Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Potter Pnlmcr of Chicago diet! unexpectedly of heart failure after nn illneM of three weeks due to n stoumcli ailment. City elections were held throughout Indiana on Tuesday, contests being on local issue* and neither of the old parties gaining any advantage. Dr. E. YV. Aldrich, Chicago, attacked two detectives at Los Angeles who tried to serve n writ, wounded one, and then •hot and killed himself. The second disastrous tire in a week, aided by a gale, destroyed the opera house in Aberdeen, S. D. The blaze was no doubt of incendiary origin. Jcbn 11. Parks’ suit against J. YV. Gates for an accounting of profits in the formation of the American Steel and Y\ ire Company has been dismissed. George 11. Moody, aged 35, of Hollister, Ohio, ami YVilbert H. Miller, aged 65, of Herr’s Island. Pa., were killed by a Baltimore and Ohio train near Cincinnati. John YY T . Bookwaiter is organizing a company with $500,000 capital to operate a big steel plaut at Springfield, Ohio.

Hit patents for converting iron Into steel w-ill be used. Passenger train No. 18 on the Lake Shore road struck and instantly killed Holly Hogle, aged 18: Louia Mohr, aged 16, and Guerney Gill, aged 17, near Swanton, Ohio. Five persons were severely injured on a vacant lot in Denver by the explosion of a tank of chemicals with which they were generating gas to be used in exhibiting stereopticon views. The falling of the roof in mine No. 4 of the New Mexico Fuel Company’s coal workings at Capitan, N. M., resulted in the death of two miners, David Thompson and William YY’ebb. While placing two young men under arrest, Policeman Patrick Duffy of the stock yards police station in Chicago was shot and instantly killed in front of the Tenth Presbyterian Church. Alexander Meussing was the prosecutor of his father in t£e police court at Columbus, Ohio, and tlie latter was fiued S2O and sent to the workhouse for thirty days for stealing his son’s watch. Because of despondency Mrs. John L. Kingsbury, wife of the foreman of a Denver laundry, poisoned her two children, aged 8 and 12, causing their death, and committed suicide by the same method. Despondent over the continued drought and the possibility of the entire loss of his crops, T. A. Coatsworth, a farmer living near Broughton, Kan., committed suicide by hanging himself. That night it rained. Thomas Bishop, a wealthy gold mine owner of Old Mexico, totally blind, married Susanna Shuck, a cook in a restaurant at Findlay, Ohio. He tasted her cooking, then wanted to meet her, and after a short courtship, took her to wife. A cloudburst at Foss, Ok., drowned nine persons and left many homeless. Four bodies have been recovered. A mile of the Choctaw Railway track was washed out near the town and the loss of town property will amount to $200,000. A tornado which passed five miles east of Centerville, S. I)., destroyed Y’ictor Anderson’s house and barns, killed his baby and injured his wife and mother. Two horses were killed. Anderson was away from home and lost his reason when he returned. Samuel E. Crance has resigned his position as general superintendent of the Burlington lines in Missouri, the “K” line in lowa and the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railway. Mr. Crance has been in continuous service of the Burlington forty-one years. Crazed by whisky, three patients in the county pesthouse at Deadwood, S. D., ended a night of riot by setting fire to tlie building and destroying it. The other patients, many of whom were in the worst stages of smallpox, narrowly escaped death, being rescued with difficulty. Mrs. Nellie Gabrin was arrested at Denver, Colo., on a charge of murdering her husband. Albert Gabrin, last January by administering poisoned wine at a birthday celebration. The warrant was sworn out by Chief of Police Armstrong after an investigation lasting over a month. Dr. A. F. Longeway, secretary of the Montana board of health, and a party of scientists have gone to the Bitter Root valley to ytquire into the mysterious malady known as spotted fever, which is causing a panic among the inhabitants of that region. Every case of the disease has been fatal. A building in South Branson street, Marion, Ind., occupied by Fansler’s drug store, Rowan's grocery, John Dilday’s saloon, John Darnell’s saloon and Hudson & Otis’ restaurant, was demolished by natural gas, injuring at least a score of people. The building was demolished and the loss will reach $35,000. Dr. D. Estaing Dickerson, one of the most prominent physicians in Kansas City, and a millionaire, died, aged 67. Dr. J. YY'. Foster, an aged physician, and devoted friend of Dr. Dickerson, attempted to commit suicide on hearing of the latter’s death, by taking morphine, but bis condition was discovered in time to save his life. Dr. John Flood, Chicago representative of J. Pierpont Morgan, has secured an option on the Milwaukee, Benton Harbor and Columbus Railroad, which extends from Buchanan, Midi., to Benton Harbor. It is tlie intention to extend the Grand Trunk from Edwardsburg through Niles to Buchanan, thence to Benton Harbor over the newly acquired road. The will of J. Sterling Morton was opened in tlie presence of the heirs and their representatives at Nebraska City. Neb. Tlie estate is estimated to be worth in tlie neighborhood of SIOO,OOO. Tlie will provides for nn annuity to be paid to Miss Emma Morton, sister of the. decedent, during the remainder of her life. The estate is then divided into four equal parts, one part for each of the four sons or their heirs by representation. Judge Hale of tlie Common Pleas Court nt Lisbon, Ohio, hns declared unconstitutional tlie statute that makes the discharge of a union man a misdemeanor. D. S. Bookman, manager of the Wellsville mills, was indicted five months ago for discharging a union man who refused to surrender bis card. Bookman' was prosecuted by the union organization, and tlie case was thus decided. The case will be carried to the Ohio Supreme Court. Harry Cooper, the murderer who escaped from jail at Marietta, Ohio, Feb. 12, is again nt large. He was captured at Beaumont two weeks ago, and Sheriff Morrow of Marietta wns bringing him back. Near Little Rock. Ark., Cooper asked Sheriff Morrow to enter the closet. The latter removed the handcuffs. Cooper raised the window in the closet and jumped out. Sheriff Morrow paid Beaumont authorities $122, all that remained of the reward. The county commissioners will not reimburse the sheriff. An attempt to hold up the ’Frisco express wns made near Seligman, Mo. Two men boarded the train there and under cover of darkness crept over the tender and, leveling their revolvers nt tlie engineer, ordered him to reverse. He told them thnt to stop before nrrivlng at the next siding meant certain destruction, ns he was closely followed by nn “extra.” YY’hen the train slowed up nt Washburn the robbers had become frightened and fled Into the timber. Two bus-* poets have been nrrested at Seligman. For a short time Sunday afternoon n terrific storm of wind and rain prevailed in St. Louis and its vicinity, causing considerable minor damage. Lightning resulted in several fires, one of which destroyed the machine shop and a section

of tue foundry of William and Philig Madart’s pulley plant in South St. Louis. The loss is estimated at $300,000, partly insured. Hard work on the part of the firemen, aided by the torrents of rain, saved an adjoining building in which were stored patterns valued at half a million dollars. While Mrs. Albert McClure, with her 3-year-old son, was walking in Edgemore cemetery, Ashtabula, Ohio, a closed carriage drove close to them, and a woman leaned out and beckoned the child to her, and so goon as within reach she pulled the boy in and drove swiftly away. Mrs. McClure attempted to arrest the vehicle by grasping the wheel, and one hand and arm were severely injured. Excitement and pain caused her to swoon. McClure left his wife some days ago, and she knew his whereabouts, but says he was not in the cab. The police have taken hold of the case.