators who ever operated in St. Louis. The swindler passed himself off as William J. Letup, Jr. Judge Munger of the Federal Court at Lincoln, Neb., acted favorably on an application made by J. W. Coffin and other stockholders of the Nebraska T.oan and Trust Company of Hastings, Neb., for a receivership for the company. James M. Clark of Hastings, a former president of the company, was named as receiver. One of the most daring railroad robberies that has occurred for some time took place in a Pullman ear on the Oregon express train out of San Francisco. The wife of F. H. Osgood, president of the Seattle and Kenton Railroad, was robbed of diamonds nnd jewelry worth $3,000, which was in a hag suspended from her neck. 11. Wise of New York, president of the Union Irou and Lead Company, is about to make contracts for the building of an immense concentrating nnd smelting plant at Irondale, Mo., where the Irondale Lend Company, in which the Union Iron and .Lead Company is interested, has valuable properties, which %ill be worked for lend. The State Bank at Phillips, Neb., was entered by robbers, who secured from SI,OOO to $1,300 and escaped. The men were noisy and reckless in their work, breaking in the door of the bank with a sledge hammer. This awoke many citizens nnd the party was seen to have been composed of at least three men and possibly four. The safe wae demolished toinpletely with nitroglycerin. As the robbers left the station agent fired at them three times ami they returned the shots.