Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1901 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Judge Eli Torrance of Minneapolis was unanimously elected commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic at Cleveland. In Tacoma, Wash., a woman, supposed to be a Mrs. llarrigau, jumped from a third-story window at the Fremont House and sustained fatal injuries. Reports to the railroad headquarters at Ht. Paul state that Northwestern farmers are delaying thrashing and shipping grain, fearing adverse effect on prices.

An unidentified man and woman who went boat riding in Chicago did not return. The boat was found upside down the next morning. The couple were supposedly drowned. W. 11. Thompson, au aged farmer of Coyle, O. T., was egged by a mob liecause, owing to nil alleged religious belief, be bus persisted for ten years in wearing female apparel. Willi* Day called on his divorced wife at Pima, Ohio. He found Frank Trimmer in her company and Day nearly killed him. It is believed that he is fatallyhurt. Day was arrested. New indictments have been returned at Santa Fe, N. M., against Pedro Sanches, census supervisor of New Mexico, and Mariano Sena, his clerk, charging embezzlement and forgery. A bad freight wreck occurred on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad near Eggleston, Minn., in which a numlter of kindl'd freight ears were destroyed and two men were killed. The ltultimore and Ohio Houthwesteren strike at Washington, lud., has been adjusted. The shops have resumed with full force. The union is recognized and extra pay for overtime and Sunday work granted. One of the worst gales of the year swept over the southeastern end of I.nke Michigan Sunday, destroying shipping and euusing the loss of two lives. Several wrecks were reported from points on the Michigan const. Mrs. Fewkes, wife of Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, a prominent physician of Washington, I>. C., and Mrs. Mary Putnam of Davenport, lowa, were painfully injured In a runaway on the mountain side near Glen wood Springs, Colo. Albert Ruff, a Frenchman, aged about 50 years, shot and instantly killed his wife at their home in Yandulla, Mo. Huff had been drinking and lie and his wife beenme involved in n quarrel over the division of some of their property. George M. Pullman is once more going to tempt fate and enter the bonds of matrituouy, just as soon as lie can secure a divorce from his present wife, Pyune Fernald Pullman. The fiancee is Mrs. Bra sell, a San Francisco widow. Body taken from the lake at Chicago is identified as that of M, G. Van der Rurg, a wealthy Hollander, who went bunting with Stella Cook. Tile belief now is that both were accidentally drowned and that Harry Thurston, who lias been regarded with suspicion, is guiltless. At the annual meeting of the National Ilay Association at Indianapolis K. P. Rogers, formerly president, declared that while corn is king of the agricultural products hay rnnk* second with a total valuation on the product this year amounting to .''.440,000,000. Miss Nancy Stone, daughter of eX-Statc Senator James G. Stone of I x-a veu worth, Kan., eloped with Guy Snell, son of a poor farmer. The young couple were married and are reported to have gone West on a wedding tour. The father of the girl tried to head them off, but failed. Jessie Morrison, wbo was sent to the penitentiary at Imnsing. Kan/, for five years for killing Mrs. Clara Wiley Castle, her rival, at Eldorado, by cutting bee

throat with a razor, has been released. She was liberated on bond pending an appeal of her case to the State Supreme Court. At Portland, Ore., C. 11. Keating, known to the musical world as Lynn Udall, author of “Just as the Sun Went Down,” and “Just One Girl," has been sued for *20,000 for breach of promise by Jessie Stillsou, a school teacher. Keating was married Aug. 1, this year, to Clara Troutman. Mrs. Mollie Mabrav of Kansas City dashed two ounces of carbolic acid into the face of Miss Maud Hnnsoti at Omaha because she believed the young woman had alienated the affections of her husband, a traveling man. The young woman was severely burned nbout the cheeks, nose, chin amt mouth. The consolidation of five Nebraska and two lowa creameries has been completed, with a prospect of as many more companies coming into the combine. The new company will be known as the Ncbraskalowa Creamery Company, with a capital stock of *200,000. Its principal place of business will be at Omaha. The great steel strike is at on end so for as Joliet, 111., is concerned. On u recent afternoon the massive tnnehinery at the plant was set in motion and hundreds of men poured through the gates in response to the shrill blasts of the whistles. The strikers found a way to return to their old positions without friction either with the Amalgamated Association or the company.