Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Man nnd wife in Montana mining camp fought in ring for possession of their child, the woman winning. Armour & Co. are going to San Francisco. They have bought a large site and will erect buildings and establish a big packing plant. One trainman was killed and six others injured in a freight wreck in the Burlington yards in Omaha. The accident was caused by fog. Dust explosion in a mine at Lost Creek, lowa, killed twenty-nine men, seriously injured eight others and did property damage of SIO,OOO. Prof. F. L. Washburn of the Oregon State University lias been elected to succeed the late Otto Lugger as State entomologist of Minnesota. James Cain accidentally shot himself at Montpelier, Ohio. He was handling a revolver when the hammer struck a loaded shell that lie thought was empty, E. A. Goodchild, a millmau and merchant of Thompson Falls, Mont., is lost in the mountains. A searching party of 30 failed to find any trace of him. Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul limited crashed into a Kedzie avenue street car in Chicago, and a dozen persons were hurt, three of them perhaps fatally. W. G. Nevin, general manager of all the lines of tile Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fo Railroad west of Albuquerque, died at his home iu lais Angeles fr,om creeping paralysis. William Strother, negro attendant at the Yista bathhouse, has confessed the murder of Millionaire Cooper of St. Louis, who was slain while asleep on a cot in the institution.

A dozen families had a narrow escape from death and were driven from their beds into a severe blizzard by fire which destroyed the Jackson block inMJlevelaud. The money loss is about $25,000. Iu Omaha the Douglas County grand jury returned nn indictment against exState Treasurer John B. Meserve, charging him with tlic embezzlement of money belonging to the State School fund. A mixed train on the Chicago and Alton branch road was wrecked about four miles from Mexico, Mo., presumably by n broken rail. Nearly all the passengers in the coach were injured, some seriously. Gen. Harrison C. Hobart died nt the Soldiers' Home at Milwaukee. lie wnß the sole survivor of the band of men who tunneled out of Libby prison and escaped to the Union lines during the Civil War. The body of W. C. Johnson was found in the city water works reservoir at Douglas, Wyo. Johnson disappeared several days ago, nnd it is believed that ho committed suicide while temporarily insane. Henry Yawn, n 75-yoar-old farmer ot Fairfield, Ohio, died while leaning against the bar in a saloon, and raannined in that position three hours before his condition was discovered. Heart disease caused his death. Two freight trains on tho Iron Mountain rond came together, head on. near Mill Springs, Mo. Fireman Moses Washburn and Brnkemnn L. 8. Degonin were killed, nnd Engineer Thomas Silver fatally Injured. After handing his wife his week's earnings John Fredericks, a woodworker living in Chicago, turned his back and drank several ounces ot carbolic acid. Fredericks died before a physician could be called. His wife, Mrs. Rosie Fredericks, could assign no reason for his wishing to die, Work on the construction .of a monster packing plant, to be erected in Denver by local capitalists, will be begun within the next forty days. The company Is to be incorporated with n capital stock of $1,000,000. The machinery of the Youngstown, ().. plant <>f tlic American Can Company Is being dismantled, preparatory to shipment to Chicago. The reason given for removal is tliat the plant is too fur from the market. Richard,and John Spikes, cattle men,

were killed by fugitive robbers op the Rock Island extension in New Mexico. The robbers were escaping from a posse which wanted them for burglary in Tecutncare, N. M, Frank Furtado, an 18-year-old boy, was gored to death by a vicious bull elk at Piedmont Springs Park, Oakland, Cal. Furtado and Lester Spencer, the jockey, had carried hay into the paddock to feed five elks there. At Plattsburg, Mo., Mrs. Addie B. Richardson was acquitted of the charge of having murdered her husband, Frank B. Richardson, a wealthy merchant, who was slain as he entered his home Christmas eve, 1900. The Supreme Court's decision in the case of the Nickel Plate Railway versus Frank Shaffer in Ohio, on appeiH from the Circuit Court of Huron County, involving the “black list,’’ sustained the railroad company. Elmer Moore, aged 22, was accidentally shot on Grand river, near Locksprings, Mo., by his brother Eugene, aged 20. They were hunting nnd became separated nnd a bullet intended for a rabbit hit the elder brother. Three members of the St. Louis house of delegates have been arrested, charged with accepting bribes for the passage of a street railway franchise. Others are involved in the scandal, and more indictments are expected. John C. Hall, cashier and bookkeeper of Swift & Co.’s Butte, Mont., branch house, was arrested on a charge of grand larceny. Hall is short $3,500. He* admits his shortage and says he lost the money in copper stock speculations. Robbers attacked Michael Sweeney, in charge of the target shanty on the Pittsburg and Western road between Niles and Girard, Ohio, and after binding him robbed him of his pay and then set tire to the shanty, cremating him. The investigation of the books of the late FI. C. Tatum, secretary and treasurer of the Western Commercial Travelers’ Association, who recently committed suicide in St. Louis, has been concluded and shows a shortage of about SIO,OOO. Mrs. Mary Battey. wife of Postmaster D. C. Battey of Florence, Kan., died of blood poisoning caused by the prick of a pin. About a week before Mrs. Battey, while brushing a dress, pricked - a finger scarcely deep enough to bring the blood. Nathan Woodring, a pioneer wealthy citizen of Beatrice, Neb., shot and killed himself. His doctors had arranged to perform a surgical operation for a chronic ailment and he declared he would die by his own hand rather than submit. A fire burned out the book store of W. O. Davie & Co., 224 East Fourth street, Cincinnati, causing a loss estimated at $50,000. The establishment is an old one of unique pattern, and is widely known among book lovers as the repository. for old and rare volumes.

An advance in wages of locomotive engineers throughout the entire system of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway was granted at a conference between a committee of the engineers and officials of the road. About 800 men are benefited by the raise. Angered by a threatened separation from his sweetheart. May Connerty, and while she was seated at a piano in her home in Chicago, William Wittmacher fired two shots at the young woman with probably fatal results. Half an hour later he ended his own life with the same revolver. The man who committed suicide in a hotel at Hamilton. Ohio, two months ago lias been identified. lie is James Dolan, a street car conductor of Dayton, Ohio. His brother, who identified the body, said that he must have committed suicide because he was threatened with locomotor ataxia. John Kohler and John Qlterman, employed in the Cleveland water works tunnel which extends several miles out into the lake, were attacked by the peculiar disease known ns “bends,’’ and both died an hour after the attack. This makes fifty-five deaths in the tunnel since work was begun. ■ Two distinct shocks of earthquake were felt in St. Louis and in many of the towns in the immediate vicinity of the city. The first shock was light. The second was more severe. It awakened persons who had slept through the first shock. The shocks were accompanied by a rumbling sound. At Akron, Ohio, James O. Blakesiey assaulted his wife and mother-in-law. Mrs. Olive Ingersoll. The husband nnd wife separated six months ago. He attempted to persuade his wife to return and she refused. Mrs. Ingersoll is aged 70. Her skull is fractured and there is no hope of her recovery. The body of former United States Judge Elmer 8. Dundy of Omaha, Neb., has turned to stone, according to an announcement made by a close friend of the former judge. The discovery was made' when moving the coffin from the receiving vault. The features were as natural as when in life, but the flesh had taken on a slight copper tinge. A bill providing that any attempt committed in Ohio upon the life of the President, or anyone in succession to the presiy dency.or upon the Governoror Lieutenant Governor of any State, shall he punished by death if the assault results fatally, and by life imprisonment if it prove unsuccessful, was passed by the Ohio'State Senate without opposition. Mrs. Angelina Anderson was bound and gagged in broad daylight in her room at Wichita, Kan., and robbed of $l,lOO worth of diamonds and $1,500 in money. She went there a few months ngo and married an 18-year-old livery stable boy, who was taking care of her horse, nnd is now Heading him to a local college. The woman is said to be from Racine, Wis. Twenty cadavers were destroyed by a fire which did $3,000 damage to the anatomy building nt the University of Minnesota. at Minneapolis. About a hundred students formed n fire brigade and held the Hames in check until the dpartment arrived. The libraries of Profs. Erdman ami Rad were badly damaged, as were the instruments of most of the students. Had it not been for a three-day-old baby three burglars would have secured valuable booty at Wentworth, 8. D. The marauders blew open the Wentworth Bank safe. The explosion alarmed the father of the baby, who was trying to lull It to sleep. He dropped the infant and tolled down a Hight of stairs. This alarmed the robbers, who dropped tho bank's money and fled. The* bank officials have bought the baby a new pair of shoes and the father a crutch. Judge Jenkins of the United States Court of Appeals in Milwaukee has decided that life insurance policies issued

under the semi-tontine plan become a portion ot the estate of a bankrupt, and must be surrendered to The ruling is new, and will apply in hundreds of cases. It was handed down in the bankruptcy proceedings of David Welling of Chicago, and reverses a decision by Judge Kohlsaat. Fifty men were imported by the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern llailway Company to taka the places of strikers who went out at Washington, Ind. The men were secured through a St. Loiiis employment agency and were hired at $1.50 a day. When the neW" men arrived and learned that a strike was on about twenty-five of them refused to go to work ih the machine shops. Detectives are guarding the shops and yards. Joseph Cox shot and killed Howard Ratcliffe at church at Eagle Mills, Ohio. C<ftr had been paying attention to Ratcliffe's sister and Ratcliffe objected to this. Cox took Miss Ratcliffe to church, and when Ratcliffe saw them together he attacked Cox, who drew a weapon and fired, the ball passing through Ratcliffe's body. The wounded man fell in the aisle nnd died. Both men were school teachers. Ratcliffe married a sister of Cox.