Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1901 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Will of George (J. Cannon of Utah disposes of an estate valued at $1,000,000. Six high school girls at Terre Haute have been suspended for staying away from classes to see “Sapho.’’ Steamer City of Paducah sank in the Mississippi river and twenty-five or more persons were drowned. Vessel struck a snag while leaving landing. Enthusiasm of crowd at San I.uis Obispo, Cal., to shake hands with President McKinley caused panic from which he was extricated with difficulty. Seven counts charging James Callahan, alleged to be one of the abductors of young Cudahy, with perjury on bis late trial, have been filed in Omfflia. T. S. McClindy, in a fit of insanity, shot anil killed Howard Baker, then killed himself, at Boone’s Ferry, twelve miles south of Oregon City, Ore. In Salt Lake City the north wail of the Salt Lake Theater collapsed. So far aa known no one was hurt. The building was one of the landmarks of the city. Iu Indianapolis the Appellate Court held that n railroad company cannot exempt itself from liability for negligent injury of a passenger traveling on a pass. The expected slirfke of carpenters and builders at St. Paul was nverted, an agreement being made with the Builders' Exchange. Both sides made concessions. Fire sweeping through a lumber district near Detroit caused losses aggregating SKOO,OOO. The Western Union Telegraph Company suffered to the extent of SOOO,000. Lawrence and Miller, charged with tbreo postofflec robberies in Kansas, pleaded guilty and were sentenced to four and three years' imprisonment respectively. William B. Leeds of New York, the tin plate magnate, has signified his Intention to give $33,000 to the Margnret Smith homo for aged women at Richmond, lnd. The Giia river on the Saeaton reservation, Arizona, lias gone dry nnd no grain will lie harvested by the Indians. Government aid will be required to relievo the situation. The Great Northern Railroad has filed with tho Minnesota Secretary of State the certificate of the inereaso of $25,000,000 in its capital stock. The fee paid to tho State was $13,500. Merritt Chism, wealthy fanner residing nanr Bloomington, ill., stubbed and boat his wife to death In the presence of tlie family, nnd then attempted to drown himself In a shallow well. E. 11. Metkevcr, who murdered Dorothy McKee at Long Beach. Cal., in July, 1899. was hanged at San (Jtientin prison. Mftbever wn* in love with the girl, hut she declined to marry him. Mr*. Celia MeFnddrn, wife of n Cleveland saloonkeeper, while enmning Detroit street in v tliat city, was struck by an east bound ear nnd n distance of fifty feet. Her recovery is doubtful. Charles Lott ery mid Jack Ryan, charged witlt robbing tlu» savings bank at ChaJroa, Ohio, last month, were con-

rioted of'burglary. Lowery was a member of tfie famous "Blinky” Morgan gang. w ’ A fire, believed to have been of incendiary origin, destroyed several buildings in the business section of Crested Butte, Colo., causing a loss of $50,000. The Colorado Supply Company was the heaviest loser. If it is not too hard to strike a bargain with John D. Rockefeller, Siegel, Cooper & Co. of Chicago anil New York will place a great department store similar to those the firm has in New York and Chicago in Cleveland. Charles ClabaugU and William Morrison were killed nnd John Paxton was seriously injured by an explosion at Pleasant Valley mines? near Carthage, Mo. The men were drilling and struck an unexploded shot. At I.akotn, N. D., there was n heavy fall of water which was as black as ink, and which, upon examination, was found to contain a tine, black, greasy sediment. A second shower of perfectly clear water fell later in the day. Fred Smith, son of ex-Judge Smith of Osborne County, Kansas, was shot and killed at Cleo, O. T. He began discharging a revolver in a restaurant filled with women nnd children nnd Cook Snoddy opened fire upon him. It is believed by his friends that Dr. Henry Hopkins of Kansas City is to be Dr. Carter, who resigned recently. Dr. Hopkins is a son of Mark Hopkins, who made Williams famous. At the point of a revolver Rug Bickow--Bki, a Chicago saloonkeeper, forced one of three burglars to throw up his hands and surrender. The man’s companions, however, refused to obey and ran from the saloon aud escaped. While Jacob Becker of Manitou, Colo., was viewing the ostriches on the new ostrich farm near that city, one bird plucked a four-carat diamond stud from his shirt front aud swallowed it. The stone was valued at SOSO. An attempt of the uew director of police of Detroit to quiet a curbstone orator caused a riot that lasted four hours, involving thousands of disturbers aud injury to nearly a score. Force of 300 reserves was needed to disperse the mob. A dastardly attempt was made to wreck a fast passenger train on the Wabash Railroad by placing a pile of ties across the track a mile east of Wyatt, ind. A slow freight unexpectedly preceded the flyer and the obstructions were discovered. The body of Wolf Betz of Carmi, 111., was found floating in the Wabash river near Mount Vernon, Ind. The head was crushed in and several bruises were found on the body. Betz disappeared from his home two weeks before and had $5,000 on his person. Clinton E. Worden, a porch climber anil crook of national notoriety, and Edward C. Worden were arrested in Chicago. The men confessed that they had committed burglaries in various parts of the city, and in their room was found jewelry valued at SOOO. Representatives of more than 2.500 machinists employed in Cleveland, Ohio, who are members of the International Machinists’ Association, presented printed circulars to the manufacturers asking for a nine-hour working day and 12% per cent increase in wages. Dr. Herman, colored, was fatally shot at Topeka, Kan., by the members of a vigilance committee. The trouble was the outgrowth of a scandal. Herman lived at the home of Mrs. George Hamler, whose husband died under Herman’s care several weeks ago. A report from San Francisco, where 21 of the newly appointed second lieutenants recently appeared for examination, shows that there were 19 failures, a surprisingly large number. The war department thinks that not more than half of the new appointees will get through. A horse doctor named Ziegler and George Browner were having a fight hack of Colby’s billiard hall at Fairbury, Neb., when the Rock Island switch engine, pushing a string of cars out of the way, ran over the two men, cutting off b6th of Ziegler’s feet and injuring Browuer’s right hand. Louis Deman, a member of Company D, Second United States infantry, surrendered himself to Marshal Drushall of Orrville, Ohio. Deman said he had assaulted a comrade, Daniel Ferris, with n bayonet while the latter was asleep in the barracks at Columbus, it is thought Deman is crazy. The Warren County grand Jury at Hamilton, Ohio, indicted John McClung, 70 years old, the richest man in Mason, for murder in the second degree for the killing of his wife llebeeea, who was found in bed with her skull crushed a month ago. McClung is a miser and worth SIOO,OOO. Frank Rockefeller has secured the appointment of a receiver for the Siegel Sanders Live Stock Commission Company of Kansas City, in which he is largely interested. Judge Gibson appointed Utley Wedge of Joplin, Mo., receiver, with full power to take charge of all the business and affairs of the company. .1. L. Chandler, an old resident farmer of lol.and, Oklahoma, was taken from his home the other night, presumably by cattlemen, and lynched. For some time there has been trouble between the farmery nnd the cattlemen, and a great many cattle have died from drinking poisoned water. Chandler was suspected of having been responsible for the loss.