Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

President John Henry Barrows of Oberlin College died at Oberliu, Ohio, of pneumonia. N. F. Graves, a mining man, shot and killed his wife and fatally shot himself at Salt Lake City, A chime of ten bells at Lincoln, Neb., lias been dedicated to the memory of William McKinley. At Nevada, Mo., Benjamin Franklin Birch, aged 70 and very wealthy, married Miss Emma Jennings, aged 17. Mrs. Nettie R. Craven of San Francisco has abandoned all her suits against the Fair estate, having been paid $50,000. Henry (’lacker, who wns recently released from an Insane asylum, shot nnd killed Mrs. Irene Kemper in a quarrel at St. Louis. Gov. Davis of Arkansas hns been expelled by the Second Baptist Church of Little Rock ou charges of gambling unJ drunkenness. Former Gov. Sylvester I’ennoyer died suddenly at Portland, Ore., of heart failure. Mr. I’ennoyer had been in poor health for the last year. August Jahnke, has been convicted nt Alliance, Neb., of the murder of Michael Sieik mid his punishment fixed nt imprisonment for life. The jury was out a week. Two unknown boys were struck by n Lake Shore Railroad train at Sandusky, Ohio, on the Mile bridge, across the bay, and knocked into the water. Both were drowned. Mrs. Bessie P. Ware has beep acquitted on a charge of murdering her divorced husband. John I). Ware, who was n prominent business man of Hot Springs. Ark. Joliet, LI., was inundated by cloudburst and rising waters. Three persons lost

their lives, great property iosa was incurred and business practically brought to a standstill. Fire destroyed the grand stand at Hawthorne race track in Chicago, after the finish of the last race. Patrons barely cleared the structure when blaze was discovered. Loss $75,000. A small tornado struck Lead, 8. D., demolishing about twenty buildings and injuring three persons, none of whom, however, is fatally hurt. The property damage in this city is estimated at $150,000. Councilman Louis Schnell and Charles L. Geraghty, a member of the St. Louis house of delegates, were arrested at St. Louis on bench warrants from the grand jury charging them with malfeasance in office. Heavy frost caused thousands of dollars damage to Hardin County, Ohio, crops. Potatoes in all localities were badly bitten. The great onion fields are utterly ruined, likewise all tender vegetables. Three men who were wounded in a fight with officers at Yankton, 8. D., are believed to be members of a gang which has been robbing South Dakota banks. A supply of burglars' tools was found in their possession. Edward J. Blake, consulting engineer of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, was instantly killed in a wreck near Alma, Wis.,. and four other general officials of the company were injured, two of them perhaps fatally. A tornado unroofed buildings at La Crosse and Fox Lake, Wis. One man is reported killed at Desoto. A farmer wns killed by a tornado at Louisville, lowa. Cloudburst at Durham, lowa, destroyed several thousand acres of corn. Ten prisoners affected by the United States Supreme Court decision in the case of former Captain Peter C. Deming have been released from the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., and furnished with tickets to their homes. Carl Johann, A. M., LL. D., has accepted the presidency of Christian College at Canton, Mo. He was president of Eureka College at Eureka, 111., for ten years, but for the past four years has been superintendent of schools at Eureka. The Arbor Day Memorial Association has been organized at Nebraska City, Neb., to erect a monument to the memory of J. Sterling Morton, the father of Arbor day. A number of the most prominent men in the State are officers and members. Mrs. Carrie Nation, who was sentenced to the Shawnee County, Kan., jail May 16 for one month and ordered to pay a fine of SIOO, at the rate of a dollar a day, for smashing saloon fixtures, has been pardoned by Gov. Stanley. Her fine also was remitted. A jealous farm hand, named John Linnett, killed Belle Brown at Milwaukee, and after escaping was captured by a posse. Both were employed by John Mulaney, a farmer near Lake Beulah. It is supposed a love affair is at the bottom of the trouble. As the result of a fire that partially destroyed the dwelling of Philip Sogolovitz, on Broadway, Cleveland, an unknown woman,# employed as a domestic, was burned to death, while several members of the Sogolovitz family narrowly escaped with their lives. Another Detroit woman joined the ranks of Detroit titled women when Miss Martha Palms, a wealthy young woman and daughter of one of the most prominent families, married Count Laurent Meichel Champeaux of Chateau Ville Neuve, Cote d’Or, France. The heirs of Ole H. Ihlseng, a merchant of Fergus Falls, Minn., who bequeathed half his estate to the orphans and widows of fishermen in three provinces of Norway, have petitioned the Pro-, bate Court to set the will aside and distribute the estate of SIO,(XX). Several hundred Miami Indians living in northern Indiana will lay claim in the Ohio courts to immense tracts of land in Mercer County, Ohio, now held by well-to-do white people. Members of the Godfrey family of Miami and Grant counties are back of the effort. The sale of the Columbus, Lima and Milwaukee Railroad to the John D. Rockefeller interests a short time ago has been confirmed by Judge Donnelly of Lima, Ohio. B. C. Faurot, who protested against the confirmation, failed to put up the necessary bond of SI2S,(MX). In a wreck of east-bound train No. 6 on the Northwestern Railroad near Otis, lowa, ten persons are reported seriously Injured, one of whom, Capt. Cook of San Francisco, is not expected to survive. The injured were occupants of a rear sleeper, the only coach that left the track. S. George D’Essauer of Chicago, once high roller, society man and model of fashion, must go to the penitentiary. After four hours of deliberation the jury decided that the man who had spent $60,000 of his mother-in-law's money in two years was entitled to spend a term in prison. Fire which for a time threatened the destruction of the South Omaha, Neb., brewery did between $25,000 and $30,000 damage. A fortunate shift of the wind assisted the firemen. The cooper shop, stables and icehouse were consumed and some damage done to the main structure. William McFetrldge has been found not guilty of the murder of his brother, Robert McFetridge, in Chicago, and the jury which returned the verdict to Judge Kavanagh was subjected therefor to a speech of censure from the bench. The acquittal of the fratricide was a surprise to everyone interested. Michael O’Donnell, blacksmith for the Emerson-Fisher Carriage Company in Cincinnati, wns assaulted by unknown patties and died the next day. As O’Donnell continued nt work and was recognized as a leader of those opposing the pending strike, it Is supposed that his murder is due to revenge. A bold daylight robbery, in which the highwayman secured checks nnd money orders to the amount of $2,583.86 ny holding up Sigmund Ma jawski at, the corner of Will street nnd Milwaukee avenue, Chicago, was followed by the arrest of the supposed robber within an hour and bis identification by the victim. W. J. C. Kenyon, general manager of tlie South Omaha stock yards, has purchased the stock yards and the packing plant of the Lincoln Backing Company at Lincoln, Neb., and 3,000 acres of grazing land adjacent. Mr. Kenyon will take possession at once, nnd Harry L. Carpenter of Omaha will have charge of the property. Mr. Carpenter said that the

packing house would not be operated at present, but the yards will be enlarged from time to time. Teamsters' strike caused riots in various parts of Chicago, the battles between the mobs and the police being fierce. Nearly a score of persons were injured more or less severely. Forty-one arrests were made. Teamsters themselves took no part in the conflicts, the hoodlum and anarchist elements figuring in the combats. A combination of twenty of the largest •amber manufacturing plants in Cook County, 111., has been effected, and within two weeks a new corporation, the American Snsh and Door Company, will be in operation. Organization has been perfected' under the laws of New Jersey, and the new company will have a capitalization of $3,54)0,000.