Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1901 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The Sims glass factory at Situs, huh, was completely destroyed by fire with a loss of $35,000, Three convicts tried to escape from the Sapta Fe penitentiary and one was killed and the other two wounded. While playing in a sand bank near Durant. I. T„ five boys were buried by a cave it). Four of them are dead. Mrs. M. A. Itadcliffe of Denver. Colo., was exonerated from the suspicion of having voted illegally at the city election on April 2. The Ohio rose ten feet the other night at Marietta, Ohio, floating the houseboat of William Fafavre away, drowning him, his wife and child. The Kansas Wholesale Egg Dealers' Association has accepted a contract to ship ltW) cars of Kansas eggs to Cuba for the island trade. While ’’bucking” snowdrifts at Francis, Colo., two engines and a snow plow were burled down the mountain side by a snowslide mid four men were killed. Burglars blew open the safe in West Side office of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in Chicago and carried off S7OO in currency and checks for $Ol. At 1 ima, Ohio, Mrs. J. I). Baker and Mrs. Henry Ebbeiing were driving across the Ohio Southern tracks, where a passenger train hit them, killing them Doth. A head end collision between a passenger train and a light engine occurred oil the Florence nud Cripple Creek road near Hassell, Colo. Six persons were injured. Adjt. Gin. Oyger has decided to supply the Ohio militia with cartridges loaded with shot instead of balls to be used when the troops are called out for riot duty. An infernal machine in the shape of n tube five inches long and three inches in circumference was received in n mail pouch at Brazil, Inil. It bore no address. Fresident Charles Brown and Cashier E. L. Cunby of the failed Vancouver, Wash., bank committed suicide together rather than face charge .of a shortage of SBI,OOO. W. 11. Timmons, n traveling man whose home is in Coshocton, Ohio, committed suicide at Limn, Ohio, by taking laudanum. His wife recently sued for divorce. Harry Cain and Paul Baumgardner, 17-year-old boys, are in jail at Wilcox, Mo., charged with trying to wreck a trait), the crime being prompted by reading of trashy novels. As the result of a head-end collision between freight and construction trains on the Wheeling and Lake Erie road in tlie Cleveland yards one man was killed and several badly hurt. A snowslide carried away the bunk and hoarding house at the Alta mine, near Telluride, Colo., killing Kb'hard I’ender* gast. Ten miners who were in the tunnel had n narrow escape. Illinois Stunts Zcitutig and Chicago Freic I'rosso have combined to form a German Sunday paper, hut will retain their individuality during the week, although published in one office. *) Judge Claneey in the District Court at Butte, Mont., awarded Thomas 11. Hindi's $2151,000 for his services while receiver fur the Boston and Montuu:) Company about two years ago. Ex-Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota has cleared up over SI,OO(MXXt in thirty days In speculating hi stocks. Mr. Pettigrew is believed to have operated on advice given him by James J. Hill. The United States Court of Appeals in St. Prtul passed upon the validity of financial obligations contracted in ileai-

mg in Board of Trade options, declaring them not gambling debts, but just and collectable. William S. Unsold, aged 32, cashier of the Big Font Railway freight office at Dayton, Ohio, walked into a hair, o n and shot himself in the heart. Resuk, instant death. Drink and family troubles were the cause. Deal has been closed at Detroit for $50,000,(KX) iron and steel establishment at Sault Ste. Marie, with plants on both sides of the river, to-utilize water power and employ 10,00 ft men. American, English and Canadian capital is interested. Nina Keating, 12 years old, tried to tlroePH hersejX at Albany, Ind., upon seeing tlie* truant officer from Muncie approaching. The child was prevented, whereupon she begged for poison. The truant officer is held in terror by the children. The strike of the. coal hoisting engineers in the Massillon district, which has kept 4,000 miners idle for two weeks, ha > been settled, the engineers waiving their demand for au eight-hour workday and receiving an advance of 13 cents a day in wages. ‘ Augusta, Ohio, was almost wiped out by fire. The Eagle Hotel, the I'ottorf drug store and several dwellings and oil) it buildings were entirely consumed with most of their contents. The loss amounts to several thousand dollars, with very little insurance. Henry C. Baxter, the non-union foreman wlio shot peter It. V. Miller ns the result of a labor dispute in Chicago, was found guilty of murder and his punishment was fixed at fourteen years in the penitentiary. Baster made the plea of self-defense. Philip Gunn, who was stabbed in the heart and was made the subject of a heroic operation at the St. Louis city hospital, where Dr. 11. L. Nietert, the superintendent. sewed up the wound in the heart, is dead. Dr. Nietert took three stitches in Gunn's heart. Gobi has been discovered in S ioto County, Ohio. Workmen engaged in sinking a well on the farm of Elias Smith on the Dry Fork of Harden creek, struck a species of gold-bearing quartz and specks of gold wore thickly distributed throughout tile formation. The body of Brakemau Frank I>. Lamb was found on top of a Cincinnati, Hamilton and Indianapolis train when it reached Hamilton, Ohio. The head was crushed to a pulp. Coroner Sharkey says he may either have struck a bridge or have been murdered by tramps. The fast express train of the Choctaw, Oklahoma ami Gulf Railroad was held up by three masked bandits at Bridge Junction, Ark. It is not known what booty the robbers secured. The express messenger and porter of the train were injured while resisting the bandits. Walter Hemsley of Chicago and Mrs. Mary Rude Maginn of St. Louis were married and departed for Chicago. The bride loses a handsome- fortune by the marriage, as her first husband’s will provided that in the event of remarriage his estate was to pass into the hands of his brother. A steel tank containing 10,(MX) gallons of water and weighing over forty tons broke through the roof of the Galbraith building, comer Madison and Franklin streets, and Crashed through five floors to the basement, where the tank landed without bursting. The loss is S3S,(XX). Five persons were injured. John Berquist, an expert fresco artist of Chicago, while working on a platform thirty feet from the floor iu the First National Bank at Youngstown, Ohio, made a misstep and plunged head downward to the floor. His right shoulder was broken, and he received internal injuries that may prove fatal. The officials of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad have announced a voluntary increase in the shopmen's wages from 27 to 31 cents an hour. This increase will mean an increased outlay of from $15,000 to $20,000 a month at Parsons, Kan. The hours of employment were also increased from eight to ten.