Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1901 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Andrew Carnegie has offered the city of Portsmouth, Ohio, $50,000 for a public library. Jacob Neer, aged 02, formerly of Sioux City, lowa, killed himself with a revolver at Bellefontaine, Ohio. Dr. Alston Ellis of Hamilton, Ohio, has been elected president of the Ohio University and has assumed his duties. Eleven persons were injured on the West Madison street car line in Chicago on account of faulty working of cable. Andrew Putnam committed suicide at Luverne, Minn., by drinking carbolic acid. He was despondent over the crop prospects. A heavy freight train on the Big Four road ran into a heavily loaded passenger train at Columbia Station, Ohio. Five train men were hurt, but not seriously. Advices from. Tower, Minn., report a serions fire there that destroyed ten buildings, including a hotel, butcher shop and saloon; other buildings were dwellings. Rev. J. B. Dusman, postmaster at Goshen, Ohio, attempted suicide by shooting and cannot recover. It is believed that he became mentally affected by the beat. Mrs. Annie Blehr of Cincinnati, in open court at Batavia, Ohio, called Judge Parrot a liar, and was sent to jail until she retracts the statement. This she says she will never do. Despite the advice of William J. Bryan that they support the regular party nominee, George A. Groot of Cleveland says the Bryan Democrats of Ohio will nominate an independent State ticket. The Toledo plant of the Republic Iron and Steel Company, which suspended operation* shortly after it passed into the control of that corporation about two years ago, will resume operation as soon as men and materials can tie secured. W. J. Woodbury, proprietor of a job printing office at Bt. Paul, committed suicide by jumping from the high bridge into the Mississippi river, 200 feet itelow. Financial difficulties are said to have been the cause. . Martin Harding, a boy, was struck by lightning while working in a buy field near Gambler, Ohio. A hole the site of a walnut was torn In the back of his head and hl* clothing nnd shoes were rent from his body. Andrew Carnegie has offered Kansas

Orty. Kan., $75,000 for « free ItbMfty, providing the city furnishes the site and agrees to maintain the library, at a cost of not less than $7,500 a year. The offer will be accepted. At Lincoln, Neb., Frank Marshall, a negro cook, shot and killed his ‘niece, Verne Lee, 18 years old, and badlywounded his sister, Eliza Marshall. The crime is the outgrowth of domestic trouble of long standing. While walking on a trestle near Eve. Mo., Grover Lemmon, aged 18, and Frank Long, aged 21, were run down by the Missouri, Kansas and Texas flyer and instantly killed. John Van Dusen, a companion was badly injured. Frank McDonald of Fredonia, Kan., and Cyrus Wing of Chanute were killed, Cromwell Lake of Chanute was probably fatally injured and George Clark had three ribs and his breast bone broken in the wreck of a Santa Fe work train near Emporia. Joseph Pabian and Frank Pabian xbet a horrible death at North Bend, Neb., by sinking in the treacherous quicksand* in the Platte River. They were swimming and were caught by the oozing sands and carried under before assistance csuld reach them. While Wellington, Ohio, was almost completely deserted for the annual town picnic, Miss Herrick, the postmistress, sister of Col. Myron T. Herrick, was held up and* robbed by two men. The robbers were caughLahnost immediately by the town marshal. Dr. Alston Ellis of Hamilton, Ohio, has been elected president of the Ohio University. He at once assumed his duties. The election was necessitated by the refusal of Rev. 8. D. Hutsinpiller of San Francisco to accept the position after he had been elected. In Cincinnati Clarence Davis, aged 17 years, shot and seriously wounded his step-father, William Weidebusch, and also attempted to kill his young wife, and John Good and George Metze, young men whom he charged with slandering him. He is believed to be insane. The old plant of the Globe-Wemicke Company on West Eighth street, Cincinnati, was partially destroyed by fire. The building is used for the manufacture of paper filing boxes and office furniture. The damage is estimated at SIOO,OOO, with considerable insurance. The Traders’ Grain Company of Kansas City stopped payment, and it ia said the liabilities amount to $150,000. The company operated on a capital of $20,000. The failure was caused by the advance in both corn and wheat, aided by the heavy buying orders of country customers. Charles Dobb, 17 years old, accidentally shot and killed his mother while she was picking berries near Dexter, Mo. Dobb was hunting turkeys, and, discoving a motion in the bushes, he fired. A njpment later the young man’s mother staggered forward and fell dead in betson's arms. While digging a well south of Chamberlain, S. D., Thomas Wyman, at a depth of seventy-five feet, was overcome by the damp air, and his partner, Evers Phillips, not hearing from him had himself lowered down and narrowly escaped a like fate, being insensible when brought to the surface. A fire at Cambridge, Minn.; caused a total loss of SBB,OOO, the principal losers being the Merchants’ Hotel, P. O. Peterson, Presley’s drug store, the general stores of Alfred Smith and H. J. Johnson, Chounard’s saloon, Satterlihd'a jewelry store and C. L. Johnson & Co., clothiers. Insurance $50,000. Justice George L. Walls, known as the “whipping post judge,” caused a young girl to be given twenty lashes In his court room in Kansas City. The girl, Lillie Thomas, bad been convicted of stealing a purse containing $3, which she spent for soda water and candy. Her mother applied the- lash. The Missouri river has cut its banka at a point eight miles south of Leavenworth, and is now pouring part of its waters into the Platte river. An island, five miles long and in some places nearly two miles wide, has been formpd. If the Missouri adopts the new channel this land will be transferred from Missouri to Kansas. A head-end collision between a northbound St. Joseph and Grand Island passenger train and a Santa Fe freight, two miles west of Gower, Mo., killed Engineer Baker of the Santa Fe train and Express Messenger Floyd of the passenger train, injured fourteen others, and demolished the Santa Fe engine and several freight cars. There will be no strike on the part of the 6,500 Missouri and Kansas coal miners in district 25. The joint scale committee, composed of ten operators and an equal numlier of miners, which has been in session at Kansas City, almost continuously since June 1, reached an agreement on every important point in the new wage scale. Memphis police and authorities at Laconia, Ark., on the Mississippi are trying to clear the mystery surrounding the disappearance of six persons. A large houseboat has been found stranded and with the interior disarranged. A picture of the boat with six persons aboard was found. It is believed the people were murdered by river pirates.