Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1901 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

IV. J. Morgan of Milwaukee received a letter demanding S7OO if he would avert abduction of his child. O. C. Barber and 11. C. Frick are partners in a new hunk, the Columbia National, to lie started at Barberton, Ohio. By u vote of 72 to 30 the Minnesota House passed the Senate bill prohibiting the manufacture, sale or giving away of cigarettes. The State Bank of Tabor, S. I >., was entered by cracksmen, who blew the safe and wrecked the building. The loss in damage and money is $2,000. The First National Bank at Lowell, Ohio, was entered by burglars, but being discovered they escaped. Three of them were captured at Waterford. The strike of coal miners in Fremont County, Colorado, has been ended by an agreement satisfactory to both sides. About 1,500 men are affected. Mrs. Herron has secured at Algonn, lowa, a divorce from her husband. Prof. George I*. Herron, the well-known lecturer, on the ground of desertion. Thomas J. Raiusey of Sabethn, Mo., was adjudged guilty at St. Joseph, Mo., of murdering his mother to get her property and was given a life sentence. The body of Mae Comstock of Benton Hurbor, Mich., a violin student who had been missing from Chicago for two days, was found in the lake off Jackson Park. One of the car barns of the Cincinnati Traction Company wns destroyed by fire. Thirty-five street cars, valued at $2,000 each, were consumed. The totul loss was SOO,OOO. State Insurance Commissioner Vorys of Ohio has made a ruling that insurance companies cannot do health insurance in the State in connection with insurance against death and accident. John Wesley, the negro who criininally assnlilted Mim Josie Cleveland, a leading young woman of Arkadelphia, Ark., expiated his crime Saturday. The execution was public, attended by 3,000 persons. At Ouray, Colo., Dr. 11. E. Burroughs wns killed in a quarrel over medical ethics by Dr. J. Fred Clark, who accused Burroughs of being a quack. Clark was lately attached to Kush Medical College. During a fire which started in the .livery stable of C. T. Hnymau & Co. on West Seventh street, Cincinnati, six firemen were hurt, two by falling ladders and the others by brick from a falling wall. Joseph M. Bartholomew, for ten years justice of the Supreme Court of North Dakota, who retired from the bench Jnu. 1, dropped dead in front of hia residence in Bismarck while clearing snow from the walk. J. S. Ford, Johnson & Co.’s seven-story furniture warehouse in Indiana avenue, between Kith street and the Air Line tracks in Chicago, wns totally destroyed by fire that wrought damage ill the aum of $175,000. Flames that caused n spectacular scene gutted the five-story building occupied by R. Williamson & Co., wholesale dealers In gas and electric fixtures at 205 Randolph street. Chicago, and caused a lots estimated nt $(15,000. Thomas Lime, a contractor, and Hugh Sidey, a dertlst, quarreled in Sidey's office at Atchison, Kan., and blows were exchanged. Lane fiunlly struck Hitley with an ink well, crushing his skull and inflicting « fatal wound. Col. W. H. Com lis and Mrs. Sarah A. Roberts Daley were married at Denver,

Cclo. The wedding was a complete aurprlse to the friends of the couple, who were invited, not to a weding ceremony, but to a small dinner. Frank Trent, a 17-yenr-obl iuvalil hoy residing neat - Magnetic Springs, Ohio, was burned to death. His brother and sister, who were taking care of him, locked the boy in tin* hoUso find went to town to do some shopping, Dwight A. Forbes made application for o receiver for the National Investment Company of Cincinnati. The company dealt in debentures and Forbes claims the liabilities are $320,448, while the assets are only $40,000. Cashier Frank L. Stevens of the defunct Plaukinton, S. D., bank, who has been in hiding for nearly a year and a half, lias reached home. His coming is voluntary, lie is ready to stand trial and take the consequences. Nellie and Martha Moon, two young (laughters of John Moon of Laporte County, Ind., have mysteriously disappeared. Two men are also missing and the parents of the young girls fear they were kidnaped by these men. Mrs. K. T. Breeding fought a plucky battle with a big highwayman in St. Louis, and captured him. The man had snatched her purse, containing SSO. He told the police he would like to go to the penitentiary to be cured of alcoholism. Milo Gregory, convicted of killing Joseph Covert, n sawmill owner in Dunklin County, Mo., Fob. 20, 1 MOD, was- hanged at Kennctt. On the scaffold he declared the shooting of Covert was accidental, and that he was convicted on false testimony. The Edgemont distillery, lately owned by Caleb Dodsworth and Christopher >Sundhegi;-r of Cincinnati, has been acquired through coart proceedings by Mr. Sandheger, who organized the Edgemont Spring Distilling Company, with $250,000 capital. A Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern freight train struck a North Fnirmount Street car at Queen City avenue crossing, Cincinnati, killing Conductor John Seifer and fatally injuring Motonnan Jacob Teller. The ten passengers escaped with slight injuries. There is great excitement over tlie discovery of high-grade lubricating oil near Evanston, in the southwestern coiner of Wyoming. The Union Pacific, while drilling for water, struck a flow of oil, and the well has since assumed the proportions of a gusher. W. J. Fleming, manager of the George 11. Van Pelt Manufacturing Company of Chicago, was stabbed in the right shoulder by oife of three burglars whom he had discovered iu the firm's office. The men were chased several blocks by employes of the firm, but escaped. Fire, which started in the seven-story factory of Wolf, Sayer & Ileller, Wayman street and the Northwestern Railway tracks, Chicago, for a time threatened tlie entire plant. By hard work the flames were confined to the three upper floors, where the loss is estimated at $35,000. Gov. Durbin of Indiana lias issued a proclamation to the people of the State asking for aid for the destitute of Memphis. Two hundred people were rendered homeless and destitute on account of the fire, which burned fifty-five houses. The appeal is for clothing, food and money. Millions of dollars' worth of golden oranges are rotting in the packing houses and on the grounds of the groves iu southern California because of the lack of transportation facilities to move the crop. The.loss sustained by the growers already is a million dollars, and is increasing every day.