Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1901 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The 12-year-old son of Charles Daniels, a sawmill owner at Minerva, Ohio, was killed by falling on a revolving circular saw. The sa w mill of the Foley Bean Lumber Company at Milnea, Minn., burned. The lumber yard adjoining was saved. Loss $75,000. Apostle George (j. Cannon, for more than twenty years the betid of the Mormon Church, died in Monterey, Cal., of nervous prostration. After being closed for a decade, the famous silver mines of Tombstone, Ariz., will soon be reopened, because of the increased demand for silver. Will Black and llenry Wilson, negroes, convicted of the murder of Ivy Young near Buckner, Ark., were hanged in the jail yard at Magnolia, Ark. President McKinley has contributed $5,000 toward a fund to secure the erection of a new hotel in Canton, Ohio, and it may be named the McKinley. John P, Smith, former Mayor of Fort Worth, Texas, died the victim of knockout drops administered by unknown persons in a saloon near the Union station. St. Louis. The Atlantic limited on tlie Denver and Rio Grande Railroad collided at Eden. Colo., with a south-bound train. Three trainmen were severely injured. No passengers were hurt. In an explosion at the Santa Cruz, Cal., powder works Chester Shepard, aged 20 years, was killed and Phil Curtis severely burned. Shepard was in a large tank and was burned to death. A deed has been filed in Hamilton, 0., conveying the Albert Fisher Manufacturing Company to the American Can Company, the new trust. The consideration is understood to be $300,000. Hunt Brothers' fruit canning plant at Haywards, Cal., was destroyed by fire. The company's boarding house and eighty five cottages were also burned. The loss will exceed $125,000. The New Orleans express was wrecked near Bradley, Cal. No one was injured. Eight ears were burned, including the mail ear, two baggage ears, two staudard sleepers and three tourist coaches. The Marion State Bank at Marion Junction, S. I)., was wrecked by robbers. Owing to an overcharge the money chest was wedged and the robbers secured nothing. The bauk was fully insured. An electric ear on the high line of the Cripple Creek, Colo.. District Railway jumped the track and completely turned over at the terminal station, injuring the motorman and ten of the twenty passengers. A huge mass of snow and rock swept down from the mountain near Adelaide, Colo., on the Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad, burying a work train and killing three men and seriously injuring four others. Alexander Meßoberts, aged 7!) years, for years prominent in business circle* in northern Missouri, was found dead in the woods some distance from Graham, Mo., having been accidentally shot while quail hunting. The indictments against ten of the men who were charged with taking part in the Akron riots were dismissed. A number of the men have been convicted for other crimes and are now serving time in the penitent in ry. A new chapter was added to tlie county seat wan in Montgomery County, Mo., when tin' court house at Danville and a Part of the county records w'ere destroyed I'V lire. It is thought to lie the work of an iuceudinry. The Hammond Packing Company, with packing plants at Hammond, Ind.; kl Joseph, Mo., and South Omaha, hits decided to close its plant ah South Omaha and do nil its business from Hammond and St. Joseph, t rank B. Carroll, aged 35, committed suicide in Mansfield, Ohio, by shooting himself. A warrant had been issued for Ids nrreet for causing a disturbance at home, but when the officers arrived at the house he was dead. I>r. Fred S. Herman, his wife nod her sou, Clyde Sheeflau, by a former inar-

riage, mho were arrested Jau. 31 charged with using the mails to extort money, were found not guilty in the United States Court in Cincinnati. Disregard of orders caused a collision of two Burlington freight trains uear Omaha, in which 200 head of live stock were killed. Engineer Hoffman was severely injured and two engines and a dozen ears were demolished. Mrs. Margaret Ilossnek of ludkinola, lowa, wife of a wealthy farmer* was found guilty of the murder of her husband on tiie night of Dee. I, 1000, and sentence wrts fixed by the jury at life imprisonment in the penitentiary. St. Louis Christian Scientists, smarting under attacks from many quarters, have determined to erect a temple there in which to promulgate their doctrine. A lot has been purchase 1. It is expected to erect a building at a cost of SIOO,OOO. Fire destroyed the new plant of tiie Barnesville, Ohio, Hosiery Company, causing a loss of SOO,OOO. Just how the fire originated is a mystery. More than 100 employes are thrown out of work. It is not likely that the factory will be rebuilt. T. P. Johnson and Michael Gibbons of Cleveland, brakemen oil tile Cleveland Terminal an I Valley Railroad, received serious scalp wounds and Conductor Ed Myers and Brukcmnn William Simmons were slightly injured in a wreck at Sandy vilie, Ohio. In Detroit fire practically destroyed the plant of the United States Wood Chemical Company and caused a loss of at least $40,000 to the company. The concern manufactured umbrella handles, canes and novelties from wood pulp by a secret process. D. K. Brower, a wealthy farmer residing alone near Deshler, Ohio, was bound and tortured by three robbers and left for dead. His assailants secured only sl2. Brower is 05 years old and he may not survive the rough treatment to which he was subjected. Wabash passenger train No. 14, south bound, was wrecked at Wilcox. Mo., by running iuto-nn open switch. The engine was overturned and the mail ear thrown into the ditch. Beyond slight injuries to Engineer Rogerson and the fireman from jumping, no one was hurt. In Graham County. Kan., the dirt roof of the sod house occupied by S. Hostetter fell, killing Mrs. Ilostetter aud child and breaking Mr. Ilostetter's leg. Rain had poured down all over that section. sod houses had been soaked and all were in a dimgerons condition. Four counterfeiters were sentenced at Spokane, Wash. James Moriarity was given ten years and Mike Williams and MeC deary eight years each at hard labor in the United States penitentiary. Mrs. Ethel Wallace, the last member of the gang, was sentenced to one year. The mystery surrounding the theft of SIO,OOO in greenbacks from the Bank of Commerce of Sedalia, Mo., Aug. 1, 1898, lias beet) cleared by a convict named Freeman, now in Michigan City (Ind.) penitentiary. According to Freeman, the theft was committed by Irwin Gamble. W. B. ("arrow, a traveling representative of Bell A Co., chemists, of New York, committed suicide at the Stubbins Hotel in Indianapolis, with poison. A note found in his room read: “I go to seek the hereafter. Tell Carrie Nation that rum and cigarettes are a damnation.” While brooding over fancied injuries John Revenger, a farmer living near Steele, N. D., shot his neighbor, Nels Olsen, inflicting a serious wound. Later Revenger’s body, with the face shot away, was found on the prairie. He had committed suicide, firing a shotgun with his foe. Bert A. Cassidy, the well-known animal painter and newspaper illustrator, fatally shot himself at the editorial rooms of the Chicago Daily News. It had liecn known for some time that he was in domestic trouble, hut his attempt upon his life proved a great shock to his friends. Fri'fferiek Jordan, the pilot of thi steamship City of Rio Janeiro when that ship was sunk, was acquitted of all blame by the State board of harbor commissioners at San Francisco by a vote of 2to 1. They decided that the wreck was the result of misfortune rather than bad seamanship. Henry W. Scott, an attorney, formerly of New York City, went in a cab to the house of liis father-in-law, in Kansas City, Kan., and demanded to see his wife, who left him some time ago. Mrs. Scott refused to see her husband, who thereupon drew n revolver and fired five shots through the door, injuring no one. He was arrested. A portion of Butte, Mont., believed to embrace the larger part of the big hill upon which Nome of the Anaconda mines are located, has made a very perceptible movement soutbwestward. At the foot of the Anaconda hill the slide pushed the tracks of the street railway line about six inches for a distance of about 300 feet along the road. Rajah, the Bengal tiger which killed Neilson at Bust nek's zoo in Indianapolis a tew weeks ago and soon afterward ‘caused a panic by getting loose in the arena, lias probably added another victim to liis list in the person of Frank Rostock, Ihe zoo proprietor. Even if Bostock's injuries should not prove fatal he will be crippled for life as a result of a desperate encounter with the beast on Friday.