Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

J. Sterling Morton, former Secretary of Agriculture, died at the residence of his sou, Mark Morton, at Lake Forest, 111. William W. Carr, a telegraph operator, was shot and killed by the accidental discharge of his shotgun near Eudora. Kan, New plant to cost $3,000,000 and give employment to 5,000 men is to be built in Chicago by the American Bridge Company. The Franklin mill of the Sterling I’aper Company burned nt Hamilton, Ohio, causing $150,000 loss, with $75,000 insurance. At Winside, Neb., Mrs. Katie Dimmel). divorced wife of John Dimiuell, killed her small child and committed suicide by hanging. St. Paul Prohibitionists won their fight and the name of John Henry Fits will go the official ballot as th? party’s candidate for Mayor. Four persons were killed and twentythree injured, eight seriously, In wrecking of California limited on the Santa Fe near Medill, Mo. M. Widdekind of Pocatello, Idaho, was elected president by the National Embalmers' Association, which closed its convention nt St. Lottis. Custar, Ohio, an oil town of 500 inhabitants. wns totally destroyed by fire. A high wind was blowing, which prevented any possible chance of saving the town.

The loss, which will exceed S»W,6bO, includes nine stores and scores of dwellings. Gov. Jefferson Davis of Arkansas denied charges of drunkenness made against him by Baptists, and asked Little Rock church' to try him. A Grand Trunk passenger train was wrecked near Valparaiso, Ind., by two freight cars blown on the track. Two of the train crew are missing. William Price and Bernard Sutter were killed by an explosion of dynamite at Issaquah, Wash. There was not enough of Sutter’s remains left to hold an inquest. Gov. Ezra P. Savage of Nebraska resigns from the candidacy for renomination as a result of criticism of his action In pardoning former State Treasurer Bartley. The wife of Lee Gallaher, receiving teller of the First National Bank est St. Joseph, Mo., who has confessed- to hav-ing-vYolen $26,000, died from grief over his troubles. a , The town of Herkimer, Kan., was almost entirely destroyed by fire. The place had a population of about 500. The origin of the fire is unknown. The property loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO. Severe windstorms in several"-States in the Missouri valley caused loss of life and destruction of property. Three were killed at Jopliu, Mo., and five fatally injured. Omaha reported one fatality. The spotted-fever scourge in the' Bitter Root valley, Mont., has broken out with greater violence than at any time known in the history of the peculiar disease. Eight persons died of the malady within one week. . Directors of Wittenberg College nt Springfield, Ohio, have decided to offer free tuition for one year to high school graduates receiving the highest grades in Ohio, Indiana, southern Michigan and northern Kentucky. The Rock Island Railroad Company, in order to secure a route from Lawton, Ok., for an extension into Texas, has condemned the public highway as far as the Red river. Active construction will commence immediately. Forest tires have been raging in the mountains in the Gallinas Canyon above the Las Vegas Hot Springs, New Mexico. Great damage is being done, and it is feared that houses of ranchers in the canyon will be swept away by the flames. Martin Lynch, who was arrested a few days ago. charged with the murder of his wife, committed suicide In his cell at the county jail in Cleveland by hanging himself from the doorknob, which was not more than three feet from the floor. The 1,700 employes of the Singer Sew ing Machine Company returned to work at South Bond, hut because of the disorganized state of affairs Manager Pine put only 800 men to work. The Singer company did not concede a point to the strikers. Burglars broke into the wood and feed store of Brand & Wubben in St. Paul, cracked the safe, stole checks and valuables and then set fire to the building, which was consumed, causing a loss of S7OO and almost effacing the evidences of the burglary. Forty students of Baker University at Baldwin, Kan., have been suspended for breaking into the gymnasium during a basket ball game between the two girls’ teams of the college. The officials say the offenders can be reinstated only on petition to the faculty. Patrick Noonan was arrested at Helena, Mont., and brought back to his former home in Preston, Minn., to answer the charge of murdering John Skinner in 1874. Noonan was passing as J a meg New, and has been a fugitive for twenty-eight ysars. Prof.. George M. Howells of Washington says the explosions at Robinson, Ivan., were caused by a meteor, which buried itself in the ground and obstructed some underground stream. This caused the spring to appear, and might also account for the warmth of the water. Reports of a fabulous find of gojd at Sand Creek, Mont., were received. A man named Meyer shipped to Butte samples of ore for assay that go from ssl to $28,000 to the ton. The extent of the strike has not been ascertained, but Meyer says he has an abundance of ore. > The world’s fair will be ix>st;>oned to 1904, according to plans which have just been completed in St. Louis. Washington will be notified that the directory is resigned to postponement in the best interests of the fair. Any measure to l>ostpone to a later dale than May 1, 1904, Will be strongly opposed. Under a decision handed down by Justice Brown of the Minnesota Supreme Court the practice of repeating messages by telegraph companies, where the party to whom the message is directed has gone to another point, is a pure gratuity, and failure to do so does not entitle the party to damages for non-delivery. A tornado, accompanied by heavy rain and hail, passed three miles south of Parker, Knn., destroying all houses and barns in its path and tearing down the telegraph line of the Missouri, Kansas nnd ‘Texas Railroad. The dwelling of Oscar Hoyt, a farmer, was destroyed and his sister nnd his sou were injured. The strike on the street railway system of the United Railroads of San Francisco has been officially declared off. Victory rests with the employes, who are conceded nil their principal demands. The United Railroads have granted an advance in wages, a ten-hour day and in a measure recognized the Carmen’s union. The farmers of Kaunas intend to throttle the grain trust and will fix their own prices on wheat and corn. The plan is for each farmer to list his crops with the secretary of the association, who will thereby be better qualified to name a price for which the products will be sold because he will have a monopoly of the entire crop. As the night shift went to work the other evening in the tunnel of the Canadian Power Company ut Niagara Falla, discovery was made of an attempt to wreck the tnnnel and kill the men, thirty in number, working UK) feet l>elow the surface of the earth. This was to-be accomplished with a stick of dynamite and an infernal machine. A deal has been completed tietween’ John Soullin. president of the Wiggins Ferry Company nt St. Muis, and Festus J. Wade, president of the Mercantile Trust Company, whereby the business and property of the Wiggins Ferry Company passes into the bands of another owner, whose name Is not made public. The consideration is $5<000,000. 'l'he Venture Company of Loudon has

bought the Camp Bird gold mine at Ouray, Colo., for $5,500,000. The company bought Stratton’s Independence mine at Cripple Creek three years ago for $10,000,000. Three experts, including John Hays Hammond, recently examined the Camp Bird mine thoroughly, and Hammond is now in London, where he has gone to turn over the property. The Mosier Safe and Lock Company of Hamilton, Ohio, closed a contract to furnish the First National Bank of Chicago the largest burglar-proof vaults In the world for its new building. They will be of the finest hardened steel and will cost $300,000. The contract calls for their completion within one year. The Mosier company will put a special force of mechanics at work on them at once and keep them at it until the job is completed. The larger of these vaults will be G 5 by 45 feet and the other nearly as large. Trouble which has been brewing in western Kansas for several months has reached the stage of war, in which Frank Rockefeller, the Standard Oil magnate, is fighting Chauneey Dewey, the Chicago capitalist. The start was the refusal of farmers to allow cattlemen to use their pastures, but the ranchmen have encroached until it is said the farmers are almost afraid to sow their crops. Dewey is backed by all the ranchmen and cowboys and Rockefeller has the farmers with him. The other day a band of farmers drove Dewey’s cowboys off, and it is said many of the farmers have purchased arms and ammunition. State militia may go to the scene.