Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Santa Rosa. N. M.. was almost destroyed by fire. A phenomenal gold strike is reported in Taos County, New Mexico. Fire destroyed the Xenia (Ohio) Company's warehouse, causing a loss of $25.000. Plant of the Albert Sehinder carriage works at Cincinnati burned, causing $50,000 loss. At Duluth Daniel Karvo was sentenced to life Imprisonment for killing David Mylluiaki. Clinton Dotson was hanged at Deer Lodge, Mont., for participation in the murder of his father. Jasper Privitt wns found guilty of murder in the first degree at Milan, Mo., for killing John W. Wilp. lowa House voted to grant a pardon to Johu Wesley Elkins, who killed his father and mother in 1889. Fire destroyed (he Baxter-Kerns Mercantile Company's warehouse at Colorado Springs, causing SSO.tMX) loss. Richard Bayless, aged 19, rescued nine mefl from n burnbig mine at Joplin, Mo., risking his own life In thq feat. Burglars got away with jewels valued at SIO,OOO belonging to Mrs. E. E. I’nrarnore. wife of a St. Louis capitalist, Henry Ilornberg of Burna Vsllcy. Minn., and his team were kilit-sl by lightning while driving in a thunderstorm. Miss Anna Woodward, aged 17, died nt Denver from burns received ut the wedding of her father by her dress catching fire. * Minnesota Supreme Court upholds Ihc rights of those who purchased railroad grant lauds from Archbishop Ireland in 1883. Law ton, 0. T., tried to expel negroes.

White and black residents collected in two armies. Forty negroes have been driven out. . ' ■ British camp at Lathrop, Mo., has shipped more than 72,000 mules and horses to South Africa since the beginning of the Boer war. James Wilson has been conrictev} at Ava, Mo,, of murdering Orville Lyons 35 years ago, and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. Rich gold strikes are reported in three mines near Pony, Mont., w here ore assaying from $l5O to $175 a ton is said to have been uncovered. ' , The United States Savings and Loan Company, with headquarters at St. Paul, has gone into liquidation. Liabilities and assets are SBOO,OOO each. Charles Kratz, former city councilman of St. Louis, indicted on bribery charge, did not appear for trial when lils case was called, aud a reward of SBOO is offered for his arrest. Clyde Felt, 15 years old, confessed to killing Samuel Collins, watchman at Wasatka mines. Warm Springs, Utah. Watchman wished to die atid asked him to cut his throat. Gov. Durbin of Indiana has ordered an investigation of Michigan City charges by full prison board and State board of charities. Inquiry will begin at once and proceedings will be made public. Harry Prestoq. a plumber at Toledo, Ohio, shot his wife in the head, killing her instantly, then shot himself three times and died a few minutes later. He was under the influence of liquor. Former Governor James P. Eagle of Arkansas has refused to resign from the Arkansas State capitol-commission at the request of Governor Jefferson Davis. Eagle opposed the - renomination of Davis for Governor. Fire destroyed an entire block of buildings at Thirty-ninth street and Cottage Grove avenue, Chicago. The loss will aggregate $20,000. Two firemen were nearly overcome, and eight persons narrowly escaped with their lives. The first trip of canalboats on the Miami and Erie Canal, drawn by an electric motor, was made at Hamilton, Ohio. Six boats in line, laden with materia) for building the line to Cincinnati, were drawn to Port Union. W. J. Carton, 62 years of age, said to be a wealthy merchant of Utica, N. Y., who has been stopping at the Antlers in Colorado Springs, lost control of a team which he was driving and was thrown out of the buggy and killed. The Bank of Fowler, Colo., was entered by burglars. The amount they obtained is not reported. The large safe was blown to pieces. A. H. McMasters, a grocer, saw the robbers running away ami fired several shots at them. While resisting arrest at Boonville, Mo., Louis Sage was shot and killed and Mike A. Logan was seriously wounded by Policeman Albert S. Bena. The men were on a railroad train without paying fare and drew their revolvers when about to be arrested. Eugene McGlanehlan. a homesteader from near Guthrie, O. T„ wa's'-found insensible upon the street at Mermidji, Minn., and died soon after reaching the hospital. An inquest was held, which developed evidence that MeGlauehlan hid been poisoned and robbed in a resort. Albert Weintemper, a lad 10 years old, dropped a penny through the crack of a sidewalk in front of 113 Canalport avenue, Chicago. He went beneath the walk to search for his penny, and discovered the body of a woman hanging to a gas pipe. The corpse has not been identified. Mrs. Fannie Abraham was burned to death in her home at Steubenville, Ohio. Her husband, on returning 'Srom work, found her charred body lying on the floor, while two feet away their baby daughter was asleep in a little basket. The woman’s clothes nre supposed to have caught fire from the grate. The Indianapolis special on the Big Four road between Indianapolis and Cleveland was wrecked while running through Walworth run, a low-lying body of land on the west side of Cleveland. Two trainmen are dead and three others injured. The wreck is believed to be the result of a washed-out track. C. D. Emory, sentenced recently to serve ten years in Walla Walla, Wash., penitentiary for burglary, has been positively recognized as Peter Perley Lowe, son of former Gov. Lowe of lowa. His home is at Keokuk. He served four terms in prison, two at San Quentin, one in Oregon and one at Walla Walin. Sheriff Parks and deputies captured seven cattle thieves on Eagle (’reek, near Morenci, Ariz., after a hard fight. On* of the thieves was killed in an exciting shooting. The outlaws had killed a muu4»er of cattle from time to time, and were in possession of six freshly killed beeveC from which they were making jerky. Blind men of Toledo, Ohio, fifteen in number, have formed a combine. The. object of this combination is to obtain from the County Commissioners the SIOO to which every needy blind man is entitled by act of Legislature. This amount has never been paid, and, the individual efforts of the blind men having proved ineffectual, they have pooled Issues. Mrs. Clara Ward, 32 years old, and her 10-month-old baby. Mabel, were fatally burned by tin* explosion of a kerosene lamp from which the mother was pouring oil into a stove at her home in St. Louis. A son. Miles, 5 years old, wns seriously burned about the face and hands. The father and husband, an invalid, was so severely shocked by the accident that he, too, is in a dangerous condition. The .ex-soldier who committed suicide in St. Patrick’s Church, in Sun Francisco, has been identified as Dennis Splain of St. Louis. Splain recently returned from the Philippines. When he lauded he received a letter fTorn a sister nt St. Louis, telling Win that his mother had been killed by bis brother Thomas, who Is now under arrest at St. Louis. The news is believed to have led to Splaln’s suicide. Burglars broke into the State Rank at Ruskin, Neb., but only succeeded in stealing W-tween S2OO and SSOO and some notes. In their baste they overlooked $3,000 scattered around the room by the explosion when the safe was blown. It is known that SI6,(MM) was in the vaults, birt the robbers did not have time to get at it. The noise of the explosion aroused the town, and the citizens swarmed to the "bank and put the robbers to flight. The State of Minnesota began its merger suit at home. The bill of complaint

in the soft of the Stateurgainst the Great Northern! and Northerp Pacific Hallway Companies, the Northern Securities (Company and- J. J. Hili as president of the Northern Securities Company and individually, waa served on the defendant Hill in his various capacities and return made to the sheriff’s office in St. Paul. W. B. Douglas and M..D. Munn are the solicitors for the complainant and George P. Wilson is of counsel. it is illegal in the State of Minnesota to form a corporation to own or manage a cemetery for pecuniary profit. In the case of P. E. Bfowu and others against the Maplewood Cemetery Association of Luverne, the Supreme Court reversed the lower court, TJie private incorporators took in over $6,000 from the sale of lots and put It in their pockets, as owners, of the cemetery. The Supreme Court decision says all this money must be account for to the lot owners, as stockholders, and used in improvement of the cemetery.