Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Squads of minute men have been ordered to Wetfimka, Okla., to protect the town from the Crazy Snake Indians. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Kennedy of Cochransville, Ohio, were drowned in the Ohio river opposite Sistersville, W. Va. President John W. Proudfit of the Alamo Gold Mining Company, operating at Cripple Creek, failed. His liabilities are estimated at $50,000. A 9-year-old boy at Ypsilanti, Mich., tied to railroad tracks by playmates, was rescued just in time to prevent death under an express train.

Northwestern limited train killed two employes of the road and badly injured another, who were working on the trucks at Sangamon street, Chicago. In Muncie, lud., fire destroyed the Economy shoe store, owned by Samuel Schwartz. The stock was valued at $17,000, with $13,000 insurance. Missouri Supreme Court denied the writ of mandamus asked for by the St. Louis school board to compel taxution of public franchises at their full value. Senator \V. A. Clark lias sold his group of Colusn-Purrolt mines to the Anaconda Company, thus ending costly litigation resulting from the discovery of cross veins. E. 11. Kirkhnm, 70 years old, proprietor of a general store at Coalgate, 1. T\, and a man of wealth, committed suicide in a Kansas City hotel by taking morphine. Edward Kinsella and Charles Matteso*, firemen, were killed while fighting a fire in the plant of the George 11. Smith Steel Castiug Compauy at Milwaukee. Attorney W. A. Lewis of Spokane, Wash., was sentenced to serve eight years and six months in the penitentiary at Walla Walla for stealing $225 from a client. George Childrose killed Henry Meyerer of Chicago, father of the girl he loved, and committed suicide because he had made arbitrary demands for money nud was jilted. Mrs. Richard M. Iveown was burned to death in an explosion of turpentine at her home in Milwaukee, and her little boy, Percy, was also badly burned, but will recover. A mandamus suit of the city of St. Louis against the State Board of Equalization to compel the assessment of franchise corporations has been filed In the Missouri Supreme Court. Hal Sayre, known ns the wealthiest youth of Denver, was killed at Roswell, N. M. It is said he attempted to enter a widow's house and. was shot by W. M. Vandyke, a rnlhvay engineer, who heard the woman’s outer/. Sayre was unarmed.

Sayre was a lieutenant in the rough riders and a personal acquaintance of President Roosevelt.

Charles Woodward has confessed at Casper, Wyo„ to the killing of' Sheriff Ricker. The confession came as a surprise, as he was expected to seek to prove that Jim Westfall did the killing. R. D. Flood, representing the Southwestern Broom Company of Evausville, Ind., has purchased 200 tons of broom corn brush from the Union Broom Supply Company at Charleston, UL The price was SIOO to $125 a ton. The shortage in the supply of water in the city reservoirs, causing low pressure, resulted in the entire destruction of the Lima Steel Casting Company’s big plant in South Lima, Ohio. The loss is about $75,000, with $25,000 insurance. A policy of close espionage over employes has been put in force by the United States Steel Corporation at the National plant in Youngstown, Ohio. A detective foree has been sworn in to protect the property and keep in close touch with the men.

A desperate but unsuccessful attempt was made to wreck the Connecticut zinc mine two miles northwest of Joplin, Mo. Unknown miscreants lowered two boxes of dynamite down the shaft and exploded it midway. Fortunately the damage done was slight. John Redell, who for five years has been at the head of the fire department of Omaha, has been formally dismissed from the service. The lire and police board, after hearing charges of cruelty and mistreatment of firemen and their families, found Redell guilty. Fire destroyed every building except two on the block bounded by Front, Main and Madison streets and the Willamette river, and the docks facing the river between Main aud Madison streets, Portland, Ore. Loss $70,000, principally to the flouring mill of Albers & Schneider. By a ruling of the United States Court of Appeals in, St. Louis it is held that a mortgage issued in one State is binding in any other State or territory and does not have to be refiled. This decision reverses the ruling of the United States Court of Appeals for the Indian territory. J. I. Moore of Chicago was found guilty of forgery at Mankato, Minn., and sentenced to five and one-half years in Stillwater penitentiary. Moore sold some land for a North Dakota man last sumenver and forged the purchaser's note and mortgage, getting S4OO by the transaction.

It is announced that subscriptions have been received in excess of the amount necessary to secure the SIOO,OOO offered by a New York man whose name has been kept secret for rebuilding Wooster, Ohio, University, recently destroyed by fire. The trustees will have $350,000 at their disposal. John T. Davis and his associates have discovered a mountain of arsenic in a range fifty miles southeast of Tacoma, Wash. The ore can be mined cheaply anil the property will be developed on a large scale. This is claimed to be the first important body of arsenic ever found in America. The House of Representatives of the Ohio Legislature has placed itself on record as being in favor of electing the United States Senators by a direct vote of the people. This action was taken when the Worthington resolution came up for consideration, it being adopted by a vote of 73 to 23.

Fire in the freight yards of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad at One Hundred and Forty-fifth street, Chicago, destroyed sixty freight cars. The Riverdale fire department, unable to cope with the fire, called ou Dalton for assistance, which responded, but not before the fire had burned itself out. Arthur Egan, the 17-year-old life saver who rescued twenty-three persons from Luke Michigan at Chicago, was the recipient of the only medal ever presented to an American for bravery by the Royal Humane Society of Great Britain. The presentation was made by Captain Wyndham, the British consul. A band of Crazy Snake's followers made a raid on Keokuk Falls, O. T., just across the line from the Creek Nation, rushed a hardware store, seized a lot of arms and ammunition, and tied. A posse immediately started in pursuit, and, It is said, captured several of the band after a two hours’ ruuning fight. Lake Shore express passenger train. No. 47, on the Norwalk division, was derailed and wrecked inside the city limits of Oberlin, Ohio. All the cars left the track and turned over, plunging into a ditch. The escape of the passengers was surprising, as the train was running forty miles an hour. The cause of the accident was a broken side arm on the engine. Fire from an unknown cause destroyed the entire plant of the Findlay, Ohio, Table Manufacturing Company, causing a loss of $97,000, with insurance of $50,000. The company manufactured fine dining room tables exclusively and represented one of tile largest industries of its kind in the country. As a result of the fire 100 men are thrown out of employment. James Lynch, a prisoner under sentence of death in the State penitentiary at Salt Luke, Utah,has made an atlidavit that L. E. King, also under n death sentence, had absolutely nothing to do with the attempted hold-up of a gambling house in that city, in September, 1900, when George lVouse was shot and killed and for which crime Lynch and King were convicted. Confined to her bed with a badTy injured ankle, the result of a fall, Miss Gertrude Gothie, aged 22 years, was shot and killed by her lover, George Sutton, aged 19 years, who, with his mother, had come to the young woman's hotnc in West Philadelphia to call. Still standing inside the bed, Sutton sent a bullet into his own breast, hut hospital physicians say lie will recover.