Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1901 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The Toledo, Ohio, plant"of the American Tin Can Company was destroyed by fire. The loss is about $300,000, with insurance id' SIBB,OOO. At Lima, Ohio, while addressing the Endeavor Society at the Disciple Church', W. M. Abbott, elder in the church, dropped dead from heart disease. The Missouri State Board of Arbitration settled the coal miners' strike in Audrain County. It was amicably settled in favor of tlie operators. Fire which broke out in the Merchants’ Hotel at Madison. Minn., destroyed the town hail and fifteen business buildings, entailing a loss estimated at $50,000. The Cleveland puldic school council lias voted to include the Lord’s prayer, the ten commandments and the twenty-third psalm in the course of studies now taught. Senator Hanna, Judge Day and Col. Myron T. Herrick have started a movement to build a national monument to President McKinley in the cemetery at Canton, costing not less than $500,000. The mini who assaulted Mrs. Wadell at Wichita, Kau., was cnuglit by the bloodhounds and proved to tie a white man blacked with burnt cork and not a negro.

The safe in the bank of J. C. Brainerd & Co. at Blooming Prairie, Minn., was blown to pieces by cracksmen. Between $4,000 and $3,000 in currency was taken. One of the boilers in the city water works and electric light plant at Willmar, Minn., exploded, wrecking the plant. The dumage is estimated at $30,000, insurance SIO,OOO. One man was killed and five injured, three perhaps fatally, in a head-end collision between a Big Four passenger and a switch train about a mile from Luwreneeburg, Ind.

Colorado College lias been enriched by a gift of SIOO,OOO for the hall of science. The name of the donor is withheld, hut it is intimated that the money came from Dr. Pearsons of Chicago. Frank Hussey, one of the baggage handlers at the Pittsburg union station, was shot in the leg by a revolver in a satchel lie threw upon the Hoor of the baggage car of the Pennsylvania limited. One soldier is dead and two wounded as the result of an attempt to capture a demented trooper in the barracks room at Fort Meade, S. 1). It is believed all three were shot by the guard, who was firing ut the erasy mail.. Because the prosecution could obtain nodcgul evidence of guilt against the nine Chicago anarchists who have been held on u charge of conspiring to kill President McKinley, Judge Chetlaiu ordered them discharged. Charles T. Officer, son of the late Thomas Officer and cashier of the de-fufb-t private hank of Officer A Pitney at Council Bluffs, now iu receiver's hands, has lieen indicted ou the charge of fraudulent banking. • James Everett and Miss Odle Cutter of Hamilton, Ohio,, were killed nud Mrs. James Everett probably fatally hurt by tile collision of Everett's carriage and >

Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton train six miles north of the city. It. D. Goree, the man supposed to have been killed by Col. H. B. Howell and his son at McKnight, Ok., is still alive. Goree's friends were so satisfied that he was dead that they went to Lawton and secured the services of an undertaker. Almost the entire business part of Effingham, Ivau., was wiped out by fire, over a dozen buildings, including Wolverton’s general store and the National Washing Machine Company's factory, being destroyed. Estimated loss $50,000. The collapse of a wail on the second floor of A. M. Rothschild St Co.’s department store in Chicago, supposed to have been caused by a gas explosion, wrecked a large portion of the mammoth establishment, entailing a loss estimated at $250,000.

Fire in the four-story and basement building at 278-80-82 Madison street, Chicago, for a- time baffled nil efforts of the firemen, menaced several largo structures practically iu the center of the wholesale district and resulted in a loss aggregating $200,000. There was a killing frost in western Missouri aud eastern Kansas the other night, an earlier date for the first frost than for many years. Vegetables planted after the breaking of the drouth, in the hope of raising a crop before the frost came, were damaged. The Never Sweat mine' of the Anaconda Company ut Butte, Mont., was compelled to close down because of the general sliding movement of the earth which has disturbed Butte for several years. The shaft of the mine and the engine foundations are displaced seven inches. Judge Smith McPherson of the federal court at Council Bluffs held unconstitutional the Nebraska law defining trusts and declaring combinations Illegal, also the act intended to prevent insurance companies from combining and a third act fixing yardage rates at stock yards.

President McKinley’s mortal remains now rest in the tomb in Westlawn cemetery at Canton. The final stages of the journey were from house to church and thence to the graveyard, and city and State, nation and the world at large vied with each other in paying the last tribote. The delegates representing seven political parties of reform, who assembled in Kansas City, Mo., for “the allied third party” conference, launched a new political party which is to be a union of all reform parties. It was decided that the new party is to be called “the allied party.” The big Boston department store, conducted by the Rosenthal & Lehman DryGoods Company at St. Louis, Mo., made a general assignment in favor of its creditors. Its liabilities to 385 creditors are given as $212,000. Members of the firm have nothing to say as to the cause of the failure. The Wuvertree stock farm, located near Heron Lake, Minn., aud comprising 0,500 acres, has been sold to members of the Wisconsin Land Company of St. Paul. The price paid was about $200,000. The land was owned by an English syndicate with headquarters in Liverpool, England. As a result of a general fight at Davis, I. T., Mrs. Maggie Fulcher is dead, her husband aud Lucinda Culbert are seriously injured and Mrs. John J. Jones is fatally shot, all the work of the Jones woman’s husband, John Jones, who was angry herause she left him and went to the Fulcher home. Mrs. Lena Fair shot and killed her father-in-law, Michael Fair, at their home in South Cheyenne, Wyo. Mrs. Fair is a gir) 20 years old. She says Fair, who was past 50, threatened to kill her and that when she tired he had one hand on her throat and with the other was reaching for his rerolver.