Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

July oats advanced to 65 cents in Chicago Saturday, a gain of 7*4 over Friday. Floods iu Illinois, lowa and Missouri have caused damage estimated to mount into the millions. Friends of Governor La Follette of Wisconsin will boom him as a candidate for the Presidency. Chicago freight handlers demand that teamsters shall request to see union cards when delivering freight. . The Hibernian convention at Denver elected officers ami expressed sympathy for striking anthracite miners. It is said that compulsory baths at the municipal lodging-house have served to diminish vagrancy in Chicago. Ellsworth, Wis., 1.500 population, is the healthiest town in the United States. Only two deaths occurred there iu 1901. John Gibbols, traveling salesman for a Decatur, 111., jewelry house, was found dead from heart disease in a Terre 11 ante hotel. Edward Williams, aged 24, and single, was killed near Eldora, lowa, his team running away and throwing him down an embankment. An lowa farmer s-pent his money in a Chicago resort, blamed the saloonkeeper for his downfall and then ended life.by drinking carbolic acid. Robert Loughlin, Albert Miller and Benjamin Watts, young men of Aurora, Ind., were drowned in the Ohio by the overturning of their boat. Three Chicago bookmakers report the alleged loss of $22,183, which they assert was taken from the Masonic Temple safety deposit vault during the night. Chicago freight handlers charge that four railroads have violated the compact by which the recent strike was settled, by refusing to reinstate old employes. Money is easier in Chicago, quoted rates being 4 to 4*-_> per cent on call and 4*/j to 5 per cent on time, though one two-months loan has been made at 4 per cent. Police have arrested a woman in Mil- > waukee and her confederate in Nebraska in connection with alleged swindles on the Corn Exchange National Bank of 1 Chicago. Judge Tuley in an address before the Illinois State Bar Association, favored State legislation requiring all corporations to submit labor troubles to arbitration. Because she refused to marry him, George Wiley, a Chicago and Alton Railway man, shot and killed Miss Dovie Flynn and committed suicide at Mar- , shall, Mo. I The Illinois Manufacturers’ Association is planning a campaign to secure uniform i corporation laws among different States. The aid of commercial bodies everywhere is be sought. At Mount Verpon, Ohio, in putting down a test well the Logan Natural Gas and Oil Company struck gold in quautities assaying $5 a ton. A small vein of coal was also discovered. Dr. 11. G. Greenland and Ben Boorman fought a duel at Okarche, 1. T. Dr. Greenland was shot through the heart and di id instantly. Bearman was shot in the head, but not fatally. Minneapolis officials may escape bribery prosecution because of a split in the prosecutor's office. A. L. Smith, first

assistant prosecutor, has resigned and the cases have been put over. The coroner’s jury at Park City, Utah, has returned a verdict holding the officials of the Daly-West mine entirely blameless for the accident by which thirty-five men lost their lives. After forty days of continual pursuit hymen and bloodhounds, all organized effort to capture Harry Tracy, the escaped Oregon convict, has ended. N° more posses will start after him. The commission appointed to reapportion Oklahoma has announced the total population of the territory to be 600.000 with one Representative for every 22.000 people, and one Senator for every 45.000. The miners’ convention at Indianapolis issued an address to the public, giving reasons for anthracite strike, expressing loyalty to contracts, asserting right to arbitration and asking aid for workers' cause. It is reported that a mob of 100 persons drove a uegro family out of Blackwell, Ok., and burned the house rented to them. No blacks have been allowed to even work in that city since it was founded. o Christopher Norbeck, the ex-police detective of Minneapolis who fled while his trial for bribery was in progress and was recaptured within a week near Chaska. Minn., pleaded guilty and was remanded for sentence. Flood losses are now estimated at $6,000,000, with every prospect that the amount will be greatly enlarged. In the Mississippi Valley, from Keokuk for a hundred miles to the south, the entire region is under water. Both litigants in the case of the State of Minnesota against the Northwestern Securities Company et al., being the socalled anti-merger suit, have agreed to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States Circuit Court. Twenty-three thousand and forty acres of land on the Siletz Indian reservation in Lincoln County, Oregon, were thrown open for settlement Monday. The United States land office was thronged with people eager to file, about 160 claims being taken. The alleged robbery of the Chicago bookmakers started a run on the Masonic Temple vaults by depositors who wanted to make sure their property was still intact. The company does the largest deposit business in the world, and rich and poor were in the jam. Frederick Morrison, of Salem, Ohio, while riding in a carriage on Miles avenue with Miss Mary Cowley, drew a revolver from his pocket and fired a bullet through his brain that resulted in his death shortly afterward. Morrison had been paying attention to Miss Cowley and she refused to marry him. A terrific hailstorm prevailed over a considerable part of the farming country iu the vicinity of Hastings Monday afternoon. Chunks of ice weighing nearly a quarter of a pouiid fell for fifteen minutes. Chickens were killed and young stock injured. Oats and corn were driven into the ground. Jerome C. Lewis, a farmer near I’aw Paw, Mich., was fatally wounded by Charles F. Crossman of Kalamazoo. Crossman approached Lewis at his home and asked for employment. Being refused, he shot Lewis in the breast with a revolver, then beat him about the head with his weapon. At Plattsmouth, Neb., a cloudburst Friday night swept a river of water four feet deep down the main street, taking with it everything movable. Half a dozen frame buildings collapsed, the electric light plant was rendered useless, and every cellar in the place was filled. Several stocks of merchandise were seriously damaged. The total damage is estimated at $200,000.