Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Court decision in Missouri permits teflebers to whip pupils whenever it is deemed necessary. George Roberts went to sleep on the railroad track and was beheaded by the cars at lAinu, Ohio.

Henry W. Jamison, representative of the Chicago Fair Oaks Association, is missing from Sacramento, (.'al. Rev. M. Harwood, pastor of the (»>ngregational Church at Fairview, Kan., who is accused of heretical views, has resigned. The jury disagreed in the case of O. W. Coffelt, charged witli murdering (1. C. Montgomery, a Santa Fe detective nt Winfield, Kan. Indiana Order of Roman Catholic Benevolent Societies at Laporte adopted resolutions placing the order under the national federation.

In a fight between deputy sheriffs and desperadoes near Braggs, I. T., four men were killed and seven wounded, among them a noted outlaw. Four hundred thousand acres of Rosebud Indian Agency will be opened to settlement this summer; land located in Nebraska and South Dakota. D. W. Dunnett, a prominent attorney of Hutchinson, Kan., dropped dead In the federal court in Topeka while arguing n case before Judge Hook. For alleged illegal fencing of government land over KM) ranchmen near Casper, Wyo., have received notices to remove barriers within sixty days. The large brewery of the Christian Moerlein Company, at Cincinnati, suffered a losa of over *IOO,OOO from fire, sup-

poaed .to be due to spontaneous combustion. The Santa Fe Railway has begun work on 500 miles of extensions in Indian Territory, it is said, to offset alleged advantage gained by the Rock Island. The Great Northern “flyer” jjas wrecked in collision with a freight near St. Cloud. Minn., one woman passenger and four train menacing slightly hurt. Anti-merger suit of State of Minnesota against Northern Securities Company has been removed by Minnesota District Court to United States Circuit Court for hearing. At Toledo, Ohio, Daniel Rosenbecker. aged 13, pleaded guilty to killing his playmate. Arthur Shanteau,'aged 7, and was sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary. A liot wave extended over the West, tlie Kansas wheat crop is threatened unless rain comes at once. The mercury reached 95 degrees at Omaha and 02 at St. Joseph. Between fifty and seventy-five lives were lost in the burning near Cairo, til... of the steamer City of Pittsburg, bound from Cincinnati to Memphis with 150 persons on board. Fire destroyed the building occupied by the Depot Carriage and Baggage Company in Kansas City, causing from $40,000 to $50,000 loss, fully insured. Fortysix horses perished. Richard Roan anil Arthur Rogers, aged 12 and 15 years, respectively, were killed by lightning at Akron, Ohio, just before the beginning of a ball game. Several others were shocked. An explosion tore Alice Grimstead from her father's arms while on a fire escape nt the Monterey apartment building ia Chicago, and caused her death, the structure being destroyed. Wesley Elkins, the lowa boy who twelve years ago murdered his father and mother, has been granted a conditional pardon. He will live with Prof. Harlan at Cornell College. In San Francisco about 3,000 street car men went on strike for an adjustment of wages and hours and recognition of their union. There was no disorder, but the strike caused much discomfort. Gov. Cummins of lowa has offered a reward of $1,200 for the murderers of the Peterson children in Des Moines a week ago, and will increase the amount if the guilty men are not soon found. John Cummings, a farmer near Portland, Kan., was arrested charged with the murder in 1800 of Anna Richman, aged 13, a domestic. His wife was Conscience stricken and told the officers. The residence of Prof. F. D. Mae Mott of Ada, Ohio, University was badly wrecked by a dynamite bomb, thrown through a window. A jealous lover of a domestic employed by the professor is charged with the crime. He cannot be found. The headless body of Harry Egbert, 15 years old, was found lying on the top of a coach of a Big Four train at Daytou. Ohio. The head was found at a bridge south of the city*. The boy was on top of the car beating his way when hit by the bridge. In a quarrel over a baseball that was said to have been thrown into his yard by a neighbor’s child “Abe” Siupsky, u St. Louis politician, shot and fatally wounded Charles Pinckard, a saloonkeeper. Slupsky is under arrest. He says he shot in self-defense. After deliberating less than twenty minutes a jury in Judge Brentano's court in Chicago returned a verdict finding Lewis G. Toombs guilty of the murder of Carrie Larson on the steamer Peerless on the evening of Dec. 30, and fixing the punishment at death.

A .storm in southwestern Oklahoma killed seven persons. Near Leger Mrs. Janies Johnson was killed by a house being blown against a tent she occupied. Contractor Reed and wife of the Frisco Railway construction corps'were suffocated by a tent falling on them. Miss Laura Heapes was fatally injured and Jesse L. Boogher, president of the Boogher, Force & Goodbar Hat Company, seriously hurt by the sudden fall of a heavy derrick at the ceremony of corner stone laying at the new Cabanne Methodist Episcopal Church in St. Louis.

The first and second sections of a Baltimore and Ohio freight train met in a rear-end collision in North Newark, Ohio, badly wrecking one engine and twentyfive cars. Engineer T. S. Osborne was pinned under his engine an<Lcrushed to death, while Conductor 8. (Z Coates had one arm broken. Hereafter the tourist in the West will pay a higher price for his Indian relics than iu the past. A meeting was held by the Omabas and Winnebagos on their reservations near Omaha several days ago and a relic trust was formed. Great Thunder, a leading financier of the Winnebagos, was elected president. Fire which originated in the Gem City sawmill at Quincy, 111., destroyed property valued at $230,000 and caused the death of one woman from the shock. After consuming the sawmill and planing mill the fire burned over nearly ten acres piled with lumber. Two of the city fire steamers were abandoned in the flames.

An entire freight train, consisting of twelve loaded cars of merchandise, plunged into Big Walnut creek, fifty feet below the track level, at Sunbury, Ohio, on the Cleveland, Akron and Columbus Railway, and was destroyed by fire, causing n loss of $250,000. The wreck was due to the burning of a 300-foot trestle.

Firc declared to be of incendiary origin destroyed engine house No. 2 in South Omaha, Neb., and three firemen narrowly escaped cremation, two of them being badly burned. All the equipment was destroyed, except the hose team which was driven off by Martin Maloney, who was arrested. Several sections of nose were found cut to pieces. The life of Aaron Johnson was saved at the Ban Francisco city and county hospital through an operation never before performed on the coast—the removal of the larynx, on which was a cancerous growth. An artificial larynx is being made for the patient which, it Is asserted, will enable him to speak, though his voice will be confined to a monotone. Fire in the southwestern part of Kansas City laid waste a section of dwelling houses almost a quarter of a mile long and a block wide and did damage to the amount of *75,000. John Stlnne of Quincy, 111., a spectator, was fatally injured by a falling piece of Iron and Edward Bennett, a fireman, was overcome by heat. About fifty houses were de-

stroyed and sixty more families were rendered homeless.. The jury In the ease of William Strother, the negro charged with the murder of A. Deane Cooper, the millionaire who was killed in a bathhouse in St. Louis several months ago, was unable to agree on a verdict after being out all night and was discharged by Judge Ryan. The jury stood seven for acquittal and five for conviction. Seven ballots were taken. "The auti-trusj law of Missouri is unreasonable, oppressive, unconstitutional and void,” is the finding of Judge Butler, appointed by the Supreme Court In July, 1900. as referee and special commissioner to Investigate the affairs of the Continental Tobacco Company which absorbed the J. (J. Butler, the American, the Drummond and the Brown Brothers’ plants in St. Louis, ns well as that of Wright Brothers, St, Charles. Because he was refused something to eat a tramp, calling at the home of Joseph Allen in Springfield. Ohio, in the absence of‘the parents, threw a stick or dynamite on a stove, which was surroffnded by Alien's six children. A 12-year-old boy in an effort to save the others grabbed the explosive. His hand was blown off and the other, children badly burned about the face. The stove was also wrecked. The tramp escaped. Representatives of Pittsburg, New York and Philadelphia capitalists have' been in Marietta, Ohio, inspecting a 500ncre tract of land which they optioned for the purpose of erecting a mammoth iron and steel industry. The representatives will make a proposition to the Board of Trade to locate there. The plant is to cost over $2,000,000, and is for the purpose of supplying independent concerns. They want to be in operation by winter. in squalid rooms at 3413 State Chicago, an entire colored family, consisting of father, mother and six children,) were found dead. Two theories present! themselves for the extinction of the family. Threats made by the father that he would kill himself and family are accepted by the police to be the most plausible theory. That he plied the family with poisoned liquor is the opinion of the officers who examined the room in which the bodies lay.