Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Harry Hagemeyer and Charles Berger, laborers at the Proctor & Gamble soap works at Cincinnati, were asphyxiated in an oil tank. Thomas Mills and Henry Grenfeldt were killed by the premature explosion of dynamite in the Wabash mine near Custer, S. D. The roller mill at Sprague Lake, Wash., owned by the Centennial Milling Company, has been destroyed by fire Loss $60,000. Frank Kendall’s lumber yard and dry kilns, with 4,000,000 feet of iumber, were burned at Kedrou, Ark. Loss $50,000, with no insurance. The entire business portion of Arapahoe, the county seat of Custer County, Oklahoma, was wiped out by fire. The loss is estimated at $50,000. Former Policeman George Vena was found in the outskirts of Maumee, Ohio, dying from a stab wound and expired without regaining consciousness. Ernest Hutchens, 15 years old, shot himself through the head with a revolver at his home, north of Green Springs, O. The cause for his suicide is a mystery. A first mortgage of $5,500,000 has been filed in the records office of Randolph County by the St. Louis Valley Railroad Company in favor of the St. Louis Trust Company. R. L. Spears’ house at Harmony, Ohio, was burned and his 2-year-old child perished in the flames. The father was badly burned while rescuing three other children. That to have smallpox is a crime because of the possibility of preventing it by vaccination is declared by Dr. H. M. Bracken, secretary of the Minnesota Board of Health. Eleven prisoners, headed by a counterfeiter named Moriarity, escaped from the federal prison at McNeils, Tacoma, Wash., by burrowing through a cement floor into the air pipes. Application for a receiver for the Cincinnati Safe and Lock Company has been made by a majority of the stockholders. They place the assets at $42,798 and the liabilities at $109,000. Samuel F. Hawley, aged 39, an attorney of Chicago, shot and killed himself at the home of bis brother, E. W. Hawley, in St. Louis. Grip, added to other complications, rendered him despondent. Thomas Redmond, nged 17, recently convicted of murder in the second degree at Kansas City for having stabbed to death Thomas Scruggs, has been sentenced to twenty-live years in the penitentiary. At Milton. N. D., Mrs. Lars Hanson was burned to death while starting a fire with kerosene. Her sister, Miss Lottie Doty of Chicago, who was visiting her, wont to her rescue, and was burned ao badly that she died. Mrs. Dorothy Hoffman, 80 years of nge, was burned to death at her home in Ironton, Ohio. She walked near an open grata lire and het- dress ignited. Being alone and unaided, she was fatally burned, living but a short time. Mrs. Carrie Nation, nt Topeka, Kap., while flourishing a large hatchet which she received ns a present from an Eastern manufacturing firm, dropped it and the keen edge of the Instrument severed the large toe of her right foot. In Cincinnati Aunie Lage, a servant

sirl, murdered the 5-year-old son of William H. Whitaker by hanging and then attempted to commit suicide by asphyxiation. It la probable that she will die without regaining consciousness. Cashier Philip 8. Adams and $4,500 disappeared Monday, and later Chief George D. Carstarphen of the State banking department closed the Commercial Bank at Fulton, Mo., taking charge at the request of the president. Fire in the ticket office of the Union station, Canal and West Adams streets, Chicago, imperiled sixty railway employes, caused a panic among 200 patrons of the roads in the big waiting room and wrecked $12,000 worth of property. Herbert H. Matteson, cashier of the First National Bank of Great Falls, Mont., was arrested by Deputy United States Marshal C. I’’. Gage on a charge of embezzlement. Matteson is charged with having misappropriated $25,000. The Michigan Buggy Company’s fourstory brick factory burned in Kalamazoo. Loss SIOO,OOO, about half covered by insurance. The company is now erecting a large new factory in Manufacturing Park in the south part of the city. Missouri Democrats will hold a convention at Springfield July 8 to nominate three candidates for judges of the Supreme Court, and one at St. Joseph July 22 to name candidates for railroad commissioners and superintendent of schools. In a rear-end collision between Chicago Great Western and Grand Island freight trains at Bee Creek Junction, Mo., Fireman George W. Miller of the Great Western was crushed to death. Others of the train crews were slightly injured. In Los Angeles, Cal., the Rees & Wirsching block was almost totally destroyed by fire, together with the saddlery establishment of the Hayden & Lewis Company and the coffee and spice house of Newmark Brothers. Loss $150,000. West-bound Missouri Pacific passenger train No. 3 ran into an east-bound freight train a mile east of Etlah, Mo. Many cars were smashed. Only one person was injured. Judge Elijah Robinson of Kansas City, who eseaped with severe bruises. Sixty guards, armed with rifles, fought n desperate battle with robbers in the Independence gold mine at Cripple Creek, Colo. The fight took place 400 feet below ground, and in absolute darkness. One guard was wounded and the robbers escaped. The saloonkeepers of Toledo. Ohio, held a meeting recently, at which a resolution was unanimously adopted requesting proprietors and bartenders hot to use profane language in their saloons and to post notices forbidding patrons to swear on the premises. H. H. Kohlsaat retired from editorial control of the Chicago Record-Herald. Frank B. Noyes, who has been in charge of the business of the paper since the consolidation of the Record and TimesHerald last April, now takes full control of the property. Henry Coffee and his son, both discharged employes of the Southern Missouri and Arkansas Railroad, were caught setting fire to the depot at Poplar Bluff, Mo. They confessed to setting the fires which destroyed the company’s rolling stock recently. Four miners were killed, one dangerously hurt and a number of others seriously injured by a cave-in at the Ada mine, located at Carterville, Mo. Others were hurt, but their injuries are not serious. The accident was caused by the premature explosion of dynamite. The center span of the West Washington street bridge crossing White river in Indianapolis succumbed to the weight of a work train consisting of two trolley cars and four teams. Twelve workmen were precipitated into the river, but all were rescued alive. Four were injured. Jessie Wilson at Santa Monica, Cal., fished from the Pacific a bottle containing a message which came from central Illinois, around Cape Horn. The message was written by Walter Roeder of Bloomington 111., and after being inclosed in a bottle, was thrown into the Mackinaw river.

The show window of William Fink's jewelry store, on Main, near Fifteenth street, Cincinnati, was broken while the street was crowded and a tray containing sixty diamond rings valued at $2,500 was stolen. The robbers escaped after firing several shots at Mr. Fink, who pursued theta. The sound steamer Fairhaven, operating between Seattle, Wash., Laconner and way ports, struck a rock or reef a short distance from Utsaladdy during a fog and soon after sank in ten feet of water. The passengers and crew all succeeded in reaching the lifeboats in safety. Chief Justice Burford of Oklahoma has issued an order stating that if there be only one colored child of school age in a school district the authorities must provide a separate school house and teacher. This order takes in the entire territory and will prove very expensive to the various counties. The Pere Marquette Railway Company's steamer No. 3 struck the bar at the mouth of the Ludington, Mich., harbor, and was scuttled in nine feet of water. The nine passengers and thirtyfive members of the crew were taken off by the life-saving crew with their breeches buoy. Frank C. Youmans, arrested in Detroit two months ago ou a charge of embezzling $4,411 from the Traders’ Bank of Kansas City, Mo., was, discharged for lack of evidence. He was rearrested and arraigned on the charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. He pleaded not guilty and gave bond. Rev. Father Krninhnrdt, 62 years old, for thirty years pastor of a German Roman Catholic Church at Jonesville, Mo., wns found dead in his room at the Alexian Brothers’ hospital in St. Louis. He had hanged himself by means of a rope made from his sheets which he bad tied to the transom above the door. Nelson Morris, the Chicago packer, through his confidential agent, Joseph H. Agnew, has purchased a big meat warehouse in the west bottoms formerly occupied by the Cudahy Company as a market, at Kansas City. It Is stated that this is the first step of the Chicago packer to establish n plant in Kansas City. A suit in attachment was filed by A. A. Taquin, a Parisian banker, against Miss Evans of Cincinnati, aunt of the Duchess of Manchester, for 2,860 francs ($372). The suit is on a draft drawn on herself. March 4, 1898, and not paid. The real estate of Miss Evans is attached. It is said the money obtained on the draft was used for expeuscs connected with the

i 1 1 wedding of Miss Zimmerman and the Duke of Manchester. A south-bound Kansas City Southern passenger train was held up half a mile uorth of Spiro, Ok., by seven masked men. The express and mail car were entered. The local safe in the express car was opened, but nothing secured from it. The robbers tried to open the through safe, but failed. Then they rifled the mail car.