Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1901 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Senator Ilannn has joined Memorial Post, G. A. It., of Cleveland. lowa Prohibitionists nominated a State ticket, headed by A. U. Coates for Governor. Whitten Orwin and Lofih Cisko were instantly killed by lightning near Hockstown, Ohio. Leo Lynch and Henry Krcsh, 9 years of age, were drowned iu the Kaw river at Kansas City while tishiug. John L. Jones, who shot and killed Thomas Keane at Evansville, lnd„ waa acquitted on the ground of self-defense. William I’eyaer, n young man engaged on the new Wells building in Milwaukee as a pointer, fell ten stories and came out alive. John It. Tanner, former Governor of Illinois, was attacked by heart disease and died within half an hour at a hotel in Springfield. Postmaster Lowry and son of Carter, Ok., were shot and killed by a man named Fowler. The shooting wus the outcome of an old feud. The body of Henry >1 ingot s, who shot and killed his brother-iu Jaw, Frank Grepel, in St. Paul, was found in a small lake near Rosemont, Minn. First national Bunk of Mineral Point, Wls., was blown by robbers, who secured $30,000 aud escaped without leaving a clew to their identity. Claude W t limluell, aged 32, n clothing merchant of St. Joseph, Mo., committed suicide. He left n note saying his death was due to domestic difficulties. John Miner wtis shot and killed by William Decorsey uear Couesville, Ohio. The men were intoxicated and quarreled over the possession of a bottle of whisky. Mrs. Samuel Mm honberg of Chicago, while trying to snve her 0 months old baby front flames caused by nn explosion of gasoline, was so severely burned that •he died. \V. Mahey fired the contents of a

double-barreled shotgun into the body of Homer Kein at Augusta, Ok., without any apparent cause. Keiu was fatally wounded. Johnson Haynioud, a wealthy farmer, disappeared from his home ten days ago and his body was found in the Ohio river at Procton. A bullet hole in the head indicated murder. A second attempt to wreck a passenger train on the Wabash road was mnde near Wyatt, Ind., the other night. Ties were placed on the track as they were ten days before. Two children of Julius Poss, aged 1 and 5, were burned to death at their home in the v town of Lida, Minn. They entered the barn with some matches and tiie building was ablaze a few minutes later. Richard C. Hixlop, a 13-yjjar-old *<-hoolboy, was beaten ami stabbed to death as he lay in bed in his father’s house in San Francisco. Richard Lutcbard. a Swedish butcher, is tinder arrest for the murder. For interfering with a father who was chastising his child, Benjamin Atkins, a brick mason was killed in Chicago. Daniel D. McCarthy, a saloonkeeper, is under arrest, charged with causing the death of Atkins. The National Association of PhysioMedical Physicians and Surgeons, in convention at Indianapolis, elected A. E. Gummngc of Chicago as president and voted to meet in Chicago the third Tuesday of May, 1902. During the performance of “Buckskin Bill’s” Wild West show at New Castle. Ind., Edward Wallace was stabbed to death by William Briggs fn the cooking tent where the meu were employed. Briggs escaped to the woods. The Aragon mine at Norway, Mich., has been sold by Ogelvie, Norton & Co. of Cleveland to the United States *Steel trust for $2,900,000. The Aragon is one of the older mines on the range and has an output of over 500,000 tons a season. Miss Eliza Karnes, who has been eooking in private houses lu Wichita, Kan., for the last eight years, died, an 1 in her trunk was found $5,000 in greenbacks. She was supposed to have been penniless, and always claimed to be very poor. The cause of her death is a mystery. Dr. W. T. Wallace engaged in a duel with four robbers the other night an I saved the First National Bank and the postotffie in Waverly, Ohio, front being robbed, lie exchanged shots with the burglars, and a trail of blood proves that ltis aim was good. The crooks made their escape. The aftermath of'a ball game between Cass School and Oberlin College on the college campus iu Cleveland was a ferocious scrimmage, in which both teams and 100 of their friends participated. Wilfred Alburn received a broken collar bone and black eyes and bloody noses were common. * Jacob Utters, a well-to-do livery stable man, shot Mrs. Henry Kegelmyer, a wealthy widow, at her home in Leavenworth, Kan., and then shot himself. Both are fatally wounded. The shooting was the result of a fit of jealous rage. Utters being in love with the woman, who had not returned his affection. William Park was shot and killed at Central, N. M., In the office of a justice of the peace during the preliminary examination of May Esmond, charged with a serious crime. James A. Wiley had given damaging testimony in which he used Park’s name. Park commenced shooting and Wiley dropped him. For fifteen years Mrs. Florence Bovey. wife of Prof. C. L. Bovey, superintendent of the Ostrander, Ohio, public schools, has been unable to speak. The other day she suddenly regained her voice. Her nftiiction had baffled the skill of many of the country’s best physicians, and its disappearance is as great a mystery.

The N'psbit law of Missouri providing among other things that the offense of illegal voting may be punishable by imprisonment iu the State penitentiary for any term of years in the discretion of the court, was sustained iu every point by n decision of Judges Wood and Ferris of the St. Louis criminal court sitting en banc. At Zanesville, Ohio, Judge Frazier adjudged Mayor James L. Holden guilty of contempt of court, nnd fined him S2OO and costs, nnd the six policemen who assisted in the rescue of the patrol wagon from the custody of the sheriff, who levied upon it to satisfy an execution ngainst the city, wore sentenced to pay the costs in the case against them. At Pond Creek, Ok., Bill Campbell, a negro, was lynched by a mob of 400 persons, which broke down the jail, took hint to the scene of his crime, nnd hanged him to a telegraph pole. While on the way to the place of execution the negro sang “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” and other hymns. The crime for which Campbell was hanged was the fatal shooting of Deputy Sheriff George Smith. George Greyers' jewelry store at Anderson. Ind., wns robbed of several thousand dollars’ worth of diamonds the other day at noon, when a clerk was alone in the store. Two strangers entered, and while one engaged the clerk's attention the other secured n tray of diamonds from the show window. The robbery wns not discovered until some time later, the robbers having made their escape. There were eighteen stones taken.