Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1901 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Wisconsin Legislature has raised the pay of its members from SSOO to SI,OOO. Men who ruined the Hendricks monument in Indianapolis have been sentenced to fine and imprisonment. Charles May, murderer of Robert Martin, a farmer of Buchanan County, Missouri, was sentenced to be hanged June 26th. ‘ The building occupied l»y the Roth-Ho-meyer Coffee Company at St. Louis was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of about $75,000. Fifty cases of black measles are reported from the village of Stonington, 111. The disease 1s epidemic and the schools are closed. The supreme council of the Order of Chosen Friends was dissolved by Judge Leathers at Indianapolis and enjoined from doing business. Armour & Co.’s beef house, one of the largest buildings at the Chicago stock yards, was partly destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of SIOO,OOO. Mrs. Jacob Heilman, wife of an Attica, Ohio, merchant, committed suicide by banging from the stairway of her home. 11l health is supposed to be the cause. The high school building, a four-story brick structure, was destroyed by fire at Oshkosh. Loss $70,000, insurance $1(1,000. The origin of the fire is unknown. Because he refused to submit to arrest while disturbing the peace a stranger, supposed to be R. W. Moss, was shot and instantly killed by a policeman at Schuyler, Neb. At Richland, S. D., Rev. A. R. Bartholomew became provoked at the pranks of a charivari party and fired, the bullet hitting Arthur Shufelt in the jaw. The young man will recover. A Great Northern express train was wrecked two miles west of Fort Benton, Mont. The engine, tender, baggage and mail cars were ditched and Engineer John Wilkinson was killed. Grant F. Woodward wnjj indicted at Kansas City, Mo., charged with attempts nt jury bribing in a street railway damage ease. He pleaded not guilty and was released on $1,500 bonds. Four children were burned to death nt the farm house of John Wortman, six miles north of Muskegon, Mich. Two of the little victims were visiting at the place when they met their death. Striking molders of the Sehikle, Harrison A Howard Iron Company engaged in a riot at the plant iu East St. Louis and in the melee Deputy Sheriff Fred C. Kaase was probably fatally injured. Whaleback barges and steamers, built at West Superior, Win., by the American Steel Barge Company before the latter concern was absorbed by the shipbuilding combine, will sail the Atlantic this summer. The body of the 0-year-old Rosenfield

boy was taken from the river near Fort Snelling, Minn. This is believed to confirm the police suspicion that William Rosen field drowned his four children and himself. i Mrs. Allan Sells Greenspan by her will gives $200,000 to the Topeka orphans' home. She disinherited her adopted son, Willie Sells, the circus num, because the latter objected to her marriage to Simon Greenspan. During a heavy thunderstorm Judge J. J. Healy was struck by lightning and instantly killed at his ranch west of Aberdeen, 8. D. Judge Healy was an intimate friend and business associate of Senator Kyle. During a fierce electrical storm lightning struck the Ozark apartment building in Chicago, injuring a score of the occupants and causing a panic among the 400 or more who occupied apartments in the big structure. A record run through Nebraska was made by the Union Pacific fast mail, which covered the 153 miles between Grand Island and Omaha in 150 minutes. The time was ten mjnutes under the best previous score. Henry M. Smith, the postmaster at Oblong, 111., committed suicide. A postoffice inspector in looking over Smith's accounts discovered a small deficit and reprimanded the postmaster, whereupon the latter ended his life. A heavy crank shaft that had been flung off a flat car and which landed on the opposite track caused the derailment of a Lake Shore train at Berea, O. The passenger engine was badly damaged, but so far as known no one was injured. Jewett, Bigelow & Brooks, a coal firm of Detroit, Mich., has purchased the property of the Tug River Coal and Coke Company, on the Norfolk and Western Railroad, in West Virginia. Included in the purchase is the entire town of Tug. In an attempt to change seats ip a crowded skiff on the Mississippi river five young men, students at a La Crosse. Wis., business college, were precipitated into the water. Peter Klauss, aged 23 years, of Wabasha, Minn., was drowned.

The directors of the American Sheet Steel Company have authorized improvements at the Aetna Standard plant at Bridgeport, Ohio, that will make it the greatest sheet mill in the world. The present plant employs about 3,500 hands. Seven persons were burned to death and seven injured, three probably fatally, in a fire in a rickety tenement-house in South Chicago. The fire department was cut off from the fire by trains on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway. Six men were buried under the falling walls of a three-story brick building at--139-141-143 Lincoln Park boulevard, Chicago. One of them may die and the others are seriously injured. The men had been employed to tear down the structure. Mrs. Alma Homsley, aged 25 years, swallowed carbolic acid with suicidal intent at the home of her father, a wealthy farmer living in the southeast part of Vernon County, Mo. Domestic trouble is supposed to have incited the act. She will die. Mobile and Ohio passenger train No. 1, south bound, ran into a work train at Fort Jefferson, ten miles south of Cairo, 111., killing Engineer Jackson of the work train and injuring Engineer Tippany of the passenger train. Both engines were wrecked. The Pacific Coast Seeded Raisin Association has been ineorporatetl with a capital of $300,000, all subscriffed. The incorporators represent five firms that sell 90 per cent of the seeded raisins produced in California and 75 per cent of the raw product. Two Northern Ohio traction ears collided at the foot ot a steep hill in Akron, Ohio, and about a dozen persons were injured. Tke two cars were loaded with passengers, and were traveling close together. For some reason the brakes on the second car failed to work. The big factory of the National Cash Register Company at Dayton, Ohio, has been shut down and 2,300 employes are out of work. A difficulty with the molders was the cause of closing. The directors announce that the works will be closed for an indefinite period. John Rasmarowski, in Chicago, has confessed that he stole from Father J. A. Badski and then set fire to the parish house of St. Hyacinth's Church. He got $65 of the priest's money. The fire was put out before much damage was done. The thief and firebug is 19 years old. One hundred and fifty men were discharged at the steel rail department of the National Steel Company’s plant in Youngstown, Ohio. It is stated that the steel rail mill now in that city will be discontinued and removed to Chicago to be added to the plant of the Illinois Steel Company. Engineer V. Coggins, one of the oldest engineers on the Santa Fe Road, was killed. He leaned out of his cab window while his train was passing Plymouth, Kan., and a Flail crane struck him upon the head, crushing in his skull and tearing a portion of the top of his head completely off.