Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Abrnhnm Witherup, white, was lynched at Paris, Mo., for the murder of William Grow. Lorenzo Faulkner, aged 30, n railroad man, shot his wife dead and killed himself at Ogden, Utah. Congressman James A. Norton of Tiffin, Ohio, was renominated .for his fifth term by the Thirteenth District Democrats at Sandusky. Maj. John Pilcher, acting superintendent of Yellowstone National Park, lias Issued an order prohibiting the use of automobiles In the park. Bev. S. I*. lx>ng of Columbus, Ohio, tendered his resignation ns president of Lima College for tire second time ami It has now been accepted. Gov. Dockery of Missouri granted n respite from .lune 13 to June 27 to Hunt Brown, who wav sentenced to be hanged in Wayne County for murder. Williapi Brown, robber, tried to bold on Chris Erickson In Chicago and tt»l knocked down by the latter. While Brown was promt on the sidewalk he fired five shots at Ericson, two of them

making fatal wounds. The victim’s sweetheart, Miss Anderson, witnessed the tragedy. t John Keegan, State mine inspector of Kansas during Gov. Lewelling’s administration, was instantly killed at a coal mine three miles east of Jewell City. Miss Margaret warden of Sage College, resigned from Cornell, having accepted a position as full professor of philosophy at the University of Cincinnati. Fire in the Cincinnati city hospital caused dire alarm, but fortunately the controlling forces prevented loss of life. Four attendants were overcome by smoke and injured. Jason Wilson, a negro, and O. Carroll, t white man, engaged in a fight at a baseball game at Florence, Colo., and the former narrowly escaped lynching in the riot which followed. The controlling interesjt in the Greeley Sugar Company’s property, in which several hundred thousand dollars of Utah capital is invested, has passed into the hands of the Haveineyers. A fierce thunder and rain storm swept Chicago, causing heavy damage. Basements were, deluged, electric light plants disabled and the flooding of subways compelled stoppage of trolley ears. A Kalispell, Mont., special says: "Guy Croffoth of Troy, Mont., was killed and Bridge Foreman Collins was badly injured in a work train wreck on the Jennings branch of the Great Northern. The bakers’ strike in Denver, which had continued several weeks, has been settled. The masters conceded the demands of the men for a midnight luncheon and 10 cents an hour extra for overtime. Chicago firms have secured almost all the contracts for supplying Indians, and business men consequently say that warehouses for handling such goods should be located in that city instead of in NewYork. Fire visited Johnstown, Ohio, and n slight rainfall is all that saved the town from total destruction. The loss is fixed at JFI<X),OOO, with probably half the loss insured. A score of business blocks and residences were destroyed. The Rock Island Company has bought property in the west bottoms of Kansas City and is negotiating for so as to reach the Union depot over wits own tracks. It is said that nearly $500,000 will be expended for land. Frank M. Sturgeon, one of the oldest mail carriers in the Kansas City. Kan., service, was arrested by postoffice inspectors for stealing a bundle of letters. Sturgeon was caught in the act and confessed his guilt. He has a family. The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Indianapolis Traction Company has been incorporated. Only SIO,OOO capital will be used in Ohio. The line is to run from Hamilton to the Indiana State line and then connect with the system in Indiana. According to revelations that came to light the other day, babies are sold in St. Paul, Minn., to any one desiring to make application. No inquiries are made as to the character of the applicant, nor are any records kept of the transaction. Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Lease, the politician nnd author, has been granted a divorce from her husband, Charles Lease, In the District Court at Wichita, Kan. The trial lasted fifteen minutes, there being no objection offered by Mr. Lease. The steamer Kittie M. Forbes burned while coming through St. Clair flats and is n total loss, together with 800,000 feet of pine lumber which she had aboard. The fire started by the explosion of a lamp in the engine room. No lives were lost. Dr. Arehie Kingsbury, a young dentist, was drowned at Winona, Minn., while rowing with a son of Mayor Stewart and the Misses Mills. In crossing the dam the boat occupied by Kingsbury nnd his companion sank. Bystanders saved Miss Mills. Harry Meyers, Fred Schwake, Edward Miller and Harold Craig, ranging in age from 14 to 20 years, were drowned at North Vernon. The boys embarked in a skiff upon Mnscatatuck creek, above a stone dam. They let the boat drift over the dam. Allie Petty, living near Arcola, Mo., shot Mrs. Friend and her daughter nnd then himself. Both women were shot twice. The mother may recover, but the girl and Petty will die. Mrs. Friend had objected to Petty’s attentions to her daughter. In San Francisco a verdict of guilty was found against Charles R. Maines by a jury in the United States District Court. Maines was arrested on a charge of using the malls to further a scheme to defraud Dr. Charles Bennett of Wauseon, Ohio. Frank Wilson shot and seriously wounded his wife, killed Abner Canter nnd then committed suicide. Wilson was jealous of Canter's attentions to his wife. All three had lived on a farm in the territory across the line from Arkansas City, Kan. At St. Paul the Supreme Court held that A. B. Potter, who had been discharged without previous notice by bis employer, J. C. Barton, was entitled to such notice nnd should have one week’s salary as compensation for bis employer's breach of contract. At Zanesville, Ohio, Judge J. 11. Mnckey decided that the strikers of the Brown Manufacturing Company had the right to persuade, to assemble and to picket the plants, but none of these or other nets must partake of the nature of violence or intimidation. Five thousand union men employed In the building trades went on strike ill Denver, causing virtually a complete stoppage of building in the-jrity, The strike was begun by order of the Building Trades Council to help the woodworkers In their efforts to get an eighthour day, At Bismnrck, N. D., Judge Cowttn scored two old mon, one of whom had been in the country fourteen and the other sixteen years, and neither had lenrued the English language. They wished to take ont their paper* to that they might Me claims, but Judge Cowan refuse-] them that privilege. The Ohio State board of pardons unanimously icjrctej the applications for pardon filed by Mfs. France* I-- Taylor and hes daughter, Miss Frances L. Taylor, Jr., sentenced to one yvnr’ii jurprisniiincut each for complicity In the kidnaping of little Margaret Taylor, the grandchild of Mr*. Taylor. Judge Stone of the Criminal Court In Clovehmd sentenced former Deputy J’o* lice Clerk Tony Dehner to four years' Imprisonment in the penitentiary upon the charge of forging police court wit-

ness fee vouchers. Deisner’s stealing* amounted to SB,OOO. He pleaded guilty to two of the four indictments. The plant of the Delta powder works, located near Delta, Cal., was blown up, killing Mrs. George Miller and her child, who resided 100 yards from the plant, and fatally injuring another child. George Miller, husband of the dead woman, and George Barber, who was working in the factory, were seriously injured. Policeman Bateman 'arrested Harry Hill at Hamilton, Ohio, on a charge of violating a parole from the Joliet, 111., penitentiary. Hill was convicted of grand larceny in Chicago nnd given an indeterminate sentence. It is said he violated his parole, which did not permit him to leave the State, in order to see his wife. Former Congressman Henry L. Morey was shot at from ambush as he was driving past the home of his brother-in-law, Aaron L. Campbell, at Hamilton, Ohio, the bullet passing near his head. On Morey’s complaint Campbell, who is a lifelong enemy of Morey, with whom he has had years of litigation, was arrested and held In $2,500 bond charged with shooting to kill. Half of the business section of Milford, Ind., was destroyed by tire. Twelve buildings were burned with almost their entire contents. The loss is estimated at between $40,000 and $50,000, with only $9,000 insurance. The losers are: George Betzer, John Davisson, M. Oppenheim, Charles Robinson, Lewis Rodebaugb, J. H. Pritchett, C. Holloway, Edward Cammack, Charles Neese, Mrs. Mattle Brecknell, A. L. Brown, Stump Brothers, Newkum & Keehn, North & Neff, William Groves.