Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1901 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Missouri midgets, weighing forty-sev-en nnd forty-five pounds, were married. Tile postoffice in Weston, Ohio, was robbed the other night of $5tK) in stamps and S3O in cash. Pickpockets robbed about twenty Epworth Leaguers nnd left them stranded at Colorado Springs. John Costain was killed near New Albany, I ml., by Joseph Turner while trying to kidnap Mrs. Turner. Robert 11. (lively, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, was found dead in his room in Spokane, Wash. Alonzo 11. Stewart, doorkeeper in the United States Senate, was married at Atchison. Ivan., to Miss Grace Bliss. •* Peter Smith, a wealthy farmer of Bainbridge. Mich., was assassinated by nn unknown man who was hidden in a field. Christopher Anderson, who shot himself on the grave of his wife at Nebraska City, Neb., is dead. He was 70 years old. A tire at Mountain View, Okla.. destroyed un entire block. Loss $05,000. About fifteen business houses were bullied un. A mob at Kansas City, gathered to lynch negroes suspected of assault, marched through streets rioting and beating blacks. Local showers fell in portions of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Illinois and Oklahoma, affording temporary relief from the drouth. John Book waiter of Ohio calls the American farmer the uncrowned king of Europe, nnd says nil surplus product will bring high prices. At Albany, Mo„ some children fed dynamite to a pet frog and upset n tool chest on him; one child was killed aud another badly hurt. Dr. 11. Finley Helrnes, a dentist of Lincoln, Neb., has been sued for SIO,OOO for breach of promise by Miss Louise Lacey of Chicago. Drought in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesota and lowa has damaged crops to the exteut of hundreds of millions .of dollars. A magazine of dynamite, located near the Grant smelter, Denver, Colo., exploded, killing Domenico Muto and Touy West, and injuring several others. Paul Hague, known as Prof. Zeno, an aeronaut, was fatally injured at Islan 1 i Park, Springfield. Ohio, falling 200 feet. | The parachute failed to open, and he fell into a cornfield. At Hamilton, Ohio, Judge Fisher Issued an order perpetually enjoining the striking machinists from maintaining pickets uround the plant es the Niles tool works. He held that the obvious

purpose of picketing was lawless Intimidation. Fire during the night destroyed the business portion of Huntsville, 111. Four stores, a blacksmith i shop and fire residences were burned. Totul loss, $20,000; partially insured. Chicago hns a population of 2.080,000, and is bigger by 70,000 persons than a year ago, if 4ht* basis upon which the Chicago Directory Company has computed the census is correct. At Delphos, Ohio, fire broke out in the yards of the St. Louis and Western Railroad early by a lump being overturned in a caboose. Ten ears burned containing baled cotton and wood pulp. The mangled body of Maj. Cyrus Huiter, a prominent farmer of Carey, Ohio, was found along the Big Four Railroad south of Carey. The theory is that he fell asleep on the track and was struck by a south-bound freight. The body of the man reported killed near Welch, I. T., by a train has been identified as that of Joseph Hnllora, son of J. 11. Hulloui, a wealthy cattleman of Nacogdoches, Texas, it is believed he was the victim of foul play. South-bound passenger train No. 1 on the Kansas City Northern connecting railroad came into collision with an extra Rook Island meat train at the crossing one mile north of Weatherby, Mo., killing one man and injuring six other persons. Alfred B, Kittredge of Sioux Falla, has been appointed by Gov. Herreid to till the vnoancy in the United States Senate caused by the death of James H. Ivyle. He will serve until March 4. 1903, the date when Senator Kyle’s term would have expired. Fred Yoelker, a laborer at the United Salt Company’s works in Cleveland, was caught under an avalanche of coarse salt. Thousands of-pounds of the saline mass buried him. He was taken out after two hours’ work and died without regaining consciousness. Richard S. Berlin, a well-known real estate dealer and manager of the Berlin Investment Company of Omaha, has filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy tiefore Judge Munger in the federal court. His liabilities are listed at $51,900.(12. His v assets amount to $570, part of which is exempt. Joseph Bartley, former State Treasurer of Nebraska, convicted of the embezzlement of an amount variously placed at from $500,000 to $750,000, and sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary, has been released by order of Gov. Savage, who paroled him to C. O. Whedon, Bartley's attorney.

Forest fires are raging in two sections of Colorado, and it is feared they Will destroy a vast amount of property before they can be controlled ami extinguished. One of the fires is on the banks of Chalk creek, in Chaffee County, and the other in Larimer County. Both are said to be in timber on school lands. Robert Prange, whose business cards represent him to lie the manager of the Sehlitz Hotel at Omaha and manager of the Sehlitz brewery agency at that point, murdered his wife near Lake Contrary, Mo.. and then committed suicide. Prange’s wife had left him because of his dissolute habits uud cruelty toward her. A sensational suicide was discovered at the Palace Hotel iu Cincinnati. The self-slayer was I). A. Russell of Pomeroy. judge of the Circuit Court and a hank president. Nothing whatever is known of the cause. He left a sealed letter nddressed to his wife upon which was a special delivery stamp. He killed himself with a revolver. The Santn Fe Railroad has decided to use oil for fuel in its locomotives as fust as possible. The Beaumont product will be given a trial. A number of locomotives have been turned out of the shops at Topeka, which will run ou the main line of the road and burn oil. The Santa Fe has 135 oil burning engines on its lines in Southern California. Four blocks of business houses on the public square at Enid, Ok., were destroyed by fire in less than three hours' time. The water supply was inadequate, and it was necessary to blow up buildings \frith. dynamite to cheek the Humes. Owing to the continued drouth, everything burned like matchwood. The total loss is estimated at slightly over $100,900. The body of Lee Wing, a Chinese who was murdered last March by highbinders, was boiled in an iron caldron at San Jose, Cal., by order of the county authorities. This process was considered necessary in order to obtain the sixteen bullets which were fired into the man. They will he used us evidence iu the trial of Look Lee, alleged to be one of the nssussins. Raving under an insane spell, Ned Hartley Copeland shot and killed A. I*. Rogers on a Union Pacific train. The crime was committed near Wamsutta, Wyo. Copeland is the defaulting teller of the Nebraska National Bank of Omaha, and has been pursued by detectives since September, 1890. Rogers was a transportation agent for Swift & Co., and lived at St. Joseph, Mo. Breaking glass at the plate glass works in Kokomo, Ind., indicted terrible injuries on five of the ten men who were carrying the sheet upright from the annealing oven to the grinding table. Tinplate, which measured 122 by liK) inches and weighed 2.2(H) pounds, broke and mine showering down on the heads and shoulders of the workmen. All five will lose their arms if not Iheir lives.