Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1901 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Thomas M. Britton, the once famous jockey, committed suicide at a lodging house in Cincinnati. Democrats of the Second and Fourth District at Milford. Ohio, renominated Senator Frank NV. Hondebush. Edwin F. Uhl, former nmbnssador to Germany, died at his country home near Grand Rapids, Mich., after long illnesa. Distinct shocks of earthquake were felt the other night in Irquton, NVellston and other Ohio cities, but no damage was done. In the presence of his (J-yenr-old son, Frank Greipel was shot down in cold blood at St. Paul by his brother-in-law, Henry ..NI ingers. The 2-year-ohl child of Mrs. C. C. Robinson was drowned at New Paynesville, Minn., by falling into nn ice cream freexer filled with water. Dr. Eugene I). Andruss, a prominent Seattle dentist, was drowned by the overturning of a rowboat on Lake NVnshington. He was on a fishing trip with hia brother. The Alaskan, the largest merchant steamship ever built on the Pacific coast, lias been successfully launched from the yard of the Union iron works at San Fnancisco. Louis Gullott, n federal prisoner in the Ohio penitentiary, was released by pardon from President McKinley. Gallott was sent up from New Orleans for embezzlement. James Knvnnnugh, a young farmer, fatally shot Dennis McLaughlin, n neighbor, near Smartvillc, Neb. They had quarreled because Kavanaugh trespassed on the land of McLaughlin. In NVushington Park, Chicago, I.orrie Mnnduuso fatally shot Alice Cusack, a nurse girl, and killed hituself. The suicide, who never saw the girl before, is believed to have been insane. Thomas Hall, n life prisoner In the Sioux Falls. S. I)., penitentiary, who was granted a new trial by the State Supreme Court, hits barn convicted for the second time of murder and resentoneed. William Whnllen, 23 years old, was fined SSOO in police court at Kansas City for "mashing.” The complaining witness was Miss Kate Panwalter, reputed to be the handsomest shopgirl ill Kansas City. Fire partially destroyed the grain elevator in Kansas City, Kan., owned by the Armour Parking Company and operated by tlie .Merchants' Elevator Company, entailing a loss estimated at $50,000. A* the session of the Sovereign Camp,

Woodmen of the World, at Columbus, Ohio, the report of Commander Root showed that there were 129,837 members at the end of the last year, a net gain of 41,350. Blanche Reynolds, aged 7, died at Harbor Beach, Mich., as a result of a beating administered by three girl playmates-, who had a grudge against her because her parents forbade her from associating with them. Prentice Tiller aiid Edward ±’, McDowell, alias Grant, pleaded guilty at Cincinnati to the charge of robbing mail boxes and were sentenced to fire and three years respectively at haul labor in the penitentiary. A dispatch was received at the office of the Star Line Company in Detroit reporting the sinking of the fast freight steamer S. D. Ewing in the Soo river not far from Nine-Mile Point. The vessel belongs to the Corrigan fleet. A dozen sticks of dynamite and the electric apparatus for firing them were discovered in the basement of the Washington Street Chinese Theater iu San Francisco, which the presidential party had been invited to attend. The Lima, Delphos, Van Wert iftid Fort Wayne Traction Company has been incorporated by Lima and Cleveland capitalists. The line will parallel the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago brunch of the Pennsylvania system. Postmaster Struuiui of Hopkins, Mo., has telegraphed the Postoffice Department nt Washington that the safe in that postofftce was blown open the other uight and that $123 in money order funds and $45 postal funds were stolen. Scott Bell, aged US, coujmitted suicide at Brazil. 1 ml. it is claimed, because his sweetheart jilted him. He was au orphan and was reared by John Stallicup. His dead body was found banging at the end of a rope in Mr. Stallicup’s barn. President John Henry Barrows of Oberlin College states that John D. Rockefeller has offered the college $200,000 on condition” that the college raises $300,000 during the present year. Of this amount $150,000 is already pledged. —News lias been received by the steamer Monna of the wreck of the American schooner Helene Nicholson of Tacoma, bound from Apia for Sydney, on au uncharted reef about sixty-two miles from Noumea, New Caledonia. All bauds were saved. Stoutsville, Mo., was destroyed by fire the other day, causing a loss of $90,000. The heaviest losers were H. Dooley, whose loss on buildings was $75,000, and Dooley Brothers, whose stock of general merchandise, valued at $15,000, was destroyed. . Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Wells, the gypsies camped at the Midxvny at St. Paul, received by mail from Minneapolis the certificates of deposit for $3,000 of which they were robbed by a man in a buggy and a confederate. The thieves kept the S4OO in cash. Gov. La Follette of Wisconsin has signed the ice hill which imposes a tax of 10 cents on every ton of ice shipped ont of the State. The bill affects the Chicago dealers and shippers almost exclusively. It won only after n fight and by a dose vote. The project for a city water plant in Denver, for which a bond issue of $5.000,000 had been authorized after a referendum vote, was knocked out by the City Council. The contract which had been made with Eastern bankers to float the issue was annulled. A telegram from Shawnee, I. T., states that five men had been arrested there, charged with the robliery of a Choctaw express train nt Bridge Junction, Ark., a few weeks ago. The arrests were made on a description given of the robbers by Express Messenger Meador. Benwood, Ind., was visited by n fire which consumed the Jackson Coal and Mining Company’s large store and stock of general merchandise, Michael Murphy’s saloon and fixtures and Martin Moran’s house and furniture, the family barely,' escaping with their lives. The second section of west-bound Union Pacific freight train No. 11 was wrecked three miles east of Sharon Springs, Kan. The engineer and brnkenian were killed. The track for a distance of sixty feet had been washed out, and the engine and two cars went over an embankment. A stranger, aged about 45. supposed to lie John Flynn, ns he carried a pay envelope of George Fuller & Go., Pittsburg, with that name, was murdered in the house of Walter Hand, n railroad machinist at Chillicothe, Ohio. Hand jumped from a window when the police came to the house. John Fleck of Cincinnati committed suicide at the Kirk Hotel, Hamilton, 0.. by poison. Before dying he wrote a letter to his bride of two weeks, beginning: “Not dear any longer, but I shall die in the room where we spent our first day us man and wife.” Fleck was apparently insane with jealousy. Two men arc dead and three are expected to die as a result of an accident in the Bessemer department of the l National Steel Company’s plant at Youngstown, Ohio. The mishap was caused by the cover of n inummoth converter letting go and allowing thirteen tons of molten metal to flow over the mill. Fire in the Paxton Hotel, Omaha. Neb., caused a stampede among tlie guests. The damage to the hotel was slight. Duncan Waring, a Chicago art dealer, had S4<MHX> worth of pictures in a roonl next to where the fire originated and there was a scramble to save the valuable paintings. None of them was seriously injured. The home of Policeman W. J. Bruner of Akron, Ohio, was blown to atoms just before daylight the other morning. The family escaped alive as if by a miracle. The motive of the dynamiters is supposed to have been to kill Officer Bruner in revenge for his prominence in tracing recent dynamite attempts on potteries in the locality of Akron.