Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1901 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The Toledo Republican city convention nominate!] Brig. (Jen. W. V. MeSlaken for Mayor. John Bennash, who was wanted at Huron, died suddenly while under arrest at Kdgely, N. D. A boiler in tin' mill of Jacob Lindewood, at Creuzet, Ohio, exploded, instantly killing four men and iujiiriug several others. William Mitchell met William Jones iu n saloon nt Marion, Iml., and stabbed hint with a dirk. Jones expired instantly. Mitchell (led to the woods Fire at Columbus, Ohio, caused damage to tlic amount of $-.000 in the rcsidciiee of Col. James O. Neal, late consul to Liverpool aud cx-Speaker of the Ohio House. Senator Edward O. Wolcott has resigned as a inemlier of the Republican national committee front Coiorndo uiul Archie M. Stephenson has been designated as his successor. By forming a liviug chain and lowering one of their number into the lake by his heels, five hoys saved Sidney Morrison of Chicago from death by drowaing iu Lake Michigan. Rosiyn Ferrell died in the electric chair at the State penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio. His crime was the murder of Ex press Messenger Charles I.uue on the night of Aug. 10, 1000. At HoldeuviUe, I. T.. Johnson Miller, a full-blood Creek Indian, was shot to death liy a body of masked men. Miller was under arrest for the murder of Herbert McDude Dec. J Hi Inst. After holding up and robbing A. Anderson under the elevated railroad tracks at Twenty-third street, Chicago, William Tate, colored, was shot and severely wounded by Officer F. C. Rush. W. T. Bond, who served in the Philippines as a member of the First Colorado volunteers, committed suicide at. Leadvillv by drinking carbolic acid in the Episcopal Church during Lenten services. Michael O'Brien, a farmer of Mexico, Mo., arose from his bed the other night,’’ went to his smokehouse and cut his throat. No cause for his self-destruction :s known, lie leaves considerable property. Gertrude O. Ives, widow of the once noted Napoleon or flnuncc, 11. C. Ives, died iu Cincinnati recently. She was known us Miss Graham, nnd (lid not disclose her identity until shortly before her death. W. C. Clark, nged 52 years, Secretary of State of Colorado in 1878, met accidental death in the Ward block in Denver. Ha tripped while coming down the stairs nnd fell to the bottom, breaking 1 his neck. A Baltimore nnd Ohio passenger train

struck a buggy near Washington Court House, Ohio, and instantly killed Maggie Lowe and Elmer Flint. They were driving across the tracks and did not hear the train approaching. a Eight cars and a portion of the ear sheds of the Metropolitan Elevated road at Forty-sixth avenue and Harrison street, Chicago, were destroyed by fire. A watchman iu the yards discovered the blaze and turned in an alarm. Mrs. Nnny Wright, an old woman who was imprisoned at Fort Scott, Kan., for .forging pension papers, was released by order of President McKinley. Her term bad expired, but she HAS being held, for failure to pay a fine and costs. A fire which started at 5 o'd®gk i4i the evening and burned half the nighs consumed the business portion of Park River, N. D., causing a loss of over $100, : 000, with only partial insurance. The entire business center is in ashes. Iu the Missouri House a bill was passed punishing kidnaping by death or imprisonment for not less than five years ,in the penitentiary. The .Senate has passed a bill making the minimum penalty for this ciime 100 years’ imprisonment; —- Calvin Ballows, aged 43 years, an em ployc of the Tree Manufacturing Company at Greenfield, Ind., was instantly killed by the Pennsylvania mail. His home is supposed to have been in New York, where he had a son employed in a bank. Angered by her action in breaking their engagement to marry, Bpd Taylor, 23 years old, a baseball player, shot and killed Ruth Nollard, 18 years old, on a street in the heart of the business section of Kansas City. Taylor was arrested. John Kittridge and John Fields, mining engineers, were carried down Crittctidcn Momintln, Rear Eldorado, Colo., by a snow-slide. Kittridge caught hold of a stump and saved himself, but Fields was carried to the bottom of a deep gulch and killed. George W Jiin-ett ..f who killed his step-fathea with an ax during a quarrel, was set free by a justice of the peace nud no further proceedings will be taken against him. The sympathy of Columbus people is on the side of the hoy. A fire, which started in the living apartments of Warden Davis of the State penitentiary near Lincoln, Neb., destroyed the entire main building, together with the east and west eellhouses adjoining. The penitentiary building was erected in lHTti at a cost of SBOO,OOO. Fire in Alger, Smith & Co.'s mill yards at Duluth destroyed nearly $50,000 w-ortli of lumber. Fire started mysteriously in one of the piles and was confined to the yard. The loss is fully covered by insurance. The senior member of the firm is ex-Secretary of War Alger. An explosion occurred at shaft No. 3 of the J. R. Crowe Coal Company in Weir City. Kan. Two shot firers, S. B. Hatfield, single, and J. W. Watkins, married, were killed. Watkins was colored. The explosion is supposed to have been due to an accumulation of gas. Because the father of 9-year-ohl Jacob Johanson. iu Sun Francisco, believed the child told an untruth he seared his cheeks and ears and hands with a red-hot poker. Johanson was arrested by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and S-ied to justify his action by biblical authority. Four boys, inmates of the poor farm, situated near the Chicago and Alton Railway, near Marshall, Mo., conspired to wreck a passenger train. They put fish plates an«l small railroad iron on the track. The train struck the obstructions, tore boles in the ear fioor and cut the air brake. Dell Johnson, living with his pnrenia, nine miles west of Orlando, Ok., shot both his father and mother with a Winkilling them instantly. The murderer is an unmarried man about 2(1 years of age. He was adjudged insane some months ago, but was thought .to have been cured.

Fire at the Dayton, Ohio, malleable iron works destroyed the warehouse and annealing room, regarded as fireproof. The building cost $30,000 and the contents will put the loss above $50,000. Edward Clneman, colored, a watchman, was cremated ia the flames. The origiu of the fire was a gas explosion. William Herrell was married and returned with liis bride to Rocky, O. T. That night a charivari party gathered, anil some one fired a revolver. The ball passed through the side of the house and entirely through the body of George Herrell. who was asleep, killing him instantly. The youfig man was a brother of the groom. 11. J. Mayhant and A. M.. Stevenson of Denver have closed a big mining deal for sixteen gold mines located in the North Lead district, immediately north of Lead, R. D. The purchase takes ia the famous Hidden Fortune mine, the Harrison, Durango, Golden Crown and other paying properties, including the fifty-ton cyanide plant on the Golden Crown mine. The deal will call for nearly $1,000,000.