Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

A railroad is to be built between Coos Bay and Itoscburg, Ore. Construction will be begun by Sept. 1. A cyclone struck lloldrcge, Neb. A number of persons nre reported killed, and a great part of the town wrecked. Dr. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) unveiled a tablet marking the house in St. Louis where Eugene Field was born. At Chillicothe, Mo:; Ilarve Gibbons was shot and fatally wounded by his brother-in-law, John Ualveiu, the result of an old grudge. William 'l'. Moore, a furniture dealer of Lowry City, Mo., was shot and fatally wounded by Thomas J. I’rosies, the result yf n quarrel. Joseph Calviu, chief of police of David City, Neb., committed suicide by shooting himself. He was despondent because of failing health. At Lawrence, Kan., Mary Coop, a white woman, was killed by Charles Anderson, a negro restaurant employe. There were no witnesses to the crime.

Joseph Bnrtli of Boonville nnd Robert Anderson of Blnckwnter, Mo., were killed and Engineer Mercer seriously hurt in a Missouri Pacific wreck at Nelson, Mo. “Pug" Ryan, said to be the lender of a gang of desperadoes, who killed two oflicers r.nd who escaped from jail at Leadrille, Colo., was captured at Cripple Greek. Irwin A. Onrdner, amanuensis to Mayor Ames of Minneapolis was found guilty of accepting bribes for protection of ■linrk gaming and other illegal establishments. At Whatcom, Wash., the Jury in the case of the State versus John IHx, charged with wrecking two luniks, returned a verdict of guilty of larceny and embezzlement.

The Arknnsns Democratic convention nominated former Gov. James P. Clark to succeed Senator James K. Jones and renominated Gov. Jefferson Davis by acclamation. lu a collision between an electric car and a Missouri Pacific engine ut the surface ebrossing at Brentwood, near St.

Louis, forty-five persons were injured, two fatally. Miss Mamie Goelitz, until recently employed as night cashier in a downtown restaurant in Chicago, has been notified that she ts heiress to a fortune estimated at $1,000,000. The rules of the St. Paul health department requiring the vaccination of children who attend the public schools has been declared legal by the Minnesota Supreme Court. Ten were burned to death during a fire at the sanitarium of the St. Luke Society, Wabash avenue and Twenty-first street, Chicago, Aldermau W. E. Kent being one of the victims. The annual convention of the Western Federation of Miners at Denver adjourned, without date. Edward Boyce refused to serve o« president and Charles Moyer of Lead, hi. D. t was elected. . Margaret Taylor, who was kidnaped from Cincinnati, Ohio, over four years ago, arrived in that city the other day, accompanied by her parents and her brother Edward, 3 years old. By the overturning of a wagon in which thirteen students of the Denver, Colo., high school were riding one was killed, four were seriously injured and all the others more or less bruised. Rendered destitute by the reported death of lier husband, J. E. Bishop, in the St. Luke’s sanitarium fire at Chicago, Mrs. Josephine Bishop of St. I.ouig ended her life by drinking carbolic acid. Three employes of Bostock’s wild animal show, two men and one woman, were mangled by wild beasts at the Manhattan Beach resort uear Cleveland. One of the victims cannot survive his wounds. A Wall street syndicate headed by William L. Stow, the banker, has wrested control of the Dos Moines and Fort Dodge Railroad, one of its strongest subsidiary systems, from the Rock Island road.

The Second Presbyterian Church in Lincoln, Neb., was destroyed by fire. Defective electric light wiring started the blaze. The walls of the structure are still standing and the loss is estimated at $15,000. John C. David, president of the Lincoln, Neb., Paint and Color Company, committed suicide at liis home. He was possessed of a fortune of a quarter of a million dollars. Temporary insanity is assigned as the cause. The, Supreme Court of Minnesota has decided that a girl’s beauty is not to be counted against her, and that if a jury is influenced by the comeliness of a fair plaintiff it is not for the courts to deprive her of her natural advantages. Dr. T. H. Storey’, who. disappeared front Duluth several weeks ago, has written to his wife from San Francisco that his mind has been a blank since leaving Duluth, and that he does not know how he reached California.

After killing three guards two prisoners escaped from the penitentiary at Salem, Ore. Harry Tracy, one of the fugitive convicts, was serving a twentyyear sentence and the other, David Merrill, was under a thirteen-year sentence. Fire in the Prudential building on Sixth street, Pueblo, Colo., did SIOO,OOO damage. The Crews Boggs Dry Goods Company lost $50,000. The National Biscuit Company sustained a loss of 550,(XXI, and the damage to the building is $20,000.

With solemn ceremonies the newly constructed Church of the Sacred Heart, at Omaha, was dedicated by Bishop Scanned, assisted by Bishop Gleunon of Kansas City and Bishop Spalding of Peoria. Pope Leo XIII. sent a special message granting his blessing. Blanche Warren, a soubrette, nnd le'r mother, Mrs. G. W. Brown, were asphyxiated at their boarding house in San Francisco. One of the gas keys near the side of the bed on which lay the body of Miss Warren was turned partly ou. The fixtures were in bad order. Daniel Porter, a wealthy farmer <«f Princeton, Mo., was shot and fatally wounded by his 18-year-old son. A dispute arose as to which would use the buggy. As the elder Porter was climbing into the buggy the son appeared with a shotgun and fired both barrels at him. It is reported from Talmadge, lowji, that two unidentified men, alleged to be highwaymen, were shot and instantly killed by Claude Bristow of Cawker City, Kan. Bristow was hunting, lie alleges the men sprang upon him from behind a clump of bushes, attacking him with clubs. At the commencement exercises Miss M. Carry Thomas, president of Bryn Mnwr College, announced that the conditional gift of $250,000 by John D. Rockefeller had been secured through the friends of the institution subscribing a similar amount, tnakiug the total sura raised $500,000. At Alliance, Neb., Judge Westover sentenced August F. Juhnke to life imprisonment for the murder of Michael Sicnk last April. Oliver Olsen, who did the shooting at the instigation of Jahuko, pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree and received a sentence of twenty years’ imprisonment. An excursion train on the Detroit and Mackinaw ltuilroud, consisting of un engine and twelve coaches and carrying over 500 people, was wrecked at Black River, Mich., while running forty miles an hour. One man was instantly killed, three probably were fatally Injured and nearly fifty others received injuries. H. It. L. Zwick of Dayton, Ohio, was killed while acting ns field judge at the Cleveland Intcrscholnstic field meet. Slierbum Wightninu swung the hammer preparatory to making n throw. It parted in his hands, one of the pieces striking Zwick, who was standing twenty feet away, squarely lu the stomach. He died two hours later.

While running up the Detroit river the passenger steamer Frank K. Kirby was run into by the steamer Egnn. A panic ensued among the Kirby's passengers. The accident ended in the passenger steamer first running to shore to ascertain damages and then proceeding to her dock nnd discharging her passengers. No one wns injured. The Missouri State express on the Chicago and Alton Railroad collided with the rear end of a freight trnin standing on the track near the Hlite river, just east of Kansas City. The engineer, B. V. Meade, and Fireman Landman jumped, the former receiving internal Injuries from which lie died. The tiremuu was injured only slightly. In a collision with the steamer George G. Ilndley outside Duluth harlior, the whslebnek stecatuer Thomas Wilsou was sunk, taking nine of its crew to the bottom of the lake. Th« collision was fol-

lowed by the Hadley's racing for shore and, after a thrilling struggle, sinking on a bank near the harbor. The Hadley’s crew were all saved, A special horse trfcin on the Big Four Railroad was wrecked west of Bellefontnino, Ohio, killing Rrakeman Jim Borden and severely injuring Engineer Daniel Ivunkel and Fireman George Boyen. The train consisted of seven horse cars of export animals, and a large number of these also perished. The cause of the wreck was a defect in the track. The validity of the Farrelly anti-trust law was upheld in a decision handed down by the Kansas Supreme Court in the case of E. J. Smiley, secretary of the Kansas Grain Dealers’ Association. Smiley was arrested for violating the law, was convicted, fined SSOO and given a jail sentence. The case was appealed on the ground thnt the law was invalid. After saturating hi* clothing with kerosene, Joseph Rejeh yet fire to himself in the Catholic Church at Fishervilic, Mich. His charred remains were found in front of the altar. Holes had been burned through the church floor by his blazing body. Bejch, who was 30 years old, was the organist of the church and a teacher in the parochial school. It is supposed he was insane.