Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1901 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

| Robbers < racked the safe of a private bank in Ludlow, 111., and obtained $3,000. | Fugitive burglar jumped into the Mis I souri River at Pinton, lowa, and was 1 drowned. Congressman Babcock of Wisconsin is married to Mrs. Kate AV. King of White Plains. N. Y. New York lawyer is hunting in Kansas for Andree Boyne de Lasar, alleged rightful heir to the throne ot Servin. | Toribio Huerta was hanged at Las Cruces, N. M., for the murder of a companion whom he shot to obtain $45. While practicing for a ball game at Madera, Cal.. F. E. Kirkpatrick collided with another player and was instantly killed-. I The Rosebud mine at Aurora, Mo., , caved in nud buried live men at a depth of 110 feet aud seventy feet from the main shaft.

Mrs. Richard Grater of Cincinnati c.ilcimined her drunken husband and the person and bar of the saloonkeeper who sold him liquor. President McKinley, on his visit to Portland,<)re., May 22, will break ground for the Lewis and Clarke centennial exposition, which is to be held in 1905. The President has appointed William Grimes of Kingfisher, Oklahoma, secretary of the territory. He succeeds William M. Jenkins, recently- appointed gov- < mor. Fire at Michigan City. Ind., destroyed the dry goods store of J. J. Friedman, entailing a loss of $15,000 on stock and $5,000 on building, owned by Mrs. Minnie Leeds. Private John Armstrong Roylfe, Eightieth company, United States artillery, was blown to fragments at Fort Schuyler by the explosion of fifty pounds of dynamite. | The bank at Pioneer, Ohio, was entered by burglars. The vault was wrecked by dynamite and the sum of SI.<MM) is said to be missing. There is no due to the robbers. I During a terrific gale at Tyndall, 8. D., | the postottice building and. the store of i William Metzgar burned to the ground and the whole town was for a time I threatened. | J. L. Reread, a native of Harrisburg, I l’ii.. who had lieen in California for his health, fell from the east-botrud Santa Fc passenger train near Gallup, X. M., ami was killed. Three men died from.suffocation and ( three others were overcome and may die as a result of a tire in a building nt 25-13 Ln Salle street, Chicago. Ail of the men I were rag pickers. Dr. J. Cameron Anderson, recently appointed surgeon general of Nebraska byGovernor Dietrich, has resigned that position mid that of professor of surgery in the Omaha Medical College. | In St. Louis Fireman John Green proved himself a hero by carrying two women ' and three children down n ladder from the third story of a burning tenement at ‘ the imminent risk of his life. * | Just an hour and n half before he was to have been married to Miss Ahnn I Kienle, William 1). Bender, of St. Louis. ' took carbolic acid nt his home. No reason for the suicide is known. Harry Hammond, a tenant farmer, shot and killed Fred Bamnnn, his landlord, near Parker, S. I). The men quarreled over the boundaries of the farm, which I 1 had been changed by a rcaurvey. At Duluth, Minn., tire destroyed the building and stock of the Zenith Paper Company; causing a loss of about $50.(HMI. Tin. stock was insured for $30,000 and the building for about $15,000. Mr». Mary Vaiwppn, aged LS, n bride nf three months, <ommitted suicide at 1 oungstowti, Ohio, by swallowing an ounce of curb’dic acid. After taking the poison she informed her husband. A device for destroying iron clad battleships to be used by the submarine boats has been invented by 8. Hheckler of Wellsville, Dido, and the navnl experts who have examined it believe it will be a success. Ed Frye died nt Akron, Ohio, from wounds that he received in tin encounter

with Wardens Ruckle and Fox. Frye and Frank Wages were discovered by the wardens hi the act of netting blue gilla at Long Lake. .■ ‘ . The Unifn Club of Cleveland', whose n'h‘nibershii> comprises the weal,hit st anil midst prominent business and men of that city, has decided bo build a new club house, to cost SBOO,OOO, David I). Thompson of Chicago has been elected editor of the Northwestern Christian Advocate by the Boyk Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to succeed the late Dr. Arthur Edwards. Joseph Glenning of Chimgo committed suicide by throwing himself underneath a freight train in. the Lake Shore yards nt Collingwood. Ohio. Glenning was between (X) and 70 years old and a veteran of the Civil War. The bank of G. J, Baetke & Co,, at Brighton, Mich., was entered by thieves, who dynamited the safe and secured about $4,000. Sv much dynamite was used thnt the explosion demolished the interior of the bank. James Callahan wits acquitted nt Omaha of complicity in the Cudahy kidnaping. The juf-ors were given a bitter scoring from the bench. One reward for Pat Crowe has been withdrawn as the result ot the verdict. Adolph Jennisch, who runs a saloon and meat market in Columbus, Ohio, went on n spree, and while in a drunken stupor had a delusion that Ire was Carrie Nation and smashed his plaoe of business in pieces with a hatchet. The Chicago am] Northwestern Rail-, way Company has been sued'for $250,000 damages by forty four claimants alleged to have been injured in the wreck at Depere, Wis., June-24 of last year-on the Sangerfest excursion train.. A housemover named Owen H. Little was electrocuted at Omaha. With a companion he was endeavoring to, remove an electric wire from the roof of a house. The inhibition, was worn away nnd Bittie received a shock which killed , him. Henry Huffman, the animal trainer with the Wallace shows, was killed by Big Charley, a large elephant, while‘the beast was bathing in the Mississinewa River, east of Peru, Ind. l.ater Big Charley paid the penalty for his crime. In jail at Wichita, Kan., Mrs, Came Nation was a raving lunatic for several hours. At last her fit passed and Sheriff Simmons deemed it.advisable to accept her bond. He says she is hopelessly insane and that he is glad to get rid of her. The four story grain elevator at the northeast corner of Rockwell and West Madison streets Chicago, occupied byformer Chief of Police .1. J. Badenoeh was almost totally destroyed, with its contents. The loss is estimated at sllO,000. J. B. Hodson, head accountant of the Montana Mining Company, operating the famous Drumlommon mine,, committed suicide at Santa Barbara, Cal. Mr. Hodson had been in poor health. He leaves a wife and children at Marysville, Mont. Five miners wore killed outright, seven others were burned, and one is missing, the result of an explosion at the coal mines at Anderson, I. T., owned by the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad anil operated by the McAlester Coal Company. ) Theodore Moore, held on a charge of burglary in the county jail at Benkelman, Neb., shot Sheriff Richards and made his escape. The sheriff chased him a block and then fell front exhaustion and loss of blood. Sheriff Richards is in a precarious condition. Thomas E. Ketchum, alias “Black Jack,” the notorious outlaw who had terrorized the people of the Southwest for the last fifteen years, was hanged at Clayton, N. M., for train robbery, and his head was severed from the body by the rope as if by a guillotine. A child aged but 3 years was boiled to death at Lima, Ohio, in a kettle of boiling soap. Mrs. Peter Stoner, the mother, stepped into the house for a moment and when she returned to the yard the little boy hgd fallen into the kettle and was so badly burned that it lived only a short time.

Measles hns broken out in the Fourteenth cavalry at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and it is feared the disease will practically disable the regiment. Forty men are now in the hospital. 1,. Horn died of pneumonia. He was aged 19 rears and his home is ht Hartford City, Ind. The W. H. Ritter Lumber Company, which, it is claimed, will control the output of poplar lumber and 50 per cent of the output of white pine in the South, was organized nt Columbus. Ohio, with a capital stock of $1,000,000. The company will control 200,000 acres of timber land. Norris Humphrey, for twenty-five years a leading business man of Lincoln, Neb., committed suicide by shooting himself id the head. The death a year ago of his brother and partner brought about a receivership for the properly, and the litigation which followed, it is said, unbalanced his mind. Miss Josephine Bowen Holman of Indianapolis, a daughter of the late Justice J. A. Holman of the Indiana Supreme Court and a cousin of the late Congressman W. 8. Holman of Indiana, says that the report that site was engaged to Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless telegraphy, is true. At Anaconda, Mont., two burglars entered the ■Aliiakn saloon by forcing the main street door. Picking up n 300pound safe, they loaded it on to an express wagon standing near and, driving outside the city limits, broke the safe open with Rome primitive tools an I secured SIO,OOO in gold. A Soo line Pacific co.-ikt limited train was delayed for one hour between Harvey and Lemei't, N. D., through a peculiar elrciimsttnicc. The loss of uu hour, between these two stations, which uro only thirty-six miles apart, was caused liy Russian thistlVs that had Is-eu Idowh Up in huge idles along the track by hetwy gales. ■■■ • . -J. .ii