Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Josef Hoffman, tlie pianist, inntie his first appearance in Kansas City and evoked great enthusiasm. In Fargo, N. D., fire destroyed the office and warehouse of the J. I. Case Company, entailing a loss of $75,000. Two attempts to wreck passenger train No. 3 on the Burlington road, near Hastings. Neb., caused tlie road to investigate. At Hot Springs, Ark., death claimed Billy Rice, the old-time minstrel. The malady which carried him off was dropsy. The foundry of the Glauber Brass Manufacturing Company In Cleveland was destroyed by fire, the loss being $50,000. Proposed assassination of State's Attorney Deueen of Chicago was toiled by the arrest of Salvo Giovaui, a self-con-fessed anarchist. Congressman Abraham L. Brick of the Thirteenth Indiana District and diaries Curtis of tlie First Kansas District were renominated by Republicans. William Matthews, fireman on the Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, robbed the Bank of Plato of Plato, Minn., of $1,500, but was arrested. Police of Mattoon, 111., fought a battle with three thieves, one of whom was fatally shot, another badly wounded and Chief Lyons suffered a shattered arm. Nicholas Fox and August Kastner, both of whom were given life sentences

in the penitentiary for murder, haye been pardoned by Gov. Savage of Nebraska. The Bank of Elwood, 111., was entered by thieves, who used dynamite. All the cash, amounting to $1,500, was taken. The burglars touched none of the securities. French bark Les Adelphes, 162 days from Madagascar for Portland, Ore., put into Port Angeles, Wash, with the entire crew down with scurvy and almost starved. In Springfield, Ohio, Michael Bhoeknessy committed suicide by stabbing himself in the breast in the presence of his sweetheart, Miss Bertha Shields, because of a quarrel. Andrew Anderson, a noted crook, broke into the State prison at Stillwater, Minn., and stole three cases of shoes manufactured there under the contract system. Anderson is under arrest. A railroad which is practically a new transcontinental system is to be built SOO miles east from Eureka, Cal. It will connect with the Northern Pacific, the Union Pacific and the Great Northern. G. A. Murphy and wife, recently divorced, were remarried at Beatrice, Neb. Murphy is one of the most prominent lawyers ill the city, and was a candidate for United States Senator last winter. Benjamin F. Ellsworth of Woodstock, 111., killed his wife, fatally wounded Amos Anderson, a lodger in his house, and then took his own life. Jealousy is said to be the cause of the tragedy. Michael Lund and Charles Anderson, miners, were overcome by poisonous gases in the Cincinnati mine of the Tom Boy group at Telluride, Colo., and were dead when found by fellow miners. John A. Marsh, Nebraska pioneer, aged 65, was shot and killed by his nephew, Charles Wedgewood, on the farm of the latter, several miles north of Teliamah, Neb. The trouble was of long standing. Superintendent J. C. Crandell of the United States Indian school has received word from two precincts in, northern Taos County, New Mexico, that' forty children died there in the last few days of diphtheria. Capitalists of Evansville, Ind., headed by O. F. Jacoby, banker, have bought the property of the consolidated Alpine Gold and Silver Mining Company, located near Idaho Springs, Colo. The consideration was SIOO,OOO cash. Vernon Rogers, convicted of the murder of his sweetheart, Margaret Hallen, was sentenced by Judge Babcock in the criminal court in Cleveland to life imprisonment in the Ohio penitentiary and to pay the costs of his trial. Joseph Coolski and William Pacaehkowski were smothered to death in Cleveland by falling earth, the unfortunate men being clay-diggers in a brickyard, and were working some distance below the surface of the ground. William W. Watkins, a wealthy grain merchant of Chicago, journeyed to St. Joseph, Mich., on Jan. 30 and was quietly married by Rev. W. P. French to Miss Tressie Foley, who was a domestic in the Watkins family for many years. A destructive prairie fire near Fort Cobb, in the new country of Oklahoma, did great damage to 100 homesteaders, sweeping away their improvements, stock and all personal property and compelling the people to flee for their lives. At Alturias, Cal., the jury in the trial of James W. Brown, accused of the murder of Martin Wilson, a 13-year-old boy. who wah lynched with Calvin Hall, and Dan Yantis at Lookout in May, 1901, returned a verdict of “not guilty.” George Clabber, prosecuting attorney of De Kalb County, Mo., fatally wounded himself with a pistol shot because of domestic troubles. He was found with a bullet through his brain and a pistol with an empty cartridge shell lying by his side. A syndicate of bankers, which includes Brown Brothers of New York City and Brown Brothers & Co. of Baltimore, has closed a deal for the purchase of the leading railways of San Francisco. The amount involved is said to be something like $20,000,000. In the eity court at Leavenworth, Kan., Manager De Coursey of the Leavenworth Street Car Company was fined SSO for dismissing W. P. Sullivan, an employe, because of his connection with a labor union. This is the first conviction under the new State law. There is an unconfirmed rumor that a snowslide carried away all the buildings of the Sunnyside mine on Red Mountain, Colorado, killing twenty men. News came from Gladstone of the death of the 18-year-old son of Richard Tovey by a snowslide at Fisher's. The fourth floor of the Cleveland Baking Company’s plant on Central avenue, Cleveland, fell beneath the weight of a large number of barrels of flour, crashing through the three under floors into the basement. There are five persons missing, four girls and a man, and a number injured. Fire wrecked the plant of the Oak Park Water and Electric Light Company, Oak Park. 111., throwing the town in darkness. The wires greatly hampered the fight against the flames and the dynamos and switchboard were ruined. The loss to building and apparatus is estimated at $20,000. William 11. Benkert, national chairman of the United Christian party, has issued a call for a national conference of Christian patriots, to be held at B.aek Hawk's Watch Tower, a picturesque resort near Rock Island. 111.. May 1. Mr. Benkert claims a membership of 144.000 for his party now. Five members of the family of D. Wenke, a German farmer living near Wausa. Neb., were poisoned by eating sausage, and a daughter. Lizzie, aged 18, is dead and a son probably will die. The mother and two sons are at a hospital. The father mid a hired man also were seriously affected. In Warren, Ohio, Henry Bishop Perkins. one of Ohio's wealthiest and most philanthropic citizens, killed himself by hanging. His property is estimated worth from $3,000,000 to $4,000,000. For two years ill health had made Mr. Perkins mehlneholy nnd this is considered the chief cause of his act. Captain Streeter, the Chicago lake front squatter, will have to face a trial on tlie charge of murder. He has been indicted by the grand jury in connection with William SleManners, Henry Holedike and William Force, charged with being responsible for the death of John S. Kilk, a watchman employed by Henry N. Cooper. The J. B. Owens Pottery Company's plant was destroyed by fire at Zanesville, Ohio. The loss is $300,000 and insurance

$143,000. The Kearns-Gorsuch Bottle Company’s plant also burned, the loss being $20,00Q and insurance $19,000. Many valuable designs, the accumulation of years, were destroyed. Four hundred employes are out of work. Two men were killed and three others injured by the falling of the roof of a furnace at the plant of the South Chicago Furnace Company. The roof was made of galvanized iron and is believed to have fallen as a result of weakened trusses supporting it. The men were working in the blasting house below the roof and were struck by the falling mass. In Columbus, Ohio, two branches of the lead trust, the Anchor and the Eckstein companies, have reduced their capital stock, the former from $1,000,000 to SIO,OOO and the latter from $350,000 to $7,000. State officials express suspicion that the purpose is to escape taxation tinder the Willis bill, which proposes to tax corporations one-tenth of 1 per cent on their issued capital stock. Ex-State Senator T. P. Brown was found on a recent night lying unconscious on the floor of the Chamber of Commerce building, which he owns, in Toledo. How he came there is not known. He had a gash in the head and concussion of the brain is feared. He was rational for only a few minutes the next day, but could reinember nothing of the event. Later it was discovered that nearly thirty of the offices in the building had been entered by robbers.