Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Montana’s capitol at Helena has been formally turned over to the State by the building commission. At Union. Ark.. Harvey Sexton threw a stick of dynamite under I’ink Gibson, blowing him to pieces. August Sehievie was hanged at St. Helena, Ore., for the murder of Joseph Sehulkowski, on Dec. 20. John Buckley, D. W. Emerson, l’aul I-\ Thompson and William Reber, all of Minneapolis, were drowned. W. A. Ross, a school teacher of Thotnasville, Ohio, was drowned while trying to reach home during a storm. Linden Tree, Arabian horse presented by,Sultan of Turkey to Gen. Grant, died at Beatrice, Neb., aged 33 years. Clyde Nevins, William Davis and Robert Easton were fatally injured by the overturning of a wagon near Coal Creek Colo. A masked man held up the gambling saloon of Charles Schultz in Colfax. Wash., ami robbed the proprietor of SI,OOO. Lire at the Chicago stock yards wiped out Swift A Co.’s wholesale meat market and general offices, entailing a loss of $.-»< II l,l*Oo. The postoffice at Orlando, (). T., was robbed. The thieves entered by breaking the panel and escaped, leaving no clew behind them. Mathias Vanderlasek, a machinist, jumped from a St. l’aul bridge, 200 feet into the Mississippi river, and sustained only slight injuries. Aladdin beat Wyeth, the American Derby winner, in the Sherid.au stakes at Washington Dark, Chicago. Thirty thousand people saw tile race. Miss Jennie Harrison was gored to death by a bull at ( (denial), Oklahoma the animal knocking her down and running its horns through her body. Acting Gov. Coates issued a pardon to A. W. Van Houten. who was serving a life term in the Colorado penitentiary, lie killed Richard Newell in 1895. 11. 1,. Hurlhut, a well-known hotel man of Boston, committed suicide at Seattle by taking a henry dose of morphine. The motive for the sqlcide is uot known. Edward H. Whipps of Hamilton, Ohio, father of Elizabeth l-iudley Whipps. the actress, was killed at the Lumar Hotel, Cincinnati, where lie fell off a stairway. William M. Halm, former insurance commissioner of Ohio, refuses to give hail ami is placed in jail at Mansfield on larceny charge to await trial in September Five persons were injured, some of them seriously, in a crossing accident at Montieello, Minn. The Great Northern passenger train struck a double seated buggy. Freight handlers’ strike was declared unexpectedly, and 9,000 men quit work in Chicago. Business houses which depend ou shipment* practically suspended operations. The jury iu the case of Superintendent of Police Fred W. Auies of Minneapolis, charged with accepting a bribe, after being out eighteen hours, returned u verdict of not guilty. Charles E. Stewart and J. 11, Mosher, members of a bridge construction gang were killed at Hume, Mo., by the fall of a portion- of a bridge on which they were at work. Jessie Morrison, convicted June 28 of murder in the second degree, for killing Mrs. Oilii Castle at the latter's home m Eldorado, Run., in Juno,l9oo, by cutting

her throat with a razor, has been sentenced to twenty-five years in the penitentiary. Paul Saulsman of Lee's Summit, Mo., was knocked down and killed, and M. J. McGlynn, his employer, was struck twice and seriously hurt by an unknown man at Kansas City. The buildings on the farm of William Catherwood, five miles from North Bend, Neb., were badly wrecked by a cyclone. ’File loss is about SS,(XX). Fortunately the family escaped injury. Two robbers held up Rock Island express trnin at Dupont, Ill.; express safe was robbed and John E. Kain, messenger, wounded. Charles Nessler, a supposed robber, was captured. Near McPherson, Kan., Miss Maude Holmes was shot in the neck, head and breast and futally injured. An unknown person fired a load of shot at her through the window of her bedroom. Cleveland officials who photographed money in their effort to obtain evidence in an alleged bribery case are to be prosecuted by the government under the law prohibiting photographing of money. It has been definitely learned that the entire town of Gotebo, a small place on the Koek Ifclund Railway system in Kiowa County, Okla., was destroyed by fire. Loss abqpt $2.7,000, insurance light. The town of White Horse, an old Indian trading post off tile railroad in Woods County, Okla., was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at. 5100,009. A. Phillips, a farmer, was fatally burned. Blunt, 8. D„ was stirred up by what is alleged to be a cold-blooded murder, Milton Gunsalus, a prominent citizen, being shot in the back by Bern Linney, a teamster. There were threats of lynching. Chief Justice Marshall J. Williams of the Ohio Supreme Court died at his home in Columbus, of diabetes, aged 65 years. He was four times elected to the Supreme beach, having served in all about sixteen years. Near Marysville, Ohio, Elmer Brown, while fishing behind a clump of bushes, was fatally shot by his companion, William Tyrrell, who aimed at a bird. His left eye was put out and nearly the entire load entered his breast and face. J. Irving Pearce, Chicago’s oldest “tavernkeeper,” died at tile Sherman House, where for twenty years he was host. An attack of peritonitis of two days’ duration was his last illness, but for months previous Mr. Pearce had been ailing. The committee of the Ohio State boa-rd of charities, which has been investigating affairs of the State Industrial School for (iirls, finds that Nora Ferris, an inmate who was placed in a strait-jacket, died as a result of the punishment. The restaurant conducted at Morton. Minn., by Eli Hanks was destroyed by fire and the family barely escaped from the second story with their lives. In attempting to get some clothing Hanks was seriously burned about the face and body. The Colorado Supreme Court has deferred until the September term consideration of the complaint filed recently by Attorney General Post against the American Smelting and Refining Company and the other companies comprising the smelter combine. The premature explosion of a jar of sulphuric potash, curried in the pocket of George Klobasn, 17 years old, of St. Louis, Mo., resulted in the boy’s death and the serious injury of two of his companions, Frank Fisse and J allies Noland. Young Klohasu’s left side was entirely blown away. George \V. Mathews, a Kansas City lawyer and real estate dealer, shot and killed himself at his home with a rifle. Locking himself in his room, he stood in front of a mirror, and. bending over, placed the rifle at his head and pulled the trigger. His mind had become affected from ill health. Mrs. W. J. Latchford, wife of the vicepresident of the Royal Packing Company, Chicago, was 'found dead three miles from Van Wert, Ohio, with her body entangled in the lines of n horse and carriage which she had hired for a drive. It is supposed the horse ran away end Mrs. Latchford tried to jump from the enrriu ge. Senator Beveridge, who is iu Indianapolis, was asked about a report saying it u as expected in Washington that President Roosevelt would l>e renominated in 1904, with some Western man for VicePresident —Beveridge, Spooner or Dolliver preferred. "I will under no circumstances become a candidate for VicePresident,” said Mr. Beveridge. The grand jury decided in Chicago that no one should lie held criminally respousible for the fire which destroyed the .sanitarium of the St. Luke Society ou June 9, with the loss of twelve lives After bearing witnesses the greater part of the day it was determined to return no indictments against President O. E. Miller and Manager Henry Clark Davis. Fire which started mysteriously in the store occupied by Henry Bosch A Co., wall paper and paint dealers at 307-309 Wabash avenue, Chicago, destroyed three large buildings, threatened many others in the neighborhood, severely injured one limn, totally disabled the machine shop of Siegel, Cooper A Co., in the rear of the burning structures, and caused a loss of more than $300,000. Col. J. N. Smythoe of Denver was found dead in his room at the Merchants' Hotel in Little Rock. A pistol clasped in his right hand and a ballet hole through his bond explained the cause of death. A note near by gave this further explanation: “For cripples, paupers and mendicants I have m uae. Fearing I may get in one of those classes by reason of the injury with which I was recently visited I end the doubt.” Two children are dead as the result of the attempt of Harry Loughren of Chicago, to imitate a "fire-eater.” Harry, who was 12 yeurs 01.1, died at the county hospital, and later Emma Townsend, 12 years old, died. It is believed that the others who were burned will recover. In an attempt to amuse u group of children Harry Loughren filled his mouth with gasoline and blew the fluid against a lighted match. The tluming gasoline fell ou the children and sot their clothing on fire. Great exyiteiiient wu* caused at Tulsa, 1. T., over the discovery by surveyors working north of that place of cracks in the of mounds, as if from great pressure underneath. Gas is escaping from the fissures and a continual hissing and roaring can be heard. On the top of the highest hill there has been a volcano nt work raising large Isiwlders and tossing them nolle., Experts say that it is

a great oil and gas field, and that pressure from a great depth has caused the commotion. Walter Davidson, Jr., son of Walter C Davidson of LaPorte, Ind., has absconded with $4,000 belonging to the Quisisuna Furniture Compnny. The Davidsons are one of the oldest and wealthiest families in that section of Indiana, and the theft has caused them much chagrin. It was a sore trial for Mr. Davidson, Sr., to confess to the police that this was his son’s second crime within u year. In the former case the father had succeeded in covering up his son's misdemeanor, but this time publicity was inevitable. John Gilmore, a farmer living near Gabon, Ohio, started for Mexico about twenty-five years ago‘to try his luck in the mining districts. He had just buried his wife and he put his four small children in an orphans’ home in Indianapolis. For twenty years he was supposed to be dead, and bis children were placed In good homes. Four months ago Gilmore died in San Luis, Mexico, ami he is reputed to have mine holdings worth $25,000,000. Before his death he arranged for his closest business associate, Charles Searle, to come North and look up his children. When they are brought together the estate will be settled. The eldest child, who is known by the name of John Hall, is stationed at Fort Riley, Kan.