Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The Oregon Republican State convention will be held at Portland April 25. Orpheon Music Hall iu Chicago was destroyed by fire. Eight persons were injured, one seriously. At Limn, Ohio, Frank Shaw, employed at the steel works, was crushed to death by a heavy ladle falling on him. Edgar Patterson of Cavalier, N. 1)., is reported to have been killed by wolves in the Canadjun Northwest territories. The feed store of Peterson & Wright at Akron, Ohio, was damaged $50,000 by fire. The origin of the tire is unknown. Insurance SIO,OOO. Two big tires iu the downtown district of Chicago caused destruction of property wortli $222,000. Gage millinery atore and Trude building damaged. At Bainbridge, Ohio, the Methodist Church burned. Loss $15,000. At one time the town was threatened and other towns were called eu for help. Ln a cave in iu the Diamond mine nt Butte, Mont., onezof the Amalgamated properties, Jerry J. Conroy and Richard Williams were crushed to death. A Cincinnati judge has ruled that strikers must not employ persuasion or any other menus to interfere with nonunion men desiring to work in a carriage factory. The First Lutheran Church of Xenia, Ohio, was destroyed by fire, the loss being estimated at SS,(MM). The Bunday school room was heated by stoves aud the fire started therein. The Empire Hotel, n three-story lodging house for men in St. Louis, burned nnd teu men ami one woman were cremated. Eight others are badly injured. The property loss is $20,000. The two oldest residents of northwestern Ohio died Thursday in Toledo. They were Mrs. Hannah Torrens, aged 104 years 7 months and 14 days, and Mrs. Dora Exteine, aged 101 years and 1 day. Secretary J. P. Byers announced In Columbus, Ohio, that the date of the national conference of chnrities nnd corrections. which was set for Milwaukee, has been changed to Detroit, May 28 to June 2. inclusive. Twelve manufacturing firms suffered n total loss of all their stocks and machinery nnd 1,000 men were thrown out of work when tire destroyed the East street shops hi Springfield, Ohio. The aggregate loss is $700,000. Fire at the Sixteenth District School tn Brayton. Ohio, destroyed the building. All of the pupils escape I, The tire start-

ed rrom the furnace, the flames following the hot air flues, and broke but on the second floor. Loss $50,000. Seventeen-year-old Frank Benedict of Chicago swallowed a vial of carbolic acid apd lay down in the snow of a vacant lot and died. Opinion is divided as to whether a love affair or a business disappointment prompted the suicide. James A. Hill, treasurer of the United America*)! Mechanics’ lodge of Ironton, Ohio, has been arrested charged with embezzling $374 of the funds of the lodge. He admits that he used the money to tide him over financial reverses. Andrew Brilliant, charged with the murder of David Davidson, at Bridges, Mont., last Thanksgiving night, is said to be making a desperate effort to starve himself to death. For eight days Brilliant has refused to touch food. L. A. Garner, assistant superintendent of the American Express Company, died in Omaha, Neb., from the effects of a fall on an icy sidewalk. He had been iu the service of the company for thirty years. He left a widow and six children. The Central Ohio Sanitarium at Fountain Park, alwut three miles east of Urbana, Ohio, was burned. There were only a few patients in the building, and all got out safely. The building cost $30,000, and was insured for SIO,OOO. By railway route changes on the Central Pacific the town of Wadsworth. Nev., which has a population of 1,300, will be wiped out of existence in a few months. It has been deserted on account of being cut off the railway by a straightened line. A Superior street motor car in Cleveland dashed into a freight train going nt full speed at the Cleveland and Pittsburg grade crossing on Superior street. Five men were hurt, three of whom were policemen. The men are not believed to be dangerously hurt. Because she was about to secure a divorce from him John Kay beat his wife to death with a flatiron in Topeka, Kan. He then attempted to take his own life by hanging himself from a bridge near his home. He was cut down before life was extinct and revived. At a sale of registered cattle nt the Union Stock Yards in Indianapolis, W. D. Flatt of Hamilton, Ont., sold to Walter E. Cline of Wilmington, Ohio, the celebrated - imported cow Jenny Lind XXIV. for $l,OlO. Forty-eight head sold for a total of $9,515. Burglars broke into the postoffice nt Meyers Falls, Wash., took all the money nnd stamps in sight aud ent open many of the letters. The Spoknne Falls ami Northern station was also visited, the safe blown open by dynamite nnd several express packages taken from it. George Sutton, who died under mysterious circumstances in Wichita, Kan., it has uow been learned, committed suicide. Brooding over having accidentally killed Mrs. Scott Wadley is said to have been the cause. He left his promised wife, Mrs. Anna Stevens, about $5,000. Fire destroyed the Vendome Hotel, a three-story building in Minneapolis. The building is in the heart of the retail section, but good work by the fire department confined the flames to the hotel. Many guests in the hotel had narrow escapes. The loss is estimated at $75,000. State Senator Hobson, who is interested in the sapphire diggings in Fergus County, Mont., says the story in circulation throughout the East of diamonds being found in that State is a myth. The stone that is creating all the furor is a white sapphire, very hard but of comparatively little worth. Fire in the big car works of the Rock Island Railroad at Horton, Kan., caused the death of two persons nnd a loss of $325,000. The fire spread so rapidly that the employes on the second floor barely escaped with their lives, many being slightly injured. The company will rebuild the plant at once. The locomotive of a freight train on tlie Lake Eric and Western road blew up at St. Mary's, Ohio, killing Engineer Edward Casey nnd Fireman Floyd Brown of Lima, and injuring the head brakeman. A number of cars were wrecked. A defective crown sheet is supposed to have caused the explosion. George Sutton, a grocer and a bachelor, 4(1 years old, was found dead iu his brother's store in Wichita, Kan. He had been shot and a revolver lay at his side. Indications point to suicide, although no motive is known. He was to be married the next Sunday nnd spent his latst evening .with his fiancee. The police suspect murder. The sum of $2,700 has been stolen from Mrs. Scrable, a widow who lives north of O'Dell, Neb. Being distrustful of bunks, she put the cash in a tin can, which she placed beneath the floor of her chicken house. When Mis. Scrable went to get her money it was gone. Search is lieing made for the treasure, but no clew has been found. The $75,000 plant of the Wireton Heating Company at Wireton, a Chicago suburb, was burned to the ground. Not a drop of waterother than that supplied by a bucket brigade was thrown on the flames. Engines went to the blaze from Blue Island, n mile and a half away, but the firemen were helpless. The village water supply conies from wells. City Savings Bank of Detroit is closed because of operations of its vice-presi-dent, Frank C. Andrews, who has been arrested on charge of wrongfully securing over $1,000,(MM) of the institution's funds. The institution has deposits of over $3,000,000, which directors hope to pay In full. Andrews turned over property worth nearly n million us part payment of claims against him. John, alius "Shorty,” Councelle waa shot and killed by Patrolman Smyth while attempting to escape after holding tip John W. Sollais, n conductor on a Spring avenue car in St. Louis. Councelle nnd an unidentified mnn who got away boarded the car, which was loaded with passengers, nnd held up the conductor at the point of a pistol, securing his watch and money. > At Greeley, Colo., Jailer Williams mortally wounded Pe(er Kane, an insane prisoner. In frustrating an attempt of two other prisoners to break jail. When Williams unlocked the cage for the purpose of putting Kane inside Thomas Huff and David Fair, charged with highway robbery, made a dash for the door. William* immediately shot nt Huff, but the latter used Kane ns a shield. Two men nrc dead and four others seriously injured ns the result of an explosion iu the powder, house at the mouth of Japan tunnel. Telluride, Colo. All the buildings around' the tunnel wore wrecked. Santino Marta, who was thawing powder in the powder Inr.tsc, stepped out

of the building for a moment, and tha powder, becoming heated, exploded, the concussion setting off the entire supply of several hundred pounds. A young man who gave his name as R. G. Sutton of New Orleans, but who was subsequently identified as Ray Sutton Garlick of Tacoma, has been arrested in San Francisco on charges of forgery and obtaining goods by false pretenses. Representing himself as the nephew of William Alvord, president of the Bank of California, Garlick bought a gold watch and a diamond ring from W. E. Vnndersliee & Co. aud offered in payment a check for SIOO, to which Mr. Alvord's signature was forged. The nude body of the murdered girl found in an empty house at 2211 Suter street, San' Francisco has been identified as that of 10-year-old Nora Fuller. The crime has startled the city as no other has since the finding of the victims of Theodore Durant. The girl, inexperienced and eager to earn money to help support her brothers and sisters, answered an advertisement on Jan. 8 “for girl to attend baby.” On that day she met a man who gave the name of John Bennett, and was not seen ''thereafter until her decomposed body was found, divested entirely of clothing, in a rear room of the Suter street house. One C. B. Hawkins, who had rented the house for a month, disappeared at the same time. The police believe Bennett and Hawkins are one and the same, and their theory is that he enticed the girl into the house, kept her a prisoner there and murdered her after he had grown tired of her.