Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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James Jackson, colored, was hanged nt Kansas City for the murder of Prophet Everett, also colored. The theatrical syndicate will build a new theater in Randolph street, Chicago, to be called the Iroquois. ( Gov. Nash of Ohio says he will appoint Lieut. Gov. Nlppert to the vacant probate judgeship at Cincinnati. George E. Chamberlain of Portland, Ore., was nominated for Governor by the Democratic State convention. The State Bank at Milligan, Neb., was broken into, the safe blown and robbed of a considerable amount of money. Fire in the Baptist Female College at Lexington, Mo., created a panic among the students, but none was injured. Perry A. Hull, Chicago lawyer and politician, died at Beaumont, Texas. He had been ill but one week from pneumonia. Railroad companies headed oft Chicago freight handlers* demand for higher pay by granting increase totaling >25,000 a month. Fire destroyed the storehouse of the Kansas City Hydraulic Pressed Brick Company, causing >IOO,OOO loss, partly insured. The wheat crop throughout Missouri is reported to be In tine condition and the average, 54 per eent, larger than the previous year. James Ross, Jr., a wholesale grocer of Kansas City, filed a petition in bankruptcy, placing liabilities at >20,000 and assets >12,000. Fire destroyed the seven-story apartment building, the Tashmoo, in Chicago. One fireman was killed. The loss is estimated at WOO.OOQ. Henry Harrison Hyatt of Toledo, a 5 ale sophomore, has been nominated n cadet in West Point Military Academy by Senator Hanna. In n fight between deputy sheriffs and desperadoes near Braggs, I. T„ four men were killed and seven wounded, among them a noted outlaw. Report tiled at Wapakoneta. Ohio, accuses thirty-three former county officials and seven newspaper/ of drawing nearly >25,000 in violation of law. Heavy Hardware Dealers* National Union at Bt. Louis elected J. A. Gregg of St. Paul president nnd W. C. Brown of Chicago secretary-treasurer. Seventy-two hours after Prof. Jose|Hi M. Mi|ler murdered Miss Carrie M. Jeunett with a hatchet iu Detroit, Mich.,

he was in Jackson prison, sentenced to spend the rest of bls life there at hard labor. Max Rollins, a jeweler of Youngstown, Ohio, committed suicide by shooting. In the past year he lost heavily, and this is assigned as the cause of suicide. Rev. Granville Lowther at McPherson, Kan., says he will appeal from the verdict of the Methodist committee finding him guilty of heretical teachings. Edward Kelly, “king of safe blowers,” arrested by Chicago police and escaped, knocking down Lieut. McCann, big captor; dived into cellar window to escape sliots and was caught again. A. T. Sharpe, a traveling salesman for Parke, Davis & Co. of Detroit, was stabbed to death at Memphis by a young man, who afterward gave himself up, saying he acted in self-defense. The Burlington road has made public the details of a record-breaking of 14.8 miles, from Eckley to Wray, Colo., made March 24. The distance was covered at the rate of 98.6 miles an hour. Part of the Chicago express on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad was wrecked by an open switch ut Sheffield, Mo. No one was injured and the train continued north after a delay of two hours. Rev. T. L. Niehols, founder of "The Christian Brethren,” who arrived in St. Louis on the mission ship Megiddo, says that the millennium will come in ten years, and that when it does mankind will be able to fly. Judge Kennedy of the Central police court in Cleveland discharged Charles Anderson, who shot and killed William Franks in South Euclid, a suburb. After a brief hearing, the court said it was a clear ease of self-defense. lowa’s Twenty-ninth General Assembly adjourned Friday evening, though officially the session is supposed to have adjourned at noon. Tardy action of the committee ou enrolled bills caused the delay. The session enacted about 225 laws.

Prof. Joseph M. Miller in Detroit confessed to committing the murder of Carrie M. Jennett. She was one of the pupils of Miller, who is a musie teacher, and was on her way home from a lodge meeting when he killed her by cutting her throat. On account of having to pay a premium of from 1 to I*4 cents over May wheat, together with a decline in the demand for flour and high freight rates, about 50 per cent of the Minneapolis flour mills have closed down for an indefinite length of time. John Boyles shot and killed his wife in a jealous quarrel at McComb, Ohio. The woman was shot through the right temple with a 38-caliber revolver. Boyles says she had the pistol, and as he was trying to get it away from her it was discharged. Leon, the young son of J. Simon, a prominent merchant, was knocked down by an automobile at Middleton, Ohio. When picked up he was a mass of broken bones and lacerated flesh. Physicians’ i efforts were in vain, the boy dying an hour after the accident. The trustees of the Cincinnati public library have been apprised that Andrew Carnegie had offered to give to Cincinnati SIBO,OOO for the establishment ot six. branch libraries on condition that SIB,OOO be annually appropriated for maintenance. The gift was accepted. Prof. J. 11. Beale of Harvard law school has been granted six months’ leave and upon Invitation of President Harper will act as dean of the University of Chicago’s new law school. Prof. Beale plans to establish a school as nearly like the Harvard law' school as possible. Wesley Stults, a grain dealer, has sold his elevator at Monroe, Ind., and may remove from the town. He recently received anonymous letters containing threats to burn his elevator. Those threats so preyed on his mind that he determined to get rid of the property. By the consolidation of the St. Louis and Union Trust companies one of the strongest financial institutions is formed in St. Louis. The new company, which will be known as the St. Louis Union Trust Company, has a capital stock of $5,000,000 and a surplus of $3,750,000. In -Lincoln, Neb., Lawrence Stultz, aged 14, is dead and Louis Fairchild, of the same age, was taken to the city jail with a charge of murder placed against him. The boys quarreled at a ball game as to who should be umpire and Stultz was struck, fracturing the temple. John Donovan, night watchman at the Ryan Annex building, St. Paul, was squeezed to death in the passenger elevator. He was caught as he hung over the edge of the floor, the abarp edge of the car pinching him across the small of the back. The great pressure broke his spinal column. Mrs. Martha J. Calhoun, aged 75, and her daughter, Mrs. Yaugbn, aged 46, were shot and killed by an unknown )>erson two miles east of Mantua station, Ohio. Will Vaughn, a stepson of the younger woman, is locked up in Ravenna jail because of circumstances which are alleged to incriminate him.

The fifth supposedly incendiary tire iu South Chicago within twenty-four hburs destroyed St. Patrick's Catholic Church, spread to adjoining buildings, and despite tlie efforts of the firemen threatened for a time to devastate a large portion of the district. It was not quelled until utter great damage hud been done.