Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

North Dakota Republican convention will meet in Sioux Falls June 4. The western association of the Electrical Supply Jobbers of the United States met at Cincinnati. The special session of the Colorado Legislature adjourned after the passage of the revenue bill. Two, little children of John Bergue of Mound Lake, Minn., fell through the ice and were drowned. John Bianchi shot and killed his wife at Hibbing, Minn., and committed suicide by the same method. The police think young Francis Matlock, a 12-year-old Lindenwald, Ohio, lad, wits stoned to death by playmates. Henry Jillson, once known the world over as an aeronaut, killed himself at the door of a friend's office in Chicago. Santos-Dumont will visit St. Louis to ■elect a fair site for a balloon shed in connection with the airship contests. The Nebraska Republican Central Committee selected Lincoln as the place for holding the State convention June 18. The national irrigation congress, which was to have been held at Colorado Springs in August, has been officially postponed until Oct. 6 to 9. Dr. Granville Loutber of McPherson, Kan., is to be tried on charge of heresy because of teachings us to interpretation of biblical story of Garden of Eden, Albert Baritz, a farmer, died from exposure during the blizzard near Harvey. N. I). His body was found three miles from his home, where he had wandered. Frank M. Hill, one of the best known railroad men in Chicago, has been missing for twenty days, and in the absence of tidings from him his wife is prostrated. James IL Fairchild, who for sixtyeight yours had been connected with Oberlin College, and for thirty-three years was its president, died, at the age of 91 years. R. H. Meade, a traveling man in the employ of the Swift Packing Company of Chicago, was found dead in bis room at a hotel in Oklahoma City. He died of heart failure. Plans were completed at Appleton. Wis., for a paper mill to be built ut Independence, Kan. The new mill will manufacture paper from sorghum cane by an improved process. At Savannah, Mo., the jury in the case of Stewurt Fife, charged with the murder of Frank Richardson at the home of the victim Christmas eve, 1900, returned a verdict of acquittal. Will of Mrs. Eliza C. Gallup of Denver has been admitted to probate, and leaves the estate of $125,004 to her sister, Sarah A. Curtis, and nephew, Clarence C. Curtis of Lakewood, N. J. Miss Florence McCoy, aged 19, of Frewsburg, N. Y., died on an Erie train a few miles east of Kent, Ohio. The young woman was a fill at cd with tuberculosis. and was on her way to Colorado. Mrs. William Baldwin of Atchison, Kan., whose husbund was convicted sixteen years ngo of the murder of his sister there, killed herself in the room where Baldwin's sister was murdered. At Marion, Ohio, Isaac Reeder, aged 65, was killed by a Big Four train while driving Across the track, and two hours inter Mrs.iMary Markey, aged 47, was run down and killed by a train on the same road. A ranchman named Stewart and Daniel McLaughlin, a herder, ar« reported

lost fifty miles northwest of Jamestown, N. D. As 200 of their sheep perished in the recent storm, the men' doubtless met a like fate. Twenty-five saloons in Cheyenne, Wyo., have been compelled to close during the last month owing to the operations of Unioh Pacific order No. 207, forbidding employes to frequent drinking places whether on or off duty. Three of the largest trust companies in St. Louis have been consolidated under one management, with a working capital of $7,000,000. The companies are the Colonial, the Missouri and the Germania, which were doing a profitable business. Mrs. Amelia Patterson and George Thompson fought a duel in a street at Albion, Neb., in which Thompson was shot twice and James Fory, a bystander, received a bullet in the leg. The shooting was the result of a divorce and damage suit. John Duran, a teamster employed by the Hercules Torpedo Company, was blown to atoms while loading a wagon at the magazine north of Finlay. Ohio. Seventeen hundred quarts of nitroglycerin exploded, making a shock that w is felt for forty iniies. The Garfield law, which was enacted four years ago with a view to preventing corrupt practices in elections, was repealed by the Ohio Senate. The House has passed the bill and the repeal is now in effect, because in Ohio the Governor is not vested with the power of veto. At Fort Scott, Kan., John Lesher held a stick of dynamite under his chin and deliberately exploded it. the charge blowing off his head and an arm. He had been drinking and telling his wife he proposed to kill himself, went to a vacant house near by and committed suicide. As the result of a cave-in of a huge bank of earth at the Main street plant of the Cleveland Gas Light and Coke Company seven men are dead. The men were working elose to a bank of clay, when it gave way without the slightest warning, burying them beneath the mass of earth. At Niles, Ohio, a west-bound Pennsylvania freight train crashed into a work train caboose containing eight sleeping Hungarians, injuring all of them, two of whom will die. The wreck" immediately caught fire, destroying the caboose. The engineer and fireman of the freight escaped by jumping. The Rancho Santa Clara del Norte, which was owned by Leopoldo Schiappa I’ietra, has been transferred to the California Farm and Fruit Compauy, limited. of Manchester, England. The consideration was $1,113,880. The ranch includes 7,000 acres of choicest Ventura County, Cal., land. Fira destroyed Peter Ivey's meat market i seven other frame Structures in South McAlester, I. T. The body of Ivey, who was 60 years old, was found in the ruins. There was an ugly wound on the skull, and some people believe that Ivey was murdered and robbed and that bis store was set on fire. In a head-on collision between freight trains near Youngstown, Ohio, on the Pittsburg, Youngstown and Ashtabula division of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago road, four men were killed and three injured. The trains crashed together in a heavy fog, wrecking both engines and piling the cars up. The body found floating in the river at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., was identified as that of J. V. M. King, a former Episcopalian minister, who has been teaching in that vicinity of late. He held formerly pastorates in Minneapolis and Shcrbrook and Cobden, Ont., but was deposed from the ministry because of hjg dissipation. The body of Oliver Wright, a negro, was found near Higbee, Mo. His back and arms were one mass of scars and bruises and his clothing was torn to shreds and scattered for a hundred feet along the road. Everything indicated that a death struggle had taken place. It is generally believed that he was whipped to death. New warrants have been issued for the arrest of Frank C. Andrews, vice-presi-dent of the wrecked City Savings Bank of Detroit, and Henry R. Andrews, cashier of the bank, on complaints signed by F. W. Hayes, the expert accountant who is representing the city and county officials in the investigation of the affairs of the wrecked bank. George Smith, adopted son of James Smith, founder of the Smith Academy, and his wife, Persia Smith, by his will filed for probate in St. Louis, left $450,000. the bulk of his estate, to Harvard University. The money is to be used in building three dormitories, one to be named after himself and the other two after his adopted parents. Mayor Parker of Topeka. Kan., was horsewhipped in his office at the city hall by Miss Blanche Boise, a protege of Mrs. Carrie Nation. Miss Boise lashed the Mayor three times, when he choked her, torr the rawhide from her hand and pushed her into the hall. She blamed the Mayor for the fact that the "joints” of the city are running ojienly.