Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1901 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

In Springfield, Ohio, the First Congregational Church was demolished by an explosion. It is supposed that a leak in the natural gas pipes filled the auditorium with gas, which reached the furnace and was ignited. The building cost >BO,OOO. A. C. Vosburgh, a horse jockey, while making preparations to commit suicide at Lincoln, Neb., suffered an attack of apoplexy and died before he could swallow the poison. Physicians state that the excitement of preparing for death broughtl on the attack. The American Bridge Company has secured the contract for the steel superstructure of the Wabtisli Railroad's big cantilever bridge over the Ohio river at Mingo Junction. The amount of the contract is over $600,000. The whole cost of the bridge will be $1,000,000. Michael McLaughlin, aged 62, who during Cleveland's last term as President was manager of the White House stables and at one time the city jailer and a well-known politician of Lexington, Ky., committed suicide in that city by cutting his throat with a razor. 11l health was the cause. D. P. Wheeler, cashier of the Citizens' National Bank of Akron, Ohio, was found dead in front of the vault in the bank. He had been killed by an electric shock through handling a socket of an incandescent lamp and opening the vault door at the same time, thus forming a fatal current. . _ At Cheyenne, Wyo., eighty members of Company F. Eighteenth infantry, were poisoned while eating breakfast, and for a time over half of them were in danger of death. The post surgeon was hurriedly summoned and administered an antidote. The surgeon examinctl the food served at breakfast and is of the opinion that the poison was in the beef. A freight wreck occurred shortly after noon on what is known as the big trestle, three-quarters of a mile south of Ridgeton, Tenn., on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. The first section of train No. 67 jumped the track while on the trestle and plunged down 130 feet into the valley below. The engine and entire train went over. Three men were killed. United States Indian Agent Randlett, for the Kiowa nnd ComifnchA tribes, is sending out notices to all persons who have staked mining claims in Indian allotments in Oklahoma that they must vacate at once or they will be ejected from Fort Sill. The action is based upon the opinion of the Attorney General, approved by Secretary Hitchcock, and sent to the agent tinder recent date, prohibiting miners from filing on Indian allotments. Railroads with headquarters in Omaha are considering the project of reseeding all the western ranges. The preliminary portion of the scheme involves extensive experimenting with the cultivation of different range grass seeds. .The plan Includes the ranges of Utah, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Nevada nnd Idaho. The railroads expect the government to aid. The different States to be benefited will also lie asked to contribute a share of the general expense. The fire in the Champion Coated Paper Works at Hamilton, Ohio, which started late Sunday night was not under control before 3 o’clock the next morning. The loss is placed between $750,000 and sl,000,000. It was the largest plant of the kind in the United States and employed more than 400 persons. A stock of $250,000 worth of enameled book and magazine paper was destroyed. There was also a loss of a great quantity of valuable machinery. The fire was caused by the explosion of a can of gasoline in the hands of John Kopp who was using it in cleaning the machinery. Kopp was severely burned. The plant is owned by a company of which Peter G. Thompson of College Hill is the largest stockholder.