Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1901 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Andrew Carnegie has offered $20,900 to the city of Riverside, Cal., for a free public library. Fifty horses belonging to McNab & Smith, draymen, were poisoned in San Francisco. Fully one-half of the animals are dead. The steamer Gold Dust of the Louisville nnd Evansville Packet Company burned nt Harding's Landing, Mo. No lives were lost. At Richmond, Ind., the livery barn of John A. Logan burned and twenty horses perished. It is believed to have been an incendiary fire, C. A. Tomlinson, a farmer who lived near Ottawa, Kan., shot himself. He had brooded over the partial failure of crops until his mind was affected. It is reported that the new survey Of the international boundary line will leave the greater part of the town of Blaine, Wash., on the Canadian side. John D. Ely, an electrical lineman who lived with his sister, Mrs. Mnggie Kelleher, in Chicago, committed suicide at Seattle by drinking carbolic acid. John Nelson, the young bicyclist of Chicago who was injured in his race with Jimmy Michael nt Madison Square Garden. New York, died at Bellevue hospital. A. B. Hammond of Portland, Ore., and C. J. Winton of Wausau, Wis., have purchased 50,(MX) acres of Oregon timber land from the Southern Pacific for $500,• 000. A tornado at Benkelmnn, Neb., destroyed the United Presbyterian Church, many (tables nud windmills, and partly wrecked several houses. No lives were lost. Two Klondikers, Clarence Berry and William Staley, have arrived at Seattle with nearly $500,000 in bank drafts as a result of the summer's sluicing on Eldorado creek. The United Postoffice Clerks' convention nt Milwaukee has voted to continue the National Postal Journal and to in crease the anuuul dues to cover the cost of subscription. Fully 10,000 peach trees will have to be destroyed iu Athens County, Ohio, as u result of nn order of the State agricultural department, the trees being afflict* ed with Snn Jose scale. Fire caused in the neighborhood of SGO,000 damage to the dock of the Lehigh Coal and Coke Company at West Superior, Wis. The loading apparatus an! several box cars burned. The Pacific dredge bout on Moose creek, near Salmon City, Idaho, was blown up by the bursting of a boHer. Superintendent Dunlap wan killed and four other men seriously injured. Imkin Herron, pitcher for the baseball club of Arkansas City, Kan., fell dead while playing against the Joplin team.

Pbydcians declare excitement and overexertion brought on heart failure. Geqrge May, 9 years old, was killed by a Wisconsin Central train at the Harlem race track in Chicago. The lad evidently failed to see a Wisconsin Central passenger train and ran on the tracks in front of it. Albert Morris of Nowata, I. T,, was shot and killed On the street at Coffeyville, Kan., by John Nelson, his brother-in-law, also from Indian Territory. The murder was the result of an old family grudge. James T. Patterson, son of R. C. Patterson, the millionaire tobacco manufacturer of Richmond, Va., has begun suit at Omaha for divorce from his wife, Cora Lathrop Patterson, prominent as a singer in that city. At Cass Lake. Minn.. W. J. Murphy, proprietor of the Minneapolis Tribune, was dangerously injured by the premature explosion of his gun while hunting. The charge of shot entered his side under the right arm. Nearly sixty persons who attended the banquet at the opening of the new Seventh precinct police station in Cleveland suffered from ptomaine poisoning. It is believed that either the clams or the ice eream contained the poison. A. Dinkel, a florist, while making an excavation in a vacated alley in the heart of Brazil, Ind., unearthed the skeleton of a man who evidently had been murdered and buried there years ago. A large hole was found in the skull. , William C. Gates, alias "Swiftwater Bill,” has been arrested in San Francisco charged with the abduction of his 14-year-old niece from Tacoma. It is alleged that he married the girl id spite of the fact that he already had a wife. In Denver, Colo., fire destroyed the buildings at 1825 to 1837 Market street. They were occupied by the HumphreyJones Mercantile Company, wholesale paints, and the Sauer Manufacturing Company, confectioners. Ixiss SIOO,OOO. The Indiana Long-Distance Telephone ami Telegraph Company of Kentucky, with a capital of $1,000,000, was incorporated at Dover, Del. It is authorize 1 to construct and operate telegraph an I telephone lines in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. Emil I. Fischer, the Humane Society stable boy who tried to sell a mongrel pup at Madisonville, Ohio, for $60,090, was sent to Longview lunatic asylum, a victim of liquor. He declares he was started in the drink habit by taking wine at communion. Oliver Eylar of Dallas, Texas, who was visiting his brother, J. W. Eylar, editor of the Georgetown, Ohio, News Democrat, shot himself in the temple in the woods and was found dead several hours later. He had been acting queerly for some days. Rather than go to school 15-year-old Arthur Jaquay, son of A. K. Jaquay, a boilermaker in the railway shops at Atchison, Kan., committed suicide. The boy rebelled at going to school and when his parents insisted he secured a revolver and shot himself.