Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Max Grossman, nu old German, was drowned in the Marais des Cygnea at Ottawa, Kan., while fishing. L. W. Lacey, superintendent of the Palm Fruit Company's ranch near Wasco, Cal., was shot and killed by nu employe. Robert E. Lee aud Samuel Garvin were convicted at Helena, Mont., of stealing TOO head of cattle from the luiliuus on the Crow reservation. The Minnesota Supreme Court rules that foreign corporations cannot enforce contracts in the State unless incorporation papers are filed there. Charles C. Lemert, executive clerk to Gov. Nash, and his entire family were poisoned by eating pork for diuaer at Columbus, Ohio. All will recover. 4*ix hundred trainmen of the Pittsburg. Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad have been notified of a voluntary increase Of 10 per cent in wages commencing Jan. 1. An Evanston detective, aided by a dog, has found the clothing discarded by Miss Florence Ely and her nephew, Frank Rogers, on the day of their disappearance. John E- Dempsey, n printer, while frightened by tire leaped from a fourthfloor window of the Washburn building in Bt. Paul and received injuries from which he died. Moses F. Solmson shot nnd killed George Stubblefield at Pine Bluff, Ark. The tragedy is a sequel to the killing of Carl Stubblefield by Myer Solmson aeverol months ago. The-body of Frank Dunaway, who disappeared three months ago at Newark, Ohio, was found under a gus tank in that

city. It is thought his death was accidental, although murder is hinted at. C. A. Young wag arrested at Poteas, I. T., on the charge of robbing a Texas postofflee last spring of SSOO in money and stamps. He paid $l4O in stamps for a diamond ring and this led to his arrest. D. 8. Ambler of Salem, Ohio, has been appointed a federal judge in the Philippine Islands. He will leave for the Islands the latter part of March, going first to Sebo, but later will be stationed at Manila. Three men were crushed to death and four others severely injured by the falling of an iron girder weighing twenty tons in the shipping department of the American Bridge Company’s plant iu Chicago. John Pipkin, a planter and merchant, shot aud killed his brother-in-law, John Manus, near Forest City, Ark. It is claimed that Manus had shot into Pipkin's store, wounding Pipkin and his two sons slightly. Miss Mary A. Anderson, city attorney of Palmyra, Mo., lost her first case the other day, when she surrendered her heart and ambitious aspirations to Otho F. Matthews, a young and handsome attorney of St. Louis. Andrew Carnegie has offered to. give Kalispell, Mont., SIO,OOO for a library provided the city furnishes a site and SI,OOO yearly for maintenance. The city already expends that amount each year for library support. Simon Owens, aged 102, was burned to death in his cabin in Guthrie, O. T. He was born n slave on Gen. Andrew Jackson's plantation, and was crippled for life at Vicksburg when the city was besieged by Gen. Graut. Thousands of bushels of grain were destroyed by the burning of the H. F. Mueller elevator at Fifty-fifth street aud tjje Fort Wayne tracks in Chicago. The loss to stock, machinery and the building is estimated at $200,000. Cass Lake, Minn., village council has appropriated S3OO to send a delegation to Washington to oppose the creation of a national park in northern Minnesota. The people want the Chippowa reservation opened to settlement. While fire truck No. 7 was responding to an alarm in Toledo. Ohio, it collided with a street car, resulting in the death of Captain J. B. Ward of the fire company and the injury of several other firemen, one of whom may die. Mrs. J. B. Itngar, wife of a farmer living near Philadelphia, Mo., locked herself in a bedroom, saturated the carpet with coal oil and set fire to it after cutting her throat. Emotional insanity is assigned as the cause for the act. Gov. J. R. Rogers, who had been critically ill with pneumonia for several days, died at Tacoma, Wash. The immediate result will be a revolution in the political complexion of the State government. Lieut. Gov. Mcßride is a Republican. The premature explosion of a small eaunon at the residence of William Gottner, five miles southeast of Gallon, Ohio, resulted in five young men being seriously injured. John Gyttner, one of the five, was badly burned end his eyes are injured. At Grand Island, Neb., Augustus Hessel, aged 78, committed suicide by hanging as the result of brooding over the death of his wife. The old man was missed by neighbors, wtm broke open the Hessel home and found him hanging to a stringer. James Hicks, a prominent iron manufacturer of Cincinnati, Ohio, died in the Waldorf-Astoria, New- York, of blood poisoning. A few days before he was licking an envelope, when the sharp edge of the paper cut his lip, and blood poisoning set in. A terrific sandstorm raged all over southern California, unrooting buildings, devastating orange groves, breaking windows, and in many cities bringing traffic almost to a standstill. The principal sufferers were Colton, Pomona, San Bernardino and Santa Ana. Fire destroyed the Deadwood, S. D., Opera House. Most of the contents burned, including a quantity of supplies belonging to the National Guard, consisting of tents, clothing and horse equipments. The firemen had a hard fight to save tho city hall adjoining. Loss $35,000. Three negroes were killed near Wilmot, Ark., as the result of a quarrel over a land sale. Martin Davis and Jeff Davis, cousins, engaged in a fatal duel. James Thompson, a friend of one of the men, was subsequently shot and killed by Arthur Davis, father of Martin Davis. Fire which started in the pharmaceutical department of the Cwdahy Packing Company's plant in Omaha did $40,000 damage. The department occupied a twostory brick building, 70x332 feet, which was destroyed. The gum and box factories were also located in the building. Rev. James A. Heath hau been deposed from the pastorate of the Calvary Baptist Church iu Kansas City and deprived of membership in toe congregation as the result of charges that he illegally seeded n divorce from his yife in Castile, N. Y., in order to marry n Kansas City woman, Levi Saunders, cor viet No. 2471 at the federal prison iu Lea /enworth, Kan., escaped. He was a teg Ulster and about 3 o’clock put his team in the corral at the prison and walked nwjy. Saunders was sent to prison from Arkansas for a violation of the postal ltnvs. He Lad four months left to serve.

The recent cold wnvj is said to have destroyed practically the entire peach crop of southwestern Michigan. A total of 15,000 acres, which i.reduced 300,000 bushels of peaches last year, is affected. Experts have gone through the orchards and report that the buds ire killed. The loss will represent $1,000,100. At Lima, Ohio, George llmith, n prominent young man, was anrosted charged with forgery by his broiler. Smith was an employe of Smith As Sherrick, contractors, his brother beiig the seuior member of the firm. H» is prominent socially and liefnre the Spanish war was a member of the Lima City Guards, Company C. Soda Fife, a Creek Indian, hag confessed at Viuita, I. T., to the murder of Louis Wilson, a prosperous farmer, near Tulsa in May, 1807. Wilson disappeared from home and his skeleton was found in the woods n year luter. The Indian says lie enticed Wilson iuto the woods nnd then shot him just because he desired to kill somebody. Fire starting in a show window of the department stiwe of Brandeis & Sous In Omaha caused a serious panic among 1,000 shop|ters, ami several women were injured. Prompt work by the store’* hose company and the turuing on of the

% I automatic sprinklers drenched the stock and extinguished the flumes, making the loss by fire less than $5,000. The first conviction under the kidnaping and intimidating law passed last winter by the State Legislature was secured in Lincoln, Neb., when C. S. Hunt was given a sentence of one year in the penitentiary. Hunt threatened a neighbor’s family and demauded that S2OO be buried in a vacant lot. A can of nails was buried instead and officers set to watch. Hunt's urrest and conviction followed. Martin Gleason. 50 years old, superintendent of the Wild Ilorse, Damon and Deadwood mines nt Cripple Creek, was found dead nt the bottom of the Kalamazoo shaft, 500 feet below the surface of the ground. The ground around the mouth of the shaft bore marks of a struggle and it is evident that Gleason was murdered, although no motive for the crime is known. Gleason disappeared the previous day. The register aud receiver of the Kalispel, Mont., land office has received a TeiferTrdm the Interlor Department in-" structing tho withdrawal of all lands from settlement iu Montana north aud west of the Kootenai river. The order will involve over 1,000,000 aeres of land, besides taking from the State of Idaho over 270,000 acres, which, when surveyed and completed, will bo made into a new forest reserve to be known as the Kootenai Forest reserve of Idaho and Montana. Fog caused a wreck ou the Cincinnati, Hamilton aud Dayton Railroad, in which four passengers and two trainmen on the south-bound Chicago express were injured. The engineer was unable to see ahead or the flagman's signal and his engine and part of the coaches tore a way through a freight train that was crossing the track at Hartwell, Ohio. While a wrecking train was ou the way to the scene the chain of a crane broke a«d, falling upon workmen, killed two and injured one cither.