Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1901 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Postmaster William Price, of Baltimore, Ohio, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. Omaha, South Omaha and Council Bluffs roofers struck against a proposed 10 per cent reduction in wages. Forest fires are doing great damage on the timber belt along the Columbia River on both the Washington an ] Oregon shores. Because two union beef butchers employed by the Cudahy packing house at Armourdale, Kan., were discharged, 125 butchers struck. Mrs. Hattie Wright Maddy, “the Hetty Green of Cripple Creek,” is dead from the effects of twenty grains of morphine, self-administered. The stage running to Mendocino was held up ten miles from Ukiah, Cal. The express box was taken and two passengers and the driver robbed. D. 11. Mortly, famous as the writer of the Ohio constitution of 1852, died at MeConnellsville, Ohio. There is now but one member of that convention living. George Anspaugh, while drunk, at Lima, Ohio, assaulted his wife, knocked her down and poured red pepper sauce into her eyes, blinding her for life, it is feared, A conservative estimate would place the population of the city of Cleveland to-day at 402,428. These figures disclose a remarkable growth for the city during the past year. The Santa Fe Railroad Company has secured a charter to build fourteen separate lines of railroad, with a total length of 815 miles, to be operated as the Eastern Oklahoma lines. The senior member of Toledo’s largest dry goods firm, Sol. A. Lasalle, jumped into the Maumee River with the apparent purpose of ending his life, but was rescued by a patrolman. Five masked men entered the home of Philip Stiles, near Deshler, Ohio, and after torturing and threatening the entire family of six persons for four hours departed with S(SO in cash. The bank of New Metamoras. a private concern, has closed its doors. The bank had deposited $50,000 with the Superior Street Savings and Banking Company of Cleveland, which went to the wall. Judge Kohlsaat, of Chicago, has issued an order enjoining strikers from placing pickets in the vicinity of the Allis-Uhahn-ers plant, or from interfering with the business or operation of the company in any manner. Elrino Chavez ami Loon Mora were run over by a Santa Fe train near Hanover, N. M. Both were decapitated and horribly mangled. They were on the way to the wedding of Mora to the stepdaughter of Chavez. In Cleveland, Coroner Simon rendered his verdict on the disaster at crib No. 2, at which occurred the loss of a dozen lives. He finds the City of Cleveland, the subcontractors and the crib engineer jointly responsible. Upon application of the Superior Realty and Improvement Company Judge Dellenbaugb of the Common Pleas Court in Cleveland appointed Walter D. Sayle receiver for the Superior Street Savings and Banking Company. John Andrews was instantly killed by John Romers, who mistook him for a bear and sent a bullet through his heart at short range. The men were with a party enjoying an outing nt the Lewis ranch near Red Lodge, Mont. Orleen Emerson shot and killed Dick Burrell nt Brownstown, Ind. The murder occurred in Emerson's drug store. Burrell was always a dangerous man when drinking and had killed two men in his time and had served a term in prison. Tramps held up John and Paul McGrath, of Rush City, Minn., on a moving train. The men resisted and John McGrath was shot dead. Paul escaped to the top of the train, but was overtaken, robbed and finally locked into a ear. The Grant Cooperage, one of the largest industries of Ashtabula, Ohio, has entered into a combine with the Tomlinson Barrel and Machine Company, of Chicago, and the Veneer Barral and Package Company, of Cleveland. Th*

new corporation’s capital stock is $500,000. At Kansas City choice northern grown potatoes sold the other day at 50 cents a peck, the price of two bushels a year ago. A single bushel cost $1.90 from retail dealers, or about SI.OO when purchase! direct from wholesale dealers and jobiters. A steam threshing machine exploded on the farm of. C. L. Christenson, near Porter, Minn., instantly killing Mrs. Christenson and severely injuring her daughter, Lars Christenson, Jr., John Anderson and one of the assistants at the machine. One of the greatest gas wells ever discovered iu the gas belt was struck a mile east of Parker City, Ind., by the Farm Land Oil Company, which was boring for oil in the new oil territory: The well is estimated to be flowing 3,000,000 cubic feet a day. The body of a woman, supposed to be Mrs. Bess Striegel, has been found in a room in the Lane Block, Boulder, Colo. Beside her on the same bed lay Bert Striegel in a dying condition. An empty plpal, one labeled laudanum, was lying'near by. Robert G. Evans, United States District Attorney for Minnesota, wh-j last winter was a prominent candidate before the legislature to succeed Senator Cushman K. Davis in the United States Senate, died suddenly in Minneapolis from heart disease. The Barberton, Akron and Eastern Railroad Company of Akron was incorporated at Columbus, Ohio, with $25,000 capital. It will build and operate a steam railroad from Barberton via Akron through Summit and Mahoning Counties to the State line.

Joseph Gingotti, an Italian, aged 2G, was shot and killed bv a mob at a railroad camp near Ashdown, Ark. The mob was made up of sixty Americans, armed with rilles and revolvers, and had raided the camp as a demonstration against Italian labor. At Ash Hill. Mo., Luther Baggett, 19 years old, shot and killed Mary Keith. 15 years old. He confessed the crime was coiMititted at the instigation of Mrs. James Gilpin. The latter, her husband ami young son. have been arrested for complicity in the crime. R. T. Ross, a music teacher, and'bis wife, 50 years old, and penniless, were asphyxiated by gas in San Francisco. In the hands of Mrs. Ross was clutched a curtain, and it is thought that she attempted to roach a window, and that Ross had dragged her back. Lafayette Newkirk, a wealthy stock raiser, was shot and killed on one of the principal residence streets of Mexico, Mo., as lie was walking home alone. The assassin was pursued by several persons who heard the shots, but escaped. No motive for the murder is known. The desire to run all negroes from Oklahoma Territory towns, which started at Sapulpa, has spread to Stroud and a mob of gamblers and toughs has driven all the blacks from town. In addition they tore down the houses of two negroes und burned the buildings and contents. The Carey Banking Company, of Carey, Ohio, was closed by the sheriff. ,1. F. Miller, of the Superior Street Savings and Banking Company, of Cleveland, was the organizer and secretary and treasurer and the failure is said to be due to the suspension of the Cleveland bank. Grant Gillette, the cattle king who fled to Mexico over two years ago owing cattlemen over $1,(100,000, is believed to have been in the United States recently, traveling in disguise. Benjamin Cooper, a telegraph operator, formerly of Abilene, who knew Gillette, says he saw him in Oklahoma. The Sandy Valley Banking Company, of Malvern, Ohio, organized two months ago by F. S. Miller, former secretary of the failed Superior Street Savings and Banking Company, of Cleveland, has made an assignment to 11. J. Wilson, a merchant of Malvern. Depositors are much enraged. Fourteen persons were injured in a collision between a Greenfield interurban car and a train on the belt railroad in Indianapolis. A freight engine with a dozen cars was approaching and as the electric car reached the center of the track the locomotive struck it and threw it to the side of the track. Mrs. S. N. Lee, 32 years old, a sister-in-law of Thomas Walsh, the Colorado millionaire, was killed in a runaway accident in Kansas City. Her coachman dismounted from the carriage to adjust the harness, and the horses took fright and ran away. Mrs. Lee and her 7-year-old son leaped from the carriage. The boy was not hurt. ■While charging the soda fountains in George Ott's drug store at Ashley, Ind., the clerk, Fred Nicoli, supposedly made an error in mixing the gas and an explosion resulted. Fragments of the fountain struck Nicoli on the head, killing him, and knocked Ott unconscious, injuring him probably fatally. The damage to the building is slight. Henry Gephart an 1 his son Rolla are under arrest at Middletown, Ohio, for the murder of Wesley Wells. All are farmers. The quarrel arose over the use by the Gepharts of a road through Wells’ farm. Wells locked the gate and the Gepharts broke the lock. Wells thereupon attacked them with an ax and they fired ou him. They surrendered. Severe storms have visited southern Arizona almost daily for the past ten days. Railroads from Sonora and Bisbee, connecting with the Southern Pacific, are paralyzed. A large bridge was washed away near Fairbank on the Arizona and New Mexico Road. A body was seen floating down the river followed by a buggy. A storm which was almost a cyclone visited Tucson, tearing off several roofs and demolishing the gas works. All rivers are raging torrents.