Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1901 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Charles Madre, a civil engineer, was killed by the cars at Watauga, Ok. Prof. Riggs of the Field Museum of Chicago has found the skeleton of a dinosaur in Colorado. Gov. Nash refused to interfere with the death sentence of Edward Ruthven, the Cleveland, Ohio, murderer. Seven persons were killed by a tornado in northern Nebraska, five of them being members of one family living near Naper. Four were fatally injured. The Nebraska Supreme Court declares that the liability of a railroad company is the same to a man -riding on a pass as to one who purchases a ticket. While swimming in a slough near Sutter City, Cal., three boys, Elmer and Wallace Larue, aged 9 and 11, and Geo. Clements, aged 9, were drowned. At Frankton, Ind., Albert Towne fatally shot Mrs. William Granger and then fired a bullet into his own brain. The tragedy occurred at Mrs. Granger's home. The business portion of Scott, Ohio, was destroyed by fire. Van Wert was asked for assistance, but before an engine could be sent the fire was under control. During nn electrical storm a 35,000barrel oil tank in the Wood County, Ohio, eil field, belonging to the Standard Oil Company, was struck by lightning, entailing a loss of $40,000. The boiler of a Chicago and Alton locomotive pulling a passenger train exploded at Blue Out, Mo., killiug the engineer, George Gerew, and fatally injuring the fireman, Julius Crowley. Dr. Ira A. Priest, president of Buchtei College nt Akron, Ohio, has resigned. He refuses to give reasons for his action, but is understood to be dissatisfied with conditions generally at the college. A twenty-months-old child, inemlter of a family named Neese, living near Plankinton, 8. D., while playing on a bench fell off into a pail containing about two inches of milk and was drowned. Fire at the sawmill of the Tower Lumber Company, near Bear Lake, Minn., destroyed alwut $150,090 worth of lumber, the bulk of which belonged to Paepcke. Leiebt & Co. of Chicago. ■ Dr. Victor Popper committed suicide at San Francisco after being arrested on the charge of having caused the death of Miss Violet Vanornuni of Chico, who had just died at the receiving hospital. Robert Waddell won the American Derby from a good field. The Parader was the only Eastern horse to show. Bullman on the winner rode a waiting race aud was cheered for his masterful effort. John W. Cookman, who in March killed Jesse Mcßride, a neighboring farmer, near Dresden, Mo., vtas found guilty of murder in the second degree and given a sentence of thirteen years in the penitentiary. Thousands of people, men, women nnd children, camping on the borders of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache reservations in Oklahoma awaiting the opening of that land to settlement are iu destitute circumstances. Fire destroyed lumber worth $200,000 at the Bear Head Lake yard of the

Tower Lumber Company, twelve miles north of Tower, Minn. Nearly all of it belonged to the Paepke-Leicht Company of' Chicago. At Staples, Minn., during the evening performance of Berwick’s circus the brother of the proprietor, who was acting as clown, dropped dead while on his way to the dressing room. Heart failure was the cause. Driven to despair by jealousy, William Tllott, 29, shot "his wife and John (Jlancy, 21, whom he found with her at the Great Western Hotel, Cincinnati. Mott gave himself up and said he hoped he had killed Clancy. Two prisoners who escaped from Fort Snelling grabbed a woman and used her as a shield to prevent their pursuers from firing on them as they crossed the bridge over the river,/ They were recaptured after a long chase. George D. Herron no longer has any church standing in lowa. The Congregational Church of Grinnell, by a unanimous vote, decided to ulrap the_.name of the former professor of applied Chris-'' tianity from its rolls. A fatal shooting occurred at Jagger's ranch, near Horse Prairie, Mont. Sam Moore and William McKenzie quarreled over a horse and Moore began shooting as McKenzie made for his rifle. Two shots hit McKenzie, who died. Because Joseph McSparren, aged 19, would not apologize for remarks alleged to have been made about C.'E. Anderson's wife, the two men came to blows at Richmond, and Anderson bit off two fingers of McSparren and nn ear. The first load of new Kansas wheat was marketed at Winfield. It was soft wheat, tested sixty-two pounds and sold for 65 cents. The millers say that the wheat in that section will be better and the yield larger than for many years. Charlie Betts, aged 13, has been acquitted by a Kansas jury of murdering a farmer, although the evidence against him was very strong. His chum, aged 16, who made a confession charging Betts 'with the murder, will be tried later: Clara L. Howe, wife of the editor of the Atchison, Kan., Daily Globe and the author of the "Story of a Country Town,” has been grunted a divorce from her husband, E. W. Howe. Mrs. HoWe alleges abandonment as the cause of action. The large warehouse of Thomas Lyons, at Arcola, 111., was destroyed by lightning, and over 700 tons of broom corn owned by the Union Broom SupplyCompany was consumed. Loss is from $75,000 to $100,t)00, covered by insurance. Thomas Scruggs, aged 18 years, son of M. I). Scruggs, a wealthy live stock dealer, was killed at Troost park in Kansas City, while trying with the assistance of two companions to withstand the unprovoked attack of ten or fifteen young ruffians. An unknown woman who went to Murdock, Minn., with a month-old baby left for North Dakota without the baby, ami an investigation resulted in the discovery of the infant's dead body, a handkerchief about the deck, indicating death bystrangulation. An attempt was made to blow up the First Methodist Church of Manhattan. Kan., with dynamite. It is believed to he the work of jointists who directed their spite against Rev. J. M. Miller, pastor of the church, because of his crusade against saloons. Nicholas Fox, a life convict at Lincoln, Neb., sentenced from Omaha nine years ago for killing his wife. Will receive an unconditional pardon and be released. This will be Fox’s reward for assistance he rendered in saving the penitentiary building from destruction by a fire. The executive committee of the national hospital for consumptives, located at Denver, Colo., has received a donation of $25,000 from NV. Guckenheim's Sons of New. York and $5,000 from Mr. Brodselder of Louisville, Ky., to be apidied to the building now in cdurse of erection. While rocking a small rowboat from side to side two Chicago young men— Stephen Michalski and Michael Linowiecki —were thrown into the water and drowned at St. Joseph, Mich. The drowning took place on the St. Joseph river in sight of a thousand or more excursionists. The corporation of Brown University has unanimously- elected to the board of trustees the Rev. Dr. Elisha Benjamin Andrews, chancellor of the University of Nebraska. Only four years ago Dr. Andrews, then president of Brown and an ardent champion of free silver, was forced to resign. Charles E. Cotton, former cashier of the First National Bank of Syracuse, Nel>., has been acquitted by a jury in the federal court. Charges upon which he was tried were those of making false entries in books, making false reports to the Comptroler of the Treasury and abstracting funds of the bank.