Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1901 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Actor Thad Brooke murdered Mrs. Millie Lighthawk and killed himself during u rehearsal at un Otjiahu theater. The building occupied ns the brush department of the Cincinnati workhouse, five miles north of that city, was destroyed by fire. The center converter of the smelter of the Detroit Copper Mining Company nt Moorenci, Arizona, blew up, seriously injuring eight men. At Clarksville, Mo., fire broke out in the grocery store of Cash & Marviu. It soon spread and consumed one entire block. The loss is heavy. John Lattlicr of Limestone City was married it) Toledo, Ohio, to his aunt, Mrs. Anna Limber, by Justice Templeton. He is 22 and she 29. The disabled transport Lennox was towed into port nt San Francisco, having been picked up while drifting toward shore at mercy of current. John W. Lipps of Chicago found his son in un orphanage at Berne, Ind., after a separation of six years, aud regained him with the aid of a detective. At Columbus, Ohio, Cresceus. the king of trotters, lowered his own and the world’s record of 2:02%, made at the Cleveland track, to 2:02*4, a full half second. A pretty Italian girl was stolen from the lake at Ht. Joe, Mich., on the eve of her wedding. The bereaved bridegroom accuses unsuccessful rival of the kidnaping. Following close upon the heels of the organization in Chicago of the Servant Girls' Union "comes the organization of 7,000 Fuilmnn porters, with headquarters in St. Louis. The Commercial Bank of Andrews, Ind., closed with only $25 cash on hand. President Key has been arrested and 12,(KS) depositors, mostly f armors, fear loss of all their savings. The machine room, foundry and storage room of the Gem City stove works were destroyed by fire nt Dayton, Ohio. The loss is estimated nt s<lo,ooo, fairly well protected by insurance. Offices of the Subtirbou Electric Railway Company in Harlem, Chicago, were looted by four robbers, who overpowered two men, blew open the safe and escaped with between SOOO aud S7OO. Two Chicago and Alton freight trains collided head on at Grain Valley, Mo. Engineer Jacques was killed and Engineer Walsh an l Fireman Pilliam, nil of HI a ter. Mo., were badly injured. A Dayton, Springfield anl Lrliana trolley car crushed into a coal car which stood'on an open switch near Donnellsvilla. Ohio. As n result fourteen peisous were hurt, several of them dangerously. Mr. and Mrs. Burr Ferguson of New York were robbed of S3,(KM) worth of diamonds at their hotel in Colorado Springs, the jewels being taken front Mrs. Ferguson's trunk while they were absent from the room. The exposition building at Kansas City, erected during the boom of 1887, at a cost of over $200,000, was destroyed by fire in less than two hours the other afternoon. It had not been occupied for ten yeurs. Iru Turner was shot and killed in a wood-chopper's cabin in Dead Man's Gulch, eight miles from Missoula, Mont., by Henry Xudson, his father-in-law. Nudaoti says that he found Turner beutIng his wife. Mrs. Josephine Dashnult, wife of Cnpt. I>. A. Dashnult, one of the most prominent men in Sandusky, Ohio, saw her husband coming out of Ritter’s saloon and Immediately wrecked the place. Armed witli bricks and stones, she destroyed tlic front and the glassware of the saloon. The George 11. Phillips Company of Chicago suspended temporarily, owing to great confusion in account* of the firm. Rush of work on untried clerks is said to have caused overpayments to customers of $330,900. Mr. Bolaud, representing a New York syndicate of capitalists, says plans have now been almost fully .perfected for the construction of trolley linos which will establish connecting links between Detroit and Chicago. A. W. Miller, Hanlusky's absconding

city clerk, was seen there the other evening disguised as a woman. He was recognized by Henry Damming and an attempt was made to arrest him, but be effected his escape. Henry Chisholm, who graduated from Yale last June, is now working nine "iiours n day, six days in the week, as an inspector at the Chatnpiou rivet works iu Cleveland for $1.75 a day. Young Chisholm’s father is a millionaire. A special from Manti, Utah, says Rasmus Anderson, aged 27, shot Miss Emily Campbell, aged 22, and P. C. Christensen, a stage driver, and then committed suicide. Anderson was a discarded sweetheart of the young woman. Oliver Rudiseli, employed in the Addyston foundry, west of Cincinnati, was mortally wounded by Edward Crosby, a feilow-workmnn, in a duel in the dark at Rudiseil’s house, where Rudiseli discovered Crosby when he returned from work. Three convicts escaped from the State penitentiary at Lincoln, Neb. Hince the penitentiary dire last March the celUiouses have been overcrowded and during the hot weather some of the men with short terms to serve have been allowed to sleep in the open. At Lima, Ohio, W. A. Jones returned home intoxicated aud accused his wife of infidelity. Hhe took a hatchet and split his head open. Hhe then ran to a policeman's house aud told him her husband assaulted her. Hhe has disappeared and Jones will die. While the members of the Chicago fire department groped and stumbled their way around in the darkness for half an hour two big elevators belonging to the Grand Trunk Railroad and leased by Rogers, Bacon & Co. were destroyed, entailing a loss of $75,000. An unknown thief robbed William Hanford, a diamond snlesman for Freendeuheim Brothers & Levy of New York, of more than S7OO in diamonds and SBO in money mi a sleeper on the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway between Grand Rapids and Mackinaw City. The Hawkeye Coal Company of Kansas City has filed suit in the federal court against the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company for damages amounting to SIB,OOO, which the coal company churns have been caused by unjust discrimination in freight rates. Thomas Mnllay, an old-time actor, who had for years played in "Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” lias been committed to the Rochester, Minn., insane asylum. Mallay had so much of Uncle Tom. that it affectmL his brain, and now he imagines that. Simon Legree is constantly pursuing him with bloodhounds. Detectives employed by an Akron. <>., hank arrested two men in a Goshen, Ind., gambling house and recovered about $lO,000 in currency and gpld coin which was stolen from the bank ten days before. The prisoners were taken to Elkhart, where they led the way to the hiding place of the money. Without a word of warning, and seemingly without provocation, Alexander McCullough of Crawfish, Ohio, shot an l killed his wife and then blew out his own brains. The supposition is that he was insanely drunk when the tragedy occurred. The affair took place iu sight of the five children of the couple. J. MeGregor Adams, a Chicago multimillionaire, who is hale and hearty despite, his three score and ten years, has been married to Miss Edith MacGregor, an attractive young woman, well known in Brooklyn society circles, whose age is hut little more than one-third of her husband's. Mr. Adams is president of the Adams & Westlake Company of Chicago.