Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Former Mayor Taggart of Indianapolis declares for David B. Hill as next Democratic presidential nominee. From the Samuels farm, where he was born, the body of Jesse James was moved and reburied in the Kearney, Mo., cemetery. Michigan Republican convention renominated Gov. Bliss on the first ballot, giving him Nil votes! to 214 for Stearns, his leading opponent. George Sperling of Graham, Mo., and George Bates of San Francisco were killed by a bolt of lightning on a ranch four miles north of Arvada, Colo. Eleven persons were injured, four of them seriously, by the wrecking of a tramway car which was returning to the city from Elitch's Gardens, at Denver. Charles W. Gale, Chicago real estate man, killed himself when menaced with arrest for attempting to murder a barber, whom he suspected of speaking ill of him. Burlington track in lowa 125 miles long was changed from narrow to stall 1ard gauge in nine hours by 44<> men. Thousands stood in the rain watching the feat. Storm in southern Indiana caused three deaths nt St. Wendel, seriously injured eight persons and destroyed much property. Two lives were lost in Texas cyclone. Two deaths were caused by lightning near Pierre, S. !>., in a atorufr, one victim being Bert Walker, a herder, am) the other a small sou of Ole Strand of Sully County. Missouri Supreme Court refused writ of ouster against beef packers, holding trust is not proved. State anti-trust law is sustained, however, and further hearing Is ordered. Three children, aged about 9 years— Alonzo Weils, Lena Geiger and Rose Geiger • were struck by a freight train near Cedar Rapids, lowa. The two first named will die. L. H. He'rshtield, former president of the suspended Merchants' National Bank of Helena, Mont., has been adjudged bankrupt. His liabilities* arc $498,469 mid assets ¥2.157. Mrs. Carrie Notion, the “saloon smash,er,” has announced her intention to join John Alexander Howie in his colony of Zion, near Chicago. Mrs. Nation says that she has turned out to be a first-class healer. | Gus Ruhlin of Akron, Ohio, defeated

Tom Sharkey of New York in the eleventh round before the National Sporting Club in London. The fight was held in connection with the coronation sporting tournament. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral In Cleveland, which was opened in 1855, was formally abandoned Sunday, when /impres sive religious services were held. A magnificent new cathedral is being erected on Euclid avenue. Frank J. Kerscher, aged 20, and Albert Melty, aged 17, both of Toledo, O„ while standing on the footboard of a street car, were struck by a car going in an opposite direction and thrown under the wheels and killed. Joseph Coleman, tried at Faulkton, 8. D., for the murder of his brother Ed, in order to obtain possession of the latter's life insurance, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. The evidence was purely circumstantial. Gov. Nash of Ohio has appointed Harry L. Gordon, an attorney of Cincinnati, Lieutenant Governor, to succeed Carl L. Nippert, resigned. This action is in accordance with the decision of the Supreme Court holding that a vacancy existed. John Berry, Chicago candy manufacturer, died at Hot Springs, Ark., where he had gone for the benefit of his health. His death was due directly to typhoid fever, but he was at the springs to receive treatment for inflammatory rheumatism. A section of passenger train No. 5, on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad was derailed at Minckie, a few miles west of St. Louis, and two laboring men who were beating their way to Streetville. Mo., on the blind baggage, were killed. Millions of grasshoppers are attacking the grain in the Hill river district near Mclntosh, Minn. The State entomologist is assisting the farmers in combating the pest, and* “hopper dozes?” are in daily use. L’nplowed stubble is the cause of the trouble. The Union Pacific discharged 137 more machinists and helpers at Omaha and twenty-five in Armstrong, Kan, This makes in all a reduction of over 1,000 men in the shops. The company effected a compromise with the car builders, who get a slight increase in wages. A man giving the name of John Eagon, been sentenced to five years in the State prison for trying to work a three-card monte game on B. O. Sims, a prosperous farmer of Audrain County, Mo. A man giving the name of Hill, also in the game, made his escape. After being out twelve hours the jury in the case against Jessie Morrison, charged with the murder of Mrs. Olin Castle, at her home in Eldorado, Kan., in June, 1900, returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree. The jury made no suggestion of punishment.

(>ver 600 excursionists on a wrecked train in Ute Pass, Colorado, had a narrow escape from death. As it was, one of the pleasure seekers was killed and thirty were injured, some probably fatally. The wreck was due to a broken rail, which snapped after the passage of th£ engine. The first serious conflict between nonunion employes on the trust tugs and sympathizers with the striking tngmen took place in Cleveland, with the result that Michael McDonough, president of the Licensed Tugmen's Protective Aggm. elation, is in the hospital with a bullet wound in his leg. A. B. Wolvin of Duluth has closed a contract with the American Shipbuilding Company for ten steamers of the Welland canal size for the new line between Duluth and Quebec which began operations this spring. The boats will tie 242 feet keel and forty-three feet beam. They will be built at Duluth, Chicago and Cleveland. A SIO,OOO damage suit was tiled at Springfield, Ohio, against the goverument by Corporal Harry E. Ellis of Troop JI, Fifteenth cavalry. Ellis alleges he was subjected to brutal treatment and indignities by orders of Maj. Waller on the transport which conveyed him from Manila to San Francisco after a three years' service in the Philippines. Detective “Norm” King, the oldest and most widely known detective in Minneapolis, was convicted by a jury of being an accessory to a felony after the fact. The specific charge on which King has been on trial for a week is that he |fnew that Harry Adams was implicated in the theft of a diamond from John D. Hooper and that he assisted Adams in escaping punishment. George Elwin, a member of the Pueblo, Colo., Cooks’ and Waiters’ Union, was shot and instantly killed and Police Officer Joseph H. Sheppard was dangerously wounded by Jacob Dodson, as a result of the boycott by the Cooks’ and Waiters’ Union against the Riverside restaurant. Elwin was acting as a picket and was attempting to turn people away from the restaurant when the trouble started. Clark Moyer, a mail clerk on the Burlington. running between, Omaha and Chicago, was found dying on the sidewalk in front of the Creston House in Council Btflffs. He had left the house but a few minutes before, after spending the evening with friends. There was an ugly wound under his right eye. He had been engaged in no quarrel and there is at present uo clew to the perpetrators of the crime. ,

Patrick O’Donnell, James T. Brady, William J. Gallagher and their four associates were all found guilty of conspiracy to bribe and accept bribes by the jury in Judge Brentano's court in Chicago, P. |l. O’Donnell, his law partner Brady, and Cyrus 8. Simon, the attorney of the Union Traction Company, were fined s’2,» 000 each. Gallagher, the most active agent in the conspiracy, was punished with an indeterminate sentence to the penitentiary. The new gasoline launch Ranger, with fourteen passengers on board, caught tire on Luke Bemidji, Minn., and was totally destroyed. All the passengers, including womdi and children, jumped overboard and were sieved with slight injuries. The accident occurred near the shore at the north end of the lake. It was caused by ii leaking gasoline tank. Someone lit n mutch and in an instant everything was enveloped in flames. After the people had jumped overboard and reached shore the Ranger drifted out in deep water and sank. / The Supreme Court of Minnesota has decided that a juror may remain drunk during the trial.of a case ami bo asleep during the summing np of the ’evidence and yet not invalidate the verdict returned. ’The case brought was on an appeal from Swift County against B. K. Halleraon, cashier of a bank, convicted of

embezzlement. The principal point mane in the appeal to the Supreme Court was the intoxication of a member of the jury that convicted him. The Supreme Court holds that this is a question to be dealt with by the trial judge, who refused a new trial.