Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1901 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Milwaukee has been defrauded of from $20,000 to SIOO,OOO by forged certificates. The Detroit United Railway has purchased the Wyandotte and Detroit River Electric Railway. '‘Calamity June,” the famous Indian lighter and scout, lias been admitted to the poorhouse at Butte, Mont. M ill L. Wood, traveling salesman for suicide at a hotel in Parsons, Kan. A. M. Ilartle died at Marseilles, Ohio, and shortly after the funeral his widow, who was prostrated by grief, died. Theodore Olsen, a wealthy manufacturer of staves at Helena, Ark., was shot and killed by Bailey Judge, a young man in his employ. The long overdue ship Otto Geldemeister was towed into port at San Diego, Cal., by tiie steamer Nome City. She was entirely dismasted. Marsh Lindsay has been arrested at Fostoria, Ohio, charged with complicity in the murder of W. C. Johnson, a wealthy celery raiser, last September. The I sidy of William Ashurst, a prominent cattle man of northern Arizona, was found in the Grand Canyon of Colorado. pinioned to the ground by a rock. Mrs. Rose Wurzer, a widow, in a fit of insanity drowned her six children, aged 4 to 12 years, at Uuiontown, Wash. She threw them into a well thirty feet deep. Seven three-story brick buildings in the business center of llrbuna, Ohio, were totally destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of SIOO,OOO. The origin of the tire is unknown. The Citizens' Rank at Lucygne, Kan., was closed by Bank Examiner Waterman. who has taken charge. The capital is s2o,tH>o. R. N. Turner, the bank's cashier, is missing. The long senatorial deadlock in Oregon was broken by the election of John 11. Mitchell, who already has represented the State for three terms in the upper branch of Congress. Gov. Stanley of Kansas has signed the Hurrel temperance bill, which makes places where liquor is sold common nuisances and allows the county officers to confiscate the illegal stock. The llenrer Senate has passed the BucUlin lull providing for the submission of a constitutional amendment to permit the introduction of the Australian land tax system in Colorado. Captain Roblcy I), Evans, who commanded the lowa in tiie battle of Santiago, was presented with a magnificent jeweled sword by the Chamber of Commerce of Des Moines, lowa. Robert Burns was arrested at Lancaster. Ohio, on the charge of manslaughter. William Southern died from being knockedvdtnvn by Burns' fist in an altercation. Southern's home was in New Jersey. The new union depot building at Fort Worth. Texas, erected jointly by the Santa Fe and Houston and Texas Central railroads, at a rest of $50,000, burned. It will be reconstructed at once. Union carpenters of St. Joseph, Mo.,

gained a victory in their demands from the contractors. The minimum wage scale per hour is tr, be 30 cents and eight hours is to be considered a day’s work. Mrs. Louise Dryfoos, wife.of.L. Pryfoos, a well-known wholesale liquor dealer of .Seattle, Wash., committed suicide by shooting herself with a revolver. It is thought her mind wus affected by illness. A mob of eight determined men took Peter Berryman, desperate uegro, out of the city jail at Mena, Ark., aud hanged him to a tree. The crime for which Berryman was hanged was an assault on a 12-.vear-old girl. August Koerwitz, a German farmer living north of Deshler, Neb., broke his neck while kicking nt a vicious dog. The ground was icy, and Koerwitz slipped and fell backward, breaking his neck. He died instantly. Marshall Field & Co. of Chicago have decided to incorporate their business and have applied for the necessary papers. The firm name and ownership will remain the same. The capital stock will be $(1,000,000. The postofllec at Amboy, lud., was robbed, the amount secured being estimated at about S3OO in money, stamps valued nt about SIOO and money orders. The large safe was completely wrecked by the use of dynifmite. In scanty attire tile guests of the Hotel Western, at Marion, Ohio, escaped from the building to escape the flames. The loss oft the building was small. Fire Chief Knapp fell down a stairway, receiving serious injuries. A ear of the Bellaire )i)id Wheeling electric line containing thirteen passengers, was struck by a Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling freight train nt n grade crossing in Bridgeport, Ohio, and several persons were seriously injured. The steamer llio de Janeiro, Captain Ward, from the Orient and Honolulu, struck on a rock just outside the Golden Gate entrance to San Francisco harbor aud sunk in twenty minutes. A large number of people were drowned. A break in a water pipe on the third floor of the postoffice building at East Liverpool, Ohio, flooded the building, destroying a quantity of mail, 3,000 postal cards and several thousand stamped envelopes. The loss will be heavy; ~ The mica industry of the southern Black Hitts is rapidly assuming considerable importance. The Black Hills mica is not as a usual thing very clear, but it is free from iron, which makes it of especial value for all electrical purposes. Iladeu's opera house was destroyed by fire at Columbia, Mo. The fire was caused by a defective furnace and started while a matinee per form a nee was in progress. The audience was largely composed of children, but all escaped injury. Thomas 11. McLean, general manager of the Toledo,Traction Company and one of the best known street railway men in the country, made an attempt at Toledd, Ohio, to end his life by cutting his throat. Mr. McLean has been in ill health for several months. Miss Via Lewis, u pretty young society woman of Findlay, Ohio, died ns Abe result of an operation for tonsilitis. The surgeon's instrument slipped, severing an artery, and before the surgeon knew the result .of his error she was dying. She died in twenty minutes. The Clatsop lumber mill at Astoria, Ore., has l>eeii burned. ’The fire.originated in the engine room and spread so rapidly that the men hardly got out of the .building in time to save their lives. Five schooner-loading sheds were destroyed. The loss is estimated at S7S,(XX). At Fergus Falls, Minn., Captain IL H. Freeman died suddenly of apoplexy, following as a result of excitement in assisting a school teacher to remove from her room an unruly 13-year-old boy named Simeon Furgerson, who will probably go to the reform farm as a result.