Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1901 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Automobiles are to be used to transport mail between the Minneapolis postoffice and substations. Illness and despondency caused Edward O. Jay, city treasurer of Elk Point, S. D., to commit suicide by taking poison. The supreme senate of the Knights of the Ancient Essenic Order has elected B. S. Bartlow of Hamilton, Ohio, supreme senator. Dr. William C. Gray, editor of the Interior and distinguished in counsels of Presbyterian Church, died at bis home in Oak Park. Kirk B. Armour, aged 47 years, head of tho Armour house in Kansas City, died after a long illness of acute inflammation of the kidneys. "Jack" Haverly, famous minstrel and manager, one of the most interesting characters of the American stage, died at Salt Lake. George M. Pullman was married at Carson, Nev., to Mrs. Sarah L. Brasell, who was one of the beautiful West sisters of Ban Francisco. Mrs. Joseph 11. Ormsby of Chicago has given birth to four babes, following previous record of three singles, two pairs of twins and one set of triplets. L. C. Bishop, superintendent of a mining company operating at Chico, Mont., shot and killed J. M. Cunningham, a miner, in a dispute over a claim. Nine buildings, including the finest business block in the city, were burned at Custer, 8. D. Tho fire is supposed to have been incendiary. Loss $50,000. The Minnesota conference of the Methodist Church has voted, 00 to 12, in favor of the new constitution allowing women representation iu the general conference. At Georgetown, Ohio, Homer Fite shot and beat bis wife until she will die, and then shot himself to death. Mrs. Fite said he shot aud beat her after a quarrel. , Two hundred conductors nnd guards of the South Side Elevated road iu Chicago struck for higher wages. The line was operated with unexpected success with new men. Miss Jennie L. Butler, for twenty years iu charge of the Society library of New York City, committed suicide nt Neligh, Neb., by taking carltolic acid. She was 40 years old. , Agents of the Schwartschlld & Bulaberger Packing Company of Kansas City announce that the concern will locate a $1,000,060 packing plant In Omaha in the near future. A school house in a Finnish settlement near Fergus Falls, Minn., was struck by lightning nnd one girl was killed and a child severely injured. There were twe«-

ty-five persons in the bniiding at the time. The will of Bishop H. B. Whipple, filed at St. Paul, gives one-third of his $60,000 estate to his widow and divides the remainder between his fouj: children, a cousin, niece and grandson. Three men were badly burned by an explosion of molten metal at the upper furnace of the Brier Hill Iron and Coal Company at Youngstown, Ohio Two*will probably die of their injuries. The fishing tug Empire caught fire in the Detroit river abreast of Grosse Isle, and was burned to the water’s edge. The burning boat was rim aground on the island, and the crew escaped in safety. J. J. Sullivan, a prominent business man and member of the Cincinnati Board of Equalization, was caught between a bridge and a street car near St. Bernard, Ohio, and instantly killed. Eight prisoners broke out of the county jail at Canton, Ohio, by sawing out bars over a window opening upon the court between the jail and court house, They had five minutes' start when discovered. At Little York, 0., Mrs. Carrie Curtis Early drowned her two children and herself in a well. It is believed the woman was demented. She was recently released from the insane asylum at Massillon, Ohio. Four special policemen fought with 2<M) strikers and sympathizers in San Francisco. Seven men were shot, one of whom will die. Regular police arrested thirty of the mob, all of them heavily armed.

William J. Yoder, the engineer in charge of. the Baltimore and Ohio reconstruction between Garrett, Ind., and Chicago, Ohio, died at Tiffin, Ohio, of apoplexy. His body was found lying near the track west of the town. Ixniis Steubel, a baker, has published an apology to the citizens of Argentine, Kan., for uncomplimentary remarks made about the late President McKinley, and a mass meeting hns withdrawn its threat to drive him from town. Commander-in-chief Torrance of the G. A. R. has appointed Silas H. Towler of Minneapolis, adjutant general; Charles Burrows of Rutherford, Neb., quartermaster general, and Wilfred A. Wetherbee of Boston, inspector general. Guard at the McKinley vault at Canton was attacked by midnight prowlers carrying packages supposed to have contained explosives, the intention being to destroy the vault. One soldier was stabbed while pursuing the marauders. The will of President McKinley has been filed for probate at Canton. Estate is valued at from $225,000 to $250,000. The widow receives an income during life, property to be divided at her death among testator's brothers and ssiters equally. At Ashley, near Louisiana, Mo., Daniel Bowen shot Wight Gillam with n shotgun, inflicting a probably fatal wound. They were neighboring merchants and had been enemies for years, having quarreled originally over a dog. Bowen surrendered. The Lake Shore Electric Company is planning to equip its line with sleeping cars between Cleveland and Detroit and perhaps Toledo. It is the intention to extend the line to Pittsburg from Detroit, making the longest electric line in the world.

Mrs. Mary Hagood, wife of Robert Hagood, a well-to-do farmer residing about two miles east of Higginsville, Mo., was shot and instantly killed at her home about 2 o’clock the other morning. Her son Ben found her body. The shooting is a mystery. In a street fight at Troy, Kan., Carl White, aged 23, was shot and fatally wounded by Howard Lange, aged 17. sou of a restaurant keeper. White had ordered beer and when Lange refused to serve it because of the prohibitory law he provoked a quarrel. With look of despair on his face an unknown man, aged about 55, climbed from the deck of the steamer City of Milwaukee, at St. Joseph, Mich., rested a few seconds on the outer rail opposite the main deck, then sprang into Lake Michigan and was drowned. Robert 11. Naylor, n deputy warden of the penitentiary was killed by a convict at Danville, Ark. His slayer is Bud Wilson, a negro, whom he was taking to Danville to exchange him there for another convict. Wilson struck Naylor with a large iron pin, crushing his skull. Paul Clegg, a parachute jumper of Springfield, Ohio, who was racing with a professional parachute jumper at the county fair grounds in Lima, Ohio, came down in the water works reservoir and was drowned in eight feet of water. He could swim, but was caught in the ropes. Oberlin, Ohio, College freshmen and sophomores fought the fiercest battip on the college campus that ha* been seen there in years. The affair started in the kidnaping of the freshman president, R. A. Keller, ami his removal to some place iu the country from which he has not a* yet returned. Two months ago James lleahard of North Manchester, Ind., was notified that his son Homer bad been found on the outskirts of Denver, Colo., with two revolver wounds, which later caused death. Rny Poole, a 14-year-old boy now in custody at Denver, has confessed to having fired the shots. James Boyd, one of the two men arrested at Hamilton, Ohio, for an alleged attempt to rob the county treasury, admitted that he la John Ryan of Chicago, wanted for robbing the Bluffs, 111., bank of 12,100 last October. He served aix years in the Nebraska penitentiary for shooting an officer in 1892. Five thousand dollar*’ worth of poison has been fed to Kansas prjjirie dogs, upon which they appear to flourish and fatten. The recent legislature appropriated- the money for the purchase of poison. Reports from west Kansas *ay these pest* are destroying cattle ranges and multiplying by the thousand*. Believing himself to lie the victim of inaliciod* and unrelenting persecution and thinking that he was mim'd through the effort* of his enemies, Jacob A. Blodt killed himself by asphyxiation in a little boarding house on Perry street, Cleveland. For twenty years Mr. Blodt had been Identified with prominent business interests in Cleveland. Nearly half of tho 100 passengers on the through train from Bt. Ijbni* to Omaha on the Wabash road were injured. aud all bail n narrow escape from death, when the train jumped the track and pitched down an 18-foot embank-

ment, landing bottom side up within • few feet of Indian Creek, near Connell Bluffs. Three of the injured probably will die.