Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1901 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The Nebraska Republican State con vention will be held at Lincoln Aug. 28. Rev. George Shaw, pastor of a St. Paul church, is working in a tailor shop because he won’t accept a salary raised by church amusements. Judge William A. Woods, who granted the injunction against the Debs strikers during the Chicago troubles of 1891, died suddenly at his home in Indianapolis. Reports state that prairie fires continue to destroy wheat fields in Ellis an i Grove Counties, Kansas. Thousands of acres of ripe wheat have been burned. Don llarued, Joseph La Farre and Grover Gamphor of Bowling Green, O„ were drowned Wednesday while bathing in the Maumee river, near Perrysburg. At Eldorado, Kan., Jessie Morrison. v<j/o with a razor slew the ten-day wife of the man she loved, Oliu G. Castle, was convicted of manslaughter in the second degree. An immense grain hre ragi-d near Los Banos, Cal. Ten thousand acres of grain have been burned and a still larger area of grazing land has been swept by the flames.

Angus Hodgson, aged 17, and Frank Beatty, aged 24, members of a camping party from East Liverpool, Ohio, were drowned at Grim’s Bridge by the capsix ing of a boat. During n heavy electrical storm at Brasil, Ind., lightning struck a barn on J. C. Halbert’s farm, instantly killing Frank Bridgewaters. Anderson Webster aud a man named Wiggle. In Wichita, Kan., the Rock Island grain elevator caught fire and was a total loss. The elevator was In the railroad yards district. Loss on the elevator is probably *60,000. Grace Sullivan, aged 10 years, daughter of J. A. Sullivan, president of the First National Bank at Sallisaw, I. T., committed suicide by taking poison. No cause is known- for the act. Joe Sheets, a ranchman, shot nnd killed George W. Crane, another rancher, who had attacked him with u six-shooter at Cleveland, Mont. Sheets was exonerated by the coroner's jury. Six young ladies were returning from a Sunday school picnic at Wapakoneta, Ohio, when the horse attached to their carriage ran away. All were thrown violently out and severely injured. The Pjtfsburg, Wheeling and Lake Erie Coal Company was incorporated at Columbus, Ohio, with n capital stock of *1.250,000, half of which is 4 per cent preferred and half common stock. Many of the first-class mechanics working in the Northern Pacific Railroad shops at Brainerd, Minn , have had a genuine surprise. They each received a personal notification of an increase in wages. One child, a boy baby ,2 old, wm killed and eiffetern older pedons injured more or less Wriousk in a Cplliskm *f an electric car ih Irving Far* bsulsSLiiri ChicagK with two WagonS loaded with Max Kirshaw, a Yale athlete, well known al) over the country* whose home

WM in Philadelphia, died in San Francisco of paresis, due to years of dMpation. Kirshaw at one time was the champion pole vaulter of the country, Mrs. Lulu Prince Kennedy was formally sentenced by Judge Wofford In Kansas City to serve ten years in the State penitentiary for the murder of her husband, Philip Kennedy, in the corridor of the Ridge Building, in January last. Burglars late on a recent night broke into the court house at Minden, Neb., surprised and overcame County Treas urer Norlin, who explains that he was working overtime, secured $9,000 in cur rency, set fire to the court house and escaped. Violent electrical and rain storms swept over the Northwest, causing the death of one man and the injury of several other persons in Minneapolis and destroying property worth thousands of dollars in Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin. —— Au lowa plan on his way to Anoka, Minn., on an early morning Omaha passenger train had his pocket picked of $4,500 in drafts. A gang of pickpockets has been traveling over the Omaha road from Omaha to the twin cities for two or three weeks. At Springfield, Ohio, George W. Thatcher was acquitted of the charge of forging the name of the late millionaire P. P. Mast to notes aggregating $296,000. Thatcher holds the notes and asserts that Mr. Mast signed them shortly before his death. The Central Hotel at Kern, Cal., caught fire. One life is known to have been lost and other persons are missing. Ed Tibbett, a fireman, had his skull crushed. The fire is supposed to have started from the explosion of a lamp in one of the rooms. Five young men were found clinging to the bottom of their capsized sailboat by the yacht Ingersoll when returning from Fish Point to Menominee, Mich. The sailboat had been overturned tn a squall, and only the timely passing of the Ingersoll saved them. Edwin Ruthven, colored, was electrocuted in the annex at the Ohio State penitentiary. The crime for which Ruthven, or Rutheben, as the commitment papers read, was electrocuted, was the murder of Police Officer Shipp in Cleveland on the night of May 6, 1900. A boy and a lighted cigaret is supposed to have started the fire in the barn in the rear of 218 Clybourn avenue, Chicago, which resulted in the total destruction of the barn and damage to a dozen residences and store buildings. The loss aggregates between $7,000 nnd SB,OOO. The consolidation of the E. A. Henry Wire Company, the Cuyahoga Iron and Steel Company nnd the Summit Wire Company, all of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, has taken effect. E. A. Henry is president of the combination, which is called the Cuyahoga Steel and Wire Company.

From high officials in Chicago news comes that when Janies J. Hill secures the Burlington road Sept. 1 the Burlington extension will be built from Burwell, Neb., north into South Dakota, thence northwest to the Black Hills through the cattle ranges now untraversed by railway. At Granite Falls, Minn., the jury in the murder trial of Dr. Wintner returned a verdict of not guilty. Dr. Wintner on April 15 last shot and killed William Lenard, a gambler with whom he was playing poker, explaining at the time that he had discovered Lenard to be cheating him. The Kansas City, Kan., City Council has granted a franchise to mine coal under the streets, alleys or public buildings of the city. The franchise runs twenty years and the annual compensation to the city is to be S2O per acre. It is believed the famous Leavenworth coal vein runs under the city. Burlington and Missouri River road tickets to the amount of $3,000 have been stolen. Oliver Shonst of Hastings, Neb., was arrested at Bladen charged with disposing of the tickets and with being implicated in the conspiracy. A ticket broker of Denver, who had his ticket taken up, identified Shoust as the man who sold it to him. The body of a man, supposed to be n cattle buyer named Martin Ayres,- was found the other evening by farmers under a bridge in Daily township, sixteen miles west of Ponca, Neb. The man's head was erushed and his clothing showed evidence of a struggle. No money was found on the body, and it is thought that be was held up and murdered. Ayres was a stranger.

Because her husband refused to comply with the demands of blackmailers for *6,000, M rs. W. O. Carson, wife of a Cowley County, Kan., farmer, lies dead after having suffered intensely many hours from burns receive 1 when her home was destroyed by fire. The fire was started by incendiaries in accordance with threats made. No clew to the criminals has been found. Clifford C. Tyler, son of W. E. Tyler, an official of the Chicago, Milwaukee aud St. Paul road, who disappeared from Grafton six months ago without apparent cause, has been located at Han Antonio, Texas. He is enlisted in the army, aud he and his parents are now actively en 'gaged In securing his discharge. Love of adventure was the real motive for deserting his position. Sunday closing advocates received a knockout blow in a ruling handed down by Judge John W. Henry of the Circuit Court at Kansas City. He decided that the Board of Police Commissioners has no right to revoke a saloon license unless it is shown that the place is a disorderly house within the meaning of the law. ‘‘The selling of oue. two or a dozen drinks of whisky on Hunday,” said Judge Henry, “does not necessarily moan that a man is running a disorderly house. As the result of a bitter neighborhood feud, C. I>. Guild and his 8-y ear-old son Clarence lie dead riddled with bullets at Dayton, lowa. The man who did the shooting is Oliver Bricker. Bricker’s story Is that when he met Guild nnd his son the other afternoon Guild drew a revolver and commenced firing nnd Bricker was hit three times, nil his wounds being slight. The Inst shot, Bricker claims, was fired by the boy, Bricker having kno -ked the revolver from Guild's hands. Bricker then eouimeuced tiring aud hiv.brottyxr Gcoige citaie up with a bhotgsn gadjie gretL on* - barrel nt I the boy«who hcK thsVtblver, The boy fell nnw fgfherjsprang-pick bp <bn pistol Brlcer shuft.and killed him. Mrs. Seth Hayes of Fremont, Ohio, who is visiting iu Sandusky, plunged off

the drawbridge into Sandusky Bay to eave the life of 1 4-year-old Dorothy Neilly the daughter of the woman at whose, house Mrs. Hayes is visiting. Mrs/ Hayes supported the child until help! came, when both were rescued. ’