Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Two carthqunkc shocks were felt at Newport, Ore. The Woodward block at Beatrice, Neb., was fired for the third time by incendiaries. The Standard fire pressed brick works, north of Pueblo, Colo., were damaged $150,000 by tire. James F. Wheetock was executed in the penitentiary nt Sun Quentin, Cal., for the murder of Mrs. Emily Martin. The Minnesota Supreme Court decides sale of meat containing preservatives cannot he interfered with in that State. At Crawford - , N'eb., Judge Kincaid was nominated for Congress by Republicans of the Sixth District on the 147t1i ballot. The official count of the vote in the recent election in Oregon shows that Chamberlain, Democrat, for Governor, has a majority of Hod. The Union ore sampling works and tin’ warehouse of the Second-Hand Supply Company at Denver were destroyed by fire. The loss is $50,000. Portions of the body of an unknown man, supposed to have been murdered, hnve been found ou the Dixie trail to Thunder Mountain, in Idaho, At Trenton, Mo., Ralph Lord shot and killed Mrs. Arvilla Worrell, of whom lie was jealous, and then shot himself through tlie lungs. He will die. George Puck, formerly of Sioux City, and George Ostrander, formerly of Correctlonville, were fouud murdered in their ealiln on a ranch near Sturgis, S. D. Arthur Underwood, u prominent member of the Castle Square Opera Company, playing an engagement in Cleveland, wus struck and killed by a street car.

Andrew Peterson, on trial for the killing Inst January at Greenleaf, Knn.. of Carl Holt and his niece, Hilda I ‘etervin, was found guilty of murder iti the first degree. Henry Siegel of Siegel, Cooper & Co. has acquired a half interest in store of Sehlesinger & Mayer for $1,500,000. Merger of big department houses may follow. In Knusas City four persons were burned, two perhaps fatally, in an explosion that followed an attempt of Mrs. Julia Hawkes to light a kitchen fire with kerosene. Mayor Ilnrrison of Chicago was overthrown by John P. Ilopkius in ’he Illinois Democratic convention in n test of strength. Bryan* and free silver were not mentioned. George Goodcll has been pardoned from the Ohio penitentiary by President

Ropsevelt. He xvas sentenced in tne Indian Territory to serve two sentences of ten years each for manslaughter. Tae fast mail ou the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad jumped the track at Fulton, 111. The engine and two mail coaches rolled over a 15-foot embankment. The engineer was injured. The towboat Relief was sunk at Rising Sun, Ind., by colliding with a barge. The seven members of the crew escaped. Thomas Allen, the steward, and his wife were injured before they were rescued. John Fox, a farmer living near Elbow Lake, Minn., shot and killed his brother Peter and his mother, and then shot himself dead. He was probably demented. Fox was unmarried and lived with his parents. The first car of 1902 wheat was received in Kansas City the other day. It graded No. 2 red and was from Tulsa, I. T. It was sold for cents per bushel, which was about 3 cents above the market. William N*. Vaughn, who has been on trial at Ravenna, Ohio, for the murder of his stepmother and her mother, was found not guilty, the jury declaring him “not guilty because of insanity at the time of the crimes.” Carver Brothers’ department store in Strasburg, Ohio, was conamned by tire, with n loss of SIOO,OOO. It is thought the fire was set by robbers. While the members of the firm were fighting the blaze their home was looted. Kansas needs (5,000 harvest hands. The State employment bureau has furnished its Kansas City agent of the Missouri bureau with a list of places where the men are to be sent. The railroads make n special rate of one-third fare. Clarence Hamilton, a trick bicyclist from New Y’ork, kuowu as Moucrief, fell from the giant wheel at the Elks’ fair in Minneapolis and had several ribs broken, besides suffering internal injuries which make his condition serious. In the presence of his xvife, a bride of five days, George A. Fleck of Louisville, Ky„ was accidentally killed in his room at the .Great Northern Hotel in Chicago. He was seated in a chair examining a revolver mid unwittingly pulled the tr'gger.

The combine of furniture manufnetur- < rs recently formed at Chicago under the auspices of the National Association of Furniture Manufacturers has been dissolved owing to the failure of a lurge fraction of the firms interested to keep the agreement. Willie Saunders, aged 10; Carl Gunion and John Roach, each a year younger, started to wade across Licking river at Zanesville, Ohio, almost within a stone’s throw of their homes. Gunion led, and, going over an offset, called to his companions for itelp. All were drowned, Mrs. Mary Sassanalli died at Y’ouugstown, Ohio, from wounds inflicted with a shotgun liy Vincenzo Aduasio. Her husband and Aduasio had quarreled over a card game and Aduasio attempted to shoot him. The woman ran for a polieenian and Aduasio turned the gun on her. Fire in a riding academy at Ohanning avenue and Locust street, St. Louis, started a panic among the 300 girl employes in the Friedman shoe factory, a six-story building across the alley. In their frantic efforts to escape from supposed danger many of the girls were injured. Harry W. Bragg, a private in Company F, Twentieth United States infantry, shot and killed Mrs. Lizzie Tibbits and then shot and killed himself. The tragedy was enacted on the grounds at the Columbus, Ohio, barracks and jealousy was the motive. Bragg's home was in Pelican, Wis. Another chapter in the municipal corruption scaudal at Minneapolis, Minn., was added when Detective Norman W. King was arraigned on an indictment charging him with the theft of a diamond, which he had procured from a thief, and which, it is said, he failed to return to the rightful owner. Ama Dyer and her 12-year-old daughter were found hanging from the ceiling of their home at Okfngee, I. T., in the heart of the Creek Nation, dead. It is believed from information furnished the marshal's office that Mrs. Dyer was killed by an admirer, and that the daughter was killed to cover the first crime.

A storm of unusual severity visited the central portion of southern Minnesota. The storm was in* the nature of a cyclone, and an enormous amount of damage was done. New Prague is reported to have been in the path of the cyclone, Owatonna, N'orthfield, Faribault and Henderson are among the places cut off. Waiter Bourne, formerly deputy auditor at St. Paul, who is serving fifteen years at Stillwater prison, was denied a new triul by the Supreme Court. Bourne was convicted on two indictments, cue charging the Illegal use of county warrants and the other fraud in the use of his official signature. The Supreme Court confirms the conviction in both cases. After a desperate battle between local officers, in which thirty or forty shots were exchanged in a chase of nearly a mile, lam Henderson, a desperate criminal, wanted in Indianapolis for various offenses, including the shooting of three officers, was brought to bay in Marion. Ind. Henderson did not surrender until he had been shot several times by the officers. All Montana is stirred up over a sensational bn re knuckle tight which took place between Roy Campbell, ii son o! cx-Congrcssman A. J. Campbell and Wll Ham G. Maiigau. an athlete of some 10.-. i! repute and said to he a protege of W. A. Clark. Jr. The affair Is said to he an outgrowth of the Idtter political fight made against Senator W. A. Clark In Washington several years ago. The so-called packing house eases, comprising four charges against the Cudahy Packing Company, two ngiitist the Ar incur Company, rate against Swift Co. ami one against Seliwnrxsehi’.d & Sulzberger. were stricken from the municipal Court tab in St. Patti. The action was taken in view of t’,o< recent ‘Supreme Court decision striking out the preserved meat prohibition* in tin- food adulteration law.

Elsie Swift, II years old, was found in a fainting condition at tier home >n Chicago. she having been gagged and severely beaten by a burglar. Pulling her by the hair, the ro’ilnw compelled '.in* helpless girl to guide him through tile house to places where valuables were supposed to lie hidden. ILs quest, which was not as remunerative n< lie had an* .tleipated. angered him. and lie tore tie* rings from her Ungers unJ escaped. Miss Wren of Lexington. Mo., who eloped from Kansas City with George

Henderson of Denver, a farmer who was formerly employed on her father’s ranch near Lexington, was discovered by her father at the Deltone Hotel in Omaha, Neb. He confronted the couple as they left the dining room. A fight ensued between the old man and Henderson. Johnson, the hotel clerk, interfered at the solicitation of the girl. The couple were to have been married in Omaha that day. Wren left for Kansas City with his daughter. Like a regiment of Cavalry nearly 1,509 homeseekers, men and boys, mounted and heavily armed, pushed across the line of the Fort Hall Indian reservation at noon Tuesday and disappeared in a cloud of dust in a wild free-for-all race for farms. A whistle signal from the Oregon Short Line shops started the grand rush, and within an hour Pocatello, Idaho, was practically depopulated. A few minutes after the first rush was begun probably 1,000 persons, families and friends of the prospective settlers, started into the ceded lands with camping outfits and household effects loaded upon pack animals. At Blackfoot every arrangement had beep made to handle the crow.ds, and the municipal and county authorities put on a large number of deputies to preserve order.