Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1901 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Congressman S. 11. Peters of Kansas is said to have been selected as pension commissioner. Mike Hess, a farmer at Hastings, Neb., was swindled out of $2,500 by two confidence men. Two trainmen were killed and four Injured by a collision of Santa Fe trains at Williams, Arizona. A jury at Omaha has returned a verdict for $545,947 against the bondsmen of J. G. Bartley, defaulting Stafb Treasurer. John F. Dupont, n prominent young man of St. Joseph, Mo., was drowned while bathing at Lake Contrary, near St. Joseph, Mo. Complainants against Harlem Jockey Chib in Chicago secured a temporary injunction restraining the making and registering of bets. County Judge Vinsonhaler of Omaha has held James Callahan, charged with perjury, for trial in the District Court and fixed his bail at $1,500. Near Bellaire, Ohio, the three young sons of Lawrence O..Mellott were carried away by the water in Captina creek in a cloudburst and drowned. Seventeen persons were injured, some of them seriously, by the sudden collapse of a grand stand on the grounds of the Chicago Normal School, Normal Park, Chicago, Indictments have been returned against Lant Salsbury, city attorney of Grand Rapids, Mich., and four others accused of bribery in connection with the water works deal. John A. Tuttle, a prominent railroad man, shot and killed himself at Hutchinson, Kan. He left a number of letters in which he gave fear of blindness as the cause of his deed. It is announced that the separate maintenance suit of Mrs. Clara Newberry against her husband, in Sandusky, Ohio, will be dismissed, a family council having settled the trouble. In Kansas City Mrs. Lulu Prince Kennedy was found guilty of murder in the second degree by the jury trying her case. Her punishment was fixed at ten years in the penitentiary. Julius C. Benton, a well-to-do stockman, shot and killed his wife and then killed himself nt Denver, Colo. Mrs. Benton was a daughter of former Stats Auditor John W. Lowell. Wholesale frauds have been discovered in quartermaster and commissary departments at San Francisco. Collusion between prominent nrmy officers is charged. The government loss is heavy. Ben Cravens and a companion blew open the safe in the Santa Fe depot at Coyle, Ok., with dynamite, securing sl,500, and escaped. The safe and part of the building was wrecked. Commander B. F. Tilly of the United States navy was kidnaped in San Francisco by two thugs who gave him knockout drops and left him iu an insensible condition near the sea wall, where he was found. Mrs. Lilia Pratt of Edtnomfs, Idaho, was killed nnd Miss Lncns, daughter of Bishop Lucas, seriously injured in a runaway accident while the two young women and Bishop Lucas were returning from a drive. “Jack” Smith, n former member of the Seventeenth United States infantry, leaped from a Big Four bridge at Columbus, Ohio, Into the Scioto river, a distance of sixty-two feet, and rescued two men from drowning. George Baird, local cashier for the New York Life Insurance Company, committed suicide by inhaling illuminating gas in Ms room in Cleveland. Officials of the insurance company say that so far

as now known Baird’s accounts are all right. Mrs. Anna Chapman, a member of the Eugenie Blair Dramatic Company, playing a summer season at the Lyceum Theater in Cleveland, fell through a trap door while crossing the stage behind the scenes and sustained a fracture of the skull. Beneea W. Hazard, city passenger agent of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway, was found hanging to a rafter in the basement of the city ticket office at Des Moines. It is manifestly a case of suicide, though no possible motive is known. Fire destroyed the Mineral Springs Hotel at West Baden, Ind., and drove ithe 225 guests and employes out of the building in their night clothes. Not a life was lost and no one was badly injured. The loss is $500,000, with SIOO,OOO insurance. George H. Phillips, the Chicago corn operator, was given a banquet by National Grain Growers’ Association at Minneapolis. In a speech he advocated the establishment at Chicago of immense government granaries and a $30,000,000 farmers’ bank. The Dwyer Bros. Mercantile Company, wholesale dealers in department store supplies, made an assignment at St. Louis for the benefit of creditors. The assets of the assignor, Consisting of merchandise and accounts, amount to $375,000. The liabilities amount to $225,000. The locomotive on a Union Pacific freight train blew up near Clarks, Neb. Engineer Charles Fulmer of Council Bluffs and Fireman Daid Jenkins of Omaha were killed. Brakeman William Fleming of Omaha was scalded, internally injured, ankle broken and will die. Frederick G. Roelker, one of the bestknown members of the Cincinnati bar, was found in his bedroom with a bullet in his brain. The first impression was that it was a case of suicide, but the family physician after an examination stated that the shooting was accidental. Adelarro Joyal, a Canadian Frenchman, who recently commenced a divorce suit at St. Cloud, Minn., against his wife, nearly succeeded in an attempt to kill her, shooting her ten times. However, the doctor says she may recover. Joyal is iu jail. Jealousy was the cause of his crime. Reports have been received that during the recent storm in Redwood County, Minn., the new granary of Fred Schulz, In Waterbury township, in which a large party of young people were enjoying a social dance, was demolished. The storm carried away the granary and five of the dancers were badly injured. Three men—Harry Simmington, Stacey and Givens—held In the county jail at Fort Morgan on a charge of burglary, with the aid of confederates on the outside. sawed their way out. As they were leaving the jail they were discovered by Sheriff Calvert, who tried to stop them and was shot through the abdomen by Simmington. Reports of troubles with the Indians near Fort Washakie, Wyo., are unfounded. Col. Jesse M. Lee, commandant at Fort Leavenworth, f.sserts that the Indians have made complaint that the agent has not given them sufficient seed grain to plant and thereby raise their crops, but thia is found to be simply a complaint. The family of John B. Poirier, residing six miles west of Blue Earth, Minn., was attacked by Charles Simon, supposed to be a maniac. Sophy Poirier, the 17-year-old daughter, was fatally stabbed, and Poirier was badly cut before he succeeded in disarming his assailant. Simon was armed with a knife and a sharppqinted iron rod eighteen inches long. This he drove through the body of the girl. Simon was arrested. He has worked in the vicinity, but was a stranger to the family of his victims.