Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Fire that started in the plant of Curtis & Co., Chicago, coffin makers, caused a loss of $240,000. Eugene Hector, newspaper man, shot and killed highwayman who held him up on the street in Chicago. William 11. Seaton was hanged nt Seattle for the murder of his uncle, Daniel Richards, Dec. 10, 1900. Max Grossman, an old German, was drowned in the Marais des Cygnes at Ottawa, Ivan., while fishing. Near Casper, Wyo., in a light with four escaped prisoners, Sheriff W. C. Ricker was shot and probably fatally injured. L. W. Lacey, superintendent of the Palm Fruit Company’s ranch near Wasco, Cal., was shot and killed by an employe. John J. Valentine’s will, filed for probate at Oakland, Cal., leaves an estate vplued at $400,000 to his widow and children. N. 11. Mlnchell, of Minneapolis, has been elected president of the Geological Society of America, in session at Rochester, N. Y. John Sullivan and his family, living at Lima, Ohio, were asphyxiated by the natural gas pressure coming on while they were asleep. The Duluth Transfer Railway has been sold under foreclosure of bonds amounting to $1,180,000 aud bought in by the bondholders. Citizens of Leavenworth, Knn., have voted in favor of issuing $400,000 bonds for municipal ownership of the city waterworks plant. Walter Bell, aged 2 years, of Amanda, Ohio, burned himself to death with matches. Ilis mother had stepped out for a few minutes. Robert K. Lee and Samuel Garvin were convicted at Helena, Mont., of stealing 700 head of cattle from the Indians on the Crow reservation. Six persons were injured in a collision between a Hnlsted street electric car and a surrey occupied by Samuel Feitler und his family In Chicago. Section Foreman Sullivan of the Great Northern while iu a drunken rage killed his daughter nn|l seriously injured his wife nt Jennings, Mont.

Timothy Moore, Janies Ilogue and A. T. Calhoun were killed by the explosion of a boiler at Britt's Switch, Ark. Two other men were badly Injured. The Searchlight Hotel, Searchlight, Nev., was destroyed by fire. Mrs. Bullo<*k, the lessee, and her two children, a boy and girl, were burned to death. Norley Hall and Ray aged 1(1 and 18 years respectively, broko through the ice while skating on Utah

lake, near Provo, Utah, and were drowned. W. R. Davis was killed. and several thousand dollars’ damage done at Ireland’s stone quarry at Dunkirk, Ohio, by the premature explosion of ten pounds of dynamite. J. W. Cheek, formerly a sician in Bryan, Texas, St. Clair County, Missouri, and Council Grove, Kan., committed suicide at Kansas City, Mo., by taking morphine. The San Francisco mint has just completed a coinage record, which makes IPOI the banner year in its history, $31,072,590 having been converted from bullion into coin. F. 11. Cooper has retired from the firm of Siegel, Cooper & Co. in Chicago, to devote all of his attention to his New York interests. The announcement was made by Henry Siegel. Stewart Fife was arrested at North Y’ukima, Wash., charged with the murder of Frank W. Richardson, a rich merchant of Savannah, a year ago. Fife disappeared last June; John Murray, wanted by the American police on the charge of murdering his wife at Jefferson, Ohio, has surrendered to the police in London and is awaiting extradition proceedings. An enormous gusher giving a million feet of gas a day was struck in “Wild Cat" territory, near Rockbridge, Ohio, by the Springfield Gas Company. Several dry holes had been drilled near the gusher. Fireman Henry Schopper, of the westbound California limited, was instantly killed by his head striking the iron girder of a bridge in New Mexico as he leaned out of the cab to see if the track ahead was clear. Bernard Michel, G 7 years old, was found iu his office in St. Paul with his throat cut. It is believed to he a case of suicide. Michel was one of the most prominent and wealthy residents of his part of the city. Judge Chetiain of Chicago ventured an opinion that trial by jury in contempt cases involving criminal facts is proper, upheld picketing aud thinks there is no conspiracy when men become dissatisfied and quit employers. In Cincinnati Miss Anna Clark, a domestic, died as a result of a frightful jump from a trestle fifty feet in a frenzied effort to escape death from an approaching train. She was alive when picked up, but later died at the hospital. The will of Frank 11. Peavey, Minneapolis elevator king, disposes of estate estimated at $2,350,000 in hundreds of bequests, including gifts to employes and relatives. Continuation of his grnin business is provided for and $1,000,000 is put into it. Lieut. James F. Beven, Eighth artillery, was found dead iu bed at Fort Caub.v, Wash. His brains were blown out and by his side was found a revolver. It is apparently a ease of suicide, though no reason is known why he should take his life. Near Shawnee, Ivun., Carl Fishner, a farmer, shot and probably fatally wounded M rs. M ary L. Wallace. She was traveling overland in a covered wagon from Rich Hill to Custer County, Neb., with her family, and was accused of stealing corn. Clyde Moore, the 17-yenr-okl boy convicted of murder in the second degree for killing C. L. Wlltberger, a farmer, near Winfield, Kan., lßst April for his money, has been sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary. He received the verdict with a smile. Committee of seven Cleveland bankers has taken over the Gnancial affairs of the Everett-Moore syndicate after a conference. Solvency of the syndicate is not in doubt, the action being due to the need of ready cash by the electric railway and telephone companies controlled by it. Philip Y’oder, aged 72 years, died as a retired section foreman of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Louisville, Ohio. It was thought that he had little property, but developments show that he left an estate of more than $30,000, some of which hud been boarded for many years. The explosion of a boiler in the basement of the Sacred Heart Institute in Duluth, Minn., resulted in a loss of several thousand dollars to the building, while seventy persons who were within at the time narrowly escaped being killed or injured. Evening devotions were in progress. The Central Congregational Church of Topeka, Kan., the pastor of which is Rev. C. M. Sheldon, was entered by vandals and badly defaced. Caricatures were drawn on the walls and furniture and books nnd other articles were destroyed. Several small articles were stolen from Mr. Sheldon's study. A strike of exceptional richness is reported from the Nisi Prius mine, near Oro, Colo.j at the head of California gulch. It is predicted the owners of the property will in a few weeks be able to take out all the money they have spent in twelve years of development aud substantial fortunes in addition. By decree of the Circuit Court In Toledo, Ohio, the estate of the late President Rutherford B. Hayes must pay to Mrs. Ademide Smith of Fremont $5,400 ns damages for the bite of a pet dog belonging to Mr. Ilayes. The case is one of the most noted iu the Ohio courts, and has been long and vigorously contested. Th»*Baloon of Joseph Deutsch In Chicago was robbed via the ice-box route. The proprietor was at supper nnd his son was watching the place when four men entered. They did not stop to buy a drink, but forced the boy into the ice box at the point of revolvers and then secured $22, the contents of the cash register. The 3-cent street railroad fare ordinance recently introduced in the Cleveland City Council at the instigation of Mayor Johnson has been passed by that body. The next step will be to bid for the new lines, which, if the program Is carried through, will add a number of new street car routes to the city’s system.