Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Two cartlequake shocks were felt at Newport, Ore. Andrew Carnegie has offered S2S,(XX) to Lawrence. Kan., for a library, on the usual terms. Benjamin I-'. Jacobs, the pioneer real estate dealer ami Sunday school worker in Chicago, is dead. Two were killed mid several fat(illy hurt in wreck on Omaha road at Ashton, lowa. Passengers had a narrow escape. John A. Drake's colt Wyeth, at 12 to 1, won the American Derby in Chicago, with Lucien Appleby second and Alladin third. C. A. Sykes of New Y'ork was elected president by the National Dental Trades Association, which closed its convention at Detroit. Frost is reported from many localities in western Nebraska. Along the Platte valley west of Kearney it did some damage to gardens. Fire wiped out the business section of Rttyby, N. D.. witli a loss of $40,090. The residence section was saved only by most strenuous work. Allen Tarkee, aged 25, wns struck on head with a beer bottle in Hie hands of R. Blizzard nt Lancaster, Ohio, and died from the effects. Democrats of tlie Fifth Congressional District of Ohio renominated John 8. Snookjof Paulding and indorsed the Kansas City pint form. Permanent injunction against building of Mayor Tom L. Johnson's 3-cent fare street railway system lias been granted by Cleveland court. At Fresno, (’al., the roundhouse of the Southern Pacific liuilway and twelve locomotives were destroyed by fire. The estimated loss was $200,600. 1 In a collision between two crowded electric cars nt Twelfth ami Clark streets, Chicago, fifteen persons were injured and others were thrown into a panic. At least Mix persoua were killed in a bcud-eiid collision nt Lower Lake aiding, two miles west of Staples, Minn., on the

Northers Pacific Railroad, between passenger trains. While attempting to board a jhoving train D. M. Strong, an attorney and once Prohibition candidate for Governor, of North Bend, Neb., was thrown under the wheels and fatally injured. Five masked robbers bound and gagged the night watchman at the Fremont Brewing Company plant, Fremont, Ohio, and robbed the safe of its weekly collections. The loss Will exceed SI,OOO. The wife of William Martin, a Greeley County, Kan., farmer, gave birth to twin boys. They are the fourth set of twins born to that couple in succession. There are thirteen children in the family. As a result of a collision between two light engines on the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad at Mingo Junction, Ohio, during a heavy fog two men were killed and a number of others were injured. The authorities of Potowatomie County, Okla., are investigating the case of Arthur E. Pecore, aged 14 years, near Shawnee, whose death is alleged to have resulted from attempts of several companions to treat him with the “water cure.” Horace Shipman, who to have been half-witted, shot and killed the city marshal of Jefferson, lowa, as the latter was attempting to arrest him. In a few minutes an infuriated mob surrounded the bouse and Shipman was shot to death. Four boys were drowned by the capsizing of a boat at Fern Gleu, a resort fifteen miles from St. Louis. The drowning occurred at the annual picnic of the St. Louis Turnverein. The boys were rowing on the Meremac river when their skiff capsized. E. J. Jennings, manager of the North Dakota Newspaper Union of Fargo, was fatally injured in a wreck near Granville. Mr. Jennings was riding in the caboose of a Great Northern freight train when another freight train following ran into and wrecked it. P. R. Martin, while digging a well at his residence in northwest Helena, Mont., has found the old bed of Last Chance creek, which in the early days produced upward of $15,000,000 in gold. Prospectors have searched for years in vain for the old route of the creek. An important decision lias been announced by ihe Ohio Supreme Court sustaining the Willis tax law, levying a fee of one-tenth of 1 per cent on the subscribed capital stock of private corporations, which, it is estimated, will yield the State an annual revenue of $41X1,000, At a meeting of the trustees of Oberlin College held at Oberlin, Ohio, it was announced that the institution would undoubtedly secure the $500,000 fund started by John D. Rockefeller, who offered $200,000, provided the trustees would obtain $300,000 from other sources. A log train of twenty cars on the Iron Range road ran away on a heavy grade for eight miles, near Duluth, Minn., and twenty men had a miraculous escape from death. The cars were reduced to kindling wood and logs eighteen inches in diameter were broken in two. Benson Peoples, a young man of Newcomerstown, Ohio, won the love of the pretty daughter of Elijah Starts and informed tlie girl's father of his intention to wed the girl. A quarrel ensued, during which Peoples fatally shot Starts. He then shot and killed himself. A telegram was received at Wanatah, Ind., conveying intelligence of the drowning of Nelson N. Reynolds of La Porte County with his wife and three children in a flood in Tennessee. The entire family was swept away while crossing a bridge and all perished except one daughter. Jennie Daley was shot and killed by William Bennett, her partner in a restaurant at Valley City, N. D., who then committed suicide. The affair occurred at midnight. Bennett fired six times at the woman after a violent quarrel. They had been,, business partners for many years. Gov. Savage has released from the Nebraska State penitentiary the convict who was sentenced under the name of Bert Martin, but who after a year was found to be a woman named Lena Martin. The woman had masqueraded for years as a man and was convicted of cattle steling. Charles D. Warner, son of Maj. William Warner, United States District Attorney and past grand commander (J. A. R., was found dea& in a rooming house in Kansas City. On the dresser were three empty bottles that had contained morphine. He was 24 years old, and leaves a widow and one child. A disastrous wreck occurred on the Rock Island road five miles west of Fairbury, Neb., in which seventeen cars of merchandise was badly wrecked, 500 feet of track torn up, and two unknown men killed. Tlie train was running at high speed when an obstruction was struck. The entire train was piled in the ditch. Juan Micaba, a full blood A coma Pueblo Indian who lived near Las Cruces. N. M.. committed suicide because he was whipped by his mother-in-law. Micaba had a quarrel with his wife and whipped her. He was in turn whipped by his mother-in-law. Unable to bear up under the indignity he took a six-shooter and blew out his brains. Nels Anderson, Jr., of Brigham, Utah, who was kidnaped recently, returned to his home in an almost famished condition. having eaten nothing during his absence. The boy alleges that he was held up just outside the city limits by three masked men and imprisoned in a cave in the mountains, east of Brigham, from which he escaped. A heavy, soaking rain, extending as far west as Wichita and east to the Missouri line, fell in Kansas, nearly two inches of water falling nt some points. Much wheat was washed out, and in many places the harvest will be delayed. Many streams are out of their banks. A heavy wind accompanied tlie rain and did some damage to crops. In the bankruptcy case of Hannah Levy of Circleville. Ohio, the United States Court held that diamonds cannot be considered as wearing apparel, but must be regarded ns the equivalent of cash. Mrs. Levy sought to retain possession of l certain diamonds, among them an engagement nnd a wedding ring, on (he ground that they were wearing npparel. Fire that started in the Phoenix- iron works, formerly tire plant at East Madison and East Water streets, Portland, Ore., burned oversjbout six acres of territory nnd caused a loss roughly estimated at $600,000. The iron works plant, which was a frail wooden structure, was entirely destroyed, us was the East,Side

Lumber Company's plant on the north, with several hundred thousand feet of dry lumber. Mrs. Annie Mullering and her 14-year-old daughter Emma, who have been mysteriously missing since the morniug of May 7, appeared at the St. Louis police station, where Hermann Mullering, the husband and father, has been held prisoner, suspected of double murder. Mrs. Mullering has been employed as a servant in the family of A. S. Mermod in Kirkwood, and the daughter has been working for another Kirkwood family.