Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1901 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

A shower of frogs fell on Minneapolis during a storm. Ernst Reid, colored, was hanged at Carthage, Mo., for the murder of his wife Jan. 19. 1900. Jose Sanchez, who killed Catherine Almundares last December, was banged at Silver City, N. M. John T. Higdon and Earnest E. Grater were drowned by the capsizing of a boat near Wheatland, Wyo. Guy Monett, an express company's employe at Bucyrus, Ohio, committed suicide. He was SSOO short in his C. O. D. accounts. Mrs. Bridget Croghan, aged 73; died at Xenia, Ohio, from nervous collapse caused by the explosion of several cannon firecrackers. Hollin Hawkins, a farmer residing near Newton Falls, Ohio, shot and killed his wife and then attempted suicide. Jealousy was the cause. James Wilson, Jr., son of tho president of the First National Bank of Fremont, Ohio, committed suicide while temporarily deranged by heat. An envelope containing $2,000 in bonds of the City of Hiawatha, Kan., was lost recently by an express messenger at Topeka, and has not beeu found. Autone Flnstad and Gunder Paulson were drowned near Starbuck, Minn., while fishing. John Finley, the third member of the party, was saved. Mrs. Annie Post, of South Bt. Paul, and Oscar Norris, recently of Independence, Kan., were drowned in the St. Croix River near Rush City, Minn. Comptroller Dawes has resigned, to take effect Oct. 1, so as to devote his entire attention thereafter, to hia Senatorial contest with William E. Mason. Harry Thomas, a bo.v, was fatally burned at Lima, Ohio, by hot asphalt thrown upon him by Hays Tailor, a street laborer, whom he was teasing. Jacob Eidenauer and hia son were killed and three others of the family fatally wounded by three Italians who attacked them with knives at Wheeling Junction, Ohio. * President Hoeffner of the Hoeffner Packing Company, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who was seriously burned by the bursting of a pipe In the establishment, is dead. Fire at Wilbur, Wash., raged for six hours, destroying the principal business district of the town. The cause of the fire It unkuown. The losses aggregate about $175,000. Mortimer Nye, ex-Lieutenunt Governor of Indiana and one of the beat known public men in La Porte, was stricken with paralysis at Union Mills just as be closed an address. The celebration of the Fourth at ChL cage makes a record for the city. Them are no fatalities, no big fires, fewer accidents than usual and less disorder than ha* been known for years. Donald Nichole and Samuel Taylor, each about 5 years old. were burned to death lockad In an outhouse in Louisiana, Mo. Thay had been playing and probably set fire to a can of coal ofl. Thraf men held up a Great Northern tMtft In daylight near Great Falls, Mont., wrecked and rifled the secured $00,01)0, injured three passengers and escaped to the Bad Land*. The business portion of Polo, a town of 1,000 Inhabitants la Caldwell County, Missouri, was destroyed by fire, causing

a loss oi over $50,000. The bank of Polo and twenty buildings were consumed. The Comptroller of the Currency has authorized the First National Bank lot Hope, N. D., and the First National Bank of Thief River Falls, Minn., to begin business with a capital of $20,000 each. .. i ■ • . Thomas Spaulding was shot and killed by Albert Johnson, who then blew his own head off with a Krag-Jorgensen rifle at the United States barracks in Columbus, Ohio. The men quarreled over a woman. Barney Fisher, 45 years old, sat in the third story window of 33 West Court street, Cincinnati, to cool off. The next day his body was found on the pavement with his skull crushed and the legs broken. •» Miss Eva Itecd, artist and botanist for Shaw's garden in St. Louis, was run over and killed by a train near Louisiana, Mo. She was a sister of Mrs. Carrie Marshall, of lowa, who is well known as an authoress. At Dendwood, 8, D„ the Jewelry sjore of S. Solomon was entered by burglars. They succeeded in escaping, after securing $5,000 worth of diamonds. Three men have been arrested and are held pending investigation. Several bridges went down stream during a cloudburst at Sandyville and Westfield, Ohio. Farm implements floated off like cork, and crops in the vicinity were destroyed to the extent of $35,000. Lightning struck four barns. General Manager Taylor of the Republic Iron nnd Steel Company, of Youngstown, Ohio, has just made an inspection of tho Buhl mill at Sharon, which has been idle for more than a year, and it will be started within thirty day*. 8. R. Dawson, inventor of Damascus steel process, who has served half of ten years' sentence for killing his son-in-law of a day, has been paroled by Gov. Shaw of lowa, that his valuable discovery might not die with him in his cell. Striking misers at Telluride, Colo., engaged in A riotous attempt to stop operation* at Smuggler-Union property. Two men are killed and several wounded. Troops were ordered out anil held in readiness in expectation of further trouble. Jessie Morrison, convicted of manslaughter in the second degree for the murder of Mrs. Clara Wiley Castle on June 22, 19(H), was sentenced at Eldorado. Kan., to iJTt- years in the penitentiary iu dose confinement at hard labor. The south-bound Indianapolis express on the Cincinnati, Hamilton nnd Indianapolis road jumped the track at a switch at the South Hamilton, Ohio, crossing. The engine and two of three passenger coaches turned over, but miraculously no one was killed. The grasshopper situation in some sections of Minnesota is alarming. Acting State Entomologist E. B. Forbes defines the boundary of the scourge in these words: "The Red River Valley, all the way from Wiikiu County to Kittson County, is suffering." The strike of freight handlers employed in the warehouses of railroads oxtering East St. Louis, who went out recently to enforce a demand for an increase of wages, has been declared off, the railway companies granting an advance of 15 cents a day. Four men were fatally and three others seriously injured by a gas explosion in pit No. 1 of the series of shafts of the new waterworks at Torrence road, Cincinnati. The explosion is supposed to have been due to a small vein of gas that was struck in the excavation. Mrs. Ida O. Heim, wife of Michael G. Heim, the millionaire Kansas City brewer and park proprietor, secured a divorce on the ground of cruelty. Judge Teasdale awarded her $30,000 cash alimony and $l5O a month for five years, together with the custody of-their 10-year-old boy. E. W. McConkey, for many years one of the most prominent stockmen and farmers in Northern Missouri, murdered John Bryant and his son, aged 18, at St. Joseph, and soon after the double erixlfe sent a bullet into his own brain. McConkey went insane from the of the heat. Ole McMillan, a night watchman, was shot and killed by J. Metzner while the latter was resisting arrest at Humboldt, lowa. McMillan's body was riddled with a charge of buckshot. Metzner is said to have been intoxicated nnd was abusing his family when the officer attempted to arrest him. Thomas Davis, of Frankfort, Kan., shot himself three times fifteen minutes after he had been arrested for embezzling from the Austin and Western Manufacturing Company of Chicago, for which he traveled, selling road graders. It was alleged that he sold machines and failed to make returns. Miss May Harding, 20 years old, wa« burned to death in a farmhouse, three miles west of Indianapolis. She tried to start a fire with coal oil while alone In the house nnd her clothing was iguited. The house was entirely consumed and only the boues of the young woman were found in the ruins. '